The health system in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is worthy of emulation by other countries in the Eastern Caribbean, according to Dr Peter Crowley, who is the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) advisor on health systems strengthening. He however […]

Government Information Service (press release) – Director of the Chronic Disease Research Centre, Dr. Alafia Samuels has said that heart and respiratory diseases, stroke, cancer and diabetes are significantly affecting the people of the Caribbean. Dr. Samuel in a recent […]

Police said one man was charged late yesterday with the murder of Alston Penn as officers of the Major Crime Team continue their pursuit of suspects regarding recent murders. Santo Yamarco Hernandez, who is a 38-year-old native of the Dominican […]

Constable Jeoverne Webb of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) here in the British Virgin Islands fended off challenges from four contestants overnight to win a regional police pageant in Tortola. She went up against Constable Zamera Dean Frederick […]

Leader of the Opposition Andrew Fahie has claimed that Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education Dr Marcia Potter has no legal authority to have written to the auditor general, requesting an investigation into a contract given to a private […]

Director of Flight Operations at BVI Airways Bradley Goggin was stretchered from the Road Town headquarters of the privately owned carrier and taken to Peebles Hospital Friday afternoon, March 31. Attempts to verify his condition have been futile, but sources […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Niccolo Machiavelli was a prominent 15th Century political philosopher. He was political adviser to the Italian City State of Florence and its rulers. Machiavelli’s summa work was ‘THE PRINCE’. In that historic work, Machiavelli stated that […]

Police were busy on the islands of Tortola and Anegada on Friday (March 31) investigating three motor vehicle crashes. Details of the incidents, up to publication time, were still sketchy. The victim in one of the accidents is a child, […]

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff Members of the BVI Investment Club have declared that the global economic crisis nearly a decade ago partly resulted in the stalling of $6 million worth of investment, and the shelving of plans […]

Matthew Hazel, who attempted to pull off a brazen robbery outside CIBC First Caribbean Bank in 2015 and almost cut down an off-duty cop in the process, was found guilty in the High court today, March 31. A jury found […]