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July 24 - 30, 2014 Vol.26, No.45

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Rotary Kiddies Fiesta – July 26th @10am Also this week: ole skool Party @ save the seed • opening of Festival Village • Myett’s wine & Art Festival

This Week’s Feature Story by Jan Critchley

The Hot Ticket Are you ready for the fashion showcase of the year? If so, you are in for a treat this weekend when Summer Sizzle BVI 2014 hits our shores and the BVI will be transformed into an international fashion mecca for this, the sixth annual fashion and lifestyle weekend that will run from Thursday, July 24th to Sunday, July 27th.

Terry Donovan, Founder and Executive Producer of Summer Sizzle BVI said, “Our goal is to create the most amazing fashion destination event in the Caribbean, while highlighting the beauty, culture and decadence of the BVI.” The action starts on Thursday with the Welcome Culture & Style Party, to be held in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Festival at Maria’s by the Sea where there will be music by DJ Wiz, an appearance from Miss World BVI, Kassandra Malone and the introduction of the Miss BVI Contestants. On Friday, be sure to wear white and head out to Cultureville (by Beef Island bridge) for the dazzling White Fashion Gala with music by DJ Bertrum and NYC’s DJ Protégé.

The headline event of the four days, though, is the Global Glamour Runway Fashion Show on Saturday at UP’s Cineplex Crystal Ballroom. The

evening starts with a VIP reception at 7pm before the spectacular fashion show begins at 8pm featuring some of the world’s top designers. The BVI’s very own talented designer Kristin Frazer will present her Trefle Designs kids swim and resort collection.

The fashion show will feature a multi-cultural cast of models from the BVI, USVI, New York, Guyana, Cayman Islands and Puerto Rico including two models from the Oxygen TV hit show, The Face – Afiya Bennett, a finalist whose family is from the BVI and Felisa Wiley from the USVI. Only last September, New York designers Cesar Galindo and Korto Momolu selected two of the BVI’s rising stars Kadie Turnbull and Callie Cayonne to take part in their show as part of New York Fashion Week.

Entertainment for this hot event will feature a half time show featuring Travie Rozae, Dalan Vanterpool, Kamau Georges and the Extravaganza Troupe.

To finish off the weekend, on Sunday there is a sailing excursion to Virgin Gorda and a Beach BBQ. You can still get your tickets for all of the up coming Summer Sizzle BVI 2014 events from www.summersizzlebvi.com or contact Jerrell George on 542-8180.

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Vol. 26, No. 45 • July 24 - 30, 2014

Ask Koren

Your personal E-therapist, is in the house!

Daughter Ashamed of Me Ask Koren

Dear Koren, I am feeling very hurt right now and that has prompted me to write you. I used to be the light of my daughter’s life and now she is 16 years old and she behaves like she is ashamed of me. Her and my eight year old son are my reason for working so hard and making sacrifices because they father don’t help and when he comes around occasionally, they act like he is Santa Claus. I work two jobs to give her nice clothes and do without and she does not want me around her friends and is always criticizing my hair or clothes if she has to be out with me. Young people are ungrateful and I am fed-up.

–Hurt Mom

or negatively impact their relationship with him by bad-talking him. In time, they will realize that you are the one who has been there for them consistently. Allow them the benefit of being happy to have their two parents, even if you are pulling the heavier load.

Take your daughter in hand and teach her some valuable life lessons; how to be grateful for what she has and to show appreciation, teach her that the external, superficial stuff like how someone fixes their hair or dress can be improved, but it is more important to look at someone through the eyes of love. While appearances are important to 16 year old girls and she might have been teasing you as a joke, you still want her to learn what is really important.

Ensure that she does some volunteer work over the summer, even if for a week, so she can see life for what it really is. You might consider giving her an allowance where she has to make a choice of how to spend it, rather than just purchasing everything she wants. The good thing is that you have picked up these traits in her and can help her to change her mindset and behavior before it is too late. You are not just raising a teenager, but teaching a girl how to be a woman.

Dear Hurt Mom, It sounds as though you are not being treated in a way that you deserve by your daughter. However, I also want you to bear several things in mind; first, your daughter is 16 years old and while she is old enough to understand that her behavior can be hurtful, she is also probably a bit immature and not focusing on the right things. Secondly, her attitude is not unique; when kids are young, they adore and look up to their parent but as they get older, their friends and celebrities are the ones who they seem to admire and follow most.

If the children don’t see their father often, it is understandable that they will react joyfully when he comes. While it seems like they are taking you for granted, don’t be jealous by their reaction to his visit

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.

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Send your questions confidentially to askkoren@live.com or via twitter at @korennorton

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Vol. 26, No. 45 • July 24 - 30, 2014

By Jay Bobbin

Kelsey Grammer Partners with Martin Lawrence on FX For anything and everything else Kelsey Grammer does, he always has a soft spot for television comedy.

After his turns in the Starz drama series Boss and two of this summer’s movie blockbusters — X-Men: Days of Future Past and Transformers: Age of Extinction — the former Frasier returns to weekly TV work by teaming with fellow sitcom veteran Martin Lawrence in the FX sitcom Partners, debuting Monday, Aug. 4. They play very dissimilar Chicago lawyers who forge a professional bond when Allen (Grammer), booted out of his father’s firm, offers to handle Marcus’ (Lawrence) divorce settlement.

“My dream, when I was a kid, was to do just everything,” Grammer says, “drama, comedy, film, theater ... to be able to have a career where you could navigate through all of it. That’s hard in America, because that’s not really the way we think about our actors. Where they have the most success is where we like to keep them.”

Meeting with Lawrence convinced Grammer that series comedy was his destiny again. “We’re not rein-

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venting the wheel here,” the five-time Emmy winner allows. “The real trick is putting Martin and myself in a room together, and there are some real nice people around us. This is ‘The Odd Couple’ reinvented, basically, maybe updated a little bit.”

Grammer also directed the Partners premiere. “I like that challenge,” he notes. “We actually frontloaded two episodes I directed, because I wanted to get Martin’s trust a little more.”

Partners follows the “1090” model FX exercised on Anger Management, meaning the network can pick up 90 more episodes at once, based on how the initial 10 fare.

“By definition, the process has to be short, and the creative input is our responsibility,” Grammer reasons. “In normal network programming these days, everybody’s got a say-so, and the process can be lengthy and sometimes kind of brutal. We don’t have to deal with that, and I’m actually very happy to be making snap decisions and doing a show we like. And let the chips fall where they may.”

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Your Guide to British Virgin Islands Events

By Jan Critchley

Myett’s Wine & Arts Festival Don’t miss this month’s Wine & Art Festival & Farmers Market at Myett’s on Sunday, July 27th from 1-5pm. There will be displays of local art, produce from local farmers and wine tasting, sponsored by Proudly African. There will be Steel Pan Vibes by Clem, a draw for a complimentary spa treatment and a chance to test your wine skills and to win a bottle in the blind tasting event! So make a day of it and head to the beach – where the beat goes on!

60s Ole Skool Party Don’t miss this opportunity to dress up in your favorite flowers and flairs and get your groove on for the 60s Ole Skool Party, at the Save the Seed Centre, this Friday, July 25th at 7pm. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 on the door. And, better yet it is for a good cause in aid of Tortola Child Rescue and Education Centre, Africa. There will be prizes for the best 60s outfit, most outrageous 60s footwear, singing in the 60s karaoke contest and much more. Call 494-7353 for more information.

Memorial Challenge Skullduggery is the name of the game at the annual Guy Eldridge Memorial Race and Manhattan Challenge, at Nanny Cay on Saturday, July 26th. This fun memorial race pitches our two yacht clubs head to head in an attempt to win the coveted Manhattan Yacht Club Trophy. Will the “Royals” get to keep it for another year? The selection race will start off Nanny Cay beach at 11am with dinghy relays to follow. For

more information contact Jules on 494-3286 or Martin on 496-8685.

Festival Low Down With the 60th Anniversary of Festival now underway, here are a few of the exciting events that you can look forward to this week. Soca Monach Competition This ever-popular event will take place on Friday, 25th July at the Festival Village starting at 8pm. There will be 16 competitors and the winner will perform on August 2nd at the International Soca and Calypso night with the local Calypso Monarch, The Razor Blades, Glama Girl, Skinny Fabulous, V.I.B.E and many more.

Miss Junior BVI This pageant is a first for the 60th Anniversary of Festival and on Sunday, July 27th at HLSCC (Eileen Parson’s Auditorium) at 7pm sharp, five young ladies will take to the stage all vying for this coveted title. This event replaces the Miss East End Pageant and as part of the run up to the final, the young ladies have already completed the promotional and interview segments of the competition. Tickets in advance are $20 and $25 on door and children under 12 pay $10.

Opening of Festival Village The festival grounds will once again be the capital for the celebrations in the heart of Road Town – and this year it will be named the “Iris Freeman Festiville” in honor of the long standing booth owner and cook.

The official Opening Ceremony takes place on Monday, July 28th at 7pm with a Torch Light Procession from the Palm Grove Shopping Centre to 7

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live music • events • concerts •

THURSDAY - JULY 24

UP’S BALLROOM — Annual Summer Sizzle “Global

ROAD TOWN

Glamour” Fashion Show from 8pm

PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm.

PEARLA’S BAR — 300 or Spartan themed summer

SHARKY’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm

jam from 9pm

CANE GARDEN BAY

SOFTBALL FIELD — Annual Rotary Kiddies Fiesta

QUITO’S — Happy Hour 5-7pm. Dinner from 6:30from 10am w/ VIBE, DJ Push Pop, Anasazi Dancers &

9:30pm feat. Quito solo at 7:30pm

much more MYETT’S — Simm plays live Sunset Happier Hour NANNY CAY 5-7pm. Awesome Crew band 7pm NANNY CAY — Guy Eldridge Memorial Race &

FRIDAY - JULY 25

Manhattan Challenge 10am

ROAD TOWN PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm SAVE THE SEED — 60s Ole Skool Party at 7pm

FISH N’ LIME — A Type of Toad live from 9pm.

FESTIVAL GROUNDS — Soca Monarch

Specials on Absolut Vodka Drinks

Competition 8pm

CANE GARDEN BAY

CANE GARDEN BAY

THE ELM — Brugal’s Special Happy Hour, Live Music

THE ELM — Beach BBQ, Live Music “Elm Tones” MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour with Candyman

MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour 5-7pm with Sim and Awesome Crew at 7pm.

5-7pm. Evolution Band 7pm.

QUITO’S — Happy Hour 5-7pm w/ Ras Rio. Quito &

QUITO’S — Beach BBQ Happy Hour 5pm with Too

the Edge 9:30pm

Smooth, dinner 6:30-9:30pm.

SATURDAY - JULY 26

SUNDAY - JULY 27

ROAD TOWN

EAST END

PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm

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WEST END

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HLSCC — Miss Junior BVI Pageant at 7pm

ts • parties • sports • movies and more

NORTH SHORE

TUESDAY - JULY 29

SEBASTIANS — Jamaican Sunday Brunch from

ROAD TOWN

11am with $3 Red Stripe

FESTIVAL GROUNDS — Youth Explosion w/ Jr.

CANE GARDEN BAY

Calypso Show & music by Caution Band, B Breezy,

THE ELM — BBQ Live Music “Elm Tones”

Showtime & Poizon Band

MYETT’S — Wine & Art Festival & Farmer’s Market

CANE GARDEN BAY

from 1-5pm w/ wine tasting. Special Brunch Menu &

QUITO’S — Happy Hour 5-7pm half price drinks &

Bottomless Mimosa’s. Steel Pan Vibes 1-4pm. Sunset Happier Hour 5-7pm. Surprise live Musician 6-8pm QUITO’S — CLOSED

MONDAY - JULY 28

UPCOMING EVENTS

apps. Dinner 6:30-9:30pm. Quito solo from 7:30pm MYETT’S — Simm plays live during Sunset Happier Hour 5-7pm. Awesome Crew 7pm.

60th Anniversary of Festival July 28 - Aug 9

WEDNESDAY - JULY 30

ROAD TOWN PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm FESTIVAL GROUNDS — Grand Opening of Iris Freeman Festiville 8pm w/ Torch Light Procession from

ROAD TOWN SHARKY’S — Quiz Night at 7pm & Salsa Dance Class at 9pm

Palm Grove 7pm. Entertainment with 4 Strong, VIBE &

FESTIVAL GROUNDS — Local Calypso Competition

Destra

with guest artists & special performance by Lawd

CANE GARDEN BAY

Strawn.

MYETT’S — Mexican Monday with Specialty

CANE GARDEN BAY

QUITO’S — Open at 3pm. Happy Hour 5-7pm half

Cultural Fair @ Noel Lloyd Park — Aug 1 BMSA Car Show — Aug 2

Margaritas, fish tacos. Candyman Sunset Happier Hour 5-7pm. Singing Chef Al 7pm

Cultural Night @ Festival Village — July 31

MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour 5-7pm w/ Awesome Crew & Tortola’s Own 3D Band.

price drinks & apps. Dinner from 6:30-9:30pm w/ Farm

QUITO’S — Happy Hour 5-7 half price drinks & apps.

to Table & Pizza Menu Specials

Quito plays solo from 5-7pm. Dinner from 6:30-9:30pm

International Soca Explosion — Aug 2 MIss BVI Pageant — Aug 3 Ole Time Dance @ Quitos — Aug 3 Festival Monday Grand Parade — Aug 4

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the village for the 8pm Opening Ceremony with Four Strong, V.I.B.E and Destra.

Youth Explosion New to the Festival this year, Youth Explosion will be on Tuesday, July 29th at the Festival Village and will feature a Jr Calypso show and music by Caution Band, B Breezy, Showtime and Poizon.

Local Calypso Competition Another event not to be missed this year, is the Local Calypso competition on Wednesday, July 30th when Sista Joyce will be defending her crown against Luther B, Shereen, Mighty Leh Leh, and many more.

Guest artists include Shebz, Mighty Rocky and Land Crab and an extra special performance for the 60th Anniversary by Lawd Strawn. Xtreme band will close out the night.

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By Jane Bakewell

Bahama Mama On a recent trip to the Bahamas, I found myself subconsciously making mental comparisons. How close was the Bahamian culture to the BVI? Did they have the same local foods, customs and cultural activities? Is there topography and climate similar?

My last trip to the Bahamas was as a 10-year old on a cruise from Florida with my uncle’s family. My three main memories were of the young divers, who for a small fee dove from the top of the ship into the harbor waters (very exciting), historic Fort Charlotte with its dungeon and stretch rack to torture prisoners and the colorful outdoor market. All things an impressionable young girl would not forget!

After a rather bumpy landing – due to a tropical storm that had our pilot go back out to sea for a wide arc to avoid the thunder and lightening, I was glad to land safely at the Nassau Airport. I had a wonderful conversation with my seat mate on the plane, a Bahamian woman whose family line went back many generations in the Bahamas and was responsive to all the questions this journalist with an ever inquisitive mind, peppered her with. I can recall the amazement people would utter after hearing the BVI had over 60 islands and cays. You can imagine my reaction, when I was informed the Bahamas chain encompasses over 700 islands and cays. They have to be counting rocks that poke above the ocean surface, I surmised.

Upon arrival I found everyone in the airport very friendly and several of the staff helped with directions to my waiting hotel transfer bus. I looked out the windows eager to see the palms and aqua blue waters, but what surprised me was that it was so flat.

I asked the driver where the mountains were, as my new Bahamian friend had informed me, she lived out of town in the country “over the hill.” The driver laughed and said that was an expression they used for that area – there really was no major hill one went over.

I was delighted that the conference I was attending was booked for the British Colonial Hilton, where most of the participants were staying. Not only is this stately hotel worth it’s 5-star rating, but it is the oldest and most historic hotel in the island, dating back to the 1800’s and is located in the heart of the charming downtown area with a wonderful beach front and white curtain draped cabanas…aaahh.

I found the food similar with some variations, the Bahamian independence celebrations were underway and their “Junkanoo” parade with colorful outfits, dancers and music was akin to the BVI Festival celebrations. Most of all, everywhere I went, I received a warm greeting and smile from the local residents. I felt right at home and hoped first-time travelers to the BVI also get an opportunity to experience this same heart-felt welcome.

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Vol. 26, No. 45 • July 24 - 30, 2014

By Jan Critchley

Rotary Kiddies Fiesta - Free School Bags for First 300 children This year marks the 21st Anniversary of the

sponsors, have decided to issue school bags filled

annual Rotary Club of Road Town Kiddies Fiesta,

with supplies for the first 300 school-age children to

which will take place on Saturday, July 26th at the

enter the venue.

Old Recreation Grounds (known

"It is by all means a fun event,

as the Softball Grounds).

and all proceeds from Kiddies

This is one great event for

Fiesta go towards community

the kids and definitely a day out

projects. Hence, we have under-

not to be missed with activities

taken to assist students prepare

such as the Arc Water Slide,

for the new school year and ease

Bungee Run III, an Obstacle

the financial burden on parents."

Course, Basketball, Sticky Wall,

Mr. Mohamed concluded.

Deluxe Jungle Play Center, a 14-

There will be lots of entertain-

hole mini golf course and a video

ment all day long with music by DJ

gaming center. Also invited are

Push Pop, and live performances

all of the children’s favorite mas-

by V.I.B.E., the Anasazi Dancers,

cots including Dora, Mickey & Minnie Mouse,

Intrigue

Sponge Bob and Ben Ten.

Grasshoppers and much more.

Club president, Mr. Shan Mohamed said that this

BVI

Dance

School,

BVI

So for lots of fun, surprises and prizes – make

year the Rotary Club of Road Town, together with

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Dancers,

this year’s Kiddies Fiesta one to remember.

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Vol. 26, No. 45 • July 24 - 30, 2014

By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway

A Tremendous Honor drop. “Anytime your fitness level drops then you know Virgin Gorda’s Norville Young – the Territory’s only you won’t be called for the next tournament,” he statFIBA certified referee, earlier this year became a FIFA ed. “Fitness is the key. They have always said, ‘don’t certified referee as well – worked both the 2014 CBC let fitness be a wall in getting to that next level’ and Men’s and Women’s tournament finals on his home you definitely have to be fit enough to do the basketcourt and in a few days, heads to Curacao to referee in ball tournament as well as football and as you can a FIFA U20 tournament. see, they are very close. So, there’s no time to lapse in “It was a tremendous honor to be able to referee between, therefore, I have to continue my fitness games at home, in front your home crowd in a tournapreparation. ment as great as this one was,” Young said. “But, to A major concern to him and his regional be able to be part of the women’s tournament, withCaribbean colleagues, Young said out having a female team particiis getting more young people in pating was good.” becoming involved in an officiatYoung’s first CBC stint was in ing capacity. Throughout the 2007 in Puerto Rico and in 2009 region he said they are finding when the tournament was held in everyone wants to play but the BVI. He also refereed in the nobody want to officiate. During Bahamas and a Centrobasket games however, everybody feels tournament in the Dominican that they can officiate and say refRepublic. erees are making this or that call.

“I was quite surprised that I “No matter what, if you are got the championship game for Norville Young interested, come out, whether you are a player, former both the men’s championship and the women’s champlayer, come and let us see exactly what you are interpionship,” Young reflected. “I never really expected it ested in and we all can learn together,” he explained. for both tournaments. But, I would say, that based on “I’m always available to go through the laws of the the work I did throughout the days of both tournagame, mechanics, tactics, the psychological aspects ments, that the head of the refereeing department of the game and fitness. We need younger referees had the confidence in me to put me in that position to involved.” officiate in both the men’s and women’s champiYoung said once one is capable, they are strong onships final. This is my fifth FIBA tournament as BVI mentally and physically, one will get the opportunity. certified referee.”

He noted that as a player, one might not get an opporSoon he departs for a Caribbean Football Union tunity to travel with a team. “But as a referee you can Men’s U20 Group Stage FIFA match in Curacao, July go anywhere even if your country doesn’t have a 28-Aug 4. team,” he noted. “That’s one of the benefits I’m enjoyRefereeing in both sports he said helps to maining right now.” tain his fitness level – something he cannot afford to Limin’ Times Entertainment Guide

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Weekly Suduko

The objective is to fill the full 9x9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3x3 “sub-grids” that compose the main grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9 – with no repeats within each row or column within the entire square. A partially completed grid is usually provided, which typically has a unique solution. See next weeks Limin’ Times issue for solution.