The 2026 August Emancipation Festival is off to a great start. The annual torchlight procession, which passed through Road Town on July 27 ahead of the official opening ceremony, has rightly become ...

A descendent of the manumitted Long Look Free People has received a top academic rank at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.  Derrick Gordon was recently named full professor in the ...

Christmas joy came early as more than 7,000 revellers rocked up on the beach on Saturday at Pond Bay, Virgin Gorda.

For the second time this year, a man was shot and killed in the territory. Kai de Castro, a former teacher who owned the Main ...

The Virgin Islands recently hosted social security experts from across the Caribbean for a seminar focused on protections for ...

Shortly after a new House of Assembly sitting started on Tuesday morning, Premier Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley sparked an ...

A 30-year-old man is facing charges after police in the Fat Hogs Bay area found him with a loaded gun shortly after midnight on July 21, according to the Police Information Office. Tiejie Henley, of ...

In the Sir Olva Georges Plaza on Sunday afternoon, Tourism and Culture Junior Minister Luce Hodge-Smith read out 47 names as a line of people approached a wreath one by one.  Each person added a ...

Creating a senate, holding a political-status referendum before 2032, and stripping away many of the governor’s reserved powers are among the headline proposals in a new House of Assembly report meant ...

Publishing schedule The Beacon will not publish a print edition next week because of the August Emancipation Festival public holidays Monday through Wednesday. Advertising and editorial deadlines will ...