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Dame Janice M. Pereira officially begins duty on Privy Council
LONDON, England, UK- Former Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) and one of the newest members to His Majesty King Charles III’s Privy Council, the Right Hon Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE, has officially walked into the history books yet again as she attends her first case on Privy Council.
Trinidadian acquitted of 22 gun related charges
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Trinidadian Kellon M. Fortune, a resident of Lower Estate on Tortola, was acquitted of twenty-two counts of possession of prohibited weapons and possession of an unlicensed firearm on Thursday, December 5, 2024.
VI’s own Hon Dame Janice M. Pereira DBE to sit as judge on Privy Council
LONDON, England, UK- The accomplished daughter of the Virgin Islands’ soil, Hon Dame Janice M. Pereira DBE will create more history for the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean when she sits as a judge on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in London for a week in December.
Ex VI Premier Hon Andrew A. Fahie is out on bail!
MIAMI, Florida, USA- Ousted Premier of the [British] Virgin Islands Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has secured his pre-trial liberty and is now out of the Miami Detention Centre where he has been held since his arrest at a Miami Airport on April 28, 2022.
US Senate votes to confirm 1st Black woman to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON DC, USA- The Senate today, Thursday, April 7, 2022, confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman to be elevated to the pinnacle of the judicial branch in what her supporters hailed as a needed step toward bringing new diversity and life experience to the court.
Gov Mapp making another attempt to remove Judge Dunston
VI CONSORTIUM
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI — Unsatisfied with a federal judgement that permanently barred him from removing Judge Michael C. Dunston as the presiding judge of the territory’s Superior Court, US Virgin Islands (USVI) Governor Kenneth E. Mapp on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 filed a notice with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals — the Pennsylvania court being the house of justice that hears US Virgin Islands Third Circuit appeal cases — in an ongoing attempt to remove Dunston from his role.
Introducing BET's Kelly Griffin - Top 7@7 finalist judge
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Once ranked #2 on the Source magazine’s Power 30 list, Kelly Griffin aka Kelly G currently serves as Black Entertainment Television (BET’s) Senior Director of Music Programming.
Buju Banton’s gun conviction overturned by US judge
Caribbean 360
FLORIDA, United States – A judge has overturned the gun possession conviction against Jamaican singer Buju Banton, ruling that thee was a case of jury misconduct.
UPDATE: No extradition for five men in alleged drug ring!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Minutes ago, Justice Albert Redhead in his response to the men involved in the alleged drug ring being extradited to the United States of America, declared that the appropriate forum to try the applicants is in the “British Virgin Islands”.
US Judge robbery: Accuser turns himself in
By Javon Liburd
Virgin Islands News Online Correspondent in Nevis
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis - A Nevisian local armed with a machete, who allegedly robbed Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, Mr. Stephen Breyer, has turned himself in.

