Sir Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur and owner of Necker Island, a luxury private resort in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), was among over 120 new British Overseas Territories Citizens (BOTC) who took the Oath of Allegiance an...
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The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) has announced a temporary pause in the acceptance of Visa Waiver applications, effective July 28, 2023.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Local news tabloid BVINews.com has been wiped clean of all its sensational news articles and other content, leaving only the header logo and footer section of the website populated.
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit the Virgin Islands on Monday, July 10th, at around 4:28 pm.
A major operation was carried out by the Armed Response Team and the Road Policing Unit of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) over the weekend, resulting in the arrests of five individuals and the seizure of a significant amou...
Healthcare is an Investment: Minister for Health and Social Development Hon.
The Virgin Islands Education System has appointed six new public school principals.
BVI Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley has taken the obvious and very needed step of reporting Governor John Rankin to the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, citing concerns over the UK's continued colonization of the British V...
A former JPMorgan executive wrote in a 2011 email that the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should not be a client of the bank, according to a transcript of a deposition of Chief Executive Jamie Dimon seen by Reuters.
On May 21, 2023, in Guyana, a school dormitory fire resulted in the death of 19 children.
The Virgin Islands (VI) Minister for Communications and Works, Hon Kye M.
The BVI Airports Authority has resumed normal operations at the Territory's airports after briefly closing due to staffing levels not meeting regulations.
The government of the Virgin Islands has signed contracts totaling $653,000 to construct three social homes as part of the Housing Recovery Assistance Programme.
The government of the Virgin Islands will be presenting new plans for the city of Road Town at a community meeting on May 30, 2023.
Elon Musk has been subpoenaed by the US Virgin Islands in a lawsuit accusing a Wall Street bank of enabling Jeffrey Epstein to sex traffic women.
US Democratic Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett has been accused of threatening journalist Matt Taibbi with prosecution for perjury over his congressional testimony last month. Taibbi was the first journalist selected by Twitter CEO Elon Mus...
Attorney General Dawn Smith has raised concerns about a recurring pattern of government members using her position as a scapegoat whenever issues in governance are highlighted to the public. This came in response to the Virgin Islands Pa...
Former Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA) Mr Julian Willock, who had publicly criticised the United Kingdom (UK) sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI), the motive of the past UK-appointed Governor and accused the CoI lawyers of worki...
Former Financial Secretary (FS) in the Virgin Islands (VI) Mr L. Allen Wheatley has slammed the Dr Natalio D. Wheatley-led Government of National Unity for what he said is their refusal to take advice from experts in the territory, even ...
“As hard as we are on ourselves because we hold ourselves to a very high standard, we must never forget that having local representation beats the alternative, big time.” — Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley.
We are not British, we are their victims. They rigged our systems to be controlled by their unelected corrupted officials. Amid the political tensions between the BVI and the United Kingdom, one lawmaker has expressed that people should ...
Political commentator and clergyman Claude Skelton Cline said the burden he has carried for the territory has cost him dearly.
Ionian Management, which manages three vessels including M/T Ocean Princess, was sentenced on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, to pay a fine of $250,000 after pleading guilty to a violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.
Former Chief Inspector in the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) Mr Vere H.E. Browne, who is a resident of the Third District of the Virgin Islands, has questioned why the government continues to 'drag its feet' on removing Hon An...