Health Minister Carvin Malone said a confirmation will be made shortly as to whether the dreaded and deadly delta variant of COVID-19 is present in the BVI. When news of the current COVID-19 upsurge first spread, health officials said it […]

A half-dozen more persons in the British Virgins Islands have died from COVID-19, the Ministry of Health announced Tuesday evening. This brings the territory’s overall COVID-19 death toll to 23. The latest recorded deceased persons include a 50-year-old female who […]

Medicure Laboratory has refuted several assertions from the Ministry of Health (MOH) whose recent statements the private healthcare facility says discredit its efforts to conduct COVID-19 tests in the BVI. A July 15 release from the MOH advised that the […]

Premier Andrew Fahie has complained that his government is still expected to produced thousands of requested documents for the ongoing Commission of Inquiry (COI), despite facing severe constraints. Many government offices have been shuttered, with staff being forced to work […]

Sections of the BVI — particularly areas on the BVI Electricity Corporation’s (BVIEC) main grid on Tortola — are experiencing a power outage. Some residents have reported losing power in their communities around 7 o’clock Tuesday morning, July 20. In […]

As the BVI struggles with an internal COVID-19 outbreak that has claimed the lives of at least 17 persons in a matter of weeks, another cruise line will be making its inaugural return call to the British Virgin Islands this […]

Clerk of the House of Assembly (HOA), Phyllis Evans has indicated that she’s been told not to dictate how legislators dispense funds to their constituents. The Clerk made the disclosure while giving evidence before the Commission of Inquiry (COI) recently. […]

Restaurants located at local hotels have been exempted from the government’s recent policy mandating food establishments to close for in-house dining. The government had made that decision because of the major uptick in COVID-19 cases and deaths locally. But in […]

A shop owner at the Crafts Alive Village has described as “terrible” the conditions under which he is forced to conduct business since electricity has been disconnected to the area for more than three months. Abdul Shabazz, a fruit smoothie […]

Premier Andrew Fahie has insisted there has been no impropriety on his part in granting a contract to EZ Shipping to host the government’s radar equipment and assist in detecting smuggling activity in the BVI’s territorial waters. The government was […]