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‘Ms Fluffy’ takes Dancehall Queen crown
BAUGHER’S BAY, Tortola, VI - It has often been said that slim girls should beware of a fat girl entering a dance competition. That may have been the driving factor behind organizers getting local girls to enter a Dance Hall competition last Saturday night, December 28, 2013.
Engineers' integrity questioned in bridge assessment
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A response to a question asked in the House of Assembly during its most recent sitting has left many, including Representative for the First District Honourable Andrew A. Fahie, to ponder the integrity of workers and engineers within the Public Works Department.
No Limits still standing despite economic situation
SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI – No Limits Business Service (NLBS) is a small company owned and operated by a young entrepreneur, Mr Rajah A. Smith. For over twelve years, Smith and his family, along with leaders of the Third District have been known to bring together workers and members of the community for a time of merriment around the Christmas season.
Grand turn out marks Long Bush Christmas Day parade!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Persons came from far and near including all the sister islands for the annual Long Bush Christmas Parade making it yet another success.
$65K still owed to contractors in Georgie Hill Road project
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Minister for Communications and Works Honourable Mark H. Vanterpool revealed during last week’s sitting of the House of Assembly that some $65,000 remains outstanding to contractors in the Georgie Hill Road Project.
UPDATE: Teachers want draft policy on discipline discussed with them & PTA
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Teachers, especially some at the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS), are pleased to learn that a policy to guide disciplinary measures for school children is in the making but admonished that the draft first be scrutinized by parents and teachers.
Digicel donates medical equipment to EE clinic
EAST END, Tortola, VI – Quality services and community relations have won the hearts of patients visiting the Nurse Iris Penn-Smith Health Clinic in East End resulting in the clinic being recommended for recognition and Christmas blessings from Digicel on December 17, 2013.
LIME SSD workers likely to retain their jobs past year end
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Early September when workers of the Service Support and Delivery (SSD) Department of LIME BVI received word that they were going to be laid off, they were given the impression that by this month December 2013, they would have no longer been employed by LIME.
NDP not delivering as promised – Mr McLloyd Walters
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – One man has taken the bold liberty of using his democratic right of freedom of speech and a right to an opinion to boldly declare that the National Democratic Party (NDP) Government of the day has betrayed its electorates by not delivering as promised.
ESHS Volleyball Champions crowned
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – House 1 Junior Boys and House 4 Senior Boys were crowned respective Champions in the Elmore Stoutt High School's Inter House Volleyball Tournament on Wednesday December 12, 2013 as games concluded in the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex.