Following a ruling that the Magistrate’s Court will accept a crucial analyst report into evidence; testimony from a United States coastguard yesterday revealed that Tarik Aaron and Leshaughn Smith were allegedly transporting what could be more than the originally stated […]

The three-year-old matters involving Cayma Nibbs concluded in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with two convictions. Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards found Nibbs guilty of illegal entry and failing to declare money to Customs. The British Virgin Islander was implicated back in […]

Representative of the Second Electoral District Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull has dismissed criticism and claims that he has allowed a contractor from outside Cane Garden Bay to be selected over an area contractor to undertake the Cane Garden Bay Revetment Project. […]

Former Minister of Education and Culture Eileen Parsons has claimed that the National Democratic Party (NDP) ‘seems to inherit all the problems’ of the Territory whenever it forms the government. She made the comment a few days ago during the […]

Augustus ‘Gus’ Jaspert has been appointed Governor of the British Virgin Islands, in succession to Governor John Duncan. Jaspert will take up his appointment in August 2017. He currently serves in the United Kingdom Cabinet Office as Director of Security […]

Olanzo Dore, who escaped police custody on Virgin Gorda last week was today hauled before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards, who heard that the offender fled because he was being beaten at Her Majesty’s Prison. The 31-year-old native of St Kitts […]

Motivated by the level of participation she noticed in the Children’s Parade during the just-concluded carnival in the US Virgin Islands (USVI), former minister responsible for culture Eileen Parsons indicated that she wants greater efforts exerted to have more children […]

Minster of Health and Social Development Ronnie Skelton has claimed that the social value of senior citizens has increased in the Territory. He said they are now in a position to even tell the young people: “Hold your horses young people; […]

A police officer has told the Magistrate’s Court that it would be too expensive to have an expert witness flown from the United States to testify about bag straps that prosecutors want to become evidence in a drug case against […]

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff Government is paying the privately owned Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour to temporarily accommodate members of the public at one of the Yacht Harbour’s docks, but parties to the rental arrangement are tight-lipped about […]