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‘Love’ is the theme for Culture Thursday in Carrot Bay today
CARROT BAY, Tortola, VI – Love-themed poems and songs will be among the highlights for Cultural Thursday in Carrot Bay this afternoon, February 15, 2024.
‘May the magic of Christmas touch your lives’- Premier Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) is encouraging everyone to spread love this Christmas and pray for those around the world who are not enjoying peace.
Premier Dr the Hon Wheatley extends Mother’s Day greetings to VI mothers
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- On the occasion of Mother’s Day, Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) is extending best wishes to all mothers within the Territory.
A Christmas Story - Part 2
Dickson C. Igwe
OK: the central message of December and the Christmas season is love.
And love is impossible to define. Love has always been. The reason: love is one of those subjects that has too many meanings. The idea of love is subjective. It is based upon individual beliefs. My idea of love can be much different from my neighbors’.
‘Stop the crime & turn to God’- BVI Christian Council
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The BVI Christian Council (BVICC), which regards itself as the watchdog of the nation and the conscience of the community, has condemned the recent increase in gun violence and “barbaric acts” in the Virgin Islands and has called for the Virgin Islands to turn to God.
'Give love this Christmas': 'Santa' Fahie encourages territory!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Dressed in a Santa Claus costume and bearing gifts, Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) told hundreds of residents who were serenaded at the first 'Premier’s Christmas Extravaganza with a Cultural Twist' at Festival Grounds on Saturday 12 December 2020, to spread love this season.
‘I respect each & every religion’- Premier Fahie @ Holi celebrations
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A hardly recognisable Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr The Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) joined Hindus in the Virgin Islands in celebration of Holi or Festival of Colours (also known as Phagwah in some Caribbean countries) at Festival Grounds on Monday, March 10, 2020.
Holiday Message by Premier Andrew A. Fahie
Fellow Virgin Islanders and Residents, a pleasant good day and God’s blessings to you. The essence of Christmas is love. As we celebrate the coming of Christ, we must reflect on the fact that his presence on earth was because God loved humanity so much, that he gave us his only begotten Son.
I am somebody
Lorna M. George
I was talking to a friend the other day, and she was telling me about some unfair treatment she received from the Government. She concluded by saying, “that is when you are a nobody”.
The Public Service is not for the faint of heart
Lorna M. George
Ever since I graduated from the BVI High School, now called the Elmore Stoutt High School, I have worked for the Government of the Virgin Islands (VI). I started my long journey as a laboratory trainee at Peebles Hospital. The years were terrible and horrible years to say the least. It was here that my Christian values and morals were tested and tried.