The young man facing a new charge of attempted murder is Mount Healthy resident Shakoy Lavacia, Information Officer at the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force Diane Drayton has confirmed. As BVI News Online reported moments ago, Lavacia, who has been […]

Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards yesterday ordered Garry Smith to pay a total $6,300 for stealing from and beating a sex worker who he claimed did not give him his money’s worth of pleasure. The senior magistrate slapped Smith with a […]

While crying shame on all persons involved in the appointment of Phil Sharman as the territory’s next Auditor General, member of the parliamentary opposition Julian Fraser said there is something that doesn’t ‘smell’ right about the list of United Kingdom […]

After she fined Darier Malone $500 for calling a police officer a “punk mothers ***t”, Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards said in apparent jest that the offender is “more mature” than the US President Donald Trump. That is because the 23-year-offender […]

By A C Frett, Contributor Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, leaders across the world show us they can. International trade agreements are scrapped, crucial healthcare for the needy is withdrawn, basic education is rolled back, religious leaders […]

A suggestion is being made that Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee Andrew Fahie may be used as a pawn in a United Kingdom-linked affair that “doesn’t smell right”. Opposition member Julian Fraser made the […]

The police force said the death of James Leonard Snr had been reported to the Coroner – an official who holds inquests into violent, sudden, or suspicious deaths in the British Virgin Islands. Leonard, who was found afloat in water […]

Minister of Communication and Works Mark Vanterpool has told a group of seven newly recruited fire fighters that they – as well as elected representatives – cannot hide from the people, and therefore should not want to hide. “As an […]

Government Information Service (press release) – A British Virgin Islands delegation and UK Government representatives recently discussed freedom of movement to the European Union (EU) for Overseas Territories (OT) citizens at a Brexit technical roundtable in London. Officials from the […]

The two women who allegedly wounded a female native of Jamaican at Pearla’s Bar in Baugher’s Bay this month have been arrested and charged with unlawful and malicious wounding. They are Jelissa Malone from Baugher’s Bay and Melicia Bodkin of […]