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'We focus on all the wrong things'- Premier Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has chastised Virgin Islanders for focusing on the wrong things during Emancipation Celebrations.
Don't 'get lost in the dance & reggae & soca & parades’- Bishop Shawn D. Bartley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Guest Speaker at the 2024 Emancipation Service, Bishop Shawn D. Bartley called on [British] Virgin Islanders to speak up and out looking towards their past to have a great future, while expounding on the theme ‘Stronger Together’.
Emancipation today is about protecting our rights as a people: A BVI perspective
E. Benito Wheatley
Every year the British Virgin Islands as a post-slavery society commemorates Emancipation in celebration of our freedom as a people. This year marks 190 years.
Slave trade throughout British Empire was ‘horrific’- Gov Daniel Pruce
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Choosing to be absent from the territory for the 70th year of the [British] Virgin Islands' Emancipation Festival, as well as what would have been his first emancipation celebrations as governor, Mr Daniel Pruce, nevertheless, extended “best wishes” to the people of the Virgin Islands (VI) ahead of Emancipation Day.
Are you ready to go back to Africa?
ALRED C. FRETT
Facing the Reality of Racism:
If Life is good but Racism is bad, then living in denial will not alter a grain of sand or blade of grass... Racism is real and must be exposed in order to be defeated… Those Persons who claim that speaking about it, makes it worse, are wrong, because all our present progress, has resulted from public Debate, and the Caribs, Arawaks, and American Indians, who were silent on their Displacement, suffered badly.
What happens when governments rob their people?
Alred C. Frett
Controlling your Mind or Paying for the Consequences:
Please read the full Message for every day we learn new things, and still there is much more that we will never know... We were born helpless, and it takes us far longer than most animals to achieve our bio-environmental independence, yet we have the audacity to claim to be made in the image of a Super God... Facts suggest that we created God, but it is convenient for our importance to claim he made us.
UK church group issues apology for slavery
ST ANDREW, Jamaica- The United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom on Sunday, April 14, 2024, issued a solemn apology to Jamaica, the Caribbean, and Africa for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, regarded by many as the greatest crime against humanity.
Plight & sacrifices of African ancestors remembered in special ceremony
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – As part of February’s Black History Month activities, the scarifies, plight and struggles of the African ancestors were yesterday, February 4, 2024, remembered as part of the African Remembrance Wreath Laying Ceremony now in its 16th Annual edition as an initiative of the African Studies 'Klub'.
2024: A new year for tackling the same old problems
Alred C. Frett
Needing to Look Backward so We can Move Forward:
Welcome to 2024... This is a leap year which means that with the expansion to 29 days in February, we will have the longest Black History Month within a seven year span... That is good, but even as we leave 2023, the after-effects still linger on... With all our Commentaries and New Year Resolutions, we should reflect and acknowledge whether or not things are getting better or worse, before our Memories fade.
We have to ‘be very mindful we are not in a new kind of slavery’- Dr Allison C. Flax-Archer
CAPPOON’S BAY, Tortola, VI- Reminding that slavery was abolished “not so long ago”, Dr Allison C. Flax-Archer has urged Virgin Islanders to take on a certain consciousness and be mindful they are not caught up in a new kind of slavery.
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