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
October 20, 2023
First 10 ‘national heroes’ named
Descendants of illustrious Virgin Islanders bore witness from the House of Assembly gallery as the first ten “national heroes” were officially honoured on Oct. 13 as part of the territory’s …
March 16, 2021
EDITORIAL: Kudos to pandemic heroes
March 11 marked the first anniversary of the World Health Organisation’s declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic, which brought a year of extraordinary challenges for this territory and the rest of …
September 10, 2018
Irma Anniversary: Seven unsung heroes of the storm
This article originally appeared in the Beacon’s Sept. 6, 2018 Irma Anniversary edition. It seems that everyone in the Virgin Islands knows at least one hero of Hurricane Irma. …
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