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Is it time for an ‘Anegada Day’?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The issue of a special day set aside for the recognition of the people of Anegada and Salt Island came to the fore recently as a cultural panel discussed the upcoming celebration of Territory Day.
Several Waste Management initiatives unveiled @ Parade for Planet
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Solid Waste Department of the Virgin Islands received loud rounds of applause at the Parade for the Planet yesterday, June 5, 2013 when it announced a number of initiatives intended to combat issues of waste management throughout the Territory.
UPDATE: Two arrested on Anegada for alleged rape & child porn remanded to prison
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The two men arrested on Anegada and charged for alleged Rape and Child Pornography have been remanded to prison until May 3, 2013.
Last chance to save Anegada beach
KEEL POINT, Anegada, VI – Left unattended for another month or so, the decorated coconut trees lining the beach at Keel Point, Anegada, could all be uprooted and possibly washed out to sea and with a little more time the cottages could also be gone with the wave.
Communication woes crippling tourism at Anegada
SETTING POINT, Anegada, VI – Entrepreneurs, visitors, residents and even tourists at Anegada are calling on the telecommunication sector to urgently boost their services on the island as it was highlighted as one of the major challenges that limit economic and other activities there. The affected spared no bones in highlighting this concern to Director of Tourism, Mrs Sharon-Flax Mars.
I haven't given up hope on my wife- Connie L. Clinton
THE SETTLEMENT, Anegada, VI - "I haven't given up hope on my wife, I am not God, how can I give up on her? Everything we did together, where ever I went my wife went with me, I love my wife, I need closure," Those were the words of Mr Connie Lee Clinton, an elderly Anegada resident whose wife went missing in December of 2012.
‘We are BVIslanders just like everybody else’- Anegada taxi operators
THE SETTLEMENT, Anegada, VI - "It’s this government and the government of the past that guilty of neglecting the people of Anegada. We are a small group over here, yes but we have equal rights just like Tortola, just like Virgin Gorda. We are BVIslanders just like everybody else," said Mr Jerry D. Vanterpool, a resident and businessman at Anegada during a meeting of taxi drivers and officials from the Ministry of Communications and Works in Anegada on Friday February 8, 2013.
Govt pursuing Solar Farm for Anegada
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour, Dr the Hon. Kedrick D. Pickering has disclosed that government is ‘diligently’ pursuing the establishment of alternative energy to aid farmers in the Territory.
UPDATE: RVIPF to expand search on Anegada for missing woman
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) has issued a press release which states that based on further investigations into the disappearance of 77-year-old Anegadian Margarita Faulkner-Clinton, the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force will begin an expanded five-day search on Anegada to begin on Monday, January 14, 2013.
UPDATE: 'Aunt Rita' not found; search ends
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It still remains a mystery what has happened to Anegada resident Mrs Margarita Faulkner-Clinton who went missing from the 15 sq. mile island of Anegada on December 2, 2012.