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Cultural Food Fair underway @ Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park

August 4th, 2023 | Tags: Cultural Food Fair TPP local foods craft booths
Patrons getting their share of their favourite cultural foods at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair is being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair is being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
There are some 23 booths, with approximately 10 of them offering cultural foods and drinks. Photo: Facebook
There are some 23 booths, with approximately 10 of them offering cultural foods and drinks. Photo: Facebook
The Cultural Food Fair is being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair is being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair is being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair is being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair is being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair is being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
All roads are leading to the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park today, Friday, August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
All roads are leading to the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park today, Friday, August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
Minister for Health and Social Development Hon Vincent O. Wheatley (R9) was among the first to visit the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park today, August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
Minister for Health and Social Development Hon Vincent O. Wheatley (R9) was among the first to visit the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park today, August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair is being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair is being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
The Cultural Food Fair being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival activities. Photo: VINO
Additional items on sale at the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park on August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
Additional items on sale at the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park on August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
Additional items on sale at the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park on August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
Additional items on sale at the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park on August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
Additional items on sale at the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park on August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
Additional items on sale at the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park on August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
Additional items on sale at the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park on August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
Additional items on sale at the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park on August 4, 2023. Photo: VINO
WICKHAM'S CAY I, Tortola, VI- All roads are leading to the Cultural Food Fair at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park today, Friday, August 4, 2023.

There are some 23 booths, with approximately 10 of them offering cultural foods and drinks.

Among the items on the menu are stewed whelks, conch in butter sauce, fish in mayonnaise sauce, stewed goat meat, stewed lobster, peas soup, boiled fish, dove pork, goat head soup, Johnny cakes, lemonade, passion fruit juice, and tamarind drink.

Our news reporter was on the scene when the booths had just been set up and people had started to stream into the park to get their favourite cultural delicacies.

There are also fruits, ground provisions, sweet treats, craft, and cultural apparel on sale at the venue.

Among those punctual at the park for the Cultural Food Fair being held as part of the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival was Minister for Health and Social Development Hon Vincent O. Wheatley (R9).

8 Responses to “Cultural Food Fair underway @ Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park”

  • Freedom!! (04/08/2023, 14:59) Like (37) Dislike (5) Reply
    Are we really emancipated? No BVI Culture or so called "BVI Love"" I don't know when or where we have lost it all. last evening, I drove pass the Festival Village and I couldn't believe what I saw. I don't know whether it was the Festival Committee or the Government's idea to place that disgusting black tape around the festival village just so absolutely anyone who wanted a glimpse of what's happening would have to come up with forty or more dollars just to hear artist singing a bunch of piss that has absolutely nothing to do the BVI Culture or Freedom. So, whoever or whomever decided to put that disgusting black tape around the festival village fence should have at least some common sense to remove the weed around the fencing. Just sick and tired to these educated fools turning our little Islands into a ghetto society, just to collect a few dollars. It's no wonder they would find drugs and more inside of the village. SAD
    • @Freedom!!! (04/08/2023, 16:54) Like (8) Dislike (1) Reply
      I went to tap like, but this site wouldn't let me correct my error. But I strongly agree with you. They claiming that is what crowd wants. Anyways , you can count the Virgin Islanders on one hand in and around the Multicultural (less VI) Village. Gone are the days when you had decent nightly arrangements of local.VI bands. Both BVI and USVI and an International Night. $40.US for what? Then a drink will be.$10.up and a plate of food $45 up. As for me all them booths needs to be inspected daily/nightly. All that food going to waste. Don't trust none!
  • Freedom. Exactly. (04/08/2023, 15:26) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
    Thats what Freedom looks like..Free to come enjoy and go. The thing was very well supported. People look like they wanted to spend their money to support their culture but they do not want to pay to enter, to pay to buy again..
  • storm (04/08/2023, 15:41) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Now they competing with booth owners
  • Citizen (04/08/2023, 15:56) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    These are the names of food we always want to hear. Goat head soup, NOT Goat water. Way to go
  • Great food (04/08/2023, 16:50) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
    I reached about 1:00 to get my beloved whelks but had to ask at 5 booths to find them. They were already sold out everywhere. Wonderful set up and the teams were dressed so nice and colourful
  • Hotmess (05/08/2023, 00:26) Like (0) Dislike (2) Reply
    This shouldn't be at all. Let food fair be in the village
  • Truth (05/08/2023, 08:19) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    The art of making mauby seems to be dying out and this tradition needs to be kept alive. Please bring back mauby.


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