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I first learned of The BVI Beacon during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Chef de Mission Mark Vanterpool had brought copies of an eight-page edition to the games, and …
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For the last 34 years — 11 of which I was The BVI Beacon’s sportswriter — I told everyone that I was the second Beacon sportswriter behind Karl Dawson since …
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When Jean Bonhotal and Mary Schwarz of the Cornell University Waste Management Institute began lecturing about compost on a recent Monday morning at Francis Lettsome Primary School in East End, …
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The feverish campaigns of recent weeks included promises that ranged from practical to outlandish. And now voters have high expectations for the newly elected Virgin Islands Party government. “We need …
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In the weeks leading up to a general election in the modern Virgin Islands, campaign billboards line the roads, smaller signs dot telephone poles, and the airwaves are cluttered with …
Dressed in white attire on a bright Sunday afternoon behind the Crafts Alive Village in Road Town, members of the Afrikan Studies Klub and supporters gathered for the 11th annual …
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