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August 12th, 2023
VIF&FC announce winners of August Monday Parade 2023

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Parade Sub-committee of the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee (VIF&FC) have announced the results of the judging of entries in the 'August Monday' Parade 2023 in the Virgin Islands (VI) held last Monday, August 7, 2023.

August 11th, 2023
O’Neal Webster’s Corporate, Banking & Funds receives IFLR1000 recognition

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – [British] Virgin Islands law firm, O’Neal Webster’s Corporate, Banking, and Funds, along with three of the firm’s partners, has been recognised by IFLR1000, which is a leading international legal market research product specialised in ranking financial and corporate law firms and lawyers.

August 11th, 2023
Trade Commission being gradually streamlined to improve services- Dr Jerry R. Smith

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Chairman of the Virgin Islands (VI) Trade Commission Dr Jerry R. Smith says the Virgin Islands (VI) Trade Commission is now in the process of streamlining its operations to provide the best services to the people of the VI.

August 10th, 2023
Emancipation celebration in VI is now a 'carnival'- Bishop John I. Cline

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – While criticising the way the VI Emancipation Festival is celebrated in the Virgin Islands, outspoken clergyman Bishop John I. Cline blasted the local emancipation celebrations as one that has become a carnival.

August 8th, 2023
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.

August 8th, 2023
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.

August 8th, 2023
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 7th, 2023
'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.

August 7th, 2023
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.

August 5th, 2023
Lakers’ D’Moi M. Hodge honoured with ‘Keys to the Bay’ in VI

CANE GARDEN BAY, Tortola, VI – History-making Virgin Islands (VI) basketball player, D’Moi M. Hodge continues to receive honors in his home country following an electrifying opening season in the National Basketball Association (NBA) Summer League Games.

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