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Remembrance Day service at Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium today Nov. 11

His Excellency the Governor, Mr. Boyd McCleary, CMG, CVO is pictured here laying a wreath on behalf of the People of the Virgin Islands at the Remembrance Day Service held on Sunday, November 14, 2011 at the Road Town Methodist Church. The Remembrance Day service this year will be held today, November 11, 2012 at the Eileene. L. Parsons Auditorium, HLSCC campus in Paraquita Bay. Photo: Ronnielle Frazer/GIS
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Remembrance Day, which is celebrated annually to focus attention on those service men and women who gave their lives during World War I for freedom and democracy, will be acknowledged in the Virgin Islands with a service this afternoon November 11, 2012 at the Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in Paraquita Bay.

The service is scheduled for 3 P.M. and is expected to be attended by His Excellency the Governor William Boyd McCleary CMG, CVO , Premier Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, and other public officials along with uniformed organisations and ex-servicemen and women.

Members of the public are reminded to wear poppies to the Remembrance Day Service

Poppy and Remembrance Sunday, was started by servicemen and women to make sure later generations never forgot the suffering caused by the 1914-1919 World War. 

The wearing of poppies on Remembrance Day has become more than a tribute to the dead.  It is also a symbol of remembrance, compassion and caring for all victims of war.

The red remembrance poppy also become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem "In Flanders Fields". These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their brilliant red colour an appropriate symbol for the blood spilled in the war.

15 Responses to “Remembrance Day service at Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium today Nov. 11”

  • bay yute (11/11/2012, 10:33) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Yawn.
    • LIAT 521 (11/11/2012, 12:55) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      MY REACTION TOO "BAY YUTE" NO BODY WANTS TO SEE THIS MAN HE HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE LAWS OF THIS PLACE..BAM
    • Kingfish (11/11/2012, 13:23) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      @ bay yute. Sad soooooooooooo sad your comment.
      • insider (11/11/2012, 17:16) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        "Kingfish" What a pity you haven't had an opportunity to experience the hypocrisy of Mr. McClearly
      • Black boy (12/11/2012, 01:56) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        What about the FCO consider sending us a black governor who can understand our culture and history?
        • polly (12/11/2012, 08:42) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
          So because a governor is black they will understand the culture and history of the BVI? Do us BVIslanders actually know our own culture or history?

          We have no place for racism in this society and your comment is eluding to racism.
          • race matters (12/11/2012, 16:25) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
            This idiot called an 'polly' cannot open his yap without bringing racism into the equation.
        • IGNORANCE IS BLISS (12/11/2012, 11:39) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
          What a ridiculous comment. Do you honestly think that a black English Governor is going to know more about this place just because he is black. Your stupidity is profound. Its ignorance like yours that will lead to the destruction of BVI culture.
  • lol (11/11/2012, 17:09) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    bay yute, if are you trying to prove that you're uneducated, you've made your point haha
  • eye doctor (12/11/2012, 16:11) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    It’s CLEAR that the BVI needs constitutional reform to control this governor
  • ABC (12/11/2012, 18:04) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    White or black Governor who cares. What is of concern to me is why the shift from the House of God to an entertainment centre. At a time like this, we need to seek God's presence and Grace to see us through as we reflect on the sacrifice paid by of our loved ones. What better place to do this than in the House of God. Please, let us not depart from our up bringing by maintaining our values.


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