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Shortly after Hurricane Beryl ripped through the Caribbean this month, the BVI Red Cross joined a regional effort to assist people on the islands devastated by the storm. Now …
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Hurricane Beryl swept across the Caribbean this week as an unusually early Category Five storm, laying waste to several islands, causing at least nine reported deaths, and lending credence to …
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Last Thursday, exactly one year after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc on the Virgin Islands and heavily damaged Her Majesty’s Prison, the last 10 remaining inmates who had been temporarily transferred …
Nine of the 21 inmates who were temporarily transferred to St. Lucia after Hurricane Irma returned to the territory on Thursday, Education and Culture Minister Myron Walwyn confirmed. The group …
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On Tuesday, David Foot officially stepped down as the superintendent of prisons in the Virgin Islands. Mr. Foot told the Beacon that his already-extended contract has ended, and that he …