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. …
Rotary club launches memorial scholarship
On Tuesday afternoon in the library at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, more than 40 people gathered to witness the official launch of the James Harris Scholarship Programme. The initiative, …
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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 …
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 …
Rotarians raise $45k for blood bank
With the help of its annual Grand Raffle, the Rotary Club of Tortola raised $45,000 for the purchase of equipment to expand the blood bank laboratory services at the BVI …