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January 10, 2025

Virgin Islands rings in the New Year

Residents and visitors alike welcomed the New Year last week with fireworks, music, carnival rides and more across the territory. Major celebrations included parties at Foxy’s Tamarind Bar on Jost …

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by Allison Vaughn
January 10, 2025

VI welcomes first babies of 2025

The first two babies of 2025 were born a minute apart last Thursday at the Dr. D. Orlando Smith Hospital in Road Town, according to the BVI Health Services Authority. …

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by The BVI Beacon
January 15, 2024

EDITORIAL: Ideas for a brighter 2024

There is much to do in 2024. This year is an opportunity for a fresh start following six difficult years that started with Hurricane Irma in 2017 and continued with …

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by BVI Beacon
January 11, 2024

New events boost first post-pandemic New Year

As residents rang in the New Year across the territory, new celebrations were hosted at the Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour and the Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park, joining the …

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by Rushton Skinner
October 30, 2023

New options for ringing in a new year

Virgin Islands residents and visitors will have two new options for ringing in 2024, and organisers have already started promoting both. In Road Town, Tortola Pier Park Ltd. will feature …

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by Rushton Skinner
January 27, 2023

Virgin Islands rings in the New Year

At its annual celebration of the end of one year and start of another, Foxy’s Tamarind Bar on Jost Van Dyke welcomed sizable crowds to ring in 2023. Partygoers packed …

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by Dana Kampa
December 23, 2020

EDITORIAL: The lessons of a tough year

The end is in sight. As an exceedingly difficult year winds down, we hope the Virgin Islands will use this holiday season to reflect on the lessons of 2020 while …

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by BVI Beacon
January 14, 2020

EDITORIAL: Our New Year’s wish list

In the Virgin Islands, 2019 was a tumultuous year. The territory saw political upheaval, external pressures, dire new revelations about climate change, threats to financial services, and more delays in …

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by BVI Beacon
January 10, 2019

VI welcomes New Year’s, Christmas babies

On Jan. 2, Montae Warner decided to enter the world a week early, making him the Virgin Islands’ official first baby of the New Year. Montae’s mother, Shianne Kuntz, gave …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK

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