12 January – The UK Government announces that it is withdrawing funding from the British Virgin Islands' Recovery and Development Agency.[1]
18 January – The Governor establishes aCommission of Inquiry to "look into whether corruption, abuse of office or other serious dishonesty in relation to officials — elected, statutory or public — may have taken place in recent years. If so, it will consider the conditions which allowed this to take place and make independent recommendations for improvement."[2] The Commission is to be led by retiredEnglish Court of Appeal judge, SirGary Hickinbottom.[3]
9 February – Earl "Bob" Hodge is shot and killed.[4] The United States had made repeated, unsuccessful attempts to extradite Hodge on allegations of cocaine trafficking.[5]
22 October – The evidence-gathering stage of the Commission of Inquiry concludes.[10]
28 October – The Government proposes a motion in the House of Assembly that the financial burden of a costs order against the Speaker of the House be met from public funds.[11]
29 October – An online petition criticising the government's decision to pay the legal costs of the Speaker of the House in relation to a failed injunction application receives over 1,000 signatures in the first 24 hours.[12]
^"Hearings". BVI Commission of Inquiry - Official Website. Retrieved3 July 2021.
^"One more person dies from COVID in BVI! Active cases climb to 150". BVI News. 2 July 2021. Retrieved3 July 2021.The BVI has recorded one new death as a result of the COVID-19 virus. ... This brings the total number of COVID-related deaths recorded in the BVI to two persons.
†Physiographically, thesecontinental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.
#Bermuda is an isolatedNorth Atlanticoceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with theNorthern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.
