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Trina, DeMarco & R-City to headline BVI Spring Fest
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With the line up for the Virgin Gorda Easter Festival being described as lacklustre at best, Five Star Promotions’ BVI Spring Fest on the other hand packs an impressive line up of musical entertainment for the weekend of March 4 to 6, 2016.
Less prize $$, no pageant & no mega Int'l artistes for VG Festival 2016
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – At least it was not cancelled altogether like Farmers' Week 2016, however, this year's Virgin Gorda Easter Festival will be a scaled back event. This was revealed at a press conference today, February 26, 2016 at the Government Administration Building to launch the Festival.
Let’s preserve history to benefit tourism drive – Richard C. de Castro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Television talk show host Richard C. De Castro has urged Government to start a preservation campaign with a view to keeping the territory’s history alive in the area of post-colonial society by keeping old historic structures intact.
All welcome to reception & cultural presentation for Ladysmith Black Mambazo
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The VI community is invited to join Dr. Karl Dawson and the faculty, staff and students of the H Lavity Stout Community College at a public welcome reception & cultural presentation for the legendary grammy award winning group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Promises fulfilled; D2 moving forward – Hon Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull
CANE GARDEN BAY, Tortola, VI – Representative for the Second District Honourable Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull believes his first six months in office saw many of the promises made during the political campaigns realised.
Virgin Islands funny tale: 'Hail Country Bumpkin!'
By Dickson Igwe
Now, once upon a time on the Lesser Antillean paradise island of Tortola lived a man named Country Bumpkin. He lived at a time when the old and enchanting West Indies were at their most pristine and charming. Those were the 1950s. The Virgin Islands were agrarian, rural, communal, and very religious. In those days life was divided into two segments for the native: hard work and church.
Our people still don’t appreciate from whence we came – Eileene L. Parsons OBE
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Former Minister for Education and Culture Mrs Eileene L. Parsons OBE has challenged Virgin Islanders to be knowledgeable of where the country has come in just 70 years, saying that these achievements go unappreciated.
More $$ needed to keep researchers @ HLSCC- Dr Karl Dawson
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – President of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) Dr Karl Dawson called on government agencies to increase their budgetary allocation for research and consultancy services using resource personnel from the territory’s lone tertiary institution.
Eileene L. Parsons, Jennie N. Wheatley launch revised history work
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Two celebrated daughters of Virgin Islands soil, author Mrs Jennie N. Wheatley and former Minister for Education and Culture Mrs Eileene L. Parsons OBE today January 29, 2016 launched a revised version of their iconic and seminal work '150 Years of Achievement: 1834 – 1984' and were on hand to autograph copies for persons who made purchases.
Festival 2015 performers will be paid, 'trust me’ – Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith on Thursday January 21, 2016 acknowledged that Government should have paid local performers of Emancipation Festival 2015 before the end of last year.
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