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November 1, 2022

EDITORIAL: Cross-agency strategy needed for sargassum

We are impressed by the innovative plan to use drones to track the increasing amount of sargassum washing up on the territory’s shores. However, the growing problem also needs a …

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by BVI Beacon
October 21, 2022

Community plans for Long Bay’s future

Long Bay Beach on Beef Island serves a different purpose to every visitor. Some enjoy exercising, cooking out, snorkelling among the corals, swimming, participating in water sports, visiting as tourists, …

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by Dana Kampa
October 4, 2022

Volunteers clean up 8,828 feet of coastline

Volunteers across the territory joined in a belated observance of International Coastal Cleanup Day last weekend, clearing piles of waste from shorelines at Salt Island; Spring Bay on Virgin Gorda; …

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by Dana Kampa
August 29, 2022

EDITORIAL: Gov’t right to apologise and re-form climate board

It’s about time. More than three years ago, then-Premier Andrew Fahie’s newly elected government unlawfully disbanded the Climate Change Trust Fund Board, stalling years of hard work and showing a …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
August 18, 2022

Ghost busters: Discarded tackle cleaned up

A boat full of volunteers recently travelled from Tortola to the south side of Cooper Island, where they combed the sargassum-covered rocky shore for waste that had washed up on …

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by Dana Kampa
April 19, 2022

EDITORIAL: Beach plans are a welcome step

Kudos to the government for finally starting work on a series of management plans for the territory’s beaches. These long-needed strategies can’t come soon enough. The importance of the Virgin …

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by BVI Beacon
February 9, 2022

EDITORIAL: The Virgin Islands must save the mangroves

The importance of mangroves and other wetlands has been well known for more than half a century. The delicate ecosystems offer habitat for birds and marine life; they naturally prevent …

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by BVI Beacon
January 28, 2022

Mangrove destruction leaves VI ever more vulnerable to climate change

When Donald De Castro was a boy in the 1940s, mangroves lined the shore and cays in front of his family’s small waterfront home in Road Town. “We used to …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
Sea Cows Bay drone
January 19, 2022

EDITORIAL: Please read, comment on draft national plan

For too long, the Virgin Islands has suffered from a failure to plan for the long term. The result can be seen in shoddy infrastructure, ill-conceived public projects, struggling schools, …

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by BVI Beacon
December 1, 2021

Self-determination discussed at UK meetings

Fresh off their diplomatic travels to Europe last month, government leaders explained their progress on planning for the future of environmental management, national security, marijuana legalisation, and greater self-determination. During …

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by Dana Kampa
November 25, 2021

Climate a focus as JMC wound down

At the conclusion of the Joint Ministerial Council meeting in London last week, Prince William made an appearance as world leaders turned their attention to how climate change is impacting …

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by Dana Kampa
November 19, 2021

UK-VI relations raised in London

At the first in-person Joint Ministerial Council meeting since 2019, Premier Andrew Fahie is in discussions with United Kingdom leaders this week about sustainable development, Covid-19, UK relations, economic resilience, …

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by Dana Kampa
October 18, 2021

EDITORIAL: Where’s Anegada’s solar grid?

At a time when much of the world is steadily switching to alternative energy, the Virgin Islands is falling further and further behind as it continues to generate nearly all …

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by BVI Beacon
September 29, 2021

One weekend, 400-plus pounds of litter

With one 10-person team working along the road near the ocean and another working the hillside, volunteers set to work clearing all the litter in sight on Sept. 18 in …

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by Dana Kampa
September 14, 2021

EDITORIAL: Premier dropped the ball on climate change fund

As we’ve said before, the current government’s 2019 decision to revoke all six appointed members of the Climate Change Trust Fund board was a huge mistake. The failure to replace …

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by BVI Beacon
May 14, 2021

EDITORIAL: The waste strategy is great, but it must be followed

The territory’s outdated waste disposal system is nothing short of a national crisis, and it is endangering residents’ health and degrading the environment. We are therefore glad that the government …

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by BVI Beacon
May 27, 2020

EDITORIAL: New coral disease is a crisis for long-suffering VI reefs

As the territory responds to a human pandemic on land, another catastrophe is brewing underwater. The highly infectious stony coral tissue loss disease, which has been spreading south from Florida …

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by BVI Beacon
stony coral tissue loss disease
December 3, 2019

EDITORIAL: ‘Blue economy’ has promise in the Virgin Islands

Kudos to the government for working with the United Nations Development Programme to explore the possibilities offered by the so-called “blue economy.” At a time when financial services and tourism …

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by BVI Beacon
July 30, 2019

COMMENTARY — Need seen to move ‘beyond carbon’

Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, has asserted that the dominant economic model of the latter 20th Century — supply side free market economics — is obsolete in today’s …

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by Dickson Igwe
July 23, 2019

LETTER — Gov’t criticised for undoing predecessors’ climate work

Although among the smallest of Caribbean island states, the Virgin Islands has long been a leader in the region in formulating climate change policy and establishing a governance structure to …

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by BVI Beacon
June 28, 2019

Contract for incinerator parts not yet signed

The government plans to distribute facemasks and to reduce the smoke coming from the Pockwood Pond landfill, but the parts needed to repair the non-functional incinerator there still have not …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
Pockwood Pond
June 5, 2019

Governor: UK will not take over government

Governor Gus Jaspert emphasised the importance of environmentally sustainable practices during a press conference last Thursday at Government House. It was one of several points he made during the “Catch …

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by GENEVIEVE GLATSKY
May 7, 2019

EDITORIAL: Substitute green action for green rhetoric

Last week’s Earth Day celebrations were a heartening demonstration of community spirit, but they were also a reminder of the looming threats facing the territory’s delicate natural environment. In the …

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by The BVI Beacon
Paraquita Bay lagoon
March 22, 2019

Kids’ art contest highlights sea life

Children gathered at Government House on Friday pointing at nature-themed artwork and spinning around wearing virtual-reality goggles for the first annual Re-CREATE Art Competition. “It’s amazing. Some of them you …

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by GENEVIEVE GLATSKY
December 25, 2018

Mangrove removal sparks outcry, but yacht buyer says he had gov’t permission

After a backhoe cleared a wide swath of mangroves and other vegetation as part of efforts to remove a grounded yacht from the Paraquita Bay lagoon last month, government has …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS

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