With a connection to the BVI High School, the pathway to sitting in the cockpit of an American Airlines Airbus on November 19, 2020, for a trio of BVI pilots from Purcell Estate, Baughers Bay, and East End, while making the Territory’s aviation history, is as diverse in their interests in becoming pilots. Airbus […]
Since Cyril B. Romney, the 1959 BVI Open Tennis champion wrote sports for the Tortola Times between 1958 -61, there haven’t been many local sports reporters or many local journalists appearing with a byline in print. After Romney, the next wave of local sports journalist surfaced in 1984 with the establishment of the BVI […]
One can easily drive through Carrot Bay on Tortola’s northwest coast, without even realizing they’re passing through a rich cultural lab. Few however, would take note of what’s really happening under their nose otherwise, as they pass by. Besides evidence of fishing, agriculture, farming and the making of traditional cultural beverages, are hidden treasures tucked […]
Ms. Aqueelah Frett, a Senior Administrative Officer/Personal Assistant to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Development, Government of the Virgin Islands, was looking forward to her December 10, 2017 birthday. That day she had planned to take the big step and launch her business, Afrotherapy—a Natural Hair Care and Lifestyle Boutique. But […]
No one gave my fellow 60-year old Phillippe Leroy and I the memo that the BVI Triathlon Federation Steelman competition—a grueling Olympic distance event comprised of a 1500m swim at the foot of the airport, followed by a 40K bicycle and a 10K run on Beef Island—had been rescheduled from Nov 10 to 17. That […]
