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March 2nd, 2021
VI will be ‘shining example’ of how to manage a pandemic – Dr the Hon Wheatley

CAPPOON'S BAY, Tortola, VI – Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Honorable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7), while celebrating the legacy of H.L. Stoutt, shone the spotlight on the Virgin Islands' successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

February 23rd, 2021
‘We have to get our children back in school’– Hon Penn

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Leader of the Opposition, Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has called on the Fahie administration to now transition the territory’s educational system to full-time schooling and away from the hybrid learning initiative which he says has served its time.

February 11th, 2021
Stalwart educator Claudia Creque passes

THE SETTLEMENT, Anegada, VI- Word just reaching our newsroom is that one of the Virgin Islands stalwart educators, Mrs Claudia Creque, whom the government school in Anegada is named after, has died.

February 11th, 2021
VI encouraged to fully embrace Black History Month

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI - Quoting the legendary political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator Marcus M. Garvey, who said a people without knowledge of the past history and their origin and their culture is like a tree without roots and that it cannot stand, Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has encouraged the Virgin Islands to

February 8th, 2021
Premier Fahie is an 'anti-colonialist'- Dr the Hon Wheatley

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has encouraged the Virgin Islands people to support their Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1), who he pointed out has been bold in standing up for the people of the territory.

February 6th, 2021
Dr Karl Dawson appointed consultant @ Education Ministry

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Dr Karl Dawson has been appointed a consultant at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture to handle various matters, including policy, succession planning and tertiary education.

January 25th, 2021
Colonialism Lives

Thomas C. Famous

In the year of 2020, the year of the “Great lockdown”, if anyone had mentioned that in the first week of 2021, thousands of homegrown American terrorists would violently take over the Capitol Building, they would have been written off as under the influence of narcotic-like substances.

January 6th, 2021
Unfair! VI gov't has to fund even the 'little parties' thrown by Governor

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) said he is disappointed in the relationship that the United Kingdom (UK) has with the territory.

December 31st, 2020
Schools re-opening on Jan 4, 2021, with ‘Hybrid Learning’ approach –Dr Wheatley

DUFF'S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI - Deputy Premier Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has announced that schools in the Virgin Islands (VI) will re-open on Monday, January 4, 2021, with a hybrid blended learning approach.

December 24th, 2020
Oops! Sewerage woes leave slippery roads in Fat Hogs Bay

FAT HOGS BAY, Tortola, VI – Information coming into Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) from residents in the Fat Hogs Bay area is that sewerage woes have resulted in water running on the road in the vicinity of the Mandinka Apartment complex, creating a slippery hazard, now a serious danger to both drivers and pedestrians.

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