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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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paul A. Hewlett in! Patrick O. Harrigan out!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Yet another indigenous Virgin Islander has experienced the demeaning, insulting and undignified treatment of being in today’s civil servant under a National Democratic Party (NDP) Government.
H.L. Stoutt's success was owed to good people around him - Premier Smith [Photos added]
PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI – In offering memories of Former Chief Minister of the Virgin Islands Hon. H. Lavity Stoutt on March 4, 2013, Premier Dr The Hon. D. Orlando Smith recalled that Former Chief Minister Stoutt’s time was characterized by persistence and described the period that Stoutt took office as a time of learning for himself and other Ministers.