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Search for Nickera Smith expands outside of the territory
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Police have engaged law enforcers in the neighbouring territories as their search for 22-year-old Nickera Smith enters its second week.
3 yrs on & hundreds of thousands $$ spent: Police corruption probe nets zero results!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- There seems to be double standards in the Virgin Islands on the issue of corruption where only locals, belongers and the Caribbean brothers and sisters are often accused of such wrong doing, however, others are never labeled with the same tag while allegedly doing much of the same.
2 wounded in shooting incident in Purcell
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Police are investigating a shooting incident in the Purcell Estate area late this afternoon, February 10, 2016, that resulted in two brothers being wounded.
Police discover human skull behind upper Main Street store
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Following inquiries that Virgin Islands News Online made yesterday February 8, 2016, the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) confirmed today February 9, 2016 that a human skull was found behind a Main Street store.
SVG 'wanted man' charged with cellphone theft in VI
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A man caught with a stolen cellular phone is now on remand not only for the theft but for landing in the territory without leave from immigration and giving police false information.
UPDATE: Male held for questioning in missing woman probe
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – According to sources close to the investigation of missing woman Nickera Smith, one person was held by police for questioning and subsequently released.
Two men charged in burglaries of separate Main Street eateries
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Police charged a man after he was identified and later admitted to breaking into a Main Street Restaurant a little over a week ago.
‘Gunshots’ ring out in Road Town
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Reports reaching Virgin Islands News Online state that what sounded like several gunshots were heard in Road Town, on the main island of Tortola, last evening January 30, 2016.
UPDATE: Leslie Smith charged for alleged firearm & ammo possession
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Leslie Smith aka 'Bulldog' of Sea Cows Bay, Tortola, appeared before Magistrate Ayana Baptiste-DaBreo today January 27, 2016 charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
New CoP Michael ‘Mick’ Matthews expected in April 2016
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- He may say in his defence that it was a play on words but after leading the public to believe that the man to replace David Morris at the helm of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) would not be from the United Kingdom, taken to mean by many a non-United Kingdom (UK) national, Governor John S. Duncan, OBE has announced that UK national Mr Michael Matthews is the new Commissioner of Police.