Now in its 26th Year! May 29 - June 4, 2014 Vol.26, No.36
YoUR FRee GUiDe
to our islands’ happenings
International Sensation
Julie Dexter at Jazz on the Hill
Saturday, May 31st @ 6pm
Also this week: VisAR swim & sUP • 5k walk/Run • Disney experience @ hlsCC• soca Monarch launch
This Week’s Feature Story by Arlena Smith
Disney Experience with a Twist This Sunday, June 1st, at the Eileen Parsons Auditorium eCamps British Virgin Islands is proud to present the Disney Experience with a Twist. This musical presentation based on classic Disney animated movies such as Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, Hercules among other classics is an event the whole family can enjoy. The musical will feature group performances by the eCampers themselves along with help from friends like Kirk Adams, Brent Hoyte, and The Adagio Dance Company among others. And the twist, there will be a special performance from more recent Disney movies such as the Oscar nominated song Happy from Despicable Me 2 and Kassandra Malone singing the favorite Hallelujah from Shrek. High Frequency Band will be on hand to back up the performances led by Drexel Glasgow and Brent Hoyte. With full dress costumes for the Circle of Life number from the Lion King you are definitely in for a treat. So, don’t miss your chance to experience this amazing musical event. Show starts at 5pm and tickets can be purchased at Bolos, J&C Department Store, and Beautiful by Jasanay and from parents of eCampers – see you there!
On Sunday enjoy a fun evening of Disney music and dance in support of eCamps British Virgin Islands. eCamps British Virgin Islands was established in 2012 in order to facilitate global learning through experience for young people ages 9-17. At eCamps the aim is to help young people develop life skills. It is an opportunity for them to learn about their immediate surroundings, as well as gain an appreciation and understanding of the wider world. A large part of the eCamps experience is travel. Its programs are designed to incorporate learning, entertainment and exposure to different cultures, which eCamps believes is the greatest form of learning. To date, the group has traveled the British Virgin Islands, as well as to England and France. This year another group of young adventurers will journey to Asia from July 6th – 26th where campers will spend four days in a cultural immersion program in Hong Kong, before heading to Singapore for a series of learning journeys with students of the Singapore school system and a museum tour in Malaysia. In a fundraising effort for their upcoming travel the campers have put together a show like no other.
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Vol. 26, No. 37 • May 28 - June 4, 2014
Ask Koren Outside Child Causing Problems
Your personal E-therapist, is in the house!
Ask Koren
Dear Koren, My boyfriend and I have a daughter together, but he cheated on me and the girl he cheated with got pregnant. The child is 6 months old and I feel badly that I have never seen the child. We decided to work things out because he says he wants to be with me and his daughter. However, he expects me to be okay with him going to the child’s house, when I prefer that he brings the child to where we live. What advice do you have on how I should handle this situation? –Frustrated
insecure about his relationship with the baby’s mother and you prefer to be able to keep an eye on things. You’re going to have to trust him at some point, because you won’t be able to know his whereabouts all the time and he could be talking to her or anyone else. So don’t torture yourself about that. If he made a commitment to being with you and the daughter you share, then just focus on strengthening your relationship and take your focus off the other baby’s mother. This is not an easy situation, but the good thing is that you have forgiven him and he has chosen to stay with you. You and he now need to come to some agreement on how you will handle the situation. Don’t try to control things you can’t change, just adapt to the new circumstances. He needs to see his child and you should not be putting him on a guilt trip every time he does. Forgiveness means that you not throw his past mistakes in his face constantly. With a little bit of understanding on both parts and a lot of communication, you can work things out.
Dear Frustrated, Unfortunately, you and your boyfriend are not the only players in the game; there is also the other mother. Perhaps she is not comfortable with her daughter coming to your home, especially if she is unsure of how you will relate to the child. Although the child is innocent she does not know what to expect from you, so she might prefer to keep her child close and have the father visit. It would be unfair to ask him to not go there to see the baby; just let it be and in that the mother might allow him to bring the child out when she is a bit older. Please refrain from starting any drama as that could cause the young lady to make things difficult for him to see his child. I’m making a wild guess here that you are still a bit
Lime ... “to hang around idly” or “to go out on the town.” Source: The Dictionary of Virgin Islands English Creole by the late educator and historian Lito Valls. The Limin’ Times brings you all the news about when and where to “lime” in the British Virgin Islands. Limin’ Times Entertainment Guide
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Vol. 26, No. 37 • May 28 - June 4, 2014
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Your Guide to British Virgin Islands Events By Claudia Colli
Julie Dexter at Jazz on the Hill Enjoy warm tropical breezes and the cool sounds of jazz this weekend at Jazz on the Hill on Virgin Gorda. This year’s headliner is British singer Julie Dexter, who has been called, “one of the most influential female vocalists of our generation.” The fundraiser for St. Mary’s School in the Virgin Gorda Valley kicks off with a special four-course gourmet dinner accompanied by soft jazz on Friday evening, May 30th at Rosewood Little Dix Bay. On Saturday, the concert begins at 7pm and features some of the BVI’s most popular musicians including Dalan Vanterpool, Kamau Georges, Ouida, Calden James, Raul’s Latin Jazz Combo and the Callwood Trio, followed by Julie Dexter, who will grace the stage with her blend of jazz, world music, R&B and soul. In addition to its regular evening schedule, Speedy’s will have a special ferry leaving Road Town at 6:45pm and returning after the show; there will be a complimentary shuttle from the ferry to the venue. Tickets are available at Speedy’s offices in Road Town and Virgin Gorda and other select businesses. For more info go to www.jazzonthehillvg.com
5K “Colour Me Pink” Walk/Run Sensus will be holding its Fight Like A Girl 5K “Colour Me Pink” Walk/Run this Saturday, May 31st. The event begins outside the Sensus gym at 3:30pm and goes to Hannah Bay at the Pirates Dock and back. The entry fee is $20 before the event and $25 on the day and includes a t-shirt and a pouch of washable pink powder along with a washable pink solution for kids with water guns. All money goes to the Sensus Free Mammogram Program available to women without insurance.
Team CCT for the Win CCT is supporting a series of upcoming sporting events including the BVI Twilight Invitational on June 7th and the Caribbean Basketball Confederation Championships from July 1-12. To highlight its support CCT has introduced new Caribbean rates – 24 cents per minute, 24 hours a day to 24 Caribbean Countries. Call the Caribbean for a chance to win VIP tickets to sponsored sports events, LIAT airline tickets and other prizes. Promotion ends June 7.
Swim & SUP for VISAR Raise money for VISAR with two spectacular water sports events – Swim the Sound and SUP the Sound on Sunday, June 1st. This truly international event attracts participants from Australia, the US, England and throughout the US and British VI. Both events start at Saba Rock with registration at 8am and finish at Leverick Bay, where there will be a post race barbecue, along with a DJ and a variety of fun activities including tug of war and a frozen t-shirt contest. For more info visit www.swimthesound.com, call 4944357, or email visar@surfbvi.com 7
Vol. 26, No. 37 • May 28 - June 4, 2014
live music • events • concerts •
THURSDAY - MAY 29
QUITO’S — Happy Hour with Ras Rio 5-7pm. Quito & the Edge 9:30pm
ROAD TOWN PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm. D’ BEST CUP — aka...The Barking Frog - Ladies Night. Happy Hour all night from 5pm
SATURDAY - MAY 31 ROAD TOWN PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm SENSUS GYM — 5k “Colour Me Pink” Walk/Run
CANE GARDEN BAY
starts at 3:30pm
QUITO’S — Happy Hour 5-7pm. Dinner from
MARINER INN — Presentation of the Miss BVI
6:30pm feat. Farm to Table Menu. Quito solo at 7:30pm
Contestants at 7pm
MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour with ‘Sim’ 5pm.
DE LOOSE MONGOOSE — Karaoke Night
Awesome Crew band 7pm
CANE GARDEN BAY
EAST END DE LOOSE MONGOOSE — Entertainment by
THE ELM — Brugal’s Special Happy Hour, Live Music MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour 5-7pm with Sim and Awesome Crew at 7pm. 2 for 1 Paddle Board Rentals 9-5
Candyman
FRIDAY - MAY 30 ROAD TOWN
QUITO’S — Beach BBQ Bash starts at Happy Hour 5-
PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm
7pm with Too Smooth.
FESTIVAL GROUNDS — Early Childhood Week
VG & OUTER ISLANDS
Parade to Noel Lloyd Park
ST. MARY’S SCHOOL (VG) — Jazz on the Hill
CANE GARDEN BAY
featuring Julie Dexter show starts at 6pm
THE ELM — Beach BBQ, Live Music “Elm Tones”
SUNDAY - JUNE 1
MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour with Candyman
LONG BAY LONG BAY BEACH CLUB — 1748 Restaurant
5-7pm. Evolution Band 7pm
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EAST END
brunch 11am-3pm
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ts • parties • sports • movies and more
EAST END
CANE GARDEN BAY
DE LOOSE MONGOOSE — Sund Brunch from
MYETT’S — Mexican Monday with Specialty
10am-2:30pm
Margaritas, fish & lobster tacos. Candyman Sunset
BEEF ISLAND BEACH — SOCA Monarch Launch
Happier Hour 5-7pm. Singing Chef Al 7pm
with music by B’More, Tino & Kingman, Showtime
QUITO’S — Happy Hour 5-7pm half price drinks &
band, DJ Dre & more; starts at 2pm
apps. Dinner 6:30pm feat. Farm to Table Menu
HLSCC — Disney Experience with a Twist show starts
TUESDAY - JUNE 3
at 5pm
CANE GARDEN BAY
NORTH SHORE
QUITO’S — Happy Hour 5-7pm half price drinks & apps. Dinner 6:30 feat. Farm to Table Menu. Quito solo
SEBASTIANS — Candy Man plays live 7-10pm
from 7:30pm
CANE GARDEN BAY
MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour 5-7pm with
THE ELM — BBQ Live Music “Elm Tones”
Candyman. Fish-N-Chips
MYETT’S — Sunday Brunch. Bottomless Bloody Mary
WEDNESDAY - JUNE 4
& Screwdriver Bar. Steel Pan Vibes 1-4pm. Happy Hour
EAST END
5-7pm. 2 for 1 Paddle Board Rentals 9-5pm
DE LOOSE MONGOOSE — BBQ Grill Party with live
QUITO’S —Sunday Brunch 11am - 3pm with live
music & open mic with Verne
entertainment
CANE GARDEN BAY
VG & OUTER ISLANDS
UPCOMING EVENTS
MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour 5-7pm w/
SABA ROCK & LEVERICK BAY (VG) — VISAR
Awesome Crew & Tortola’s Own 3D Band. Caribbean
Swim & Sup from 8am
Dinner & Dance 7:30pm
MONDAY - JUNE 2
QUITO’S — Happy Hour 5-7 half price drinks & apps.
ROAD TOWN
Boat US Flotilla Beach Bash music by Too Smooth
PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm
from 5:30pm
Steel Pulse - July 5 Full Moon — June 13 Queen’s Birthday Parade — June 14 Father’s Day — June 15 Jr. Miss BVI Pageant — July 13 Prince & Princess Show — July 20 Festival Monday Grand Parade — Aug 4 Festival Tuesday Horse Races — Aug 5 EE/LL Festival Parade — Aug 6
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SOCA Monarch Launch The SOCA Monarch 2014 official launch party gets off to a rousing start at Beef Island Beach on Sunday, June 1st. An all-star lineup of Soca Kings including B’More, Tino and Kingman will be performing along with Showtime Band, DJ Dre and Turbosounds. The fun begins at 2pm and there will be lots of good food and drinks on sale.
Early Childhood Week Parade Early Childhood Awareness Week will culminate with two special activities. On Friday May 30th there will be a parade of pre-schoolers, kindergarteners and first graders at 10am starting at the Festival Grounds and ending at the Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement Park. They will also participate in a program at the park. A church service at the Carrot Bay Seventh-Day Adventist Church at 9am on Saturday, May 31 will conclude the week.
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By Julian Putley
The Miracle Garden Isn’t this dry and sunny weather delightful? At the beginning of April I planted tomato saplings, peppers, beans and black eyed peas to add to my fresh produce of bananas, plantains and limes. They’re all doing well; it’s a little cooler and a little wetter up here on Sage Mountain and I have a huge cistern so water is never a worry. One of the issues concerns the expense of operating a small vegetable garden. There are quite a few supplies necessary to maintain a garden that will produce results. Beans, peppers and tomatoes all need to climb so trellis or chicken wire needs to be found. Support for this is necessary too to keep
finally answered “yes, I do.” Then I continued –
it upright and string and wire for fastening is
“Look at the simple cow, it can turn grass into milk!”
required. Then predators like snails and slugs must
The same answer applies to farming or gardening;
be kept at bay.
from brown dirt come delicious tomatoes, strawberries, grapes, avocadoes and on and on ad infinitum.
A couple of years ago I tried cabbage, kale and
Getting close to nature gives us many answers.
lettuce but the snails got there first. I bought a packet of poison pellets for these critters but it isn’t
At the front of our house we have a lawn sur-
cheap. When peppers, bananas and tomatoes ripen
rounded by a flower garden. It looks pretty as we
the birds are the first to spot them so protective cov-
gaze down on it from our veranda but it doesn’t pro-
erings are needed. If you add up the expense of
vide us with any food and it’s quite a chore to keep
everything there’s no doubt that just buying your
up. Next year I’m planning to turn the whole thing
fruit and vegetables in the store is cheaper. But
into a vegetable garden increasing my yield ten-fold
where’s the fun in that? Especially when you know
and making my endeavor more cost effective. There
that many items are genetically modified, covered
may be quite a bit of convincing to do concerning my
with pesticides or depleted of food value.
other half, especially since the sod, shipped over
Once one of my kids asked me if I believed in mir-
from Puerto Rico, was expensive. You might say I’ll
acles. I had to think for a minute whether I could seri-
need a miracle to make it happen. Stay tuned about
ously believe in the biblical miracles of the feeding of
this time next year and I’ll let you know if I still
the five thousand or the parting of the Red Sea but I
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Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse of Black Pearl By Arlena Smith
About Last night About Last Night, a remake of the 1986 film of the same name is a loose adaptation of David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago – is one of the funniest, foul-mouthed, and brutally honest rom-coms in recent memory. Directed by Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) and writer Leslye Headland (Bachelorette) About Last Night clashes the male and female relationship experiences with crude delight. Danny (Michael Ealy) and Bernie (Kevin Hart) are
of a long-term relationship that neither expect. Or,
best friends, co-workers, and single gents on the
perhaps, want.
prowl. The latter is the driving force of their quest.
As Danny and Debbie's relationship blossoms,
Danny who is still working through his break-up
Bernie and Joan's fizzles out into a caustic public
with dominating girlfriend Alison (Paula Patton),
battle, About Last Night finds a predictable groove
isn't ready to dive into the dating pool. However, the
that's no less relatable. Even while harboring strong
bro code keeps him by his sex-hungry buddy's side.
feelings for each other, Danny and Debbie butt-
When they meet up with Joan (Regina Hall),
heads, provoked by trepidations over their future
Bernie's most recent obsession, Danny finds him-
together. All the while advice from Bernie and Joan
self smitten for the first time in a year by her room-
echoes their worries and complicates them.
mate Debbie (Joy Bryant). After Bernie and Joan
About Last Night is a welcome change of pace
scurry away for a drunken hook-up in the bath-
for the romantic comedy genre, an update of the
room, Danny and Debbie drop their reserved acts,
Mamet play where people are allowed to communi-
exposing themselves as simpatico. They realize,
cate frankly and realistically. It also offers plenty of
they are perfect for each other. A perfect night leads
laughs, thanks to cast members Kevin Hart and
to more perfect nights, which leads to the makings
Regina Hall.
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Vol. 26, No. 37 • May 28 - June 4, 2014
By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway
Is It The Vikings’ Time? have to improve in our fielding,” he noted. “We have I’ve learnt a few things about Cricket as a journalto improve on that.” ist. “Catches win matches,” my old teacher Theodore BVI Cricket Association president Shan Skeete used to say when he was leading the sport. Mohamed said Vikings have restructured their team, And perhaps my favorite of his many lines, “Cricket is attracted other quality players to the lineup and they a game of glorious uncertainties.” have played hard from the start. “Their success is no Which brings me to the point of this weekend’s surprise to me,” he said. “I’m very pleased with the crowning of the 2014 BVI Cricket Association Digicel outcome.” Twenty 20 League Tournament champion. Is this the Mohamed said he finds it interesting that Vikings’ time? Cavaliers have made it to the final, pointing out that After years of futility and watching others celebratthey haven’t played particularly good cricket this seaing and lifting the crown, Vikings have positioned son. “But, that’s the game of cricket,” he noted. “You themselves for a chance to join the league’s elite with never know what tomorrow one more victory. will bring. But, we are expectAfter classically disposing ing a good final and a good defending champs Vincy in their turnout.” last match, Vikings will now face Mohamed said this year’s four time champs Cavaliers tournament was more suc(whom they beat for the first time cessful than last year and they in six years earlier this year) for attracted more than 300 perthe title at 2pm on Sunday at the sons per game. He said the Greenland Recreation Grounds. penultimate weekend before That match will be preceded the close of the Super Six by an all star game and followed Series showed what the sport by the awards, prize giving and means to the territory. closing ceremonies. Vikings seeing one more victory “Rains fell for all of Friday and Saturday and a lit“We have worked hard. We come out on tle bit of Sunday, and we had about 350 persons out Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, we put in the to the match,” he recalled. “I think this year has been efforts and the results showed in how we played this very successful. The standard of cricket has improved year,” Vikings Captain Richard Fredericks said. and teams are much stronger this year. We divided the “Winning the title would be our very first time and teams into two zones where the weaker teams played special for everybody and we’ll cherish the moment. a qualifying round to move up to Division I. So, we are Since it would be our first, the first is always the best.” happy with the support from the general public and Fredericks said the strength of the team lies in its the players on a whole. batting and bowling. “Everything is there – we just Limin’ Times Entertainment Guide
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