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February 6th, 2026
Andrew A. Fahie files appeal against 2024 conviction

JESUP, Georgia, USA – Former Virgin Islands Premier Andrew A. Fahie has filed an appeal regarding his 2024 conviction for cocaine trafficking and money laundering, claiming a lack of evidence, unreliable government agents, and judicial errors.

January 8th, 2026
Info on unworkable relationship between Fahie & Jaspert surfaces 5 years later

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Former Premier Andrew A Fahie swept to power on February 25, 2019, when his Virgin Islands Party (VIP) won 8 out of 13 seats in the House of Assembly (HoA) in a four-party match-up. In that same election, it saw two party leaders, Hons Ronnie W. Skelton of the Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) and Myron V. Walwyn of the National Democratic Party (NDP), being ousted from their seats.

December 29th, 2025
Was the sting operation against Andrew A. Fahie illegal?

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As Andrew A. Fahie's attorneys are days from filing the appeal of his 2024 conviction in a Miami Federal Court for his role in a cocaine trafficking plot, more information is emerging.

December 23rd, 2025
Andrew A. Fahie’s lawyer makes statement on Appeal!

JESUP, Georgia, USA- As lawyers for the former Virgin Islands Premier Andrew A. Fahie put the finishing touches on his appeal, our newsroom has cracked a foreign media plot to influence the outcome.

December 21st, 2025
VI Premier slams ‘imbalanced, scandalous & insulting' UK Guardian article

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has termed an article written by The Guardian, a UK-based news agency, as "imbalanced, very scandalous and, in some instances, very insulting to the people of the Virgin Islands."

November 24th, 2025
Andrew A. Fahie’s appeal has advanced; Who will influence the outcome?

JESUP, Georgia, USA- It was a controversial sentencing of former Virgin Islands (VI) Premier Andrew A. Fahie in August of 2024. Mr Fahie, a former popular politician who was in office from 1999 to 2022, was convicted of a drug trafficking conspiracy in a Miami Federal court.

August 1st, 2025
Everything would have been fixed ‘if Andrew Fahie was Premier’- Hon Mather

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- After providing a long list of things that he believes need addressing in the territory, Territorial At Large Member Hon Stacy R. Mather, MBE told the members of the House of Assembly (HoA) that he believes the former premier, Andrew A. Fahie, would have resolved those issues if he were still the premier.

April 17th, 2025
VI still 'paralysed' by Fahie scandal— Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI— The Virgin Islands is yet to properly come to terms with the fallout from the arrest and subsequent jailing of former Premier Andrew A. Fahie, and the people of the Territory have been left traumatised and paralysed and continue to suffer under the lingering weight of silence, fear, and stigma.

March 23rd, 2025
Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard released from US prison

BALTIMORE, Maryland, USA- The former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) in the Virgin Islands, Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard, has been released from prison, less than a year after being sentenced to nine years in jail in the United States for her involvement in a drug smuggling plot that also implicated her son Kadeem S. Maynard and former premier Andrew A. Fahie.

March 14th, 2025
Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard & son Kadeem to be freed in a matter of days

BALTIMORE, Maryland, USA- Former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard and her son Kadeem S. Maynard are scheduled to be released from prison in a matter of days.

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