The BVI Beacon

13/11/2025

CARTOON (Nov. 13, 2025)

04/10/2025

Can you spot the error? Hint: It's the date. Each print edition of the Beacon is edited carefully, but mistakes sometimes slip through. The date on this week's front page should read Oct. 2, 2025. We're very sorry, and we hope readers will pick up a copy for our usual in-depth coverage.

19/09/2025

The 13 elected House of Assembly members secretly doubled their base salaries from the start of 2024. Here's how much they make each year, including allowances.

As House of Assembly members publicly hyped up a plan to increase civil servants’ pay in 2023, they quietly reserved far bigger raises for themselves. During a closed-door meeting that December, HOA members secretly agreed to double their own baseline salaries — a move that was not publicly disc...

01/08/2025

Caribbean reefs are in dire straits. To understand what that means for the region’s people, The BVI Beacon collaborated with journalists in five other countries and territories for this year-long investigation on the global coral bleaching event that started in 2023.

A historic coral bleaching event has swept across the Caribbean over the past two years, threatening the ecosystems that feed, protect and sustain life across the region. This multi-part investigation, reported from six countries and territories, reveals the scale of the damage — and the human cos...