by Angela Burns What makes a house a home? Others would say it’s that bond that links the owner or occupants to the material fabric. Whatever it is that makes your house your home, we fully endorse the team at Blinds & Tings on Tortola who promises to help you to truly make your place […]
Alzheimer’s Dementia is a devastating disease and when you know someone who is affected by this disease you either ignore the situation or become a staunch advocate. In 2012 when Edna Williams noticed a change in her fellow Rotarian’s behaviour, she immediately sensed that something was wrong. As soon as her friend told her that […]
by Cathy Richards When Delma Maduro got involved in Rotary in the Virgin Islands many years ago, she was the first female to become a member of the Rotary Club of Tortola, the mother club for the Rotary Club of Road Town, which later sponsored the Rotary Club Sunrise of Road Town. At that time […]
by Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway Behind Cleopatra “Cleo” King-DeFreitas’ radiant smile, is a spirit of caring and giving, even though she faced a series of health challenges—a stroke, 19 surgeries and four brain surgeries within three years. In May, she organized Cleo’s Miracle Basketball Tournament, raising funds for underprivileged school children, 10 of whom will […]
By Z Golden After Hurricane Irma hit the British Virgin Islands, Valerie Rhymer and Beverly Martin put their heads together to find a way to help their community. They found the answer: provide affordable, durable, portable, and effective hurricane shutters that can withstand a high-caliber storm. They first heard the idea of Cat5 hurricane shutters […]
by Angela U. Burns INÑERE. In German, the word means interior. So yes, here we will focus on this budding interior design firm in the British Virgin Islands, whose CEO is Pamisha Wright. INÑERE’s vision is to create homes and spaces with an ambience of INÑERE joy and its mission is to provide elegantly superior […]
by Esther George “Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic, social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without […]
by Julian Putley ‘In a Gadda da Vida, Honey’… It’s the first line of that famous rock song of the 60s played and recorded by the band Iron Butterfly. Translated it means ‘In the Garden of Eden, Honey’ and unsurprisingly has been linked to Anegada. And for those who have visited this magical island, no-one […]
It’s been a long dry winter and spring. And although it doesn’t look pretty outside, there has been some much needed relief from pesky mosquitos. But don’t let their dormancy make you complacent. In the rainy season, these buggers not only disrupt days at the beach, settle in around dusk to have their own sundowners, […]
