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Briana Blyden wins VI's 70th Emancipation Festival 2024 slogan contest
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - 20-year-old Briana Blyden who is currently in College in Miami has won the competition for the slogan of the Virgin Islands' 70th Emancipation Festival 2024.
Khalid Lewis wins 2024 Agriculture & Fisheries Exhibition & Market Day Slogan competition
PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI- The winning slogan for the 2024 Agriculture and Fisheries Exhibition and Market Day Slogan competition is ‘Sow the Seeds of Sustainability: Youth Fueling Food Security’.
2023 Festival Village to be named in honour of Irene F. Penn-O’Neal
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands Festival & Fairs Committee (VIF&FC), has announced that the 2023 Festival Village will be named in honour of former legislator and former Miss BVI, Mrs Irene F. Penn-O’Neal.
VI Emancipation Festival slated for July 24-August 5, 2022
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Plans are underway to host the 2022 Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival from July 24 to August 5, under the slogan ‘Celebrate Freedom for Me and You, BVI Festival 2022’.
Signage controversy: Has the ASPS Principal been sanctioned?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Unconfirmed reports reaching Virgin Islands News Online is that the Principal of the Althea Scatliffe Primary School, Marieta Flax- Headley, has allegedly been sanctioned for criticizing the decision by Education Minister Myron Walwyn to have a slogan removed from the school’s building.
Minister’s directive for slogan removal insulting- Principal
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Principal of the Althea Scatliffe Primary School Marieta Flax- Headley has labelled the decision by the Ministry of Education to have a slogan on the school building removed as- insulting.
Romana Peters wins Sandy Lane Centre’s slogan competition
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - “Don’t give up, don’t give in. With hope substance abuse cannot win,” submitted by Romana Peters is the Sandy Lane Centre slogan for the upcoming Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Awareness month to be observed in January 2012.