The New Year is right around the corner and with the New Year comes a sense of rebirth and the feeling of a fresh start. It is during the euphoric feeling of renewal and holiday bliss, we vow, sometimes with three fingers in the air and right hand over our hearts, scouts honour, to be […]
I’m sitting at my desk, and the computer screen stares back at me with the impatient blinking of the cursor where I stopped mid-way on a financial report that I was trying desperately to complete, before the deadline, one day away. My hands rest on the brand new desk made in a deep shade of […]
For the past 37 years, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Diabetes Association has been performing a very important task. Located on the busy main street of Road Town, their office, equipped with one full-time and one part-time worker and under 60 members in the entire territory, have been shining the light on the disease, by […]
Shaped like a powerful green dinosaur about 30 miles north of Tortola in the Virgin Islands, is the 850-acre island of Guana. Known as a wild and untouched -hideaway luxury resort, the island is home to over 50 species of birds, including three flamingoes, three resident donkeys, and three giant tortoises and for about two […]
It can be found on the poorest street and in the richest neighborhood, similarly in the lowest paying job and the highest-Domestic Violence knows no bounds. This is a story of a young lady who suffered abuse at the hands of her lover for the longest four years of her life, and despite her moving […]
Close to three hundred (300) persons joined the Walk/Run for a cure, one of the high points of the annual Breast Cancer awareness month-October, in the wee hours of Saturday 15th October 2016. Well-known cancer survivor and advocate -42-year-old Shondia McFadden-Sabari of Atlanta, United States of America was also at the early morning event and […]
September is World Alzheimer’s Month, an international campaign to raise dementia awareness and challenge stigma and this year will mark the fifth global World Alzheimer’s Month campaign, an international campaign to raise dementia awareness and challenge stigma. Each year, Alzheimer associations from around the world unite to organise advocacy and information provision events, as well […]
Is the heat getting you down ? These tips will help you keep your cool Drink plenty of Water… We all know that we need to drink plenty of water. As it gets hotter we need to drink more. The CDC explains, ‘Whenever your body heats up, your internal air conditioner turns on and you […]
The dream of Dr. Michael Turnbull owning his very own Wellness Center, Behavioral Health Clinic at home in the Virgin Islands had been a burning desire deep within him for a long time. Sketches, business plans, ideas, dating back several years, was finally made real when he uprooted his family of four from the United […]
