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Tasers over Guns! UK willing to offer training in non-lethal force
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Although there have been mixed views about fully equipping members of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) with firearms in the face of the rising crime rate especially involving the use of guns, Governor Boyd McCleary still believes the use of non-lethal force is the best way to go.
Rift between police and scooter community?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Scooter riders can be a nuisance at times, but according to Sandra Phillip Hodge, Director of Related by Humanity, she has learned of an alleged rift between the scooter riding community and the police.
Vincy spared jail time in machete attack, fined over $2K
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Leroy Peters, a Vincentian national, who used a machete on his girlfriend and male roommate in 2009, was fined $2,140.02 this afternoon Monday, December 12, 2011 in the High Court.
School teacher found guilty of indecent assault on student
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Gary Lester Evans, 52, of Lower Estate was found guilty of indecent assault when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at John’s Hole today December 12, 2011.
UPDATE - Tiger Hodge’s killer gets a life sentence!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Kittian Terrence Charles, who pleaded guilty this morning, Monday December 12, 2011 in the High Court for killing Allen "Tiger" Hodge was moments ago handed down a life sentence.
UPDATE - Tortola’s Broken Home wins feature race in St. Thomas [Photoslide Included]
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Yesterday, Sunday December 11, 2011 in St. Thomas at the Clinton E. Phipps Racing Park, Tortola’s new big horse Broken Home, owned by the Boys Stable headed by Rodney Simmons, came first in the feature race.
DCP Morris: Public is co-operating with police
ROAD TOWN, Tortola VI – Members of the public are coming forward with information to help the police nab criminals because of their willingness to work with the police in curbing criminal activities in the Virgin Islands (VI), opined Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) David Morris in an exclusive interview with Virgin Islands News Online on Friday, December 9, 2011.
Quick response to clear RT ghut following overflow & flooding
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI [3:37 p.m.] – Due to heavy rains last evening, the ghut on Fishlock road overflow affecting residents in the Crab Lot and Scatliffe Alley but quick response by officials resulted in a coordinated effort to quickly clear the ghut early this morning December 10, 2011.
No “yes or no” answer to UK’s flexibility on VI budget submission - Tim Colley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Deputy Director of the Overseas Territories, Tim Colley, grilled by journalists yesterday December 9, 2011 on whether the United Kingdom was willing to flex with the Virgin Islands Government on the issue of submitting its budget two months prior to its approval, said it was very much in the interest of the VI Government to work openly with the UK Government on public financial management and to engage at an early stage in financial planning as it i
Ray George went against his people for foreign interest - Cromwell Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Although being of the view that axed Government contracted officer Ray George went against the development of his own VIslanders by siding with the controversial Biwater project, Cromwell Smith believes he should not have been “thrown out”.
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