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Public encouraged to join march for democracy today
CANE GARDEN BAY, Tortola, VI- A week of protest action against Governor Daniel Pruce’s decision to remove Ms Jacqueline E. Vanterpool as Acting Commissioner of Police (CoP) ends later today, Friday, November 14, 2025, with a march.
'If you not ready for the battlefield, then keep your mouth shut'- Claude O. Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Social commentator and clergyman Claude O. Skelton-Cline has urged Virgin Islanders to come out in large numbers to support the upcoming march on Friday, November 14, 2025.
Week of protest action to culminate with a march to Governor's Office on Friday
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– The protest action against the controversial decision to revert Acting Commissioner of Police Jacqueline E. Vanterpool to her previous position as Deputy Commissioner of Police and bring in a man with a checkered past to temporarily head the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) will continue throughout the week.
Bishop Cline calls for 'more courage' as march against crime gets low turnout
ROAD TOWN, Tortola VI – With just about five persons showing up for a march against crime, poor policing, and security in the Virgin Islands on February 14, 2024, community advocate Bishop John I. Cline has called for more courageous persons to show up to events and have their voices heard.
Murderers ‘literally’ walking around in VI communities– Premier Wheatley
EAST END, Tortola, VI – Residents of the Virgin Islands (VI), particularly those in the East End Community, on Sunday, August 20, 2023, came together for a march to end violence in the VI. It was dubbed ‘Stop the Violence March'.
Scanty support for 'Cindy' in protest march to HoA
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Sworn critic of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) government, Rosemary Cindy Rosan-Jones led a handful of persons in a protest march today, November 22, 2021, the first 1949 Great Match and Restoration Day holiday in the Virgin Islands.
Dr Drexel M. Glasgow recalls being racially profiled, roughed up by white police in US
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- When the world witnessed the daring murder of African-American man, George P. Floyd Jr, who was killed when a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on this neck for over 8 minutes, several Virgin Islands residents began to publicly share their own experiences of being racially profiled, harassed and even assaulted by white police officers in the USA and the United Kingdom (UK) in particular.
Another African-American man shot to death by police in Atlanta
ATLANTA, Georgia, USA- Even as protests continue in the United States of America (USA) and in other parts of the world following the killing of George P. Floyd Jr, an African-American man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, an African-American man was fatally shot by a white police officer in Atlanta, Georgia, late Friday, June 12, 2020.
March against racial injustice being planned for VI
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As demonstrations against racial injustice spread across the globe following the death of African American George P. Floyd Jr after a white police officer in Minneapolis, USA, knelt on his neck for over 8 minutes on May 25, 2020, a group of young persons in the Virgin Islands has decided to organise a march to allow persons in the Territory to support the movement.
Another march planned on domestic issues; set for June 8, 2018
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Coming days after political candidate, businessman and former Permanent Secretary Julian Willock called publicly for another march to address domestic issues, a small group headed by social activist Floyd Burnett aka ‘Heritage’ has organised a march.
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