News
Island-wide power outage hits Tortola
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Some homes and businesses across the Virgin Islands experienced a total electrical power shut down earlier today, May 21, 2013 that sent some persons scrambling for backup support to continue their tasks.
UPDATE: Fmr prison officer Morton has case to answer - Magistrate
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards has ruled that former Prison Officer, Steve Morton does indeed have a case to answer before the court and has thrown out a no case submission made by the defence.
UPDATE: Businesses not buying Premier’s denial economy is failing
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In what could be considered a case of ‘who feels it knows it’, the majority of businesses in the Virgin Islands are not in support of Premier Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith’s recent statement in the House of Assembly that the economy was not failing.
$99k for dinner as ESHS students without supplies - Parent
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – One resident has questioned the reasoning behind the spending of $99,000 on a recent teachers’ gala dinner while parents are allegedly being asked to assist teachers with school supplies.
It's abuse to charge seniors & children for medication– E. Maduro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Host of the BVI Forum TV show on CBN Television, Edmund Maduro, said he believed senior citizens and children were being abused at Peebles Hospital when they were allegedly being charged for free medication.











