Shade from the canopy of mangroves at the Roger Downing Mangrove Boardwalk gave volunteers some reprieve from the hot sun on Sunday morning as they worked to improve the path. …
Catching cancer early
For Humphry Leue, the Cancer Screening Project he helped launch last week is meaningful on a very personal level. “I myself was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer about two years …
Kiddies Fiesta back for first time since Irma
To jumpstart the August Emancipation Festival season, the Rotary Club of Road Town held its 25th Kiddies Fiesta on July 29 at the Enid Scatliffe Pre-primary School grounds. At the …
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Blood bank gets upgrade
Dr. Robin Tattersall, a surgeon who arrived in the Virgin Islands in 1965, still clearly remembers struggling early in his VI career to ensure that patients had access to blood …
Rotary Lose to Win Challenge to help fight diabetes
One by one, members of the Rotary Club of Tortola hopped on the bathroom scale set up in the middle of The Moorings and looked down nervously. “I drank as …
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