I think they BVI immigration people have a particular problem with foreign journalists of any type. Back when all of that Mossack Fonseca stuff broke, there were stories of reporters being denied entry to the country and turned back even after getting permission to interview the governor.

The normal pain point with island immigration is letting in people who will steal jobs from the locals, but the sensitivity towards journalists seems to be centered around making it difficult to look into dodgier financial aspects of the island economy. Not sure if they can be bothered to discriminate between reporters and photojournalists, immigration just treats them all as "persona non grata".