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December 25th, 2022
BVI Airports Authority tests Emergency Rapid Response Readiness

BEEF ISLAND, VI- BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA) Acting Managing Director and Director of Compliance, Mr Ronnie Lettsome said the authority conducted an emergency drill exercise at the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport (EIS) on Monday, December 19, 2022.

January 13th, 2022
Caribbean National Kurt A.G. Menal tipped for new MD of BVIAA

TRELLIS BAY, Beef Island, VI- Word just reaching our news centre from sources within the UK’s Air Safety Support International (ASSI), the territory’s aviation regulators, is that St Lucian Kurt A. G. Menal will be the new Managing Director of the BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA).

August 23rd, 2020
Local entities bid to supply aviation fuel to commercial airlines @ TBLIA

TRELLIS BAY, Beef Island, VI- The BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA), has announced the receipt of proposals resulting from its recent tender process for a provider of aviation fuel to commercial airlines at the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport (TBLIA) on Beef Island.

June 6th, 2020
TB Lettsome Airport partially reopens for limited flights

BEEF ISLAND, VI - Coinciding with the limited June re-opening of the Virgin Islands (VI) borders for those living in the territory to return home after the territory's COVID-19 lockdown in March, the BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA) have announced that the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport has opened to facilitate limited flights.

June 24th, 2019
Denniston S. Fraser retires as MD of BVIAA

TRELLIS BAY, Beef Island, VI- Word reaching our newsroom is that the Managing Director (MD) of the BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA), Mr Denniston S. Fraser, has retired.

May 22nd, 2019
Citizens cry foul over NDP's Airport Development Fee

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Days before being ousted from office in 2019, the National Democratic Party (NDP) approved an Order that would see development works at the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport on Beef Island, being financed in part by all passengers travelling in or out of the Virgin Islands (VI).

March 3rd, 2019
NDP increased Airport fees before leaving Office

BEEF ISLAND, VI – The National Democratic Party (NDP1) Government days before being ousted from Office approved an Order that would see the controversial development works at the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport on Beef Island, being financed in part by all passengers (including visitors and tourists) travelling in or out of the Virgin Islands (VI).

January 1st, 2019
3 weeks later, still no Anegada runway lights

THE SETTLEMENT, Anegada, VI – In the first week of December 2018, our newsroom did an article where the residents of Anegada had raised concerns that since the Hurricanes of September 2017, the runway lights on the Captain Auguste George Airport were out of service and not restored.

December 12th, 2018
Anegada continues to suffer; no airport runway lights

THE SETTLEMENT, Anegada, VI - Fifteen months after the devastation of Hurricane Irma and Maria of 2017, there is still no runway lights on the Captain Auguste George Airport, located on the sister island of Anegada.

November 6th, 2018
Taddy Bay Airport open and ready for business

Mr Denniston S. Fraser, Managing Director of the BVI Airports Authority hereby informs the public that the Taddy Bay Airport, Virgin Gorda, reopened for business on Friday, November 2, 2018.

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