About

The Arrowhead Protocol is a community-led advocacy movement established to address one of the most persistent injustices in the history of the British Virgin Islands: the systematic denial of ancestral land rights to the people of Anegada.

For over 140 years, since the Crown's obligation to Anegada was first established under the 1885 Crown Lands Ordinance, the families of this island have applied, waited, paid, trusted, and been failed. More than 100 Crown land applications approved by Cabinet between 2008 and 2019 were never processed. Approximately 650 applications held by the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, and Climate Change were never transferred to the committee tasked with reviewing them. An illegal notarization framework voided hundreds more. Elders have passed away waiting. Probate burdens have accumulated across generations. And through it all, the Government of the Virgin Islands has offered managed sympathy, broken commitments, and institutional silence.

The Arrowhead Protocol was established because silence is no longer acceptable, and because the community of Anegada deserves more than promises.

What We Are

We are not a political party. We are not affiliated with any government, administration, or political movement. We are Anegada, organised, documented, and determined. We are the families who applied and were ignored. We are the committee members who filed twelve formal complaints and received no actionable response. We are the descendants of elders who built this island with their hands and went to their rest without title to the land beneath their feet. We are the community that has done everything right and been failed at every turn, and we have decided that the world needs to know.

What We Have Done

The Arrowhead Protocol has plans to formally submit the Anegada land matter to the Governor of the British Virgin Islands, the UK Foreign Secretary, the UK Overseas Territories Minister, the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, and the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Adequate Housing and Minority Rights. We will engage the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and place the full documented record of institutional failure before every oversight body with the authority to demand accountability. We are building a community register and a public record that cannot be dismissed, managed, or ignored. We plan to submit our issues to the soon-to-be-formed BVI Human Rights Commission. The Premier of the Virgin Islands has publicly admitted on the radio that the treatment of Anegadians constitutes a violation of their human rights. That admission is now on the permanent record alongside everything else.

What We Are Demanding

We are demanding a Commission of Inquiry called from London, not Road Town, with compulsory disclosure powers and criminal referral capacity. We are demanding the immediate appointment of the individuals we Anegadians voted on to the Anegada Standing Committee. We are demanding the immediate processing of all Cabinet-approved land applications. We are demanding the transfer and independent audit of the estimated 650 backlogged application files held by MENRCC. We are demanding compliance with the Varlack-George High Court judgment of 2011. We are demanding a full title audit of all Bates Hill-derived interests. And we are demanding that the recognition and accountability owed to the people of Anegada be delivered in full, without further delay, without further excuse, and without the managed disappointment that has substituted for justice for the past 140 years.

What You Can Do

If your family has ever applied for Crown land on Anegada, your case belongs on this register. Every name strengthens the collective case. Every document preserved adds weight to the legal record. Every family that registers makes the pattern harder to dismiss and the remedy harder to delay.

Register your application. Document your history. Join the movement that is taking Anegada's case to every oversight body that has the authority to act on it.

Because the land is yours! It always has been! And the Arrowhead Protocol will not rest until the law says so, too.