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‘We must reject the spirit of criminality’- Opposition Leader
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Following the slaying of businessman and prominent horse owner, Earl D. Hodge aka ‘Bob’ last evening, February 9, 2021, and two fatal shootings last week, Opposition Leader Honourable Marlon A. Penn (R8) has urged Virgin Islanders to understand that it is their moral and civic responsibility to neither condone nor support criminality nor to impede the process of justice.
4 arrested in relation to September murders released
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The four persons who were arrested yesterday, October 13, 2020, in relation to the two murders in September, have since been released.
UPDATE: Shooting victim identified as Matthew Daly aka ‘Shorty’
SPRING GHUT, Tortola, VI- With next of kin now notified, Virgin Islands News Online can disclose that the man gunned down in Spring Ghut today, September 10, 2020, is Mr Matthew Daly aka ‘Shorty’.
UPDATE: Softball player George Burrows was allegedly shot while in bedroom
PURCELL ESTATE, Tortola, VI- Well known softball player George Burrows, 54, was reportedly shot to death while he was asleep in his own bedroom, according to reports reaching our newsroom.
Calls for state of emergency in USVI after 7 homicides in a month
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— Senator Kurt A. Vialet on Tuesday morning, August 18, 2020, called for a state of emergency to be declared against violence in the US Virgin Islands (USVI), following the shooting incident in Sion Farm last night that left a 16-year-old boy, described by many as holding promise, dead.
VI teen gunned down in Puerto Rico
GURABO, Puerto Rico - A 19-year-old female from the [British] Virgin Islands was allegedly gunned down in Gurabo, Puerto Rico on Saturday, May 9, 2020, according to reports out of the US Territory.
Reports of gunshots heard in area of Ellis Thomas Downs
SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI- Residents through-out the Territory are on edge following a month of guns, crimes and deaths.
I have zero tolerance for crime - Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Below is a statement by Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL) on the fatal shooting of two men on Tortola, today, Saturday, February 10, 2018.
UPDATE: Michael Stevens & Clevaughn Sweeney killed in morning shooting
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Our newsroom can now confirm that the two men killed by gunfire in the wee hours of this morning, in the vicinity of the Althea Scatliffe Primary School (ASPS), are 24 year old Clevaughn Sweeney and 26 year old Michael Stevens.
12-member team arrives to investigate RVIPF killing of Hernandez
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- There was confusion on the morning of December 6, 2017 when it was reported that police had found and pumped some two bullets into the body of late fugitive, Dominican Republic national Santo Y. Hernandez.
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