A member of the parliamentary opposition has suggested that emotional bonding between parents and their children should be clearly stipulated in a new law being proposed. Julian Fraser, who up to recently served as Leader of the Opposition, lamented that […]

While making it clear that she was not speaking in her capacity as the wife of Premier Dr D Orlando Smith, Lorna Smith last evening defended the government’s plan to expand the runway at Terrence B Lettsome International Airport, but […]

Police have arrested a man who they said was found in possession of cocaine in the Baughers Bay area of Tortola this morning, March 16. “A male was arrested after a search of his vehicle in Baughers Bay this morning […]

The National Democratic Party government is likely to miss the time-line within which it said it would have been able to signed a contract for extension of the runway at Terrence B Lettsome International Airport. Premier Dr D Orlando Smith […]

Defence attorney Marlon Gordon, who is representing three of the four men currently on trial for possession of some 80 kilograms of cocaine, has accused Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards of being biased in the proceedings. “Ma’am, I don’t feel like […]

Premier and Minister of Finance Dr D Orlando Smith is now claiming that China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) is seeking concessions from Government regarding plans to extend the runway at the government-owned Terrence B Lettsome International Airport. That declaration came […]

St Georges Secondary School is the new Inter Secondary Schools’ Debate champion. Its three debaters argued their way to victory last night at the H Lavity Stoutt Community College, leaving their opponents from Claudia Creque Educational Centre to settle for […]

Three people were injured – one critically – in a motor vehicle accident on Tortola this evening (March 15), usually reliable sources have told BVI News Online. The two men and a woman were taken to Peebles Hospital. The one […]

During an event where some of the territory’s top teachers were honoured last evening (March 14), Minister of Education Myron Walwyn used himself as an example of why educators should never write off students who are under their charge. Making […]

A young man from the Purcell Estate area of Tortola was treated at Peebles Hospital after a red scooter on which he allegedly was trying to escape a police dragnet crashed. The youngster, who was treated and released from the […]