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Digicel & RiteWay roll out donation drop boxes for FSN
Road Town, Tortola, VI - Digicel is pleased to announce that it is working with Rite Way, to roll out donation drop boxes for the Family Support Network. With Digicel’s help, Rite Way customers at the Pasea store can now conveniently donate groceries or household items when they shop.
Irate caller wants stray cattle slaughtered
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A caller on the Speak Out BVI radio talk show hosted by Doug Wheatley wants the authorities to slaughter roaming cattle which wander on to people’s property and cause havoc. The caller suggested that the authorities can sell the meat of the slaughtered cattle.
Time for public electricity @ Long Bay beach - residents
BEEF ISLAND, VI - It was disappointing enough to residents that fishermen for reasons more than one did not participate in the fishing aspect of Fishermen's Day on June 29, 2015 but it was another thing when patrons had their craving for good entertainment at Long Bay beach marred with the constant power failure that kept shutting off the sound system and stopping live bands from entertaining.
Bad weather blamed for poor Fishermen's Day participation
BEEF ISLAND, VI - Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering underscored his disappointment in the turnout of fishermen at this year's annual Fishermen's Day on June 29, 2015 but blamed bad weather.
Alzheimer's still a ‘hidden’ disease in the VI- Edna S. Williams
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Ever since starting her Alzheimer’s awareness campaign in the Virgin Islands over a year ago, persons have been taking encouraged to talk about the disease and learn more about it, however, member of the Rotary Club of Road Town, Edna S. Williams believes Alzheimer’s is still a “hidden” disease in the territory.
UPDATE: Alleged bus shed wrecker caught!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Information reaching Virgin Islands News Online is that the person allegedly responsible for damaging one of the recently installed bus sheds on Tortola by the Rotary Club of Road Town has been caught.
When being a fugitive is normal!
By Dickson Igwe
The proceeding story assesses a narrative from Commentary magazine of May 21, 2015, penned by Amy Wax titled, “Negatively Sixth Street”. Wax writes on research by sociologists into criminality and deviance in African American communities in the USA.
Fmr legislator Ralph T. O’Neal ‘taking it easy’ in retirement
WEST END, Tortola, VI – In giving very short remarks after receiving Rotary’s ‘Paul Harris Fellow’ award on Saturday June 20, 2015, the man who has given some 40 years of service to the territory in leadership positions in government, Ralph T. O’Neal OBE, has announced that he is “taking it easy” now that he has retired.
UPDATE: Aqua Design Ltd blamed for VG water woes
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Low levels of water being supplied by water company, Aqua Design Ltd, is being blamed for the severe water shortage in Virgin Gorda.
VI needs to be 'a little less angry & on edge' - Julien N. Johnson
WEST END, Tortola, VI – When members of the Rotary and Rotaract families of the Virgin Islands (VI) gathered at the Long Bay Beach Resort on the Western end of Tortola for dinner and fellowship they were challenged to be the change that is needed to take the territory to its former glory.
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