Hundreds of residents marched down Main Street on Sunday afternoon, following in the footsteps of some 1,500 protestors who took the same route 75 years earlier to demand greater political …
November 28, 2024
November 30, 2023
Great March of 1949 remembered
Three wreaths of remembrance floated in the water behind the Crafts Alive Village in Road Town on Monday night as three paper lanterns were lit and released one by one …
November 24, 2023
New national heroes depicted at show
While Via Donovan opened jars of paint in front of two large canvases upstage, lengths of silk were lowered between the stage curtains. A dancer dressed in red then hoisted …
December 6, 2022
Great March holiday passes very quietly
Though last year’s commemoration of the 1949 march that led to the restoration of the Virgin Islands Legislative Council inspired a spirited re-enactment, the second celebration of the 1949 Great …
December 5, 2022
EDITORIAL: Oops, government did it again
In October, we expressed our chagrin after the government allowed Heroes and Foreparents Day to pass without an official in-person celebration. Last week, government did it again. On Nov. 28, …
November 25, 2021
1949 march brought to life
Partway through an evening of storytelling, poetry and music on Nov. 21, event organisers called everyone’s attention to the clock at 5:30, the exact moment when about 1,500 people arrived …
