CWIMA gearing up for first O40S T20 World Cup in Pakistan

Oct 12, 2025 Sports (Kaieteur Sports) – The Cricket West Indies Masters Association (CWIMA) is in the final stages of preparation for the inaugural O40s T20 World Cup set to take place in Karachi, Pakistan next month. A robust squad has been...

Police arrest 2 with Glock firearms after search of red Kia Soul

Police this morning, October 10, 2025, recovered two Glock firearms during a stop and search in Diamond Estate. Photo: VINO/File DIAMOND ESTATE, Tortola, VI- It was this morning, October 10, 2025, after 1:00 AM, when a motor scooter rider was seen...

Roy W. Penn complains of being terrorised by female farmer @Paraquita

PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI- Mr Roy W. Penn, owner of Wellness by Natural Means, has been operating his herbal business on crown land for about eight years; however, the plot, located in Paraquita Bay, has come with a neighbouring farmer who, in Mr...

EDC Orders Companies to Correct Compliance Failures or Risk Losing Tax Benefits

The Economic Development Commission, during its meeting earlier this week, dealt with several companies who were found to be noncompliant with various stipulations of their tax benefit agreements. Octavia Consulting Group was first granted tax...

SNAP Benefits COLA Increase 2026: How much will your food stamps increase from this month?

Actualizado 02/10/2025 - 13:09 CDT From October 1, 2025, beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the United States will see a slight increase in monthly food stamp amounts. These adjustments are in response to...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The five-year unravelling of Britain’s most high-profile Covid contracts scandal involving a baroness, her husband and multimillion-pound government deals accelerated last week with a high court judgment against the company linked to the former...

The Battle between AI, Nature & Corruption

Alred 'AC' Frett. Photo: VINO/File Alred C. Frett Lying to Themselves and Hoping that We Believe: Lying down is never the same as standing up, and all our lives we have been lied to about our worth and value, so what they painted as our History...

Hope in the Fight Against HIV in Latino Communities

HIV affects Latino communities in the United States at disproportionately high rates. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), of the 37,981 people newly diagnosed with HIV in the United States and six territories, 32%...

Anatomy of Illegal Power on the Planet

“Illegal power is neither periphery nor shadow; it is a global system fed by formal politics and the formal economy” — inspired by Lucía Dammert Illegal power is neither accident nor exception. It is a parallel system spanning continents,...

More women needed in BVI government

in All News / By: BVI News on October 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM / Political activist and media owner Cindy Rosan says the BVI could benefit from having more women in government, arguing that the territory is at a stage where it needs nurturing and...

Daylight Saving Time Ends Soon. Here's When to Set Your Clocks Back

The days of mid-afternoon sunsets are almost upon us as winter draws nearer. A few days after Halloween, most of the US will be moving the clocks backward one hour. Daylight saving time ends on Nov. 2, with the time officially changing at 2 a.m....

DOT guts DBE program ahead of Construction Inclusion Week

The U.S. Department of Transportation has removed sex and race as criteria for automatic certification in its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program, according to an interim final rule announced Sept. 30 that went into effect on Oct. 3. “A...

Four Seasons Nevis wins global accolade from the World Travel Awards

by Eulana Weekes St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): The Four Seasons Resort Nevis, West Indies, was named the Caribbean’s Leading Island Luxury Resort at the 2025 World Travel Awards. It marked a major victory for Nevis and, by extension, The Federation...

Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue… But Now What?

Monument to Christopher Columbus in Rapallo, Italy The phrase, “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” written by Jean Marzollo, is a popular rhyme used as a mnemonic device to help students remember the year Christopher...

Southport aldermen make emotional pleas in first meeting since mass-shooting

Marc Spencer calls for more red flag laws as well as more resources at the state level to help people in mental crisis at Monday’s Southport Board of Alderman meeting. (Courtesy livestream) SOUTHPORT — The Southport Board of Aldermen met for the...

LaVancha, Harvey D. 

HARRISVILLE/WILLIAMSON NY: Harvey Dean LaVancha passed away on September 27, 2025, just 3 weeks after his 89th birthday. He was born on September 6, 1936, at Lowville Hospital in Lowville, New York, to the late Henry and Blanche (Mercell)...

Friday essay: Peter Jackson, the Black Australian boxing champion you’ve never heard of

As we approach the headstone of Peter Jackson’s grave, we glimpse a flash of red at its base. Getting closer, we see that it’s a pair of boxing gloves. They are brand-new Fila gloves that retail for around A$80, so someone has spent a bit of...

COMMENTARY — The Wagners of Trellis Bay, Part 41

This series of commentaries follows Mabel Wagner’s 2015 memoir Lest I Forget. The book recounts Ms. Wagner’s work with her Polish husband Wladek Wagner to transform the remote, bush-covered Trellis Bay, Beef Island, into an internationally...

Walter I.M. Hodge Pavilion Honored with Two National Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing Revitalization

The V.I. Housing Authority and MDG Design & Construction have announced that the Walter I.M. Hodge Pavilion has earned two major national recognitions — the 2025 Rural Community Impact Development of Distinction from the Novogradac Journal of Tax...

Nasdaq has become home for dubious penny-stock IPOs

Nasdaq (NQ=F) is known as the market’s home for tech stocks, in particular giants like Nvidia (NVDA), Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT). But, in another corner of the exchange, new penny-stock listings for tiny overseas companies with dubious...