Government Shutdown Could Disrupt Timing of Crucial Conservation and Wildfire Efforts

In the United States, the government shutdown is about to stretch into its third week as Republicans and Democrats continue to disagree on a bill to fund government services. With many government programs on hold and at least 600,000 federal...

‘This is our moment,’ premier tells CTO summit

Premier Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley knows the tourism industry from the inside, he said this week at a Road Town meeting for human-resources professionals from across the region. His experience, he said, came when he was a young man working at a...

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS – POLITICS – Wheatley asks UK for exemption from sanctions on debt ratios for airport expansion

How to Maintain Legal Compliance for a Growing Business

Growing businesses face many legal obligations, and labor laws, safety rules, taxes, and reporting requirements change often. Missing them can lead to fines, lawsuits, or disruptions. Small teams often struggle to keep up with their tasks, but...

Bryan Seeks Federal Exemption from New Customs Policy Impacting Virgin Islanders

Last updated at 12:37 p.m. on Tues. Oct. 7, 2025 Government House announced Tuesday that Governor Albert Bryan Jr. has initiated a coordinated territorial response to the Trump administration’s Executive Order 14324, which suspended the duty-free...

Dems blast Trump effort to decimate Interior Dept as 'clear act of political retribution'

The Interior Department announced Monday it will pause efforts to lay off 2,050 employees throughout the country after a federal judge expanded a temporary restraining order late last week. The new filing provides more information about how the...

Roach: Insurance Exam Scores in the Virgin Islands Are Final, No Appeals or Reviews Permitted

Lieutenant Governor Tregenza Roach, in his capacity as commissioner of Insurance, is advising the public and all candidates seeking insurance licenses in the U.S. Virgin Islands that insurance examination results are considered final. Once an...

Paul McCartney’s inside story of Wings, the world’s most misunderstood band

How do you follow being a Beatle? John Lennon decamped to New York, Ringo Starr embarked upon a slender solo career and George Harrison tended to his spiritual needs. Paul McCartney’s answer was Wings. Had there been no Beatles baggage, Wings...

Hodge-Smith pushes for district councils to strengthen governance

in All News / By: BVI News on October 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM / Junior Minister for Culture Luce Hodge-Smith has renewed calls for the establishment of district councils across the Virgin Islands to improve local governance and community engagement —...

GBF President reaffirms Guyana’s readiness to host FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship

Press Release from the Guyana Basketball Federation President of the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF), Michael Singh, has reaffirmed Guyana’s readiness to host this year’s FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship, scheduled for November 12-16 at the...

FROM ERASMUS WILLIAMS’ HANDWRITTEN ARCHIVE: Original notes from the 1983 assassination of Grenadian leader Maurice Bishop surface after four decades—offering a rare, visceral window into one of the Caribbean’s most haunting political upheavals.

By Erasmus Williams – Covering the Assassination of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop of Grenada Rediscovered original reports on the 1983 assassination of Grenada’s Maurice Bishop reveal a gripping, first-hand chronicle of revolution, tragedy, and...

Guatemala Is Growing On Luxury Travelers, Drawing Attention From Michelin And The World’s 50 Best

The colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, sitting in the shadow of the towering Volcán de Agua, is welcoming a new subset of travelers seeking luxury. Villa Bokéh Guatemala has long been a dream destination for backpackers seeking affordability and...

VI participates in 'critical meeting' of CARICOM Heads of Government

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands has participated in a critical meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government at their 41st Inter-Sessional meeting held virtually on October 16, 2025. The Government was represented by the Territory’s...

$800M Mega Millions Awaits Tuesday Draw

The Mega Millions jackpot swelled to an estimated $800 million annuity value, with a $371.7 million cash option, for the Tuesday, November 4, 2025, drawing after no players matched all six numbers in Friday’s contest. The winning numbers from...

Sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's victim Virginia Giuffre recounts brutal rape by ‘well-known prime minister’ in posthumous memoir

New York: Prominent Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre has alleged in her upcoming posthumous memoir that a “well-known prime minister” brutally beat and raped her, leaving her bloodied and broken, an ordeal so savage it finally...

Superman star David Corenswet joins 5,000 rejecting Israeli film institutions

More than 5,000 actors, directors and producers have joined the pledge not to work with Israeli film institutions they say are “complicit in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people” since it launched in September. The signatories...

‘Grant purgatory’ is a growing risk to crisis response, and the government shutdown isn’t helping, state emergency officials say

State officials on the front lines of preparing for natural disasters and responding to emergencies say severe cuts to federal security grants, restrictions on money intended for readiness and funding delays tied to litigation are posing a growing...

‘Well-Known Prime Minister’ Beat and Raped Late Epstein Victim Virginia Giuffre, According to Memoir

Teenage Virginia Roberts was sex trafficked by Epstein to his rich and powerful ‘friends’. Giuffre did not name her attacker in the book, but she did in many judicial filings. Ahead of the publication next week, Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia...

Virginia Giuffre memoir: Famous ‘prime minister’ accused of beating, raping Epstein victim, 'Choked me until I…'

Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre was allegedly brutally beaten and raped by a “well-known prime minister” in a series of encounters that ultimately helped her break free from the sex trafficker’s spell, her posthumous memoir has...

Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre beaten & raped by ‘well-known prime minister’ as she begged for her life, memoir claims

VIRGINIA Giuffre claimed she was beaten and raped by a “well-known prime minister,” as she begged for her life. The Jeffrey Epstein victim details the shocking revelations in her posthumous book Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and...