ThePeople's Empowerment Party (orPEP) is a defunctpolitical party in theBritish Virgin Islands, led by formerHouse of Assembly member for the second districtAlvin Christopher. Mr Christopher has previously been elected as a representative of theVirgin Islands Party, theNational Democratic Party and as an independent. It has no elected representatives and may now be defunct.

The party was launched on 29 March 2014. The inaugural executive committee of the party included former People's Patriotic Alliance (PPA) member,Natalio Wheatley (also known as Sowande Uhuru) as president; Elford Parsons, vice-president; Claudette Rymer, secretary; Julia Christopher, assistant secretary; Dennis Rhymer, treasurer; Lorie Rymer, public relations officer; Sunny Prince, sergeant-at-arms; and Glanville Penn, chaplain. Mr Christopher is the chairman and leader of the new party.^[1] The introduction of the party to the public included a blistering attack on the former administration of the Virgin Islands Party, which is the party that a number of the PEP members formerly had ties to.^[2]

Plans for the new political party were announced in the press in August 2013,^[3] although private discussions may have occurred much earlier.

Apart from Mr Christopher, only Mr Wheatley and Mr Rymer had previously stood for political office (both unsuccessfully). In the press it was speculated that proposed candidates may include former elected VIP politiciansDancia Penn and Vernon Malone,^[4] but in the event that did not transpire. The party had announced that it intended to contest all 13 seats in the2015 general election.^[5] Eventually the party only put 5 candidates forward, all of whom were handily defeated (including Mr Christopher, who had previously held his seat in the legislature for 20 years).^[6]

In November 2016 Natalio Wheatley left the PEP to join theVirgin Islands Party,^[7] and the party fielded no candidates in the2019 British Virgin Islands general election.

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