There will be no viable doses of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine available in the territory beginning today, October 1 to October 7. Health Minister Carvin Malone said the territory’s latest batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine expired on September 30. However, […]
Category: All News
Speaker exposed! Judge unravels farcical accusations
A Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) article accusing Justice Adrian Jack of ‘wrestling’ a case away from another judge, Justice Gerhard Wallbank, has been exposed as a ploy to mislead the public. This follows the revelation that the claimant in […]
Overdue taxes will be deducted for gov’t contractors in bad standing
Any business or individual that wishes to enter into a contract with the BVI government will now be required to get a Certificate of Good Standing. This decision was taken at a recent Cabinet meeting on September 21. In the […]
Cabinet defers tourist bubble plan as new cruise season looms
The government has decided to defer approval for its draft operational plan to implement cruise ship bubble areas within which cruise passengers would be confined when they visit the territory in the next few weeks. A task force from the […]
Low scores on cultural test unlikely to prevent Belongership — Penn
Chief Immigration Officer Ian Penn has revealed that low test scores are unlikely to prevent an applicant from being granted Belongership status in the territory. Persons applying for Belongership are required to do a cultural test as well as be […]
Taxi & Livery being given greater powers; to become ‘body corporate’
The Cabinet is putting plans into action for the Taxi & Livery Commission to become its own stand-alone legal body. At its September 21 meeting, Cabinet decided that the Road Traffic (Taxi & Livery Commission) Regulations, 1997 would be amended […]
Letty delivers impassioned plea for missing granddaughter in US
Local businesswoman Violet ‘Letty’ Delville is appealing to the authorities in Orlando, Florida to bring her missing granddaughter home. Letty pleaded for deputies to move swiftly in locating her granddaughter, Miya Marcano, one week after she disappeared from her Arden […]
Speaker ordered to pay legal fees for ‘unreasonable’ court action
The High Court has ordered House of Assembly Speaker, Julian Willock, to pay the legal fees for the three Commission of Inquiry (COI) attorneys against whom filed a court injunction and later withdrew. Justice Adrian Jack made that ruling in […]
AG: Gov’t didn’t grant Belongership to convicts! COI mislead the public
Following news that the governing Virgin Islands Party considered a convicted rapist and another felon for Belongership back in 2019, Attorney General (AG) Dawn Smith today clarified that neither was granted status in the end. Immigration Minister Vincent Wheatley was […]
Yates Construction director upset at Health Ministry’s treatment
A director of Yates & Associates Construction, the company at the centre of a recent COVID-19 spike, has expressed severe disappointment at the Health Ministry’s response to the plight of his workers. More than two dozen positive cases were discovered […]
