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Larina Loretta Jacobs-Lamothe has operated a booth at the August Emancipation Festival nearly every year for more than four decades. Asked this year about her favourite memory from that time, …
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The Virgin Islands went big this year for the 69th August Emancipation Festival, bringing both international headliners and VI artists to the Irene Penn-O’Neal Festival Village almost every night since …
The big stage in East End had its heyday during past August Emancipation Festival seasons, but organisers are moving away from hosting major acts there. Instead, they put more focus …
Throughout the challenges of planning the Carrot Bay Cultural Fiesta during the pandemic, the event remained relatively well supported. This year, it expanded into a three-day bash featuring a variety …
Within the first two lines of the territorial song — “out of the huts of history’s pain, our ancestors bled and died” — lie a commemoration, one that was celebrated …
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