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DEAN GREENAWAY

November 25, 2020

Three former Beacon sports reporters reflect on their tenure

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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by DEAN GREENAWAY
March 18, 2019

Composting workshops held across Virgin Islands

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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by DEAN GREENAWAY
Compost
March 7, 2019

Voters have high expectations for new government

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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by DEAN GREENAWAY
February 22, 2019

The election campaigns of days gone by

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 …

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by DEAN GREENAWAY
Campaign posters
February 8, 2019

Story of Pereen Georges told at wreath-laying ceremony (VIDEO)

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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by DEAN GREENAWAY
Wreath laying

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