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Speak2Someone online counselling service launches Mar. 10
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Young people in the Virgin Islands will soon have an online space where they can connect with professional counsellors as ‘Speak2Someone’, an online counselling chat service, will be launched on Monday, March 10, 2025, by the BVI’s Youth U-Turn Project (the NPO).
Drakes Traders donates $5K to FSN for counselling
FISH BAY, Tortola, VI – The Family Support Network (FSN) has received its annual seasonal donation from Drakes Traders Ltd, which it typically puts towards an outreach activity that is most in need of funds.
Williams displayed high level of depression prior to death- HMP source
BALSAM GHUT, Tortola, VI – Information from our sources in the Her Majesty’s Prison at Balsam Ghut is that Treh Williams was displaying a high level of depression hours before he was found hanging in his cell.
‘More men are coming to FSN for help’ - Dr Sylvia M. Simmonds
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Despite financial challenges, Director of Family Support Network (FSN) Dr Sylvia M. Simmonds believes that the work of the entity must continue especially when it comes to keeping families together as she stressed that healthy families mean healthy societies.
This Week We Feature Young Professional Shaunice A. Leonard
By Nikolai J. Earle
Meet the 25 year old Shaunice A. Leonard, a trained and well qualified clinical psychologist who is dedicated to the counseling field and who hopes to make a difference in the lives of young people.
Phone fight lands man in court
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A couple received some timely counselling from Magistrate Dr Velon L. John on March 14, 2014 when the man, St Elmore Garraway, was placed before the court after being charged with assaulting his girlfriend.
Long Trench man charged for allegedly beating wife
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Shane Winter, 41, was charged with assaulting his wife at their Long Trench home when he appeared before the Magistrate’s Court today, October 4, 2013.

