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Residents & visitors ‘ecstatic’ for 2018 Leverick Bay Poker Run
LEVERICK BAY, Virgin Gorda, VI – On Memorial Weekend, May 27, 2018, hundreds of powerboats will take part in the 17th annual Leverick Bay Poker Run which will see more than 250 boats from Puerto Rico, Miami and the [US] Virgin Islands.
Culture & race
Dickson Igwe
Globalisation and the one world order have been supplanted by a resurgent western nationalism. This is a new beast based upon cultural power, not race.
2 employees alleged racism & discrimination @ Oil Nut Bay
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – “I know that nothing will be done about this but we cannot take that just so, we have to continue to sound the word until someone somewhere hears us and steps in to do something about this thing,” those were the words of a Virgin Islander resident of Virgin Gorda.
Are VIslanders placing nationality before race?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With the Virgin Islands’ Emancipation Festival just concluded, a discussion on race and the history of African descendants dominated the Umoja radio forum last evening, August 15, 2013 and it was implied that descendants of Africans may be putting their nationality ahead of their race.
The American demon called race
By Dickson Igwe
This story asserts that race in the USA is a national dilemma. Race defines American culture and society. The Trayvon Martin matter is symptomatic of a malevolence that states that the US has arrived at the place where even the prized jury system cannot be trusted to give a non racial, fair, and unbiased verdict.
Consider a black governor for the VI – Resident
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – One resident has concluded that the position of Governor in the Virgin Islands either has to be seen as having a stigma attached or possessing some element of racism.
’I am not a racist’- Gov. McCleary tells talk show host!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- After months of coming under attack by many civil servants, the legal fraternity, the media and many quiet whisperers in the community, the United Kingdom appointed Governor William B. McCleary has broken his silence.
“I am not white!” says Ag Commissioner of Police
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Acting Commissioner of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) Mr David Morris has sought to dispel claims regarding his ethnicity and remains adamant that he is not white! The question of race or ethnicity he said, was a complicated one for him, but he clearly identified himself as mixed race British or mixed race Welsh, despite claims in the media that may state otherwise.
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