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April 22, 2021

Tourism in the quarantine era

It had been over a year since I’d last travelled to the United States. I normally make the trip twice a year, and I’d never missed Christmas in my home …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
November 27, 2020

CEO explains quarantine tracking tech

When the Jamaica-based Amber Group began to develop software to provide solutions to Covid-19 problems in its home country, it started with a “lightweight” module, founder and CEO Dushyant Savadia …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
October 22, 2020

Amid questions, tourism industry prepares for reopening

With a new tourism season set to start on Dec. 1, hotels are outfitting rooms, boats are getting back on the water, restaurants are stocking up, and many other businesses …

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by Dana Kampa
October 18, 2020

Stakeholders debate bubble tourism, quarantine rules

During a series of closed-door stakeholder meetings hosted by the BVI Tourist Board over the past week, business owners in the tourism sectors of small hotels, transportation and tour operations …

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by Dana Kampa
July 24, 2020

Jost Van Dyke is under full lockdown

Three days after learning that a former Jost Van Dyke resident tested positive for Covid-19 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, government announced on Tuesday morning that JVD would be …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
June 25, 2020

Willock firm gets government security contract

The House of Assembly on Monday granted permission for a firm linked to Speaker of the House Julian Willock to provide security services at an hourly rate of $18 in …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
June 25, 2020

Work-permit holders to foot quarantine bills

Government is dishing out $2.4 million to contract quarantine facilities for returning nationals and permanent residents until Sept. 14, but work-permit holders will have to pay for their own quarantine …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
May 29, 2020

With no known Covid cases, opening speeds up

In recent weeks, Martin and Lucy Whitrod, a father and daughter who own and manage Beans Coffee Shop in the Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park, had been offering only …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
April 17, 2020

Woman hospitalised after positive Covid-19 result

A woman has been isolated in the Dr. Orlando Smith Hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 locally, and seven of her “primary contacts” have been quarantined in another location, Deputy …

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by Joey Waldinger
Carvin Malone
April 17, 2020

‘After 10 days of symptoms, I tested negative for Covid-19’

Government officials announced the first two confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the Virgin Islands on Wednesday, March 25, just as Beacon journalists were completing our final edits for that week’s …

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by Dana Kampa
Covid-19 test
April 14, 2020

Residents get creative, stay social online

Christian MacDonald is showing residents how to build cocktails without professional equipment, and he’s doing it 100 percent remotely. “I decided that since there’s no work to be had, I …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
April 9, 2020

As stores swarmed, lockdown strategy debated

Crowds swarmed grocery stores and other businesses late last week to prepare for a 14-day lockdown in the territory, sparking heated criticism and raising questions about the government’s unusual system …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
lockdown traffic
April 3, 2020

Expert: Current curfew is probably not enough

A six-day, 24-hour lockdown of the territory began Friday night after officials announced the first two confirmed cases of COVID- 19 in the territory, but even with an additional two-week …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
April 3, 2020

New laws rushed through HOA to help with coronavirus response

During a Friday sitting at Save the Seed Energy Centre in Duffs Bottom, the House of Assembly rushed through two laws that legislators said will help the territory respond to …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
March 24, 2020

Quarantined: Business editor recounts journey back to VI

When I left the Virgin Islands on Wednesday, March 11 for a short trip to Austin, Texas, things seemed mostly like business as usual. A brief COVID-19 scare in the …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
February 6, 2020

VI prepares for coronavirus strain

Authorities at seaports, airports and health facilities are taking precautions in case the dangerous new strand of coronavirus arrives in the territory amid an outbreak that originated in China, Deputy …

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by Dana Kampa

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