Quito’s Gazebo in Cane Garden Bay has reopened after a six-week setback caused by scarce building materials on Tortola and subsequent shipping interruptions. Owner of the tourist hotspot, Quito Rymer, said the million-dollar upgraded Gazebo was unveiled at a soft launch […]

By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff After about a 15-month hiatus due to the havoc caused by the 2017 natural disasters, the British Virgin Islands will once again host its annual Boxing Day races. Twenty-one horses are set to compete […]

A Carrot Bay man was sentenced to a total of three-and-a-half years at Her Majesty’s Prison after he was found cultivating more than 200 cannabis plants last year. Alson Quashie was sentenced on Friday after Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards found […]

Despite a mandate from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the United Kingdom that the Recovery and Development Agency (RDA) should handle and have full control over monies from the CDB’s $65 million loan, local government is currently the body managing those […]

The man largely in charge of managing the territory’s purse, Glenroy Forbes, has said the time is ripe for the British Virgin Islands to explore the idea of having greater self-determination. The Financial Secretary said the territory needs to have a […]

A Long Trench resident charged with manslaughter two years ago has been acquitted. Anthony Cheltenham was found not guilty by a nine-member-jury last Thursday. His attorneys Valerie Stephens-Gordon and Stacy Abel successfully argued that the incident was nothing more than […]

Seventeen new recruits have been sworn into the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) and nearly half of the batch are BVIslanders. The other countries represented are St Vincent, Jamaica, Guyana, St Lucia and Dominica. A media release from the […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Self-sufficient economies are good for national security, national health, and economic growth. Non-self-sufficient economies are slave economies, dependent on foreign powers, for their existence. Now, countries that feed their populations from their own geography and natural […]

PRESS RELEASE: The Child Maintenance and Access Bill, 2016 that strengthens the system of laws and policies that recognise children’s rights to special protection is now in effect. The bill addresses the concerns and challenges presented in the Magistrate’s Code of […]

Just a few short months away from the territory’s next General Election, Governor Augustus Jaspert has been accused of abusing the privilege of his office to meddle in the electoral affairs of the British Virgin Islands. Education Minister Myron Walwyn […]