On Monday morning, Facebook blew up with controversy surrounding a political cartoon posted by Virgin Islands News Online, which depicted Governor Gus Jaspert kneeling on the neck of government consultant …
June 19, 2020
April 2, 2019
EDITORIAL: Bullying won’t silence the Beacon
On March 23 Virgin Islands News Online published a bizarrely vicious attack against The BVI Beacon and our reporter Genevieve Glatsky, making outlandish false claims under the guise of an …
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March 25, 2019
Who runs VINO? Willock won’t say
This article originally appeared in the March 21, 2019 print edition. During two social media interviews this month, newly elected Speaker of the House Julian Willock repeated his longstanding …
March 14, 2019
Willock appointed Speaker of the House
Julian Willock has a controversial past. He was dismissed from the public service in 2012 following allegations of impropriety, he was briefly imprisoned in 2016 after he allegedly missed scheduled …