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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.
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.
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.
‘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.
Famous on History & Caribbean Ties
By Thomas C. Famous
Each one of us are the sum total of 4 grandparents and eight great grandparents.
‘Ah gon tek a whine & a wukkup too!’- Dr Natalio D. Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- “I will keep it real with you, brothers and sisters, I am going to have fun, I am going to take a whine and I can’t let my pastor hear me say this but I gon take a wukkup too. I gon go by the booths and gon tek up a Brugal and a coke. I going to be in the Rise and Shine Tramp. I am not hiding it, I going to have a good time, brothers and sisters.”
65th Emancipation kicks off with ‘Prime Time Festival Village’
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Virgin Islands (VI) kicked off its 65th Emancipation Celebrations last evening, July 26, 2019, with the opening of the ‘Prime Time Festival Village’ in the heart of Road Town, Tortola, the capital city.
Foxy’s relaunching JvD School of Music
GREAT HARBOUR, Jost van Dyke, VI – Proprietor of the popular Foxy’s Bar, Philiciano O. Callwood aka ‘Foxy’, has announced the relaunch of the School of Music in Jost van Dyke on August 14, 2019.
Brexit: a new phase of civil war
By Dickson C. Igwe
Boris Johnson officially became UK Prime Minister on July 25, 2016. His appointment was no surprise. Johnson is a darling of the UK Far Right. Much as Donald Trump is the Poster Boy of the USA's White Supremacists and Far Right-Wing Types.
Unfair Airport Development Fee will be disbanded
Lorna M. George
I am a preacher in the Methodist Church, BVI Circuit so I often travel to Anegada to preach and keep Sunday morning worship at the Anegada Methodist Church.
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