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
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 …
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 …
January 18, 2021
EDITORIAL: Public holiday reforms a cause for celebration
Kudos to the government for finally reforming the territory’s public holidays to better accord with the Virgin Islands’ own history and culture. The changes unveiled last month are comprehensive and …
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