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VI, a constantly changing society - Premier Smith
Paraquita Bay, Tortola, VI - With the present so different from the past in terms of how people of a community relate to others and traditional group and community outings being extinct, Premier of the Virgin Islands (VI) Hon. Dr. D. Orlando Smith said the customs of the VI are frequently changing, and what is done today will affect the country tomorrow.
Caribbean teaching “digital children” in analog classrooms!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – In the Caribbean, some 30 percent of students who move through the secondary education system do not have basic cognitive skills they are expected to benefit from secondary education and the reason for that may lie in the teaching method that is applied – teaching digitally inclined children in an analog classroom.
Criminalizing homosexuality has not resulted in less of it – Fitzwilliam
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Several of the so-called taboo topics associated with sex and HIV/AIDS least discussed in public forums were brought to the forefront in the Virgin Islands with former Miss Universe Wendy Fitzwilliam taking a strong stance for the Caribbean to change its views on homosexuality and leaders to take stronger positions to make changes that are necessary to see actual reductions in HIV rates, with one option being to have condoms available in the prison system.
First Tropical Storm formed in the Atlantic
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- TS Alberto is located about 120 miles Southeast of South Carolina. Alberto has begun to acquire more tropical characteristics as showers and thunderstorms have increased near the circulation center and will continue to move slowly Southward or Westward over the next day or so. This system has a 50 percent of becoming a hurricane during the next 48 hours.
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