The British Virgin Islands Health Services Authority (BVIHSA) would like to encourage persons using the Community Health Services to make an appointment with the respective clinic to allow for better service delivery. While walk-ins are welcomed, the steady stream of walk-in patients sometimes outnumbers the scheduled appointments; all patients should note that persons with appointments......
The Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) is asking persons to donate unused paint in any colour and size for our art program. The paints can be dropped off at the center during the hours 10 am to 5:30pm. We thank you in advance for your kind donation....
BDO Limited yesterday presented the Eslyn Henley Richiez Learning Centre with what the company described as a huge surprise. Following morning assembly, the school gladly received BDO’s presentation which comprises a projector, three HP printers, and several months’ supply of ink. “Team BDO won a cash prize as part of their 2nd place reward from......
Ronnie Skelton, the minister of health and social development, has ordered a full investigation into the matter involving three children who were left without direct parental responsibility for months in East End, Tortola. “I have asked for a full investigation of this matter and actions continue to be taken to further assist this family,” he......
The Department of Waste Management on Friday announced that it will embark on another campaign to rid the territory of derelict vehicles. This is not the first time that the Department is announcing similar action as, up to November last year, it had stated that a campaign was in full swing to remove such vehicles......
First of 2 stories on the District versus At Large systems On May 28, 2014, a TITAN STRUGGLE will come to an end in the Virgin Islands. A crucial song and dance will culminate in the election of a new leader of the Grand Ole Party. Now there was a juicy story being told at......
Despite adverse weather conditions, seven girls and 10 boys of the Tortola-based Top Notch Track Club recently put on a highly commendable performance in Anguilla. The team managed to bag a total of 16 medals, including six gold medals. “The performances to me were good, but being that the weather conditions were as they were,......
Edmund Maduro has called on politicians Andrew Fahie and Dr. Kedrick Pickering to put an end to the practice of some landowners barring members of the public from having access to beaches in the territory. While claiming that politicians and not “the white man” are perpetuating the practice, the social commentator said the breach is......
BVI Health Services Authority - A total of 12 new Charge Nurses at the British Virgin Islands Health Services Authority were pinned by the Hospital Nursing Director Ms. Jascinth Campbell-Hannibal on Monday afternoon at a ceremony held in the Training Room at Peebles Hospital. A Charge Nurse is the frontline supervisor who is responsible for......
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) again has seen it fit to respond to articles published by The Observer and Guardian Media Group, claiming that they are unfair and inaccurate. The articles, one of which was republished by BVI News Online yesterday, placed the territory and its financial services industry in a bad light. One of......
The Community Mental Health Services within the British Virgin Islands Health Services Authority (BVIHSA) wishes to remind the Virgin Islands community that tomorrow 17th May they will be hosting the Incredible Race and the Family Fun Day. Participants and observers of the Incredible Race are to report to the Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement Park......
Repairs are likely to be fast-tracked at the West End Police Station on Tortola after members of the Environmental Health Division conducted an investigation at the premises this month, and raised concern about conditions mainly at the barracks where officers stay overnight. It is understood that at least one section of the police station is......
While noting that sexual intercourse is one of the most relaxing activities in which a person can part-take, highly acclaimed herbalist Ras Bobby Olivacce on Thursday advised against persons having too much sex as well as daily ejaculation. “Sex is the most relaxing thing that you can entertain, but too much of it can also be......
Eric Casey walked away from the Magistrate’s Court a free man on Friday after the prosecution dropped two charges against him, and Magistrate Velon John decided not to record his conviction regarding a second case in which he threatened to shoot his father. In one of the cases, Casey was accused of assaulting and threatening......
The BVI will again be transformed into fashion central from July 24 to 27 when promoter Terry Donovan stages this year’s episode of the highly acclaimed Summer Sizzle. Dubbed the ultimate fashion destination event of the summer, the show will feature an exciting line-up of international, local and regional designers and models for an extended......
PRESS RELEASE - CCT BVI will celebrate its official grand opening of a New Concept Store on Friday (May 16) at Geneva Place in Road Town, Tortola beginning at 8:30am. The grand opening event will include a traditional ribbon cutting and blessing, cool prizes, a “4G Power Up” raffle, and price specials all day long......
A defence witness in the ongoing trial of Thomas Chapman testified on Wednesday that his brother who is the complainant in the matter has had many confrontations with people who use his property to access a section of the beach in Cane Garden Bay, Tortola. The witness, Bob Carson, was giving evidence for the defence......
Douglas Wheatley, a social commentator, has stated that the prison population in the BVI could virtually double if persons continue to be imprisoned for certain minor offences such as marijuana usage. Adding that the territory must find ways of overcoming the problem of overcrowding at its prison, Wheatley said the powers that be should not......
Claiming that a number of Christians have not been living up to the principles of their faith, local author Peggy Callender Clyne has come up with a remedy to help the wayward believers. She believes the remedy can be found in her recently published book, “How To Live Holy”. Commenting on her inspiration for the......
THE OBSERVER (UK) - There is a street market selling Caribbean trinkets to cruise-liner passengers, a harbour full of super-yachts, a small park with chickens running around and several banks with long queues inside them. But apart from a few middle-aged white men in expensive suits walking purposefully around Road Town, and nameplates showing that......