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August 10th, 2019
Guns, Safety & Tourism

By Dickson C. Igwe.

Personal safety is the travellers most critical consideration. Now, no family wants to go on vacation only to return in caskets.

A country may offer spectacular panoramas, hugely significant historical sites, rich cultural narratives, awesome geography, and great resorts and hotels, but if a car bomb or mass shooting promises to send the tourist and traveler to an early grave, he or she should stay away.

August 8th, 2019
The truth of English colonization

By Thomas C. Famous

It is often interesting, sadly interesting, to see persons attempt to twist the reality of any given situation in order to justify a gross wrong.

August 6th, 2019
Owed water truck operators refused to respond to bush fires- Hon Turnbull

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – At a time when bush fires were an almost weekly occurrence during the second quarter of 2019, some private water truck operators allegedly refused to lend assistance when summoned because of being owed by Government.

August 5th, 2019
Hurricane ghut & drainage clearing begins - Hon Rymer

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – As part of preparations for the ongoing hurricane season 2019 in the Virgin Islands (VI), Minister for Transportation, Works and Utilities, Hon Kye M. Rymer (R5) has revealed that territory-wide Ghuts and Drainage Clearing activities have commenced.

August 3rd, 2019
The Vocations & the Road to El Dorado

By Dickson C. Igwe

Countries with a skilled workforce are far more prosperous than countries with workers who major in academia and white-collar services. The road to social and economic prosperity runs through the vocations.

August 1st, 2019
Can too much ‘freedom’ hurt?

By Sandra Phillip Hodge (Victorious Moms Mentorship Outreach)

“Freedom” is the buzzword all around us at this time. The whole length and breadth of the Caribbean is in a celebration mode; and it is all about freedom…Freedom, or emancipation from chattel slavery which ended the dreaded plantation-slave existence of the majority of the people who populated this region.

August 1st, 2019
Little Dix Hill man charged with Property Damage

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Police have arrested and charged a 28-year-old male, Colleen Davis of Little Dix Hill for Destruction of Property.

August 1st, 2019
The Public Service is not for the faint of heart

Lorna M. George

Ever since I graduated from the BVI High School, now called the Elmore Stoutt High School, I have worked for the Government of the Virgin Islands (VI). I started my long journey as a laboratory trainee at Peebles Hospital. The years were terrible and horrible years to say the least. It was here that my Christian values and morals were tested and tried.

July 31st, 2019
‘VI’s actions towards UK must not be reactions’ – Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI - With Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, now at the helm of government in the United Kingdom, the Virgin Islands (VI) and other British Overseas Territories (OT’s) should be on high alert for a renewed push of policies that they view as an overreach by the colonial power.

July 30th, 2019
Famous on History & Caribbean Ties

By Thomas C. Famous

Each one of us are the sum total of 4 grandparents and eight great grandparents.

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