I recently took a morning walk through Road Town. A former resident of the capital for almost 30 years, one of my favourite and most frequented areas is the …
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I recently took a morning walk through Road Town. A former resident of the capital for almost 30 years, one of my favourite and most frequented areas is the …
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Commentator Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway recently made an important point about August Emancipation Festival. “We celebrate a festival, not a carnival; & rise ’n shine, not j’ouvert,” he posted on …
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One of my most memorable calypso moments happened not in a calypso tent or in the Festival Village; not in the cultural centre or in the courtyard at Prospect Reef …
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Following my recent post on the Facebook forum Real BVI Community Board questioning the omission of a calypso show or competition from the August Emancipation Festival line-up this year, I …
When public libraries are being shut down, when cultural research centres and museums go up in flames, when national archives are ignored or relegated to musty vaults, when successive governments …
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Feb. 4 is the birthday of Hope Reynolds Stevens (1905-1982), a Tortola-born pioneer in Caribbean, American, Pan-African, and international politics, law, social justice, and business. Mr. Stevens, Esq., was born …