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May 15th, 2017
‘Whooping’ improved child’s grades – Court hears

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A former soldier and native of the US Virgin Islands living here in the Virgin Islands (British) has been ordered to seek anger management sessions after he was placed before the courts by Social Development Department for beating his step-daughter and injuring her.

July 20th, 2016
$20k bail for teen who ‘whipped’ father with blender

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A teen who claimed to have been haunted by childhood horrors allegedly meted out to him at the hands of his father, recited the famous ‘Lord’s Prayer’, Matthew 6:9-13, before unleashing blows to his father, to the extent of attempting to strangle him with the cord of a blender.

June 5th, 2016
Young VIslander Dr Michael A. Turnbull opens Wellness Centre

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Dr Michael A. Turnbull yesterday June 5, 2016 opened the Wellness Centre Behavioural Health Clinic in the Sir Olva Georges Plaza in Road Town on the main island of Tortola.

September 1st, 2014
'Prison Officers need anger management programme' – Inmate Roland Allen

BALSUM GHUT, Tortola, VI - Speaking of the benefits of the Partnership for Peace programme that has significantly impacted his life one inmate of Her Majesty’s Prison, Mr Roland Allen said that a similar programme should be designed for some of the Prison Officers.

March 8th, 2014
Chef fined for slashing friend’s tyres

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Andrew Webb, 32, pleaded guilty to destruction of property and being armed with an offensive weapon with intent to commit a crime when he appeared before the Magistrate’s Court on March 7, 2014.

September 20th, 2013
Give us a second chance- HMP inmate Kareem Simon appeals

BALSUM GHUT, Tortola, VI – Kareem Simon took a bold and conscious stand in appealing to members of the Virgin Islands community to give him and other inmates a second chance at being productive citizens when they return to society after serving time at Her Majesty’s Prison in Balsum Ghut, Tortola.

September 18th, 2013
68 HMP inmates receive group counselling

BALSUM GHUT, Tortola, VI – Some sixty-eight (68) inmates of Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) at Balsum Ghut have completed a group counseling programme as part of the institution’s rehabilitative efforts.

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