Thirteen new hotel rooms are currently being constructed at Nanny Cay Resort and Marina. Resort Manager Jane Tyrrell told BVI News on Thursday that the rooms are being built in the form of two three-storey concrete blocks and is projected […]

Regional airline LIAT has issued a travel advisory following the recent increase of confirmed cases of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Caribbean. The advisory which could possibly have an impact on the British Virgin Islands, was issued on […]

Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA) Julian Willock is reporting that ‘honour and respect’ has now been restored in the legislature during his 12 months in the post so far. Willock’s comments were made on Thursday, to mark his […]

Long-serving public servant, Dr Carolyn O’Neal-Morton is the new Permanent Secretary in the Premier’s Office, a government-commissioned media release has said. The release said Dr Morton’s appoint took effect today, March 12 following Governor Augustus Jaspert’s advice to the Public […]

Confirmed cases of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to be on the rise in the English-speaking Caribbean islands, with a total of four cases including one death up to press time. These islands include, Guyana, St Vincent and the […]

Cedar International School (CIS) are the 2020 Inter-Secondary School Debates champions, after dethroning defending champions Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) in the final on Wednesday, March 11. In what was considered a rematch of the 2019 finals between both Tortola-based […]

Ahead of his sentencing hearing later this month, Chelsea Mutyaba of Uganda in East Africa made a passionate appeal to the court for mercy and came close to tears at the idea of a possible custodial sentence. Mutyaba is charged […]

Nominees for the Virgin Islands Youth Parliament recently completed their first of three training sessions on the entire proceedings of the House of Assembly. A government commissioned media release said the nominees were selected from among youth organisations, churches and […]

A Jamaican man residing in Long Bush has admitted to wounding a United States chef in Road Town on November 30 last year. Prince Akeem Bambury, 24, pleaded guilty when he appeared before Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste-DaBreo on Wednesday. He had […]

Alexis Perez, the Puerto Rican businessman who was recently held at the Beef Island airport with $39,800 cash stashed in his personal belongings, has claimed that he has not taken a bath, brushed his teeth, changed clothes or spoken to […]