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December 19, 2022

EDITORIAL: Tourism is recovering quickly. Now what’s the plan?

Virgin Islands tourism is recovering quickly as the Covid-19 pandemic eases. This is great news. But it is also a reminder that the territory urgently needs the comprehensive tourism plan …

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by BVI Beacon
April 14, 2022

Gun Creek centre reopens

The same contractor who originally built the Captain Owen G. Harrigan Visitor Centre in 2005 said he took great pride in seeing the refurbished building ready to serve travellers in …

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by Dana Kampa
December 9, 2020

Cartoon (Dec. 3, 2020)

by BVI Beacon
Cartoon (Dec. 3, 2020)
December 7, 2020

EDITORIAL: As borders reopen, better safe than sorry

In recent weeks, there has been much debate about the border reopening that got under way last week, but now everyone must work together to achieve success as tourism returns. …

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by BVI Beacon
August 25, 2020

EDITORIAL: Plan for tourism opening needed now

Following the government’s recent announcement that expatriates will be allowed to enter the territory starting in September, one big question remains about plans for the border reopening: When will tourists …

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by BVI Beacon
April 24, 2020

Visitors ‘stuck’ in British Virgin Islands

Because of the territory’s pandemic lockdown measures, many visitors have been “stuck” in the territory, Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration Minister Vincent Wheatley said last Thursday in the House of …

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by Dana Kampa
April 18, 2018

US lifts travel warning for VI

When the United States Department of State implemented a new travel warning system on Jan. 10, it placed the Virgin Islands on a list with countries like Honduras, Sudan and …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK

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