Regional lending body, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) does not believe the local recovery process will be at optimal levels; at least not this year. According to the CDB’s 2018 economic report on the BVI released last month, the territory […]

Eighty expatriates living in the British Virgin Islands for varying number of years are now naturalised Overseas Territory citizens. The naturalisation ceremony took place at Government House on Tuesday. “It feels very good,” said Jamaica-born Otis McKenzie, who has been […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Brexit is a huge economic, social, and political matter, that the Overseas Territories of Great Britain must engage with. At root, Owen Jones the Guardian columnist has described Brexit as, “driven by conservative media outlets and […]

Commonwealth Day has a special significance this year as we mark the 70th anniversary of the London Declaration when nations of the Commonwealth agreed to move forward together as free and equal members. The vision and sense of connection that […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Brexit presents a dilemma for Virgin Islands politics during a month of general elections. How does Brexit affect the Virgin Islands? Will Brexit happen? And if Brexit takes place will Brexit be sustainable in an aging […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor The Virgin Islands population mix, demographic, and migration pattern matrix, and how it responds to Julius Caesar’s campaign rhetoric, is the great unmentionable in the room. OK. Virgin Islands General Election seasons are a volatile, tumultuous, […]

While delivering his 2018 Christmas message, Opposition legislator Julian Fraser has a painted grim picture of the BVI’s economy. He pointed to the current state of the territory’s finances and what he suggests would be an unfavourable future. “Just this […]

The Norman Island development project which is being signed from an agreement between the government and local company, Audubon Holdings Limited, is slated to have a cost that is upwards of $200 million. “It isn’t really a budgeted figure,” noted […]

The United Kingdom has donated a mobile clinic to the BVI Health Services Authority (BVIHSA). A media release from government said the clinic was identified as a requirement to enhance local healthcare following a post-hurricane population health needs assessment by the […]

Local and international planning authorities are projecting that the population of the BVI will exceed 50,000 in the next 20 years. According to Canadian firm Dillon Consulting who recently conducted a situation analysis on the BVI with the Town and Country […]