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VIF&FC Chairman distances self from East End 'party truck' scandal
EAST END, Tortola, VI – Chairman of the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee (VIF&FC), Mr Dirk L. Walters has distanced himself from a brewing party truck scandal in the East End/Long Look community where some residents of the community are reportedly upset over not being able to select the performers on the truck.
Revellers bear heat to ‘dazzle’ in August Monday 2023 parade
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – In a spectacular display of culture in the Virgin Islands (VI) revellers in this year’s 2023 August Monday Parade in the Virgin Islands (VI) faced the heat to turn out in numbers as the emancipation celebrations took to the street of Road Town, Tortola, for the August Monday Parade.
USVI Legislature subpoenas WMA for sexual harassment settlement amounts
VI CONSORTIUM
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St. John, USVI- During Monday’s hearing of the Committee on Budget, Appropriations and Finance, lawmakers asked representatives of the Waste Management Authority about court judgments or settlements paid by the agency.
SUV runs off road @ Duff’s Bottom Tortola
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI – Sometime yesterday, Monday, August 7, 2023, an SUV rental ran off the road in the Duff’s Bottom area close to a building under construction owned by the late Michael Smith and their family.
August Tuesday: Residents wake up to no power!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – As the Virgin Islands (VI) celebrates the emancipation season on the August Tuesday holiday, residents today, August 8, 2023, woke up to no electricity.
‘We need to take back our emancipation village’- Bishop John I. Cline
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Declaring that the people of the [British] Virgin Islands have become an arrogant people, high-minded and self-serving, with a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof, outspoken clergyman Bishop John I. Cline has blasted the current state of affairs of the Festival Village, including the type of artistes being invited to perform.
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'Electrifying' Rise & Shine Tramp hits Road Town
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– As the three-day emancipation holiday gets started today, Monday, August 7, 2023, hundreds of revelers flooded the streets of Tortola this morning, tramping from Port Purcell into De Castro Street to Administration Drive in Road Town, the capital of Tortola for the 2023 Emancipation Rise and Shine Tramp.
VI festival has become nothing but ‘feathers & flesh’- Eileene L. Parsons
PALESTINA ESTATE, Tortola, VI - Cultural icon and former legislator Eileene L. Parsons, OBE says as a female of a different generation in the Virgin Islands, she is now embarrassed at what the Emancipation Festival has become, particularly the parade.
‘Slavery is slavery boss! I ain’t going nowhere jumping up’- L. Allen Wheatley
EAST END, Tortola, VI- Some 1,000 revellers are expected to storm the streets of Road Town for the August Monday Parade to celebrate Emancipation from slavery; however, don’t look for former Financial Secretary and D8 political candidate in the recently concluded 2023 general elections, Mr L. Allen Wheatley, to be a part of the procession.
Sea Cows Bay businesswoman Casandra E. Sutton-Forbes passes
SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI- Local businesswoman and mother Casandra E. Sutton-Forbes, a resident of Sea Cows Bay on Tortola, has died.
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