The Latest Breaking News from BVI

British Virgin Islands criticised for launching financial crime-fighting cartoon mascot before new legislation

Alexander Frolov, Igor Shuvalov and Vladimir Potanin own properties via BVI, Cyprus and Russia

Report commissioned by Queen’s representative had called for Caribbean territory to be effectively governed by London.

Plans to rule the islands from London after arrest of elected leader likened to “colonialism” by demonstrators

Activists in the British Virgin Islands on Monday protested against a proposal to put the overseas British territory under control of the United Kingdom, days after the BVI premier was jailed in Miami on charges of conspiring to traffic drugs.

As the top politician in the sun-soaked British Virgin Islands, Andrew Alturo Fahie had spent 20 years in the trenches of the tiny British overseas territory near Puerto Rico to become its “head coach.” And he wasn’t about to lose it all in 20 minutes.

BVI’s constitution should be suspended for up to two years, a report by a British judge recommends

In a further twist, the islands’ premier has been arrested in a Miami sting operation on suspicion of drug trafficking

Andrew Fahie is due in court on drug charges in Miami after arrest following months-long undercover operation