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No Miss BVI Pageant for 2025 Emancipation Festival
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- There will be no Miss BVI 2025 held during the 71st Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival.
Go back to your country if you want to change VG Easter Festival date- Flax-Charles
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI- Mrs Shereen D. Flax-Charles has challenged persons who want to change the dates of the Virgin Gorda Easter Festival to go back to their country of birth.
Gov’t’s legislative agenda for 2025 to be revealed in HoA today
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The legislative agenda for 2025 by the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) government led by Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) will be laid out to the public via the Speech from the Throne today, Tuesday, January 7, 2025.
Hon Hodge-Smith urges more participation in Emancipation Celebrations
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Junior Minister for Culture and Tourism, Hon Luce D. Hodge-Smith (R4) has called on the people of the Virgin Islands (VI), to participate in Emancipation celebrations as a way to keep the true meaning of emancipation alive.
Hon Dawson to give First District Report on Saturday
CAPPOON’S BAY, Tortola, VI – First District Representative Dr the Hon Dr Karl Dawson will make his first Annual District Report on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at 7:00 PM at the Cappoon’s Bay Field on the western end of Tortola.
Has Governor Rankin become the ‘Unwanted Uncle’ @ Thanksgiving Dinner?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Today, Thursday, November 24, 2022, many in the United States of America are celebrating Thanksgiving.
VICA’s ‘Traditional Virgin Islands Christmas’ event a success
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Scores of persons turned out to the Virgin Islands Communal Association’s (VICA) ‘Traditional Virgin Islands Christmas’ event held on the grounds of the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) on Saturday, December 19, 2020.
'Tis the Season!' Lions light up Xmas tree @ Pier Park
WICKHAM'S CAY 1, Tortola, VI- Before an enormous crowd, the Lions Club of Tortola rang in the Christmas season with its annual tree lighting and concert at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park on Wickham's Cay on Sunday, November 29, 2020.
VI author Verna Penn Moll launches revised ‘Funintun’s Christmas’ 2020
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Author and Virgin Islander Mrs Verna Penn Moll, under her Cedar Tree Press publishing house, has launched a 2020 revised edition of her 2015 ‘Funintun’s Christmas’ book ahead of the 2020 holiday season.
On snubbing of Gov swearing in: ‘VI open country, we welcome people’- DG Archer
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Many residents remember the controversy last year when the National Democratic Party (NDP) Government used the Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA), Hon Ingrid A. Moses-Scatliffe, to discontinue with the traditional location for the swearing in of the newly appointed senior civil servant in the United Kingdom Diplomatic Service.

