Ex-BVI Ports director to be sentenced today in Fla.

Former British Virgin Islands Ports Director Oleanvine Maynard is scheduled for sentencing today in Miami, and former BVI Premier Andrew Fahie’s sentencing has been delayed to August.

Maynard, 62, and her son, Kadeem Maynard, 33, were arrested by U.S. law enforcement in April 2022 along with Fahie, 53, and charged in connection with a drug-trafficking conspiracy. The trio were charged with conspiring to help smuggle cocaine through the BVI, after an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Kadeem Maynard was sentenced in November to nearly five years in federal prison, and his mother is set to appear in U.S. District Court in Miami today at 10 a.m. The Maynards pleaded guilty under agreements with prosecutors, but Fahie took his case to trial and was convicted on Feb. 8 on cocaine conspiracy and money laundering charges.