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October 28th, 2020
November is Culture & Tourism Month; Food Fair planned

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands’ first-ever Culture and Tourism Month will be observed in November with a food fair which will incorporate a Schools’ Arts Festival.

July 20th, 2020
Former BVITB Director Sharon P. Flax-Brutus lands Director of Operations job on VG

LEVERICK BAY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Former Director of Tourism Mrs Sharon P. Flax-Brutus will be taking her years of tourism and management experience to the Virgin Gorda Villa Rentals and Leverick Bay Resort and Marina.

May 21st, 2020
Fake News! Ex Tourism Director was NOT escorted by Police

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Our news centre, well established for its accuracy, has investigated reports and headlines circulating in social media and some in the local press fraternity that the former Director of the BVI Tourist Board (BVITB), Mrs Sharon P. Flax-Brutus, was escorted out of the Tourist Board Office by Police. That information has been found to be false and misleading.

May 20th, 2020
Sharon P. Flax-Brutus ‘immediately’ out as Tourism Director

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Mrs Sharon P. Flax-Brutus is no longer the Director of Tourism as the Board of Directors of the BVI Tourist Board (BVITB) has made a decision to make her resignation effective immediately.

May 15th, 2020
BVITB Director Sharon P. Flax-Brutus to call it quits in November

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As tourism continues to take a beat down from the global coronavirus pandemic and faces a rocky road ahead, a leaked email has revealed that the Director of the BVI Tourist Board, Mrs Sharon P. Flax-Brutus, Director of Tourism intends to call it quits at the end of the year.

December 2nd, 2019
Big Bamboo aiming to go bigger & better for 2020 Anegada Lobster Festival

LOBLOLLY BAY, Anegada, VI- The dust has barely settled on the two-day Anegada Lobster Festival, and visitors and residents have been placed on notice that they should expect an even more elaborate 2020 edition of the culinary festival at one of the participating establishments, Big Bamboo Restaurant.

November 12th, 2019
‘Being part of BVI Food Fete reps who I am as a BVIslander’ Ariq Flax-Clarke

VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI- Virgin Gorda’s very own Chef Ariq Flax-Clarke said he has been holding his own in the kitchen long before he was a teenager and was happy to stimulate the taste buds of hundreds of guests at the BVI Food Fete event 'Taste of Tortola' at Queen Elizabeth II Park on November 9, 2019.

June 9th, 2019
Akeya Herbert is new Jr Minister of Tourism

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Akeya Herbert is well poised to represent the Virgin Islands at this year’s State of the Tourism Industry Conference in St Lucia after outshining several of her colleagues at the Junior Minister of Tourism Speech Competition at Maria’s By The Sea last evening, June 8, 2019.

May 12th, 2019
BVITB partnering with property owners to reserve rooms for Buju concert

PASEA ESTATE, Tortola, VI- With more than 8000 guests projected to descend on the Virgin Islands for the Long Walk To Freedom Concert featuring Jamaican artiste Buju Banton, born Mark Anthony Myrie, on June 15, 2019 the BVI Tourist Board (BVITB) is seeking to partner with hotels, villas and other businesses offering accommodation, to ensure guests are afforded a place to stay for the concert weekend.

January 6th, 2019
Flax-Brutus heading BVITB for 3 more years

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Directors of the BVI Tourist Board have renewed the contract of its Tourist Board Director, Ms Sharon P. Flax-Brutus.

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