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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.

April 29th, 2023
2023 election lies & VIP’s vindication; Dr Wheatley Gov’t now on to second term!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It must have been a bittersweet time for the Virgin Islands Party (VIP), the political group that has won the most elections since the legislature was restored in 1950, after the party emerged as the Government in the 2023 Elections in the Virgin Islands.

April 29th, 2023
Chess now a part of VI school curriculum – Hon Sharie B. de Castro

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Virgin Islands Education System is moving ‘Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead’ according to subject Minister for Minister for Education, Youth Affairs, and Sports, Hon Sharie B. de Castro (Al) with introducing chess into the school curriculum as a fun way to teach logic and memory.

April 18th, 2023
Newly renovated FLPS opens with safer facility for Trinity term

EAST END, Tortola, VI – Children at the Francis Lettsome Primary School (FLPS) today, April 18, 2023, returned to a newly renovated building, according to At-Large Representative and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Hon Sharie B. de Castro (AL) who expressed gratitude to sponsor Unite BVI for funding the renovation project.

April 8th, 2023
Asthmatics urged to wear masks during ASPS demolition

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Asthmatics and persons with respiratory conditions in the vicinity of the demolition of the Althea Scatliffe Primary School are being urged to take the necessary precautions including the wearing of masks.

April 6th, 2023
22% of VI population 'considered poor'- Mitsy J. Ellis-Simpson

LONG BUSH, Tortola, VI- Independent Territorial At Large Candidate Mitsy J. Ellis-Simpson has launched her electoral campaign, with the aim of bridging the gap between the poor and the wealthy, improving education and healthcare systems and ensuring that the [British] Virgin Islands (VI) has a social security system that works for the most vulnerable and marginalised, including single parents, elderly and youths.

March 25th, 2023
VI urged to embrace local poets & poetry within schools

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – In observance of World Poetry Day 2023, the Virgin Islands (VI) have been urged to embrace its poets and poetry by Secretary General of the BVI National Commission for UNESCO, Dr. Allison Flax-Archer who. said the observance of the day on March 21, 2023, encourages persons to understand the importance of poetic expression.

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