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Heated exchange between ESHS student & teacher caught on video
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A series of videos that have been circulating on social media appear to show a male teacher and a male student of the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) armed with pieces of wood and engaging in a verbal altercation filled with expletives in the presence of other students.
‘We will resist you taking over’ VI- Bishop Cline reiterates to UK
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Influential clergyman and Virgin Islander Bishop John I. Cline has expressed that the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) is leading towards direct rule over the Virgin Islands or its finances but will not succeed without a strong fight from the people of this territory, a movement he is ready and capable of promoting.
District League: Gunz & East Rockers 2.0 to play out 2:34 minutes of game
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- East Rockers 2.0 of the Seventh District are not yet out of the BVI Basketball Federation (BVIBF) National ‘District’ League as they have been handed a lifeline by the BVIBF, who has decided that the game with Gunz be resumed from where it prematurely ended on Saturday, September 18, 2021, due to a massive brawl.
Big brawl ends District League game between Guns & East Rockers 2.0
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With 2 minutes and 34 seconds left in the high-intensity game between Guns and East Rockers 2.0 in the BVI Basketball Federation (BVIBF) National 'District' League at Multi-Purpose Sports Complex on September 18, 2021, a mass brawl broke out that saw the game being forfeited in favour of Guns.
‘We will never go down without fighting for this country’- Hon Flax-Charles
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As national pride and sentiments of breaking off the shackles of colonialism continue to grow in the Virgin Islands, Junior Minister for Trade and Economic Development Hon Shereen D. Flax-Charles (AL) has declared that the [British] Virgin Islands has been supporting itself for centuries with little help from the United Kingdom (UK) and it will not allow those efforts to be wasted.
Women brawl in public after misunderstanding @ Smoothie shop
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Two women were reportedly engaged in a brawl yesterday, September 4, 2021, following a misunderstanding at a smoothie shop in Road Town.
'We got in fight with last governor because he wanted to ignore constitution'- Premier
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has said there are many things in the Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007 that are crystal clear but because it is for the benefit of the VI people it has to be fought for.
Police seize large number of motor scooters on Beef Island
BEEF ISLAND, VI- Several motor scooter riders who congregated at Long Bay Beach on Beef Island yesterday, August 14, 2021, had to find alternative transportation home when police seized their motor scooters in a major road patrol operation.
Wife pulls out pepper spray, husband allegedly draws gun!
MAYABA ESTATE, Tortola, VI- An argument between a couple over suspicion of infidelity allegedly resulted in the wife pulling out pepper spray to defend herself and the husband allegedly picking up a gun while at Mayaba Estate on Saturday July 24, 2021.
Fight! ‘UK coming to throw water on a drowning man'- Caller urges Gov’t
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – An irate caller on the Tuesday, February 16, 2021, edition of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) 'Let's Talk' radio show has urged the Government of the Virgin Islands to fight the United Kingdom's alleged attempts to trample on the freedoms of the territory.