Tyre trials
A Beaconite recently witnessed the damage that vehicles take on territory roads when a friend’s jeep tyres appeared to unravel. The reporter was not at all confident that the vehicle would make it from town to its Sea Cows Bay home, but even with metal showing and the tyre looking like it had been chewed on by a large animal, the jeep got home with all four tyres still holding air. By the next morning, however, the tyre was quite flat, the vehicle’s owner reported.
Want to be a cadet?
Any Virgin Gorda youngsters between the ages of 11 and 19 interested in joining the Virgin Islands Cadet Corps out there? Here’s what to do: Go to the Virgin Gorda Police Station and pick up an application from acting Inspector George Mason. If that’s too much work, you can also download the application from the VICC’s website, www.vicadets.webstarts.com, or send a request for one to vicadets@gmail.com. The deadline for applications is Monday, October 15, according to a police press release. For further information contact Selwyn Rock, the VICC’s commandant, at 468-9155.
Guest editor
Necker Island owner Sir Richard Branson seems to like a lot of variety in his work. The founder of the Virgin Group, which owns over 200 companies, is involved in businesses that produce music, operate airlines, sell mobile phones and send tourists into space. But earlier this month Sir Richard tried his hand at the newspaper business, serving as guest editor for Metro, a publisher of daily newspapers in large cities across the globe. In the honorary position, Sir Richard gave a speech before several media outlets in which he urged the United States government to change its policy on illegal drugs, advocating for treatment and education rather than law enforcement solutions. According to his blog on Virgin’s website, Sir Richard sat in on the newspaper’s editorial board meeting and discussed subjects ranging from global warming and threats facing sharks to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
VI matchmaking
A newly launched online dating website has a new idea for singles looking for a vacation and some romance: have your first date in the Virgin Islands. The website ParadiseMatch.com plans to offer the “world’s only all-inclusive luxury vacation package that includes the element of matchmaking,” according to the website hotelchatter.com. Paradise Match plans to start bringing its first singles down to villas in the Virgin Islands and the United States Virgin Islands beginning in January. The singles, who will be matched prior to meeting each other through an online screening process, will spend a week at a luxury villa. The villa will host several male and female singles at a time, according to Hotel Chatter, so the newly matched couples won’t necessarily have to share a room. The packages will cost about $9,900 per person, per week, but a Beaconite believes that the company may find commercial success. After all, a week in a luxury villa in the VI seems like a pretty good first date.
A tough crowd
This weekend during the Miss Teen British Virgin Islands Scholarship Pageant held at the Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, a Beaconite was pleased with the performance from the contestants. She was however, far from pleased with some of the people in the audience. For most of the show, a group of teenagers who sat right behind this reporter kept screaming inappropriate and offensive words at some of the contestants and occasionally at the hosts. The teenagers appeared to be college students but the Beaconite hopes their behaviour at the event is not an indication of how they behave in their classes.
Missing a Suzuki key?
A Beaconite who was at Long Bay, Beef Island on Saturday found a key buried in the sand. After a little detective work on the Internet, he believes that the writing on the black plastic key head means it is for a Suzuki. Anyone who lost such a key should stop by the Beacon office in Road Town or call 494-3434.
When works work
A Beaconite who lives in Road Town has been impressed by the ongoing sewerage work there. By carrying it out mostly at night, workers have mostly managed to avoid disrupting traffic during the day. The Beaconite, who knows that the works are urgent and extensive, hopes that they will continue this system, so that no traffic jams result in the capital.
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