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July 8th, 2023
Education Ministry officially rolls out ‘Let’s Teach VI’ initiative

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Minister for Education, Honourable Sharie B. de Castro (AL) has officially announced the launch of the 'Let’s Teach VI' initiative, designed to support and train new, unskilled and inexperienced hires in the field of education.

June 24th, 2023
Ky'Onte Joseph awarded 22nd Ivan Dawson Memorial Scholarship

ZION HILL, Tortola, VI - Listing his hobbies as playing basketball and soccer, and having a future desire to own a local trucking company, 11-year-old Ky'Onte Joseph of Cane Garden Bay, Tortola, in the Virgin Islands (VI) is the 22nd recipient of the Ivan Dawson Memorial Scholarship 2023.

June 23rd, 2023
177 resilient students graduate from ESHS

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - 177 students graduated from Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) in a ceremony at Multi-Purpose Sports Complex in Road Town, Tortola on June 22, 2023.

June 19th, 2023
Gov’t will do what’s necessary to make teaching attractive again– Hon deCastro

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Minister for Education, Youth Affairs and Sports Honourable Sharie B. deCastro (AL) says, in recognising that the teaching profession is no longer an attractive career, the government will do what is necessary to make it attractive again.

June 8th, 2023
‘Extremely alarming’ the number of new teachers needed by Sept 2023– Hon deCastro

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI– The Education Ministry in the Virgin Islands (VI) is grappling to retain teachers in a scenario described as ‘extremely alarming’ by Minister for Education, Youth Affairs and Sports Honourable Sharie B. deCastro (AL).

May 25th, 2023
Education Minister ‘saddened’ by school dorm fire in Guyana

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Virgin Islands Minister for Education, Youth Affairs and Sports, Hon Sharie B. de Castro (AL) says she is saddened by the news of the recent fire in Guyana that claimed the lives of 19 children.

May 23rd, 2023
Significant funding pledged for US Territories: Health & Education to benefit

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St. John, USVI - The US Virgin Islands, along with other Insular Areas, will benefit from a generous funding allocation as the US Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs announced on Monday, May 23, 2023, in grants to the tune of $4,279,808 for the fiscal year 2023.

May 11th, 2023
Education World Forum has widened vision to re-imagine sector in VI– Hon de Castro

LONDON, UK – Virgin Islands (VI) Minister for Education, Youth Affairs and Sports Honourable, Hon Sharie B. de Castro (AL) has said Day 2 of the Education World Forum in the United Kingdom has energised her delegation, as well as bolstered and widened their vision to re-imagine education in the [British] Virgin Islands.

May 6th, 2023
HLSCC announces winners of Stingray Showcase 2023

PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI - A number of students were announced as winners of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) Stingray Showcase of technology and culinary projects ahead of their official graduation scheduled for next month.

May 1st, 2023
Students receive Trinity Term motivational speech from Kevin C. Smith

SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI – Virgin Islands Party (VIP) candidate for the Third Electoral District, in the 2023 General Elections Mr Kevin C. Smith aka OJ, despite an unsuccessful attempt at winning a seat in the House, this morning May 1, 2023, took some timeout to deliver a motivational speech to a group of local primary school students.

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