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Gov Pruce orders Devender Chitnarine deported from VI

Devender Chitnarine, who was convicted of Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm, has been ordered deported from the territory by Governor Daniel Pruce. Photo: Gript
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A man convicted of Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm has been ordered deported from the territory by Governor Daniel Pruce.

Devender Chitnarine, who was deemed not to belong to the territory, was ordered deported by the governor, according to Statutory Instrument 2026 NO. 61, dated October 15, 2026, and published in the Official Gazette on October 20, 2026.

Chitnarine was arrested and charged with Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm on November 27, 2023, according to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force's Arrest Blotter.

According to the Deportation Order, Chitnarine is a person whose presence in the Territory would, in the opinion of the Governor, acting after consultation with the Chief Immigration Officer, be undesirable and not conducive to the public good.

The Instrument did not disclose the nationality of Mr Chitnarine.

 

31 Responses to “Gov Pruce orders Devender Chitnarine deported from VI”

  • oh yes (21/10/2026, 07:46) Like (39) Dislike (3) Reply
    Keep rounding them up and shipping them out. Please set up a data base with these deportees pictures and date of deportation in the event they try to slip back in the Territory.
  • Truth (21/10/2026, 08:21) Like (31) Dislike (2) Reply
    I LOVE THIS GOVERNOR, FINALLY SOMEONE DOING THEIR JOB AND CLEANING OUR COUNTRY OF THESE PPL WHO HAVE NO BEHAVIOR WHEN THEY COME TO ANOTHER MAN COUNTRY, KEEP IT UP GOV.
  • The TRUTH (21/10/2026, 09:26) Like (6) Dislike (8) Reply
    Good work Governor, but to how truth & oh yes ah rejoice yuh would swear seh dem who "from here" are angels ????????
  • Thank you Mr. Governor (21/10/2026, 09:41) Like (15) Dislike (0) Reply
    Appreciate what you are doing. Anyone here in our Territory be it male, female, young or old, If they disrespect the laws of our Territory they should leave. Tired of these people coming into my Territory of origin disrespecting the laws of the land. I have no problem with anyone coming into the Territory but respect the laws of the land or you have to leave. You don’t pay your rent. You have to leave. Fair enough right? I am in another man’s Territory and I don’t respect the laws, I will be asked to leave.
  • @THE TRUTH (21/10/2026, 09:58) Like (21) Dislike (0) Reply
    That's not the point. We have enough problems of our own without importing new ones.
  • if (21/10/2026, 10:08) Like (3) Dislike (3) Reply
    If only now his peers in the UK would do the same. The UK is unrecognizable.
  • Guyanese (21/10/2026, 10:11) Like (9) Dislike (1) Reply
    that's a Guyana surname
    • HMMM (21/10/2026, 17:15) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
      that's an Indian name it doesn't have to be Guyanese, there are many nationalities of Indian descent living here.
  • Sh** mullet (21/10/2026, 10:17) Like (20) Dislike (5) Reply

    He is from guyana ,suriname or trinidad and tobago
    Time to start sending home tgese people out of TORTOLA

  • My only comment (21/10/2026, 11:14) Like (14) Dislike (6) Reply
    The ones that is not in favor of this is the ones that is here illegally, married to a local for papers and status in the Country and dropping anchor babies so they can stay in the Country.I said it now what?
  • All in All (21/10/2026, 11:19) Like (13) Dislike (1) Reply
    You in another man’s Country, you don’t respect the laws of the land SIMPLY GET TO STEPPING!
  • Democracy (21/10/2026, 11:46) Like (1) Dislike (12) Reply
    And you all talking about Trump ?
    When you all following his BS
    • Mehson (21/10/2026, 12:40) Like (22) Dislike (1) Reply
      hush up, the US have been deporting non citizens after their prison sentence for ever before Trump.
      • @Mehson (21/10/2026, 18:42) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
        Exactly, you are a non citizen of the US and you happen to serve time in prison, as soon as you are released from prison and you walk out those prison doors, the US Marshals is going to escort you from the prison doors to the airport and escort you back to your Country.
      • ??? (22/10/2026, 17:19) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        He was never in prison
    • @Democracy (22/10/2026, 14:15) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Such a One-side hypocrite, if you criticize Trump then you also have to criticize Obama but you won't. Obama deported more people than any other President. A simple research would educate you.
      The foolish mindset has to stop. If you are someone's country and you act up, they have the right... "NO" the obligation to deport you to protect their people just as to put their our citizens in prison to protect the population if they act up.
      And USA is not a Democracy, it's a Republic! So are we to a degree.
  • 3 years? (21/10/2026, 12:14) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
    Any of you do the math here? We housed and fed and gave medical care to the MDS for 3 years before deporting him. That make any sense? Did it take 3 years to prosecute this crime? Something seriously wrong here.
  • Going to say it (21/10/2026, 12:59) Like (11) Dislike (8) Reply
    When you look at it, it is the Guyanese, Trinidadians, Jamaicans, St. Vincent’s and Santos is the ones that is bringing problems to the BVI. How come the people from Antigua, St.Kitts, St. Lucia and the Asians and Indians that live here is not bringing the problems.
    • @Going to say it (21/10/2026, 16:03) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      You are so correct, the ones you mention is the ones that is bringing problems to our shores. Keep telling Immigration to pull early morning raids. Go down Sea Cows Bay to those rum shops aka house of prostitution and you will
      Catch a whole lot of illegals.
  • By stander (21/10/2026, 13:02) Like (8) Dislike (1) Reply
    Alot more need deporting it hsve alot of vincentian here illegal working like normal u swear them on permit round them out one by one yes
  • HMMM (21/10/2026, 15:45) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    So why word of this but nothing on TA extradition, wa going on with al that
    • Audit the auditor (21/10/2026, 18:10) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      @HMMM yah to nosey TA has left the country over two months now cause he waived his rights to extradition.
  • Why you think (21/10/2026, 16:10) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
    The public schools in the BVI is overcrowded and the children is not getting a decent education. To many illegals and anchor children is in the schools. I don’t blame anyone who can send their children to private school.
  • Mindful (21/10/2026, 18:03) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    "the conspirator is worse than the offender" Always remember that! We bawling oh send them back or whatever but most of the time is our own people hiring them to do the dirty work, might not be in this particular case. However, yes send them back but if you don’t fix the root of the problem it will always be there. So yes, according to yall send them back and oh is outsiders doing all the dirty work but the employers are right here and all they will continue to do is import and hire more persons to do what they want. So don’t be too quick to say it’s others have the island like that!!!
    • @Mindful (21/10/2026, 18:32) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      Hold up a sec, the locals is not putting a rope around anyone’s neck and forcing them to do the locals dirty work.
  • Sunset (21/10/2026, 23:21) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply

    Well its a very good thing I have a VALID work permit. I hold my corner and dont edge up under nobody here so NO BODY will be setting me up.. My country PASSPORT IS VAILD. I dont even spend an extra day here when my vacation time reach. I meet alot of good locals here and some of them hmmmmmmmm ......

    With that been said .... If you come here to work then hold your head up and stay focus dont get involved in crime and if you chose to do sh** then the authority have all rights to DEPORT you.

  • Nice work (21/10/2026, 23:28) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Now clean up Main Street it starting to look like a ghetto Spanish town. Don’t get me started with across riteway Road Town , a set of people come here got the place looking trashy they done take a bunch of old benches and chairs and drag them in front of da Outlet, all day loitering ain’t being useful. Where does immigration be to check these people papers?
  • Ice needed (22/10/2026, 00:22) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Can you imagine if we had our own (I)mmigration and (C)ustoms (E)nforcement agency. their whole job would be flushing out the waste out of the territory. lol just imagine
  • Black on black racism (22/10/2026, 18:48) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    labeling outsiders for everything when one is caught breaking the law / but closing our eyes at our entitled youths who's doing all drugs -killings - robberies ets , and have the heart to talk about white colonists slave masters . who's fooling who ?


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