Virgin Gorda

This beach front villa in the British Virgin Islands is a welcome site during the colder months. Known for its pristine blue water, the islands remain a hotspot for tourists and those well to do enough to own property on the islands. This villa is on Beef Island on a 1.89 acre plot. The house is located west of the airport on the north side of the island with views of Little and Great Camanoe Islands. The house has 5 bedrooms and 3 ½ bathrooms. The pictures show the wonderful view and... Read Full Story

A Rhode Island man accused of drowning his wife may depleted her inheritance and courted another woman, his defense lawyer said in closing arguments, but the 1999 scuba diving death was a tragic accident. Testimony ended Monday in the trial of former dive shop owner David Swain. Prosecutors allege Shelly Tyre's death on a diving excursion in this wealthy British Caribbean territory was a nearly perfect murder. Defense lawyer Hayden St. Clair-Douglas urged the jury of seven women and two men... Read Full Story

A Rhode Island man accused of killing his wife during a 1999 scuba diving trip may have depleted her inheritance and courted another woman, but the drowning was a tragic accident, his defense lawyer said in closing arguments. Testimony ended Monday in the trial of former dive shop owner David Swain, who has been held in a hilltop prison for two years. Prosecutors allege Shelly Tyre's death on a diving excursion in this wealthy British Caribbean territory was a nearly perfect murder. The... Read Full Story

A Rhode Island man accused of killing his wife during a 1999 scuba diving trip testified Thursday that he spent part of her inheritance on courting another woman and taking her on a cruise. David Swain's testimony came during a heated exchange with prosecutors, who accuse him of drowning Shelley Tyre during a vacation in the British Virgin Islands so that he could pursue another woman. Swain denies the charge, but said he vacationed with Mary Basler after Tyre's death, and that they split... Read Full Story

A forensic specialist testified Tuesday that he believes a Rhode Island man accused of killing his wife while scuba diving off the British Virgin Islands wrestled her from behind and shut off her air supply. The dive accident specialist, Craig Jenni, who gave similar testimony in a 2006 Rhode Island civil trial that found David Swain responsible for his wife's drowning, testified as the trial entered its second week in the British Caribbean islands' capital, Tortola. "My impression is that... Read Full Story

A Rhode Island man accused of killing his wife during a scuba dive was near her when she died, an expert testified Thursday, despite the defendant's claim that the two went their separates ways underwater. Dr. Tom Neuman, an expert in diving deaths, said medical reports indicate that Shelley Tyre stopped breathing at a point in the dive when her husband, David Swain, could still have been nearby. Swain said he and his wife descended together and headed toward a wreck site off the British... Read Full Story

A British Virgin Islands judge has ruled that a Rhode Island man must serve at least 25 years for killing his wife while diving in the Caribbean in 1999. David Swain faced a mandatory sentence of life in prison following his murder conviction last month. The defense asked that the 53-year-old be eligible for parole after 18 years. But the judge sided with the prosecutor and sentenced him to at least 25 years in Her Majesty's Prison at Balsam Ghut on the island of Tortola. Local authorities... Read Full Story

A Rhode Island man accused of killing his wife while scuba diving in the British Virgin Islands was escorted into a courtroom in handcuffs Wednesday for the start of his murder trial. David Swain, dressed in a gray suit, sat alone at a booth behind his lawyers as the British court seated a nine-person jury. Swain is accused of drowning Shelley Tyre in March 1999 while the couple was diving on the last day of a Caribbean getaway. Authorities in the British Virgin Islands originally ruled it... Read Full Story

ROAD TOWN, BVI -- The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) held its 41st Meeting under the Chairmanship of Professor E Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies in the British Virgin Islands on 4th December 2009. The Council last met in the BVI in 1994. The Council recorded its appreciation... Read Full Story

PARIS (Reuters) - The British Virgin Islands and the Cayman islands have joined the global "white list" of countries using internationally recognized tax standards, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Friday. The G20 group of leading industrialized and emerging market nations agreed in April to crack down on countries that failed to help out in cross-border tax evasion cases. At the time, the OECD published a "grey list" of more than 30 countries that had agreed... Read Full Story