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WHAT HAPPENED TO CHRISTMAS ON MAIN STREET?
In 2014, organisers said the move to De Castro Street was temporary. Twelve years later, why the fair never returned to Main Street is still unclear. Nobody heading to Christmas on Main Street in December 2013 had much reason to think it would be the last one. The Lashing Dogs played, schoolchildren performed at Sir Olva Georges Plaza, and hundreds of people came out. Even a year later, when the booths went up on De Castro Street, the woman heading the organising committee to
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WHAT PLASKETT’S WIN MEANS FOR THE VI CHARTER WARS
Stacey Plaskett was making the case against the BVI’s charter fee increases before she ran for governor. What happens now that she’ll be the one negotiating with us? When Stacey Plaskett wanted to explain how the BVI’s charter fees felt to a captain in St. Thomas, she reached for an example she figured we would understand. How would BVI residents feel, she asked on the Caribbean Currency Podcast, if the USVI started charging us a fee to come over and buy groceries? In the ea
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THE REAL FIRST VIRGIN ISLANDER IN THE NBA
Everyone Owes Kleon Penn an Apology Kleon Penn said that he learned to play basketball on the Bell Vue Court in Tortola under the guidance of coaches Morris Wattley and Eddie Fahie. His parents and sports journalist Dean Greenaway were his biggest inspirations. During his time at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, Penn made waves in the Virgin Islands Basketball community as one of the best players that our country had to offer. Although Penn was just a young man from our
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