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January 15th, 2020
VI youths lacking conflict resolution skills – Tiffany R. Scatliffe-Esprit

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has expressed a strong will to work with schools in an effort to drastically reduce the number of youths ending up before the courts, in prison, before social workers or even wounded or dead because of a lack of conflict resolution skills or knowledge.

January 13th, 2020
Hunger strike @ HMP?

BALSAM GHUT, Tortola, VI – Information reaching Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) is that an inmate at Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) in Balsam Ghut, Tortola, has refused to eat food offered to him by the prison and has been making demands to see elected officials.

January 13th, 2020
VI giving ‘ray of hope’ for improved judicial infrastructure in region- CJ Pereira

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Chief Justice (CJ), The Honourable Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE, LLB has called for 2020 to be a year of action in all member states and Territories while noting that the Virgin Islands has given a ray of hope in the area of physical structures and equipment necessary for effective judicial work.

January 13th, 2020
USVI records 1st homicide of 2020

VI CONSORTIUM

FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — A man was shot to death at his own residence during the wee hours of Sunday morning, January 12, 2020 the [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) has announced. The homicide was the first of 2020 in the US territory, according to VIPD Public Information Officer Toby Derima.

January 12th, 2020
Death penalty wanted for USVI men accused of murdering Florida dentist

VI CONSORTIUM

FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- Prosecutors in Florida are seeking the death penalty for two male suspects from the US Virgin Islands (USVI) who have been charged with killing a Hialeah, Florida dentist.

January 10th, 2020
HMP inmate Malik Maduro allegedly stabbed

BALSAM GHUT, Tortola, VI- An inmate of Her Majesty’s Prison in Balsam Ghut is currently a patient of D. Orlando Smith Hospital after being stabbed by a fellow inmate on Thursday, January 9, 2020.

January 9th, 2020
Paraquita Bay shooter a prime suspect in Tyrone Thomas' murder

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Dee Dijion Hodge was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) when he made his maiden appearance before Magistrate Christilyn Benjamin on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, for the Paraquita Bay shooting incident on Friday, January 3, 2020, which left him nursing a gunshot wound to his abdomen.

January 7th, 2020
Dijon Hodge charged in shooting incident @ Bouncer’s Bar

PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI – One male has been charged in relation to the late night shooting incident on Friday, January 3, 2020 at Bouncer’s Bar in Paraquita Bay, Tortola, according to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF).

January 4th, 2020
UPDATE: Police probing Paraquita Bay shooting

PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI - As was first and accurately reported by Virgin Islands News Online (VINO), Police investigators have confirmed a late-night shooting that occurred last evening, Friday, January 3, 2020, in the Paraquita Bay area which resulted in one man being shot to the abdomen.

January 4th, 2020
US tourist dies near Guana Island

GUANA ISLAND, VI – Information coming out of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) is that a US tourist died as a result of a marine accident that has also left a female seriously injured near Guana Island.

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