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This article originally appeared in the Beacon’s Sept. 6 “Irma Anniversary” edition. For the some 300 people living on Anegada, day-to-day life is punctuated by boat arrivals. Road Town-based passenger ferries pull …
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This article originally appeared in the Beacon’s Sept. 6 “Irma Anniversary” edition. Like many people throughout the Virgin Islands, Courdney Williams has a very different daily routine than he did 12 months …
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Much has changed since Hurricane Irma struck the Virgin Islands on Sept. 6, 2017. In some locations, the recovery effort has transformed the landscape. Other areas, however, don’t look much …
Continue reading “Irma, then and now: Photos from around Tortola”
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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“The Virgin Islands must build back stronger.” In the weeks after Hurricane Irma, this phrase was repeated like a mantra. A year later, is the territory succeeding? The answer varies …
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Last Tuesday morning in Cane Garden Bay, something was happening everywhere you looked: Backhoes were churning up sand, steps were being swept, roofs were being hammered, buildings were being painted, …
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Outside the New Testament Church of God in Baughers Bay last Thursday, a woman lay on the ground beside her crashed car, screaming hysterically. “My baby, my baby!” she cried. …
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More than ten months after Hurricane Irma, the revised Recovery to Development Plan has been submitted to Cabinet, and is scheduled to become public when it is tabled today in …
Richard Henry is the owner of Marine Depot BVI. A Guyana native, he has lived in the Virgin Islands for 35 years. Below are his words, condensed and edited by …
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A royal engineer who helped open the airport, shelter managers who lived among the homeless for months on end, police and fire officers who assisted the vulnerable, and an elected …
Continue reading “Hurricane heroes honoured with BVI Red Cross medals”
Sanjay Surtani, a gemologist, is the director and co-owner — with his wife Veera — of House of Luxury, a jewellery store in the Tortola Pier Park. The following are …
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins tomorrow, and government officials are evaluating the territory’s readiness after last year’s devastating storms. Governor Gus Jaspert assured the public in a press …
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Duran Greaves, 23, is the food and beverage coordinator at Village Cay Resort and Marina. He spends most of his time there tending the bar — a role he resumed …
Robert Mathavious, the managing director of the Financial Services Commission, will chair the board of the Recovery and Development Agency, according to Premier Dr. Orlando Smith. Mr. Mathavious will be …
PUERTO RICO CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM — When you approach St. John from the water now, the United States Virgin Island at first appears untouched by hurricanes Irma and Maria. …
Continue reading “Islands Adrift: Trump politics hinder USVI climate change prep”
SPECIAL REPORT Last fall, government was faced with a seemingly insurmountable task: disposing of unprecedented mountains of garbage left over from Hurricane Irma. But officials did not launch a tender …
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Virgin Islander Jerome Joseph made his dream of starting a vegan food truck a reality in the beginning of March — an opening date that was pushed back by Hurricane …
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At what’s left of the gymnasium next to Joyce Samuel Primary School in Belle Vue, All Hands and Hearts volunteers in purple shirts and hard hats diligently tore up planks …
Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway survived Hurricane Irma unscathed in his East End home, which mostly stood up to the elements. But in the hours after the storm passed, a rumour …
Continue reading “In their Words: Survivor’s Story — ‘The Resurrected’”
