The BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) is currently not accepting cash and credit card payments at its office at Long Bush in Tortola.  A notice posted by the entity said the move is effective from today, January 5 and extends for […]

Premier Andrew Fahie has argued that elected officials everywhere “need protection from themselves” because of the prevalence of greed. “Because if you’re not careful as an elected official in politics anywhere in the world, the greedy will never let you […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Twenty-five years of lack of vision and planning demands that residents hold their governments accountable in the coming years, through an independent investigative agency with teeth.  Now, accountability is not driven by the accountable. That is […]

Just two weeks before the scheduled conclusion of the Commission of Inquiry (COI), the Commission has yet again been extended. Governor John Rankin made the announcement in a press statement moments ago. He said: “I have today informed the Honourable […]

Demolition and site clearance of old foundations at the Elmore Stoutt High School has been completed ahead of the January 7 deadline. The project was undertaken by Sandwise Limited as they won the $136,079.50 contract to provide the demolition and […]

Twenty-four-year-old Shadrach Thompson of John’s Hole has been sentenced to 14 years and six months in prison for the March 2020 armed robbery committed at the E&B Supermarket in Palestina. High Court judge, Justice Richard Floyd, handed down the sentence […]

A study by the United Kingdom firm, Cable.co.uk, has ranked the British Virgin Islands as having the twelfth cheapest cost of electricity in the Caribbean. The countries which have cheaper electricity than the BVI are Puerto Rico, oil producers Trinidad & Tobago, St […]

Reports have surfaced that supporters of the governing Virgin Islands Party (VIP) have been complaining about development contracts being issued to non-VIP supporters. The contracts in contention were said to have been issued by the Recovery & Development Agency (RDA) […]

The High Court has sentenced St Vincent national, Denville Clarke, to nine months in prison for assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Clarke, a 46-year-old handyman, was found to have had no prior criminal records and was deemed person of good […]

The following is a media release from the Health Ministry The Ministry of Health and Social Development is confirming the passing of one person on New Year’s Day due to complications of COVID bringing the total number of COVID-19 related […]