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March 28th, 2020
'All of you should now be in your homes' - Gov Jaspert

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - With the Cabinet imposed 24/7 lockdown now in effect for the Virgin Islands (VI) starting 8:00pm yesterday, Friday, March 27, 2020, and running until April 2, 2020, as part of its Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) response, Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert has urged all to remain at home and abide by the curfew.

March 27th, 2020
RVIPF arrests first curfew violator

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) has made its first arrest of a resident for allegedly defying the mandated 8:00pm Territory-wide curfew which was in effect on Thursday, March 26, 2020, up until 6:00am Friday, March 27, 2020.

November 23rd, 2017
UPDATE: 3 shot, 2 dead in execution style murder

WEST END, Tortola, VI- It was just before 10:00 PM last night Wednesday November 22, 2017 when three persons were heading back to Road Town from West End on Tortola in a white Suzuki Jeep when the three persons, an adult male and a female, along with an 11 year old girl, came under fire.

November 21st, 2017
UPDATE: Paul S. Meyers identified as man shot in Huntums Ghut

HUNTUMS GHUT, Tortola, VI- While police officials are tight-lipped over the shooting incident, our newsroom can confirm that the man shot last night November 20, 2017 has been identified as Paul S. Meyers.

January 2nd, 2017
Prison Officer allegedly attacked by inmate in HMP brawl today!

BALSAM GHUT, Tortola, VI- Word reaching our newsroom from our Team of Reporters around the Virgin Islands is that today January 2, 2017 there was a reported incident of an inmate getting into a physical fight with a prison guard at the state-owned penitentiary located at Balsam Ghut on the main island of Tortola.

July 13th, 2016
Man injured in Baughers Bay shooting

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- A man was rushed to Peebles Hospital with injuries following a shooting in Baughers Bay, on the main island of Tortola, this afternoon, July 13, 2016.

February 17th, 2015
UPDATE: Stabbed Prison Officer out of hospital

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) Public Relations Department and sources close to the Prison Officer, Rohan Fagan, who was stabbed while on duty by a prison inmate at Her Majesty’s Prison, Balsam Ghut, Tortola, on Sunday February 15, 2015 has been discharged from hospital.

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