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Last Update:Friday, January 27, 2012. Last Update: 06:58 PM

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Men’s health screening draws hundreds

Sandy Lane plans Sunday concert

Standing Finance Committee debate underway

Dateline: Paradise (Jan. 26, 2012)

Reporter's Notebook (Jan. 26, 2012)

Editorial (Jan. 26, 2012)

McLean, Ziegler win first road race of the season

TSC Corporate Challenge to start triathlon season

Premier, guv face off on the water

Comings and Goings (Jan. 26, 2012)

OPINION & COMMENTARY

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Standing Finance Committee debate underway

By CHRYSTALL KANYUCK

Legislators began Standing Finance Committee deliberations as scheduled Thursday, according to House of Assembly staff.

Sandy Lane plans Sunday concert

By Beacon staff

Virgin Islands performers will take a stand against substance abuse

Men’s health screening draws hundreds

By 3 a.m. on Friday Virgin Islands men had started lining up ...

Job workshop draws dozens

Twenty-four-year-old Jevon Frett once worked as a construction worker ...

Jamaican play staged at HLSCC

All Ms. Angie wanted was for her son to grow up, become a doctor and marry a light-skinned black woman with long hair down her back. ...

Editorial (Jan. 26, 2012)

Unemployment initiative a good idea

The new Youth Unemployment Register could greatly benefit the territory if government and businesses work together to sustain and expand the initiative into a long-term programme.

Reporter's Notebook (Jan. 26, 2012)

Going the distance

A Beaconite covering the Dive BVI 5k running race

Police seize boat, cash

At about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, police apprehended a man shortly after he arrived onboard a vessel at a port not designated for entry in the Frenchmans Cay area, police said.

Surgeons trade ideas at conference

Forty-five plastic surgeons are in the territory this week to mix business and pleasure.

After coming from as far away as Europe and New Zealand, they are attending the BVI Plastic Surgery Workshop Conference at Long Bay Beach Resort.

Cartoons

Dateline: Paradise (Jan. 26, 2012)

By FREEMAN ROGERS

Tweet, Tweet

@FreemanVI Good news, everyone: I’ve decided to learn to twete!

Regional show promotes tourism

By JASON SMITH

The hundreds of visitors at Atlantis resort’s “grand ballroom” on Monday

Bahamas prepares for tourism growth

By JASON SMITH

The Bahamian government is spending hundreds of millions

Comings and Goings (Jan. 26, 2012)

Recognitions

• Tortola’s Sugar Mill Hotel was named the

Business Briefs (Jan. 26, 2012)

USVI

Last week’s closure of the HOVENSA refinery in St. Croix

Photo: NGOVOU GYANG The play Old Time Story was performed three times over the weekend at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College by a theatre group from the University of the Virgin Islands.

All Ms. Angie wanted was for her son to grow up, become a doctor and marry a light-skinned black woman with long hair down her back.

Premier, guv face off on the water

Wind, saltwater and sunshine may be the stuff life on the ocean

Zebalon McLean runs to victory during the first race of the DVI?BVI 5k series Saturday morning on Virgin Gorda. Photo:?TODD?VANSICKLE

Zebalon McLean, the 2011 Male Road Racing Athlete of the Year, picked up where he left off by winning the Dive BVI 5k Series on Virgin Gorda Saturday morning.

TSC Corporate Challenge to start triathlon season

The BVI Triathlon Federation has announced its 2012 calendar.