Leader of the Opposition Andrew Fahie has implored members of the National Democratic Party government to vote against their own budget at the end of an ongoing debate, if Premier Dr D Orlando Smith does not scrap plans to extend […]

Fitzroy Hanley has been ordered to pay a total of $3,500 after he beat his 19-year-old daughter with an electrical wire. Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste-DaBreo made the order yesterday (February 28) when the offender appeared in court for sentencing. Hanley was […]

Minister of Communication and Works Mark Vanterpool has denied rumours that he and other Government members have been ‘thieving’ money from the government’s coffers. He indicated that he felt the urge to address the matter because persons may give credence […]

The government has been told that its planned extension of the runway at Terrence B Lettsome International Airports does not augur well for its investment of $7 million in BVI Airways. The National Democratic Party administration said it invested in […]

PRESS RELEASE: The Virgin Islands’ Pediatric and Adolescent Healthcare Center has expanded to meet the needs of its BVI patients and families by establishing a satellite office in Road Town, Tortola. Just minutes away from Wickham’s Cay, Tortola Pier Park, […]

PRESS RELEASE: Gabrielle Denae is now the first British Virgin Islands Gospel artiste to receive eight nominations and a win in the category of ‘Inspirational Recording of the Year’ at the annual Caribbean Gospel Music Marlin Awards (CGMA). CGMA celebrated […]

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff Junior Minister of Trade Marlon Penn today broke a long held silence in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) parliament when he implored the government to decriminalize the use of marijuana, adding that he […]

Marlon Penn has downplayed suggestions that the National Democratic Party (NDP) government is imploding over the issue of whether the administration should now undertake extension of the runway at Terrence B Lettsome International Airport. Penn, who is the junior minister […]

Leader of the opposition Andrew Fahie has criticized Minister responsible for prison Myron Walwyn for allowing a $200,000 fence bought for Her Majesty’s Prison to be lying idle in Road Town for six years. Fahie was responding to a BVI […]

A man who reportedly beat his wife in public more than two years ago escaped direct imprisonment when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court today, February 28. Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste-DaBreo fined Liston Graham $1,000 after noting positive reviews from a […]