Right at the door of his trial, John Maduro this week retracted his not guilty plea and confessed to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and being armed with a machete while at the government’s Central Administration Complex in Road Town. […]

The Board of the BVI Health Services Authority (BVIHSA) said there is need for regular review of compensation and other employment conditions regarding healthcare workers. It noted that those workers are part of the ‘essential services’ that should not be […]

Kimron Jackson has told the Magistrate’s Court that he did not help his three travelling companions to severely beat a Haitian man in 2015. The 34-year-old native of St Vincent made the declaration after he pleaded not guilty to charges […]

OECS Member States (press release) – Environmental Ministers and Technical officers from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), as well as key regional partners from international Agencies, attended the fourth OECS Council of Ministers meeting recently held in Grenada. […]

The Public Works Department has been monitoring hillsides and roadways, and also addressing areas affected by rock fall, said the government’s Department of Disaster Management (DDM). It added, “Due to the inclement weather, motorists are being advised to exercise extreme […]

Organizers of Sir Richard Branson’s loan programme have announced an application time-frame for persons in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to seek loans, which they said require no interest rate or down-payment. The KickStart BVI Small Business Loan programme, however, […]

Rhodni Skelton has been appointed Deputy Director of the BVI Tourist Board. The Board, in a media release today, said the appointment took effect May 8. Skelton served as Film Commissioner and Events Marketing Manager at the Tourist Board from […]

Now at the mercy of a senior magistrate, Selvin Chinnery today declared  that he had no intention to use the illegal gun police found at his Jost Van Dyke residence just over a year ago. “This is not something I […]

Noting that he doesn’t have a lengthy speech at this time, Commissioner of Police Michael Matthews today vowed to catch the perpetrators of murder in the Territory, adding that justice will be served in each case, no matter how long […]

Police have made an arrest as they dig deeper into a case in which a young Jamaican woman visiting the British Virgin Islands (BVI) was ganged and severely beaten allegedly by other women. BVI News Online has confirmed that a […]