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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.
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.
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.
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.
UPDATE: Alleged school bully charged by police
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) announced today, March 31, 2023, that a 16-year-old female has been charged with Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm, in relation to an assault on another minor in the vicinity of the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex on March 29, 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.
Francis Lettsome Primary School wins S.T.E.A.Mazing race 2023
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Teachers of the Francis Lettsome Primary School have won the S.T.E.A.Mazing Race as part of Virgin Islands (VI) Education Week 2023 which runs from March 13 to 19, 2023, with a week of educational activities with a focus on Science, Technology, Education, Arts, and Mathematics (S.T.E.A.M).
Students exposed to workings of BVIPA @ annual ESHS Career Expo 2023
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Human Resources Department of the British Virgin Islands Ports Authority Participated in the Annual Career Expo of the Elmore Stoutt High School on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, at the Multipurpose Sports Complex on Tortola.
'Self-hatred' thwarting meaningful integration of VI history into schools– Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI– Talk show host Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline has criticised the local education system for what he said is an inability to meaningfully integrate Virgin Islands' black history into the local educational curriculum.
Gov’t wants education to add focus on VI History, Civic & Financial Literacy
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Governor John J. Rankin, CMG says as the Government seeks to re-imagine education, during this Fifth Session of the House of Assembly (HoA), adjustments will be made to the Education Amendment Act (2014) and its Regulations completed to ensure that teaching and learning align with the needs of students in the 21st century.
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