The Ministry of Transportation, Works & Utilities has accumulated more than $2 million in outstanding invoices from vendors who rendered services that date back more than a decade ago, in at least one instance. This is according to the portfolio […]

The Dr D Orlando Smith Hospital has now achieved full accreditation status from the international accrediting body, DNVL — Det Norske Veritas (Norway) and Germanischer Lloyd (Germany). The state-own hospital has gotten accreditation for three years and is the first […]

Premier Andrew Fahie has formally announced his commitment to implementing publicly accessible registers of company beneficial ownership for the British Virgin Islands. Premier Fahie made the statement during Tuesday’s session in the House of Assembly where he said that despite […]

Local attorney Jamal Smith has been appointed the new chairman of the Labour Arbitration Tribunal in the British Virgin Islands. Smith’s appointment took effect on August 1 and will last for two years. Now the successor of Queen’s Counsels Luis […]

Premier Andrew Fahie has said the December 1 date to reopen the British Virgin Islands to tourism is to allow the territory sufficient time to have all the necessary systems in place to ensure a safe reopening process. Speaking at […]

Premier Andrew Fahie will today ask the House of Assembly to exempt Fourth District Representative Mark Vanterpool from vacating his seat as an elected member. This request will be made because the government is currently doing business with two companies […]

Minister for Natural Resources, Vincent Wheatley has said there are plans to make the British Virgin Islands a no-anchoring jurisdiction. Wheatley announced during a recent live panel discussion that the measure is a step towards helping to preserve coral reefs […]

Though the British Virgin Islands has seen a couple of new cases of the coronavirus in the last four days, the territory’s recovery rate has considerably spiked over that period. When Health Minister Carvin Malone gave his last official COVID-19 […]

Ahead of the December 1 reopening of the local tourism industry, Junior Minister for Tourism Sharie DeCastro is urging residents to stop the illegal dumping of garbage as it can negatively impact the industry. Authorities in the BVI have expressed […]

Telecommunications company Flow has announced that all their operations on Virgin Gorda will move online as of October 31. In a press release on Monday, the company said the decision is “part of its ongoing commitment to the safety of […]