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Acting Governor R. Dancia Penn orders Frank Joseph deported

- Joseph was convicted of Indecent Assault of a
A man recently convicted of indecent assault has been ordered deported from the territory by Acting Governor R. Dancia Penn, OBE, KC (in photo). Photo: GIS/File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A man recently convicted of indecent assault has been ordered deported from the territory by Acting Governor R. Dancia Penn, OBE, KC.

Frank Joseph, who was deemed not to belong to the territory, was ordered deported by the Acting Governor, according to Statutory Instrument 2026 NO. 40, made on August 6, 2026, and published in the Official Gazette on August 7, 2026.

According to the Deportation Order, it has come to the knowledge of the Acting Governor, that Frank Joseph "has been convicted of the offence of indecent assault on a woman, contrary to section 138(1)(a) of the Criminal Code, Revised Edition 2013, and in accordance with section 40(1)(c) of the Immigration and Passport Act, Revised Edition 2013, is a person whose presence in the Territory would, in the opinion of the Governor, acting after consultation with the Chief Immigration Officer, be undesirable and not conducive to the public good".

The Instrument did not disclose the nationality or age of Mr Frank Joseph.

55 Responses to “Acting Governor R. Dancia Penn orders Frank Joseph deported”

  • Great jobbbbbbbb (09/08/2026, 08:23) Like (74) Dislike (6) Reply
    Get rid of all of them, if they are in our Territory and start problems, show them the front door and let the front door hit them where the sun don’t shine.
  • okay (09/08/2026, 08:39) Like (72) Dislike (24) Reply
    How many acting Governor the BVI has?
  • Yes ma'am (09/08/2026, 08:57) Like (21) Dislike (3) Reply
    Bye bye, glad to c u go. Please don't botther to write. Creep
  • Mbviga (09/08/2026, 09:01) Like (37) Dislike (3) Reply
    get him out of here
  • Couldn't say no.. (09/08/2026, 09:05) Like (15) Dislike (75) Reply
    People are not allowed to make mistakes, people doesn't deserve a second chance, people doesn't deserve, compassion and empathy...The same heartless ungodly people in Church every Sunday Lord forgive me them,, , Yet they are unforgiving and merciless...
    • Let use some common sense (09/08/2026, 10:48) Like (77) Dislike (1) Reply
      If your child is acting up in your home, you discipline them. If the neighbors child acts up in your home and you warn them to behave and they don’t , won’t you send them home???
      It’s a case by case. The territory has enough problems to deal with another parent’s problem.
    • NEXT FLIGHT (09/08/2026, 12:43) Like (54) Dislike (3) Reply

      @Couldn’t say no
      U really good in your head? U don’t sound sensible at all.
      HELL NO, HE CANNOT stay here. Did u read the Crime this man committed?
      U want them to leave this Dirty A$# Criminal here and when u look he a Rape and Murder someone here?
      Suppose the next Victim is one of your Family, how the hell would u feel?
      A lot of times they don’t change, they come out of prison and continue their nasty behavior.
      Let him go back where the hell he was born to do his Wicked Crimes and have his people them there deal with that.
      We don’t have to put up with that Sh**
      When u come to another man Country, Conduct yourself in a Reepectful Manner and stay your A$# out of trouble.

      • No Name (18/08/2026, 17:12) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        I pary for you and family . May you all never be held responsible for a crime u never commit. I strongly suggest you pray that particular woman because The father in heaven never never sleeps
    • Yes forgiven but (09/08/2026, 17:11) Like (32) Dislike (0) Reply
      Yes he can get a second chance and forgiven but he can do it where he is from. I don’t see why anyone would object returning to their country after being convicted of a crime in a foreign country. Bro just go home and start over… it is not the end of the world for him. But the Gov had a right to protect those who from the bvi and who residing in the bvi from harm and potential danger.
    • @Couldn't say no.. (09/08/2026, 18:18) Like (22) Dislike (1) Reply
      Indecent assault on a woman? In a country that gave him a chance. No, we have no tolerance for that sort of crime. We have our own to deal with. Let him assault one back home.
    • Citizen (09/08/2026, 18:32) Like (31) Dislike (0) Reply
      he was allowed to come here as our guest and he broke our laws, so its out he goes
    • Couldn't say no (09/08/2026, 19:57) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
      You are confusing forgiveness with no accountability. Many of these offenders are habitual and if we turn a blind eye and and let things go, imagine how many lives are destroyed. Where is your empathy for the victim/s. There is a place for second chances but some abuse those chances and do not change.
    • Beat a rum (10/08/2026, 06:06) Like (14) Dislike (0) Reply
      Parna we don't condone beating women
    • @couldnt say no (10/08/2026, 06:34) Like (12) Dislike (0) Reply
      Not here. We have enough problems here already.
  • okay (09/08/2026, 10:26) Like (6) Dislike (29) Reply
    Im not rejoicing over no one down fall. Because I have a son and other relatives
    • Wicked Island Man (09/08/2026, 13:27) Like (47) Dislike (1) Reply
      @ Okay
      Who cares if u’re not rejoicing, I’m rejoicing along with others that he’s being deported back to where the hell he came from.
      I have 2 Sons and that doesn’t have a damn thing to do with it. All they have to do is Stay them Ass Out of trouble.
      His Crime Worth Deportation and he need to get out of here ASAP if he ain’t gone yet.
      Whether it’s a Child or a Woman, his Wicked Ass wouldn’t be staying here, No Way He Got to Go.
      Let him be Dominica’s headache where he came from, not here cuz more than likely HE WILL DO IT AGAIN.
      Send All Foreigners back to their Country who are NOT Abiding with the Laws Of The Land.

    • @okay (09/08/2026, 16:11) Like (46) Dislike (1) Reply
      You idiot, if he had molested your son or a child of yours would you be saying the same? The hard back man molested a child and he had to go. Let him go the hell back to where he come from and go molest a child and let them deal with it, not here
    • @okay (09/08/2026, 21:19) Like (10) Dislike (1) Reply
      I don’t give a flying F how you feel. What downfall. He MOLESTED A CHILD. HE IS A DAMN PERVERT AND HE HAD TO GO OR STAND THE CHANCE OF GETTING CAUGHT ON ONE OF THESE DARK ROADS IN TORTOLA AND GET CASTRATED.
    • No Name (18/08/2026, 17:21) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Thanks your comment. If the truth were to be told the public will be shock to discover the lies, the hidden genda and the presence of so call family.. Please pray for the woman please.
  • Why are some of you people so damn silly (09/08/2026, 11:54) Like (54) Dislike (3) Reply
    If we migrate/live In someone’s Country and we are not law abiding/following the laws and we commit a crime, they are going to remove us from their Country right? You people need to stop being stupid and ignorant and want to be wrong and strong at the same time.
  • Audit the auditor (09/08/2026, 12:08) Like (63) Dislike (0) Reply
    He's from Dominica and its a child not a woman he molested
  • Wellsah (09/08/2026, 12:24) Like (5) Dislike (18) Reply
    who's granny wielding the power of the pen?
  • d2 (09/08/2026, 12:39) Like (6) Dislike (4) Reply
    where is archer?
  • Judy (09/08/2026, 13:47) Like (30) Dislike (3) Reply
    lot more should be sent out of the territory not forgetting the stripers and the weed wackaers
    • @Judy (10/08/2026, 07:02) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
      Don’t worry a lot more is going.?they need not get comfortable or think of they marry a local man that is going to give them rights or drop the anchor babies. Everyone see right through that. Those strippers need to go.
  • Guest (09/08/2026, 15:05) Like (25) Dislike (2) Reply
    Dancia Penn doesn't play around you know. Ask Roger Burnett.
    • To Guest (09/08/2026, 17:41) Like (21) Dislike (0) Reply
      My thoughts. Ain’t now she deporting. Dancia moving heawy..
    • Roger Burnett (09/08/2026, 19:11) Like (9) Dislike (2) Reply
      @ Guest.

      My book "For the Sake of the Children" responds to the Government's attempt (with Dancia Penn, sister of my ex wife, in the role of Attorney General) to deport me as an undesirable person not conducive to the public good.

      To the Government, and to the favoured family's chagrin, I won my case in the High Court and Appeal Court.

      The introduction to me book reads:

      What follows is my personal account of parental alienation. There are millions of similar cases worldwide, but mine has the distinction of being one of the worst. My story begins on an island in the Caribbean forty years ago and continues up to the present. The children are now approaching middle age, and their parents are in old age. However, the time span is relevant because the effects of parental alienation are long lasting. Moreover, now that my children are adults, what I write cannot be claimed to have ruined their childhood; their childhood has passed. It may however give them pause for thought as adults and enable them to reassess the father they have been indoctrinated to reject. My fight for the right of my children to have access to their father was fought under the most difficult circumstances. Other than to attend court hearings, I was for the most part forbidden to set foot on the island that was their home, and which had previously been my home. By fighting for a basic human right, I was deemed an undesirable person and a menace to the public good. For a period of five years, I waged my campaign from the cabin of a small boat while sailing from island to island. In those days there were no emails or the internet. To communicate I purchased one of the very first cell phones, a device so heavy and cumbersome that it needed its own shoulder bag. I connected it to a fax machine that was powered from the boat’s twelve-volt battery. But the thermal images generated by fax machines fade over time and then disappear altogether. Pages of correspondence that could have aided me in writing this account are now nothing more than blank sheets of paper. My requests to the High Court Registry Office for transcripts of the missing links have been ignored. The term parental alienation had only just been coined when my problems began. There were no books on the subject and no guidance for those expected to advise and judge. I had no idea that throughout the world countless other parents were in the same plight. The problem was there but not understood. To relive the trauma of parental alienation by writing about it was not an easy decision to make. Most books on the subject are written from an impersonal professional point of view. My book is taken from life. To have presented my account in any other form would have defeated its objective. That being, to forewarn other parents first-hand of the minefield that they may unwittingly step into.

      • @Roger Burnett (10/08/2026, 11:16) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
        Oh wow, I would really love to sit down and listen to your story. WOWWWWWWW! Thanks for sharing what you have shared. WOWWWWWWW.
        • link (10/08/2026, 13:20) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
          Here's the link to the story: https://www.studiopublications.org/product-page/for-the-sake-of-the-children
      • @Roger Burnett (10/08/2026, 14:06) Like (5) Dislike (2) Reply
        But Roger, you omitted the most instructive part, the years you goose stepped around the BVI with the air of a man convinced the territory was his personal fiefdom. That illusion lasted right up until the moment your wings were neatly and efficiently clipped. Since then, you’ve lingered at the margins, gazing inward like an exiled dignitary who still mistakes the gate for a mirror.
      • Now I Understand (10/08/2026, 21:55) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
        Now I am beginning to understand Heritage in a good way.
  • keep up the good work (09/08/2026, 15:24) Like (25) Dislike (0) Reply
    The US has always done this . The United States is now doing it ins Mass Deportation orders. Why not the BVI? Other Island does this!
  • great (09/08/2026, 16:20) Like (14) Dislike (4) Reply
    Send all the creeps and pervs out of here. We don’t want these down Island people coming here and doing as they damn please. Get rid of all the down Island people and the Santo pole dancers and hookers from the bars down Sea Cows Bay.
    • Wellsah (10/08/2026, 11:30) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      nah you taking it too far they are legal law abiding entertainers, those bars and night clubs stimulate the economy
    • time will tell (12/08/2026, 13:36) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Then we will have rape, murder and suicide because not every man will get a woman!! Real talk....
  • Well (09/08/2026, 17:25) Like (17) Dislike (2) Reply
    I agree for him to be deported,however when they are being deported a picture of them need to go on dis play for person to see who they are.
  • god is watching (09/08/2026, 18:19) Like (4) Dislike (3) Reply
    Acting Governor? hmmmm, I guess this was the last choice.
  • FACIAL EXPRESSION (09/08/2026, 20:20) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    The lady , is saying )> with the power in this book that i now holds in my hand "judge judy" ain't got nothing on me ( av got the power and i nain't afraid to flex ofF - next flight OUT for you or you will have to swim it .
  • Disgusting all of them (09/08/2026, 20:27) Like (8) Dislike (1) Reply
    Dominica or where ever he should be deported!
    Now Danica Penns brother went to jail for worse that than under her watch but they couldn’t deport him. He has no where to go. His face remains disgusting up to this day.
  • live (09/08/2026, 20:37) Like (6) Dislike (2) Reply
    He just got caight. How much tolian men doing this to their very own?? They havent get caught as yet
    • Nasty Dirty Men (10/08/2026, 11:08) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
      @ Live
      I’m a TOLIAN woman and I’m not defending men from here who do this AWFUL ACT to their Own or other people Children.
      This happens all over the World and it’s so DISGUSTING and HORRIBLE to see Grown Ass Men molesting to Children. (Girls & Boys)
      There’s so much Grown Ass Women in the Meat House and on the Streets Selling themselves so Put your Money where your feelings are and PAY for It.

      Honestly Speaking this behavior is a NORM in other Caribbean Countries like Jamaica, St. Vincent, Guyana and Dominica to name a few.
      Fathers and Uncles break them out first before anyone else. This is Shameful.

      They would Rape their OWN lil Girl Children and then Cut their throats and Burn their lil body.
      Damn, u don’t want it No Worst than that.
      Can u just imagine the Fear from that Child and to see the last person taking her life is the one who she Loved and Trusted? WICKED WICKEDNESS.
      These Fathers and Other Men need to get the Death Penalty.
      At least if they don’t get death by the Government, they often times get it by Other Inmates which is GREAT.
      I rejoice when I hear cases like that.
      In Jamaica, Civilians KILL them too before they get arrested, which is also GREAT.
      DIRTY DOGS think about your Evil Crime before u Commit it, cause there are DEADLY CONSEQUENCES that will follow.

    • @ live (11/08/2026, 11:48) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Well, the difference with him and the Virgin Islanders doing it to their own, who are caught, is that we cannot deport them from their place of birth.
  • LOL (09/08/2026, 20:52) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    BOOK EM DANNO
  • Seventh District (09/08/2026, 20:59) Like (23) Dislike (10) Reply
    How about deporting the Premier back to St. Thomas, where he was born? Millions and millions of taxpayers' money are going out the door, and he, as the Minister of Finance, has declared three times that he was not aware of these transactions. Don't these crimes warrant his deportation back to St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands? Asking for the people of the 7th District. Please and thanks.
  • @god is watching (09/08/2026, 23:44) Like (2) Dislike (3) Reply
    Dancia Penn has acted as Governor numerous times in the past. So WTH you hmmmming about? And while you at it, take note that God is watching all of us.
  • uh (10/08/2026, 09:01) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
    Talking this and talking that her brother did the same thing me son do so no love so what a wicked world we are living in today it is a shame
  • Karnage (10/08/2026, 10:52) Like (7) Dislike (2) Reply
    Please deport more.
  • Real (10/08/2026, 13:52) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Let's continue the cleanup. There are many law abiding individuals among us and we appreciate you; however, it's time we start deporting those that break our laws!
  • Open doors (18/08/2026, 18:01) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    I have seen it and lived it. The lies, the hate, lack of family love and diagruntleness , poor coomuniaction, family pretense, lack of insite, poor choices and greed. Most people cut their loses because they don't have the money to fight. So did we


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