9th September 2010 – At 8:00AM the centre of Tropical Storm Igor was located near Latitude 14.1 North/Longitude 24.2 West, or about 50 miles south southeast of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands. Igor is drifting northward at about 2 mph. Maximum sustained winds are near 40mph. Igor is expected to gradually turn west northwest today then accelerate and take a track to the west by Friday. By... 

The brothers leaving the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday afternoon. The two brothers, nabbed by local police officers at the Terrence B Lettsome International airport after fleeing the USVI jurisdiction for a crime they committed, were jailed on Wednesday to 12 months for illegal entry. St. Lucian nationals Cordilius Moncherry, 26, and Gaius Moncherry, 24, pleaded guilty to the charges during... 

Tuesday, September 7 – Officers of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force apprehended two residents of St. Thomas wanted in connection with an attempted murder committed in that U.S. Territory as they were attempting to board a flight heading to St. Lucia at the T.B. Lettsome Airport. Cordilius Moncherry, 26 years, and his brother Gaius Moncherry, 24 years, both natives of St. Lucia, were arrested... 

BVI News Online A Guyanese national will spend the next 10 years in jail for raping his ex-girlfriend at knife point. Dereck Cort, who committed the offence on August 6, 2008, looked calm when the sentence was handed down on Monday morning in the High Court by Judge Indra Hariprashad-Charles. The prosecution contended during the four-day trial held from May 10-13, 2010 that Cort raped his ex in her... 

Fantasia in action. By: BVI News Online TORTOLA: The 2010 BVI Music Festival ended on a high note, and it wasn’t Fantasia fantastic voice, but the great weather, packed new venue, and screaming fans that brought the curtains down on Monday morning. The night could not have had a better start than the BVI’s own homegrown crooner MJ Blues. The local rock band Blue Essence followed suit with an exceptional... 

Premier Ralph T O’Neal. *Photo credit: bvi.gov.vg TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – Premier Ralph T O’Neal says his administration will be placing emphasis on reducing government’s expenditure when he presents the 2010 national budget on March 5. O’Neal, who is also the Minister of Finance, said that initiatives have already taken to reduce the amount of money spent on travelling by... 

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Leaders of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) meet in Anguilla on Wednesday to discuss a number of issues including the imminent establishment of an Economic Union within the sub-region. A statement from the St. Lucia-based OECS Secretariat said that the leaders from Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Montserrat,... 

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, CMC – A judge Tuesday sentenced an American man to at least 25 years in prison for killing his wife while scuba diving here in 1999. Justice Indra Hariprashad-Charles rejected a plea for leniency by lawyers for David Swain, 53, of Rhode Island. She said she was bound to impose the sentence because of the premeditated nature of the crime, denying a defence request... 

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – The trial is continuing Tuesday of a matter involving the Dominica government regarding the ownership of a multi-million dollar promotional company. Senior Council Anthony Astaphan, who is representing the Roosevelt Skerrit administration, said he expects a verdict later this week. The main issue in the trial is whether The main issue in the trial is whether...