The public is being informed that the George’s Hollow road (Bound Tree) leading from the Ebenezer Thomas Primary School will be closed for approximately three weeks.

Plans are underway for the development of a more effective safety programme for taxi drivers in the Virgin Islands.

Trenching for the installation of the two new 34.5 KV transmission cables is said to be ongoing as part of the Phase V Development Programme.  

The BVI Ports Authority commenced a five day Certified Port Executive^TM (CPE) Program, to train about twenty staff members in several areas related to the global marine transportation system.

The BVI Airports Authority informs the travelling public that the Taddy Bay Airport,Virgin Gorda will be closed from 9:30am Monday 22nd February through Thursday 25th February 2016 ....

The BVI Airports Authority Ltd. hereby advises that, presently, it has no active or pending legal action against BVI Airways.

The Government of the Virgin Islands is inviting the public to the Grand Opening of Tortola Pier Park on February 16 at 5:15 p.m.

Honourable Premier and Minister of Finance and Tourism, Dr. D. Orlando Smith, OBE, Deputy Premier Dr. the Hon. Kedrick Pickering, other Ministers of Government, including our junior Ministers for Tourism and Trade and Investment, members of the private sector and the team from BVI Airways and the press, good morning and welcome.  As a habit, as Chairman of the BVI Tourist Board, I rarely speak on a tourism matter after the Hon Premier and Minister of Tourism, after all, when he speaks our role at the Board is to move to implementation. 

At the margins of the UNFCCC COP21, where world leaders are meeting to discuss means to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, the Association of Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union (OCTA) made an important announcement. OCTA has recently joined the SIDS Lighthouse Initiative and through this new partnership, OCTA and IRENA join forces to accelerate the development and deployment of renewable energy in islands.

Ninety (90) ferry operators in the British Virgin Islands were recently presented with certificates in training for completing a workshop in customer service that was coordinated by the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board and facilitated by Aubergine Partners, LLC, an executive coaching and leadership development firm based in New York.