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Festival vendors were difficult to deal with- Private security firm
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Head of Top Priority Security Services, Mr Lesmore Smith said vendors were the hardest to deal with during this year’s Emancipation Festival activities.
Walwyn repeats call for 'freedom' of expat-born VIslanders
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Education and Culture Minister Hon. Myron V. Walwyn has stuck by his guns in pushing for a change in the laws governing the rights of children born in the Virgin Islands (VI) to expatriate parents.
VI urged to wake up & face issues of 'colonial status'
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI -While the importance of the issues being addressed at the level of the House of Assembly, the issues surrounding the recent leaks within the financial services sector and the new face it has put on the Virgin Islands, the state of health care services and the others in the bundle, it is also the expressed opinion that time should be exhorted in addressing other issues including that of the country’s status as a UK Overseas Territory.
Caller: Independence makes no sense
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – One caller to the Speak Out BVI radio show, felt that discussions of Independence were premature at the moment, especially if the Virgin Islands did not have a means of creating money for itself.
The lies of seeking traces of truth
By Alred Frett
This is the final week in the Freedom Month of August and my intent was to address the West Indies Emancipation Proclamation in as far as it relates to our present circumstances & systems.
Non-national flags raise concerns at VI Festival celebrations!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – When concerns were raised with booth and bar owners operating at the festival village in Road Town who are not nationals of the Virgin Islands (VI) about their bars only representing their homeland and not the VI, they replied that their intentions were not to hurt the feelings of others or bring shame to the VI Culture.
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