The counting of ballots for this year’s general elections concluded around 10:30pm on Monday, April 24, 2023, and in the end, no one party had a clear majority. To win the government, a party has to get at least seven […]

Hundreds of persons have flocked to polling stations across the British Virgin Islands to exercise their right to vote in the ongoing general elections happening today, Monday, April 24. Well before midday, thousands of persons were recorded to have cast […]

Weeks after the House of Assembly (HOA) passed a watered-down version of the highly controversial Police Act, Cabinet has now reviewed and approved a new draft Police (Amendment) Bill, 2023. While details of the new draft Bill have not yet been […]

Former governor, Augustus Jaspert, has been singled out as the reason behind the non-payment of public servants’ increments during the previous National Democratic Party (NDP) administration. Throughout the 2023 general elections campaign, the topic of public servants’ increments and whether […]

Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley has sounded a stern warning as voters take to the polls today, pleading that they should dismiss the concept of a coalition government since it is fraught with all manner of pitfalls. Premier Wheatley, in prefacing […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor The Virgin Islands possesses its own unique political ecosystem. These paradise islands are a difficult place to predict political outcomes successfully. Now, politics is correctly termed a social science, like its sibling economics. It has its […]

With just days remaining before the April 24 general election, Premier Dr Natalio has moved to sign a contract to repair the sewerage treatment facilities in his constituency of the Seventh Electoral District. He announced his intentions to have the […]

The government has decided to remove Moleto Smith, Chairman of the BVI Health Services Authority (BVIHSA), with immediate effect, and appoint a new chairperson in his stead. A decision document of the Cabinet’s March 8 meeting indicated that Cabinet decided […]

Cabinet has approved the grant of Belonger Status to some 50 applicants after reviewing recommendations made by the Board of Immigration.  The move comes weeks after Governor John Rankin expressed concerns that the government was making slow progress over a backlog of […]

Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley expressed disappointment that some of his colleagues in the House of Assembly (HOA) seized the opportunity to drag family members of their fellow lawmakers into the debate during a recent House sitting simply because it was […]