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Old Peebles Hospital is adjacent to the Adina Donovan Home for the Elderly on Main Street.

Move elderly from Adina Donovon Home to old Peebles Hospital — Fraser

Chairman of Progressives United, Julian Fraser, is lobbying for operations at the Adina Donovan Home for the Elderly on Main Street, Road Town to be relocated. Fraser, however, is not proposing for them to be uprooted very far from where […]

by / on February 5, 2019 at 3:10 PM /
Prevost

$$ ‘significantly less’ after it was last seen in accused cop’s custody — Whistleblower

The latest testimony inside the High Court was that a full pillowcase of money that was seized in a December 2012 police raid was considerably depleted after it was reportedly last seen in the custody of Pamphill Prevost — one […]

by / on February 5, 2019 at 8:45 AM /
Stoutt-Igwe

Clause about ‘no unrealistic promises’ removed from political code of conduct

The clause that forbade parties and candidates from making election promises they knowingly cannot deliver on has been removed from newly introduced Code of Conduct for Political Parties and Candidates. According to Permanent Secretary in the Deputy Governor’s Office, Carolyn […]

by / on February 5, 2019 at 7:47 AM /
Supervisor of Elections, Juliette Penn

Operations tighten at polling stations, no more polling agents per candidate

Political candidates affiliated with a party can no longer assign two or even one polling agent to monitor their individual interests at the polling station on Election Day. Amendments to the territory’s Election Act now reserves that right for political […]

by / on February 5, 2019 at 7:36 AM /
Verna Smith

Verna Smith running At-Large for Progressives United

The number of candidates in Progressives United is steadily increasing as the party has made another addition to the team. Verna Smith is the latest addition and was announced on Monday as the Julian Fraser-led party’s second At-Large candidate. Progressives […]

by / on February 5, 2019 at 7:17 AM /
Debaters from Cedar International School (top) and St Georges Secondary School.

Cedar Int’l, St Georges advance after spirited school debate on crime

Cedar International and St Georges Secondary schools have earned their spots in the semi-final round of the Inter-Secondary Schools debates slated for March 6. The two schools emerged triumphant over their competitors during the first leg of the competition at […]

by / on February 5, 2019 at 7:04 AM /
A section of the main island of Tortola. (Photo by Davion Smith/BVI News)

Commonwealth MPs invited to observe BVI elections

PRESS RELEASE: The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association British Islands and Mediterranean Region (CPA BIMR) will conduct an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to the British Virgin Islands 2019. CPA BIMR were invited by the Governor with approval of the Premier and Leader […]

by / on February 5, 2019 at 6:59 AM /
Erran Charles

Police name murder victim, investigating fatal shooting

Police have identified the man who was shot and killed in Huntums Ghut Sunday night as 34-year-old Dominica native, Erran Charles. While bringing some clarity on the shooting, law enforcers said the second gunshot victim is a 17-year-old. The teen […]

by / on February 4, 2019 at 2:50 PM /
Police at the Elmore Stoutt High School on Monday, February 4.

Police increase presence at ESHS after reported ‘disturbance’

Police presence has been increased at the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) in Pasea Estate in light of what is being described as a ‘disturbance’ at the facility Monday morning. “Police were called to assist and deployed a number of […]

by / on February 4, 2019 at 1:15 PM /
Romney-Moses

‘Enough is enough’, D1 lags behind under Fahie’s 20-year leadership — Romney-Moses

Though commending VIP Chairman Andrew Fahie for ‘long years of service’ as representative of First District, Sylvia Romney-Moses — the Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) candidate hoping to unseat the five-term legislator — said the district has straggled under Fahie’s […]

by / on February 4, 2019 at 7:15 AM /