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May 13th, 2023
Disaster averted after Riteway truck backs into rail @ Sophie Bay Hill

SOPHIE BAY, Tortola, VI - Information coming into Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) is that a major disaster has been averted after a truck belonging to the RiteWay Group reportedly developed mechanical failure and crashed into the guard rail on the road at Sophie Bay Hill.

May 13th, 2023
2023 Population & Housing Census to commence June 15, 2023

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Director of the Central Statistics Office Mr. Raymond Phillips has indicated that preparations are well underway to administer the Population and Housing Census to begin from June 15, 2023, in the Virgin Islands (VI).

May 13th, 2023
Cain & Abel

Dickson C. Igwe

Fratricide—brother killing brother—appears endemic in black communities in the USA. That sad, narrative has visited the shores of the British Virgin Islands. Our paradise is being lost by hatred and feuding between members of a supposedly close-knit community. It has to stop.

May 13th, 2023
Vehicles collide on James Walter Francis Drive

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Information coming into Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) is that sometime around 10:00 pm on the evening of Friday, May 12, 2023, a vehicle appears to have collided with another on the westbound carriageway of James Walter Francis Drive in the vicinity of the Moorings opposite the Pasea Place building on Tortola.

May 12th, 2023
YOURBVI Tourism Awareness Programme launches May 19, 2023

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- "It’s time for each resident of this Territory to embrace tourism as an important engine for personal and national economic growth."

May 12th, 2023
UK should 'welcome' any OT wishing full integration- UK MP

LONDON, UK- A British Member of Parliament (MP) has said the United Kingdom (UK) should make it clear that any of its Overseas Territories (OTs) are welcome to exercise the option of integration into the United Kingdom (UK).

May 12th, 2023
USVI man accused of physically assaulting wife @ J'Ouvert

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI — A man, Coy Gumbs, was arrested and charged with multiple offenses following his alleged violent and disruptive behavior at J’Ouvert celebrations on April 27, 2023. His wife reported that Gumbs harassed her and her friends during the festivities, leading to altercations that involved both physical assault and a breach of peace.

May 12th, 2023
PHOTOS of the DAY: Power move by Premier Wheatley & Deputy Premier Smith

LONDON, UK- The second consecutive term of a Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government now headed by Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) seems to have reached a new high.

May 12th, 2023
UK MP urges OTs to support legalisation for same-sex marriage, LGBTQ+ community

LONDON, United Kingdom- British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Alicia A. Kearns has made the call for British Overseas Territories (OTs) to support the legalisation of same-sex marriages as well as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or questioning (LGBTQ+) community.

May 12th, 2023
18-year-old high school student charged with firearm possession

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Officers of the RVIPF Armed Response Team have charged an 18-year-old high school student with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

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