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Return VIF&FC 'to being a free-standing committee'- Eileene L. Parsons OBE
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Cultural icon Eileene L. Parsons, OBE has made it clear she does not support the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee (VIF&FC) being under the BVI Tourist Board (BVITB) or any statutory body.
Carnel D. Clyne resigns as VIF&FC Chairman
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Moments ago it was announced, at the 9th Sitting of the 2nd Session of the 4th House of Assembly (HoA), that Chairman of the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee (VIF&FC), Mr Carnel D. Clyne has resigned.
VIP inherits $300K festival debt from NDP
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Ahead of the 2019 Emancipation Festival, residents are being told that the 65th anniversary festivities will now be scaled down significantly due to financial constraints.
'Gadiethz' says he is owed for 2-years by VI Festival & Fairs Committee
EAST END, Tortola, VI – The Virgin Islands (VI) Festival and Fairs Committee continues to be accused of failing to honour its debts, the latest allegations being levelled by frustrated Promoter, Paul A. Peart aka 'Gadiethz', who says he is owed now for almost two years.
No Miss BVI this year! Even Festival going backwards!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Word reaching our news desk is that there will not be a 2018 Miss BVI Pageant.
2018 VI Emancipation Festival to be 'scaled down'
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Despite the hurricanes of September 2017 that destroyed the territory and the fact that the National Democratic Party (NDP) Government is broke, Honourable Myron V. Walwyn (AL), Minister for Education and Culture, is going ahead with the Emancipation Festival for 2018, however, he stated there will be a “scale down” of activities.
‘Letty’ Hodge out as Parade Marshal
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – After initially accepting the role of Parade Marshal for the August Monday Parade, Violet ‘Letty’ Delville-Hodge has since opted out.
VIF&FC Chairperson laments lack of funding for festival
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Saying that the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee (VIF&FC) has good plans for Emancipation Festival, Chairperson Kishma A. Baronville says the Committee can only act on those plans as funding is made available.
‘We are having a festival this year!’- Kishma A.Baronville
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- “There has been this concept that the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee has not been working and that we weren’t going to pull off a festival which is a fallacy in itself so we just want to say that we are having a festival this year and it is a grand festival.”
Non-payment to local artistes for Festival ‘disrespectful’- resident
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- “When is the Festival Committee going to pay people?” This question has surfaced again. This time it was on the Speak Your Mind show with host Richard Courtney de Castro on JTV Live on Saturday October 31, 2015.
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