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Five new national champs take 2024 Dinghy Champs class titles
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The 2024 BVI Dinghy Championships took place on Saturday May 11, 2024, with 23 boats taking to the water across five classes.
2 boats destroyed by fire @ Anegada
SETTING POINT, Anegada, VI- Two tour boats belonging to Kelly’s Land and Sea Tours were destroyed by fire sometime around 1:00 AM this morning, February 11, 2024, on Anegada.
UPDATE: Peter Penman wins 19th edition of Leverick Bay Poker Run
LEVERICK BAY, Tortola, VI- Anegada resident Peter Penman has won the 19th Annual Leverick Bay Poker Run held today, Sunday, May 28, 2023.
Coverup over sinking of HM Customs vessel?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Information coming into Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) was that a small boat belonging to HM Customs has reportedly sunk on October 5, 2022, in the VI.
Leverick Bay Poker Run 2019 off to exciting start
LEVERICK BAY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Thousands of residents and hundreds of boats are on hand for the 2019 edition of the Leverick Bay Poker Run which kicked off Today Sunday, May 26, 2019.
Unsecured vehicles & boats being targeted by thieves- RVIPF
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) is receiving a number of reports of items being stolen from vehicles and vessels that are in need of repairs and are urging owners to secure items that may be prone to theft.
2 boats destroyed by fire in Baughers Bay
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- An early morning fire on April 4, 2017 destroyed two boats in Baughers Bay, on the main island of Tortola.
UPDATE: 38 Top Gun steering broke causing collision - Nick Willis
LEVERICK BAY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Nick Willis, the owner of the Leverick Bay Resort, said it was a broken steering mechanism on the boat 38 Top Gun that resulted in yesterday’s (May 25, 2014) crash at the Poker Run.
UPDATE: 15 months prison time for yacht burglar
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Kempest Bailey, 23, was sentenced to 15 months in prison by Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards today, November 29, 2013 for his crime of burglarizing a yacht.
Man tells court he went to commit theft but changed mind!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The assurances of a now ‘reformed’ confessed would-be thief did not sit well with Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards when he came before the court on October 4, 2013 and told her he had no place to live.