Government has retained a UK attorney at a cost of up to $400,000 to draft a piece of legislation for the territory’s financial services industry. Specifically, the Premier Smith government hired Queen’s Counsel Michael Furness to draft laws in an […]

By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff The BVI has moved to join other countries in the Caribbean and Latin American to establish a local cancer registry by January. This move is being made in consideration of statistics which shows that […]

A 28-year-old East End man was ordered to pay nearly $7,000 in fines and compensation in relation to two unrelated incidents. Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards slapped Kyle Baronville with fines amounting to $5,000 and ordered him to pay compensations totaling $1,600 […]

Cedar International School and Ciboney Centre for Excellence has formed a partnership with local restaurants to raise more than $20,000 to assist their needy students. The funds will specifically be used to help pay the tuition of needy students living […]

Surveillance cameras that were mounted inside the prisoner holding cell at the Magistrate’s Court in John’s Hole were reportedly tampered with. Authorities believe one of the inmates brought to court from Her Majesty’s Prison interfered with the devices, BVI News […]

Social commentator and radio talk show host Claude Skelton Cline has named the governing Premier Smith administration as the downfall of the British Virgin Islands and is now calling for an early election. “The National Democratic Party (NDP) has taken our […]

The new National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC)/DDM building – which workmen will start constructing next April or May – will include a section that can be immediately transformed to accommodate government if another catastrophic event hits the BVI. “If we […]

A 53-year-old transient who claims to be grieving his deceased brother has been given a ‘discount’ on his prison sentence. Ivan Govia, who is no stranger to the court, was sentenced after confessing to resisting arrest, using insulting language, and disorderly […]

The two-year drug trial involving accused cocaine dealers Tariq Aaron and Leshaughn Smith has concluded. The trial came to an end on Wednesday when the accused duo opted to ‘remain silent’ and not give any testimony in the case against […]

Member countries in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are being encouraged to model the BVI’s education system, which has been receiving notable praise from some education officials in the region. Among those officials that have recognized the territory […]