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Verna Penn Moll

February 13, 2025

COMMENTARY — Methodists, Green VI praised for eco projects

I am very pleased that the Methodist Church BVI Circuit is taking its responsibility for stewardship of the environment seriously and has launched its Environmental Stewardship Programme for February 2025. …

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by Verna Penn Moll
January 30, 2025

LETTER — A ‘dream’ of a national library

I had a dream: that one day, the youth and the entire citizenry of this land will have the opportunity to enter the doors of their national public library and …

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by Verna Penn Moll
November 14, 2024

LETTER — The Cedar Tree Press Christmas Quiz

Cedar Tree Press is hosting a Christmas quiz to celebrate traditional Virgin Islands Christmas customs of former years. The exercise will help to remind, cement and pass on knowledge of …

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by Verna Penn Moll
October 17, 2024

POEM — The Leaven Rises

  A tribute to Dame Janice Mesadis Pereira   The leaven rises, breaking currency. The facture scatters, raising new dough.   Like the wind, effects are seen if not the …

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by Verna Penn Moll
October 10, 2024

LETTER — ‘Gratitude where gratitude is due’

I totally agree with Michael Riegels’ commentary in last week’s Beacon. He suggests that although the Sir Rupert Briercliffe Hall has been torn down, “some suitable recognition be given to …

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by Verna Penn Moll
May 30, 2024

COMMENTARY — Call made to improve Road Town

We seem to be very adept at asking for plans and creating plans, but once the plans are in our hands, we often fail to execute them. The host of …

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by Verna Penn Moll
May 31, 2023

POEM — Whitsuntide Prayer

Break through! Break through Break through the walls Of my upper room, Lord I want to see you Break through! I want to see you.   Break through! Break through …

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by Verna Penn Moll
May 10, 2023

POEM: This Much I Know

I do not know what prompt Urged the action: Intentional intent, Selfish ambition, Or innocent enthusiasm? I do not know.   Was overstep Of rules and allegiance Ignorance? Or over-confidence? …

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by Verna Penn Moll
May 3, 2023

POEM — She Did Not Know

In her poverty she was rich but did not know. She did not know that in embrace of that ghut was place and grace.   She did not know that …

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by Verna Penn Moll
March 22, 2023

COMMENTARY — Writer hopes for a ‘Virgin Spring’

The book of Isaiah 40:3-5 proclaims, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. …

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by Verna Penn Moll
September 14, 2022

COMMENTARY — Call made for national library, again

It was such a joy to be in a library other than my own a few days ago! I needed to do some research on a particular topic that my …

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by Verna Penn Moll
September 7, 2022

COMMENTARY — Two education stalwarts remembered

Florence Wilhelmina Thomas (1901-1996) of East End was the first native Virgin Islands qualified teacher, and legislator Howard R. Penn (1903-1994), of East End and Road Town, did much to …

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by Verna Penn Moll
August 10, 2022

COMMENTARY — Call made for ‘shift’ in national life

On Emancipation Sunday, the Abolition Act 1833 was read from a reprint published by the Virgin Islands Public Library in 1984. The following year, the library also published a reprint …

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by Verna Penn Moll
June 29, 2022

COMMENTARY — D-8 road seen as potential disaster

I am taking this matter to the media since I’ve had no meaningful response from the authorities whom I thought were responsible. Which ministry, department or agency is responsible for …

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by Verna Penn Moll
November 17, 2021

COMMENTARY — Call made for public library

I was very pleased to see that the editor of The BVI Beacon still thinks that a public library is of significant value to the community: so much so that …

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by Verna Penn Moll
May 12, 2021

COMMENTARY — EE library plans applauded

I was pleased to read in a recent issue of The BVI Beacon that Cabinet has approved a new location at Major Bay for the East End/Long Look Community Library. …

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by Verna Penn Moll
February 24, 2021

COMMENTARY — Call made to honour VI heroes

I applaud the theme of the BVI National Commission for UNESCO World Poetry Competition 2021: “Perspectives of Our Past: Unsung Heroes.” So often our lips declare that “we stand on …

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by Verna Penn Moll
August 26, 2020

Commentary — Call made for new library, archives

I was pleased with the cultural emphasis during the August Emancipation Festival events this year. It is getting closer to what I have been advocating for many years: prayerful thanksgiving, …

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by Verna Penn Moll
April 8, 2020

POEM — The Treasury of Heaven

There’s a strangeness in the air. Crisis, crisis! But not fear. Knock! Knock! Who is there?   I’m a shaking, shaking, shaking up the heaven and the earth: There’s a …

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by Verna Penn Moll
February 26, 2020

COMMENTARY — Call made to keep sports records

I look forward to listening to the ZBVI Sports Show on Saturday afternoons around 6 p.m. It is informative and usually very humorous. Sometimes it’s so funny that they crack …

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by Verna Penn Moll
January 22, 2020

COMMENTARY — Ideas offered to fix ‘deplorable’ roads

I like to engage anyone who will listen in conversation on current topical issues and matters affecting the well-being of the territory. One such current issue is the deplorable condition …

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by Verna Penn Moll
December 11, 2019

COMMENTARY – VI Christmas tree explained

A talk-show host on Saturday night posed a seasonal question the radio audience: “What is the name of the tree we traditionally used in the Virgin Islands as the Christmas …

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by Verna Penn Moll
December 4, 2019

COMMENTARY — Previous arts festivals recalled

In his recent Budget Address, Premier Andrew Fahie promised to build on the arts festival previously organised by late District Five Representative Delores Christopher. Yes, indeed, we are forever grateful …

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by Verna Penn Moll
May 7, 2019

COMMENTARY — Call made for national library to house salvaged books

I am still rescuing books after Hurricane Irma. Incredible! At last I’m getting around to my store of books at the Old Family House, which had been unoccupied for more …

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by Verna Penn Moll
November 27, 2018

Commentary — Records called key to recovery

I agree with the topic and theme of your editorial of Nov. 15 titled “Culture is key in recovery.” To that I might add that records, written and oral, are …

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by Verna Penn Moll

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