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BVI is in for a Bumper Tourism/Cruise Season, with officials saying that the territory would get close to 200 calls beginning on Wednesday, October 13th. During a press conference last week, Junior Minister of Tourism Sharie De Castro said that those calls are as a result of the BVI’s participation in Seatrade Global which ended […]
The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force says it has made breakthroughs in several burglaries with four arrests in break-ins around Tortola in past two weeks. Detectives charged both Thurman Smith, 43, of Old Plantation and Eric Casey, 30, Scatliffe Alley with the burglary and theft of two generators, one Stihl blower, two vacuums and a […]
Education Minister Dr. Nathalio Wheatley has given teachers the assurance they would receive their $300 stipend soon. During a recent statement to mark World Teachers Day, Minister Wheatley said he is cognizant of the many challenges that educators experience daily and the Government will continue to do the best that they can to support their […]
One of the lawyers representing the government in the ongoing Commission of Inquiry – COI, Martha Eker-Male of Withers, has assured commissioner Sir Gary Hickenbottom, that the Attorney General’s Legal team is not being discourteous to him. During Tuesday’s COI, Hickenbottom said on the 21st of September, he wrote the Attorney General, not as the […]
A traffic plan is being worked out, to facilitate motorists when the Fish Bay Road Rehabilitation and Slope Stabilisation project begins. This, as government signed the contract with Autland Heavy Equipment Limited recently. Works Minister Kye Rymer said this project is long overdue. He said that meetings were held with the businesses in the area […]
In what is considered a move out of the ordinary, Commissioner of Police Mark Collins chose to honour the three officers this week who bravely rescued the young man that threw himself into the water off Road Town Jetty in an apparent suicide attempt. While officers of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force are recognised […]
Leader of the Opposition Marlon Penn is questioning why should the government consider granting belonger status to two convicted criminals including a rapist. During the Commission of Inquiry hearing when the Minister of Labour and Immigration -Vincent Wheatley was questioned, it was revealed that government was considering an application as part of the fast track […]
The Maples Group has donated a 55-piece steel band with accessories in what it says is part of its continued support of the music programme at the Elmore Stoutt High School “ESHS. The new steel pans, which were built in Trinidad, will be used by students of ESHS’ Steel Orchestra at various performances throughout the […]
Natural Resources Minister andRepresentative for the Ninth District Vincent Wheatley has announced that Air Safety Support International, ASSI has given the approval for night flights George Auguste Airport on Anegada. Minister Wheatley made the announcement at a community meeting in Anegada on Sunday. He said with this approval, residents there would be airlifted at nights […]
Chairman of the BVI Chamber of Commerce and Hotel Association – Shaina Smith-Archer says the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic, has caused its revenue streams to shrink to an all-time low and the Chamber is currently in need of urgent financial support to continue its work. Smith Archer says the past eighteen months have […]