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The VI’s 70 year journey on the path of self-determination
E. Benito Wheatley
November 24, 2019 will mark 70 years since the Great March of 1949 in which the people of the [British] Virgin Islands (VI) peacefully marched through Road Town to protest the gross neglect of the British Empire. The march at the time was the largest demonstration ever to take place in the islands and changed the course of VI history.
More VI history! Hélène Anne Lewis appointed new Chair of STEP
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – From the stages of the 57th Inauguration ceremony of US President Barack Obama to the helm of the worldwide body of the Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners (STEP), Virgin Islanders are continuing to add new pages to the history books of the Territory as doing and obtaining prestigious credits, much to the recognition being given in international arenas.
Dr. Michael O’Neal, Former HLSCC President, Publishes Book on BVI Social History
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Dr. Michael O’Neal’s monograph on Virgin Islands social history, entitled Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism: Social Transformations in the British Virgin Islands, has just been published and is available online now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble in both paperback and hardcover print editions, as well as in eBook format on Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook and Apple iBook/iTunes readers.
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