News
‘Read to Heal programme’ off to a successful start
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Students of the Joyce Samuel Primary School, were on Tuesday, January 14, 2019, treated to readings from The Irma Diaries by local author Angela Burnett Penn.
Green Machine takes lead in SCBBC MLK Jr 9-12 match
SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI – As the Sea Cows Bay Basketball Club’s (SCBBC) Martin Luther King Jr (MLK Jr) games are on the way, the match between Green Machine and Blue Boys was a good start to the tournament in the 9-12 category.
Users of unmanned aircraft subject to aviation rules
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Users of small unmanned aircraft, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones are being advised that they are subject to aviation rules.
VIP’s Flax-Charles proposes more tourism products
MARIA’S BY THE SEA, Road Town, Tortola, VI - At-Large candidate under the Virgin Islands Party (VIP), Ms Shereen D. Flax-Charles is planning to significantly expand the Virgin Islands (VI) tourism products if elected to office in 2019.
Bartender shot to death in USVI bar
VI CONSORTIUM
CHRISTIANSTED, St. Croix, USVI - A female bartender was shot to death in a downtown Christiansted, USVI bar on the night of Thursday, January 17, 2019, USVIPD Public Information Officer, Glen Dratte confirmed.
VIP's Neville A. Smith mulls expanding tourism's niche markets
ROAD TOWN, Tortola VI – Territorial At Large Candidate for the Virgin Islands Party (VIP), Neville A. Smith aka ‘Sheep,’ is proposing the shoring up of the Territory’s Tourism Industry by expanding into new niche markets in addition to an ambitious agriculture and fisheries project.
The Virgin Islands General Election of 2019 Part 2
By Dickson C. Igwe
Ok. Will the two-party culture of the Virgin Islands end at the 2019 General Election? This Old Boy does not believe so. However, there is a growing chorus, that party politics has failed the Virgin Islands. And that the 2019 General Election may well be the ‘swan song’ of two-party politics in the territory. Is there validity to that assertion?
VI scholar issues call for more Debates among Candidates
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The call for debates among Candidates vying to become Legislators of the Virgin Islands (VI), ahead of the 2019 General Election, is reverberating more across the Territory.
Minor accident slows traffic in Road Town
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - At around 4:55 pm today, January 18, 2019, in the midst of the rush hour traffic, two small Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) had a bumper accident.
Police hunting prison escapee Khori T. Prince
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) is seeking the public's assistance in locating Khori Tahj Prince, 19, who escaped from Police custody this afternoon, January 18, 2019.
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