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'This must stop!'- Top CoP blasts human smuggling activities
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Facing criticisms from community members over human smuggling from the US Virgin Islands (USVI), Commissioner of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF), Mr Michael B. Matthews has blasted persons engaging in the activity and has urged members of the Virgin Islands community to report instances of such.
Police tracking down group of men suspected of illegal entry
WEST END, Tortola, VI- The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) and the Department of Immigration are actively pursuing about 6 to 8 men who entered the Territory yesterday morning, August 22, 2020, and docked at Alfredo Delville Marina in West End, Tortola.
Law enforcement needs to do its job, stop human smuggling - Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- The host of the Honestly Speaking radio programme, Mr Claude O. Skelton Cline has said he intends to hold Commissioner of Police Mr Michael B. Matthews’ feet to the proverbial fire on the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force’s failure to adequately arrest the matter of smuggling through the Territory’s border.
Up to $5k fine, 6 months jail for public gambling- Gaming & Betting Act
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Individuals involved in roadside gambling or any type of public betting in the Virgin Islands (VI), including cockfighting, can now be fined and prosecuted under the Gambling (Gaming & Betting) Control Act 2020, passed June 18, 2020, in the VI House of Assembly (HoA).
UPDATE: $40k bail for duo charged with Illegal Entry & Breach of Curfew
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The two men arrested by police on August 11, 2020, for allegedly entering the Territory illegally have since been placed before the Magistrate’s Court and granted bail.
$30K bail for Parham Town man found with unlicensed firearm
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A resident of Parham Town, East End, Tortola, was granted bail when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court recently on a firearm charge.
Siblings questioned over marijuana found in air freshener can
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - At least two persons were questioned by police in relation to a quantity of marijuana reportedly found in an air freshener can that arrived in the Territory on a ferry on August 15, 2020.
Calls for state of emergency in USVI after 7 homicides in a month
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— Senator Kurt A. Vialet on Tuesday morning, August 18, 2020, called for a state of emergency to be declared against violence in the US Virgin Islands (USVI), following the shooting incident in Sion Farm last night that left a 16-year-old boy, described by many as holding promise, dead.
Unlicensed teen driver flees accident scene & crashes again
GENE HILL, Tortola, VI – An unlicensed female teen driver and her alleged boyfriend may have found themselves in double trouble after getting involved in a vehicular accident, then fleeing the scene and crashing again late Friday evening, August 15, 2020.
Sudden death for elderly man in Greenland
GREENLAND, Tortola, VI – Information coming into Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) is that an elderly man died suddenly sometime last evening, August 14, 2020, in the Greenland, Tortola, area.
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