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May 6, 2023

Man shot to death in Long Look home

In the year’s third murder, a man was fatally wounded in a shooting at a Long Look residence on Sunday night near The Stickett, police said. Kemo Lettsome, 37, of …

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by Alva Solomon
May 13, 2022

Woman dies at Long Look clinic

Police are investigating a May 10 death at the Long Look Clinic, which came less than a week after a man was pronounced dead at a Customs office, Police Information …

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by Joey Waldinger
April 28, 2022

TWU: New sewer lines coming

By mid-May, the Transportation, Works and Utilities Ministry hopes to begin installing about 1,100 feet of sewer lines from the Joes Hill burial ground to the Road Town roundabout, TWU …

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by Joey Waldinger
April 27, 2022

Report cites storms, mosquitoes, and Covid among main threats facing East End/Long Look

After a series of meetings last November in which the BVI Red Cross asked East End/Long Look residents to identify the greatest risks to their community, the BVIRC is planning …

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by Joey Waldinger
August 25, 2021

Pipe laid as EE sewerage project starts

The Covid-19 pandemic has hampered numerous infrastructure projects in the territory by causing raw material shortages, delaying supply shipments, and limiting working hours. But progress nevertheless has been made, including …

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by Dana Kampa
May 15, 2021

$300k contract signed for EE centre

Community centres in the Virgin Islands serve as gathering spaces in good times and as vital shelters during storms, but many of them have sat in ruins since taking severe …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
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March 19, 2021

Malone: Government working with man living at Stickett

The government has been working to try to find housing for a man who has been living at The Stickett in East End, Health and Social Development Minister Carvin Malone …

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by Dana Kampa
November 5, 2020

East End sewerage project relaunched

Government plans to award at least 40 petty contracts worth $6,142,500 to restart and complete the long-delayed East End/Long Look sewerage project, Premier Andrew Fahie announced during a re-commissioning ceremony …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
August 8, 2020

East End fire station now first satellite emergency base

A waterproof, airtight container that could store a dozen solar- or battery-powered communications devices — including radio transmitters — sits in an office at the newly re-opened East End/Long Look …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
March 17, 2020

Mr. Malone’s marvellous mural

As Virgin Islands artist Vincent “Bing” Malone sat on his chair with a rainbow-coated palette in one hand and a paintbrush in the other, drivers stopped by every few minutes …

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by Dana Kampa
August 15, 2019

East End festival renews focus on culture

When the sun came up on Aug. 7 and hundreds of people were dancing their way through East End, Jessika Robinson knew she had to be in the thick of …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK

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