Concerns have persisted over the funding and real purpose behind the massive construction project in the Huntums Ghut area, known to some as the District Five Economic Zone. Public Works Minister and Fifth District Representative, Kye Rymer, attempted to put […]

Education Minister Sharie de Castro recently announced that a new subject will be taught in the territory’s public secondary schools starting this month. The subject is called S.T.E.A.M. Innovations and is designed to equip students with essential skills and knowledge […]

The Water and Sewerage Department (WSD) has just one water maintenance crew consisting of only four staff members to respond to emergencies on Tortola, Public Works Minister Kye Rymer expressed recently. Consumers across the territory have been complaining about issues […]

Residents took to social media yesterday to protest an unexpected traffic build-up in the vicinity of the Elmore Stoutt High School on September 11. As residents expressed frustration, some say they were stuck in traffic for as much as 30 […]

As the government faces mounting public pressure to fix failing public infrastructure, Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley has stated that the BVI will seek to raise the borrowing limit it has to adhere to under an agreement with the United Kingdom. […]

The government may be regretting a missed opportunity as it continues to assess the need to house public service workers after they were displaced from the Central Administration Complex by hurricanes Irma and Maria six years ago. The two category-five […]

Minister for Social Development Vincent Wheatley pleaded with Eighth District Representative Marlon Penn to help the government fill more than 40 empty homes still remaining at Joe’s Hill Manor after the government’s low-cost initiative missed the mark for many first-time […]

Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley said nearly $50,000 was earned in revenue from the government’s non-stop concert hosted earlier this year to celebrate the arrival of American Airlines’ non-stop flights to the territory. Premier Wheatley, who also serves as the territory’s […]

The government has been advised to implement measures to make it more difficult for work permit holders to be eligible for residency and Belongership status. The advice was given in a recent report spearheaded by former permanent secretary Kedric Malone, […]

Cassandra Sutton was one of the many who applied for a home under the Housing Recovery Assistance Programme after the 2017 hurricanes hit the BVI. However, unlike many applicants who were able to collect their keys, she recently passed before […]