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March 14th, 2024
Jamal S. Smith was ‘a very talented & valuable member of our community’- Premier

MANUEL HILL, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has said, with the death of local attorney Jamal S. Smith, the Virgin Islands has lost a very talented and valuable member of the community.

March 13th, 2024
Jamal S. Smith may have been shot & killed since Monday night- RVIPF

MANUEL HILL, Tortola, VI– Attorney Jamal S. Smith may have been killed since Monday evening, March 11, 2024, as police had received a report of a shooting in Manuel Reef since then.

March 10th, 2024
1.8 tonnes of cocaine with street value of $180M was seized on March 5- Gov Pruce

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Standing in front of the vessel, ‘Midnight’, that was seized in a joint operation involving US Customs and Border Patrol and the Royal Virgin Islands Police (RVIPF) in the East End area on March 5, 2024, Governor Daniel Pruce has disclosed that the 60 bales of cocaine seized was weighed at 1.8 tonnes with a street value of $180M.

March 7th, 2024
UPDATE: Backtracking Juror in Fahie's trial sticks with guilty verdict

MIAMI, Florida, USA - Today, March 7, 2024, both prosecutors and defense Attorneys appeared in a Miami Federal Court before Judge Kathleen M. Williams over the matter of two of Andrew A. Fahie’s jurors who had changed their guilty verdict post-trial.

March 6th, 2024
UPDATE: 60 bales of cocaine seized following boat chase- RVIPF

EAST END, Tortola, VI- The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) has said the joint operation between the US Virgin Islands and local authorities last night, March 5, 2024, has resulted in the most substantial sea seizure to date, as some 60 bales of cocaine were seized.

March 6th, 2024
St Vincent deports suspects in murder of a US sailing couple

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Three men from Grenada suspected in the disappearance of a US couple whose catamaran was hijacked were ordered deported from St Vincent and the Grenadines on Monday.

March 5th, 2024
USVI: Man arrested after allegedly raping his sister

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- One man in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) is facing felony rape charges after his sister accused him of forcing her to drink until she became ill, and then raping her on the floor of their mother’s bathroom.

February 27th, 2024
Arrests made as probe into Aladdin robbery & CGB shooting continues

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Following investigations into the recent shooting incident in Cane Garden Bay on February 4, and the robbery at Aladdin Store on Flemming Street, Road Town on February 9, officers of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) conducted a targeted early morning operation resulting in the apprehension of multiple individuals today, February 27, 2024.

February 27th, 2024
Vincy man arrested in USVI for smuggling humans from Tortola to St John

CRUZ BAY, ST John, USVI- A St Vincent and The Grenadines national has been arrested by border patrol authorities in the US Virgin Islands and placed before the court for attempting to smuggle people into St John, US Virgin Islands from Tortola, [British] Virgin Islands.

February 23rd, 2024
Sentencing of Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard further pushed to March 28, 2024

MIAMI, Florida, USA- The sentencing of former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard, who had struck a plea deal with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has been pushed back again- this time to March 28, 2024.

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