Trashy bathrooms A Beaconite was appalled by the recent state of the bathrooms in the Queen Elizabeth II Park. They were littered with plastic bags, food containers, beer bottles and …
October 13, 2021
October 13, 2021
COMMENTARY — USVI’s 20-year plan seen as example to follow
There has been a “talk shop” over the last 20 years about where we want to see our territory in the future. Two decades later, we are still talking. I …
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October 13, 2021
CLASSIFIEDS (October 14, 2021)
For rent Nice pleasant, spacious unfurnished two (2) bedrooms apartment located at Nottingham Estate with fantastic view of the area. Contact Mr. Rhymer at 499-8424 for more details. One (1) …
October 6, 2021
CLASSIFIEDS (October 7, 2021)
For rent Nice pleasant, spacious unfurnished two (2) bedrooms apartment located at Nottingham Estate with fantastic view of the area. Contact Mr. Rhymer at 499-8424 for more details. Short /Long …
September 29, 2021
September 22, 2021
COMMENTARY — ‘The big fish, small fish problem’
Some years ago, then-Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur told me that unless regional leaders could agree on how to achieve economic parity between Caricom’s member states, a viable Caribbean Single …
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September 8, 2021
LETTER — COI seen to shake up VI politics
This is the most unpredictable time in Virgin Islands politics in living memory. Anyone claiming to know the political and constitutional outcomes for the VI from the very public Commission …
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August 11, 2021
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK (August 12, 2021)
Celebrate good times The Virgin Islands has had no shortage of things to celebrate the past few weeks: all three Olympians in the 2020 Tokyo games performed incredibly, setting national …
August 11, 2021
Notices (August 12, 2021)
Smash Hit Games Inc. (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) BC No. 1851537 NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to section 204(1)(b) of the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 that the company is in …
July 14, 2021
COMMENTARY — VI gentrification, part two
This commentary, continued from last week’s edition, is the second of a two-part series. The debate on the equity and inequity of gentrification is heated and controversial. The following …
July 7, 2021
COMMENTARY — VI ‘gentrification,’ part one
Land is a scarce non-renewable resource and a tangible asset in the Virgin Islands. But at the current rate of sale, in a few short generations most Virgin Islanders will …
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July 7, 2021
COMMENTARY — VI seen to have a ‘stark choice’
The Virgin Islands has arrived at a proverbial crossroad in the Covid-19 pandemic. The territory will have to decide on two choices in the midst of a Commission of Inquiry …
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July 7, 2021
Notices (July 8, 2021)
Notice of Appointment of a Liquidator under Section 204 of the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004. WHITE ANGEL LIMITED (In Voluntary Liquidation) Company No. 476592 NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to …
June 30, 2021
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK (July 1, 2021)
Acting on acts A Beaconite was glad to see this week that more than a dozen laws received assent from Governor John Rankin. As legislators noted during last Thursday’s sitting, …
June 30, 2021
COMMENTARY — The VI, after the inquiry
After hurricanes Irma and Maria, the talk was all about what the Virgin Islands would look like as it recovered. Today, it appears the territory has learned very little from …
June 23, 2021
CLASSIFIEDS (June 24, 2021)
For rent Unfurnished two bedrooms, one bathroom apartments with nice view located at Nottingham Estate. Contact Mr. Rhymer 443-9938 or 545-6623 One bedroom semi or non semi furnished apartment for …
June 16, 2021
COMMENTARY — Call made for referendum on political status by 2030
The below is adapted from the speech Mr. Wheatley delivered on June 6 during the Frederick Pickering Memorial Lecture Series at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College. Let me …
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June 16, 2021
COMMENTARY — Cops criticised for armed arrest over money owed to the court
Twice on Tortola, my vehicle and I have been stopped by armed human beings with guns drawn. The first time I was with my 20-year-old child. It was over a …
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June 10, 2021
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK (June 10, 2021)
Happy birthday, Beacon The BVI Beacon turned 37 on Monday. The newspaper’s first issue — a 12-page black-and-white edition — was published on June 7, 1984 after being composed on …
June 9, 2021
COMMENTARY — Likely inflation causes concern
The challenge with inflation is that it increases the cost of living. When uncontrolled, inflation can be very damaging. And if economics is primarily about human behaviour, then uncontrolled inflation …
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June 9, 2021
Notices (June 10, 2021)
RAINDROPS OVERSEAS INC. (In Voluntary Liquidation) Company No. 1517022 NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to Section 203, subsection 3 of the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 that the Company is …
June 2, 2021
COMMENTARY — ‘Is the beach enough?’
Sometime in the next 12 months, when the pandemic is fully brought under control in North America and Europe, visitors will return to the Caribbean in significant numbers. Once that …
June 2, 2021
COMMENTARY — Call made for greater social equality
Social democracy means a bottom-up economy, with public spending directed at alleviating the burdens of the poor; public policy that drives greater social equality; and public investment in infrastructure that …
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June 2, 2021
Notices (June 3, 2021)
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004 ALBATROS FINANCE CORP. (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the British Virgin Islands Business Companies Act, 2004: a) ALBATROS FINANCE …
May 26, 2021
COMMENTARY — ‘Random act of art’ in UK had VI link
I am writing to the Virgin Islands community from a small village in Cornwall in the United Kingdom about a figure we share in common: the late Reverend Ralph Perry-Gore, …
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