Police have formally charged Keithley Liburd, 47, of Lower Estate with assaulting a female employee of a bar in Purcell Estate. Liburd was charged on Tuesday, January 11th. Police say that the charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm stemmed from an altercation between two, captured on video, as the employee was being escorted outside […]
Host of Honestly Speaking Claude Skelton Cline has again sounded the warning of some children falling through the cracks with the online learning school system. The new school term opened on January 6th, and students have been placed back in online learning because of the latest spike in Covid-19 cases. During his programme on Tuesday, […]
As the territory’s active Covid-19 cases continue to increase daily, now 1,387, Government has called a critical stakeholders meeting to discuss the way forward. The Ministry of Health and Social Development and the Health Emergency Operations Center – Unified Command will be hosting a virtual stakeholders meeting today, Thursday, January 13 from 2:30 p.m. to […]
A former Principal at the Elmore Stoutt High School and an NDP candidate in the last General Elections Sandy Harrigan-Underhill has been appointed as the first Director of the HLSCC Institute of Education. President of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, Dr. Richard Georges said he is delighted to welcome Harrigan-Underhill to HLSCC, noting that […]
The 2022 New Law Year opened on Tuesday, January 11th with a consensus that digitally operated courts are here to stay. The opening was done virtually because of the Covid-19 pandemic, under the theme “The ECSC: Re-Imagining the Justice System in the Era of COVID-19 and beyond”. Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, […]
Three BVI residents face the possibility of life imprisonment if convicted after they were caught with cocaine near St. Croix. United States Attorney Gretchen Shappert announced Monday that three BVI nationals and a national from the Dominican Republic were arrested January 9 on criminal charges related to their alleged possession with intent to distribute 667 […]
Visitation to the Prison at Balsum Ghut has been suspended until further notice. Governor John Rankin and Minister for Health and Social Development, Carvin Malone have agreed that there be a suspension of the visitation because of the rising increase in Covid-19 cases. Meanwhile the Magistrates Court has also taken measures because of the […]
Health Minister Carvin Malone has called on the Environmental Health Department to beef up its staff and operations, because they must break the level of transmission of Covid-19 cases in the territory. Minister Malone said that this current spike is too much, and they cannot continue as they have been, and he has put persons […]
Police have issued an arrest warrant for Erick Rabsatt, 21, of Pasea Estate, Tortola who is suspected in the shooting death of Jaimez Stoutt, 31 on December 11, 2021. The arrest warrant has been circulated within the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force and throughout the U.S. Virgin Islands. Officers of the Major Incident Team are […]