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Culture

March 15th, 2013
How can VIslanders prevent ‘immigrants’ from 'stealing' other half?!

ROAD TOWN,Tortola, VI- It was established on the ‘Relationship Rescue’ television programme recently that Virgin Islanders’ relationships, whether marriage or committed, do face a threat of being jeopardised by other persons of different cultures and backgrounds coming into the Territory.

March 14th, 2013
UPDATE: VIF&FC PRO Lynette L. Harrigan not yet in receipt of appointment letter

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It has been over a month ago that Virgin Islands News Online reported that confirmed sources had indicated that Ms Lynette L. Harrigan was asked to take up the post as Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee (VIF&FC). However, to-date she has not been issued an official letter confirming her appointment.

March 14th, 2013
Accountability high on VG Festival Committee agenda - George

VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Public Relations Officer of the Virgin Gorda Festival Committee, Jerrell George, expressed that special attention is being paid to spending with this year’s committee to ensure that they ‘end up in the green’ at this year’s festival.

March 13th, 2013
Fahie Hill ‘open museum’ wraps up Festival of Arts

FAHIE HILL, Tortola, VI – A visual arts display was among some of the activities that wrapped up the Festival of Arts this year at Fahie Hill in Tortola yesterday, March 12, 2013.

March 13th, 2013
VG Festival Committee 'very ready' - Blyden

VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI - Chairman of the Virgin Islands (VI) Festivals and Fairs Committee Marvin 'MB' Blyden has expressed that he believes the Virgin Gorda (VG) Festival Committee chaired by Mr Rupert Vanterpool Jr is 'very ready' for the upcoming VG Festival slated to begin on March 23, 2013.

March 12th, 2013
The level of hypocrisy in the VI 'is my biggest struggle'- Ayana S. Hull

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- “The level of hypocrisy that we pretend to be normal, it’s the biggest struggle that I have. Most of the people that know you know what you are going through but they try to pretend that it’s only something you know and I am not a hypocrite, I cannot live life like that.”

March 11th, 2013
Four to compete for Miss VG Easter Festival crown

VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI- Four contestants will be vying for the Miss Virgin Gorda Easter Festival crown this year.

March 10th, 2013
Hundreds turn out to witness ‘BVI In Times Past’ at HLSCC

PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI – Persons who missed the Festival of Arts play, BVI In Times Past, which was staged at the Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium of the H. Lavity Stoutt College (HLSCC) last evening, March 9, 2013 certainly missed the opportunity of a lifetime.

March 9th, 2013
KING CUSTOMER and his poor treatment

By Dickson Igwe

This Wannabe Village Sheriff sat in on another high powered meeting the other day. And again he was in the company of a powerful group of Virgin Islands females. Now, what made this meeting fortuitous was this: it was the second time one of Nature’s Little Secrets - the poor state of customer service in the territory - was exposed in a forum of the type.

March 8th, 2013
Food tasting fair attracts maximum tourists’ participation!

LOWER ESTATE, Tortola, VI - The lawns of the 1780 Lower Estate Sugar Works Museum became the setting for an array of foods common to the Virgin Islands and other Caribbean countries such as Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and St. Vincent, when the Virgin Islands Festival of Arts’ Culinary Arts food tasting Fair was held on Thursday March 7, 2013.

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