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Camaraderie revived @ Carrot Bay Cultural Fiesta 2022
CARROT BAY, Tortola, VI - Cultural activities, food and games where were the highlights of the Carrot Bay Cultural Fiesta 2022 which opened on, August 5, 2022, in Carrot Bay community attracting locals and tourists alike.
'Drink the Booth Dry' last lap event to close off Emancipation Week 2022
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - As the curtain comes down on the 2022 Emancipation celebrations in the VI, a 'Drink the Booth Dry' evening party is being pushed as the final emancipation event under the Virgin Islands Festival & Fairs Committee.
CARILEC Resiliency & Energy Efficiency Project launched for 6 C'bean countries
CASTIRES, Saint. Lucia - Six Caribbean Islands - Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Sint Maarten, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos Islands – will benefit from an 18-month project designed to build the energy resilience of these islands while reducing their climate vulnerability.
Carrot Bay Cultural Fiesta on today, August 5, 2022
CARROT BAY, Tortola, VI – As the Virgin Islands (VI) continues its celebration of Emancipation 2022 across the territory, the next stop is the Carrot Bay Cultural Fiesta which opens today, August 5, 2022, in Carrot Bay.
Organ Baronville wins Rotary Club of Tortola’s $5K raffle draw
SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI- The second place draw of $5000.00 in the Rotary Club of Tortola’s Annual Raffle was won by Mr Organ Baronville at the August Tuesday Horse Races at Ellis Thomas Downs in Sea Cows Bay on August 2, 2022.
DeFreitas qualifies for women’s 200m semis @ Birmingham 2022
BIRMINGHAM, UK – Virgin Islands sprinter Beyonce A. DeFreitas has qualified for the Women's 200m Semi-Finals today August 4, 2022, during the heat stage of the race at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
Gender-neutral dress code introduced by USVI Board of Education
VI CONSORTIUM
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas - The V.I. Board of Education has codified new dress code uniform guidelines for public schools meant to be gender neutral, in what board chairman Dr. Kyza Callwood described to the Consortium as the U.S. Virgin Islands coming in line with broader trends on the U.S. mainland relative to the rights of individuals.
East End/Long Look stages well received mini festival & cultural parade
EAST END, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands Communal Association (VICA) in association with the East End/Long Look community has successfully staged a mini festival and parade of its own yesterday, August 3, 2022, as part of the 2022 Emancipation celebrations.
Heightened chances of showers across VI today, August 4, 2022
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Virgin Islands Department of Disaster Management (DDM) is forecasting that as a result of the weaker and northern part of a tropical wave traversing the region and being slightly enhanced by an upper-level trough, that will heighten the chances of showers today August 4, 2022, across the islands.
It’s time to stop blaming Andrew
Alred C. Frett
The Elusive Emancipation
Year after year we held Emancipation Celebrations until the ‘God of Nature and Laws of Balance’ had enough of the hypocrisy and stopped it through Floods and Pandemic… Still, we have not improved or seemed not to reasoned that these celebrations have degenerated into events of greed, self-interest and commercialism, rather than respect for the liberation of a proud People who had been so brutally sold into bondage.
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