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52nd BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival starts today, March 31
PEG LEGS, Nanny Cay, VI- The 52nd BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival gets underway with registration today, March 31, 2025, with the Sailing Festival scheduled to start tomorrow, April 1, 2025, and the 3-day Spring Regatta on April 4, 2025.
SVA Youth Volleyball League serves off March 1
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Young volleyballers, both boys and girls, will display their talent and potential in volleyball when the Sports Vision Academy (SVA) Youth Volleyball League gets underway on March 1, 2025, at the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex in Road Town, the capital city.
349 motorcycles & scooters licensed in 2023- Hon Rymer
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As the debate continues about the misuse of motorcycles and motor scooters on the roads in the [British] Virgin Islands (VI), the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recorded an increase in their licensing in 2023.
2023 Nanny Cay Round Tortola Race set for Nov 18
NANNY CAY, VI- The 2023 edition of the Nanny Cay Round Tortola Race is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 18, 2023.
HLSCC welcomes large turnout of students for Fall orientation
PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI- The H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) in Paraquita Bay was bustling with an impressive turnout of new applicants, parents, and guardians this past Monday, August 14, 2023, during the fall 2023 orientation.
Sex offender arrested in USVI for failing to update registration
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- The US Virgin Islands Department of Justice announced Thursday, July 7, 2022, that 38-year-old Omar J. Suarez, a registered sex offender, was arrested by Department of Justice (DoJ) Special Agents and the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act unit on St Thomas.
KATS launches free basic boating summer camp
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Kids and the Sea (KATS), with the support of Unite BVI’s Unite for the Sea’s programme and H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC), will be hosting one-week summer camp programmes for youths of ages 10 through 16 at HLSCC Center for Applied Marine Studies and at various other venues on Tortola.
Late birth & death registrations to now cost $75
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Persons who register both births and deaths outside of the stipulated time frame will now have to pay a $75 fee as part of a Cabinet-backed increase in fees for the service.
Nanny Cay Round Tortola Race set for Saturday, November 13, 2021
NANNY CAY, VI- The Nanny Cay Round Tortola Race will take place on Saturday, November 13, 2021. Entries are invited to compete in Racing, Cruising and Multihull Classes.
VI Gov’t launches COVID-19 Income Support Programme
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In another initiative to assist its people, the Government of the Virgin Islands (VI) has launched a COVID-19 Income Support Programme to support vulnerable individuals and families experiencing economic hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

