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Sept 3 - 9, 2015 Vol. 28, No. 1

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Foxy’ s 77th Birthday Bash Saturday, September 5th from 1pm

This Week’s Feature Story by Arlena Smith

The Reigning Claypso Queen It has been a month since we concluded our annual Emancipation celebrations and music plays a major role in our festivities. Every year the calypso competition draws a huge crowd and this year the reigning champ Joycelyn “Sistah Joyce” Searles came out and delivered “Pure Licks” to her rivals and retained her crown for the third year in a row – winning the competition with her hit songs, Pure Licks and Misery Love

Company.

Her song Pure Licks was a political commentary on the BVIs general elections, where one party won by a landslide victory. In the song, Searles wants to know why, with all the allegations of corruption and claims that the ordinary man was suffering, the people voted the party resoundingly back into office.

There were eight calypsonians who competed for the title this year, including Falco, Oginga, Mighty Rockey, Mighty Cloud, and King Paido. But Sistah Joyce came up victorious; after winning she said, "I feel great. Who Jah bless no man curse...I kept it real, sang about reality. I was confident in myself and God took care of the rest of it...I think Misery Love Company was the song, even though the people

Photo by: Andre “Shadow” Dawson

loved Pure Licks...It was not really easy for me; there were some excellent calypsonians this year, but the judges' decision is final. So I am going to get ready to go to Anguilla for the Leeward Islands Calypso competition and perform Victim and Misery Love Company and see if I can bring the crown home to the Virgin Islands. By the way she finished fourth for the BVI out of a total of eight countries.

It’s clear that Sistah Joyce is in the calypso game to stay bringing songs that touch on the issues and talk about what is happening in our society through her music. So, lets wait until next year and see if she can make it four straight years in a row.

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Ask Koren The Fight For Supremacy LifeAsk is aboutKoren competition from the time we are

Your personal E-therapist, is in the house!

other person is coming from.

3. Apologize when you are wrong. A truly great person is humble enough to recognize when she or she is wrong and say sorry. Winning cannot be more important than saving a relationship.

4. Timing is important.

Choose the correct time and place to state your case and make your point. Sometimes someone is more likely to listen depending on when it is and where you are.

5. What do you have to lose? Ask yourself, what is the worst thing that could happen if you just concede on a point? It is important to stand up for your rights, but sometimes you have to know when to walk away and when it is not worth it to fight.

Relationships are about loving and learning. You are learning to get along with someone who is different from you and nothing kills love more than being beaten over the head by someone’s opinions, being bashed by their stubbornness and being bruised by their selfishness. Love thrives when both parties can acknowledge difference, try to reach a common understanding and when that doesn’t work, just kindly agree to disagree and keep the love alive.

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

born…we are competing for our parents’ time, competing against siblings and classmates, competing at work so it’s no surprise that in relationships, couples often vie to see who is in charge, who makes the decisions and who will come out on top in arguments.

When we consider why people who have been married for 30 and 40 years don’t have as many arguments, we notice that some have just learn to shrug their shoulders at some things and they did not take everything personally.

What is the difference in the young and the older folks why they approach conflicts differently? Often the young are fighting for a sense of self, to preserve their identity and their rights. As you get older and your outlook and priorities shift, you begin to realize that you can’t change anyone, no one can change you without your consent and you realize that it makes no sense to sweat the small stuff because it leads to stress, high blood pressure and ulcers.

What are some lessons that we can learn about the battle for control in relationships?

1. Compromise is important. Sometimes you have to meet the other person halfway. Their views matter too and things just cannot always go your way. In fact, why are you with them if you don’t think they have anything meaningful to contribute?

2. Seek to understand rather than always to be understood. Sometimes instead of trying to get your point across, listen and try to understand where the

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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By Jay Bobbin

Jon Voight in Ray Donovan Jon Voight, the Coming Home Oscar winner has a Golden Globe Award for his meaty portrayal of Mickey Donovan, a rough-around-the-edges parolee and estranged father of Liev Schreiber’s law-firm“fixer” title character on the moody Showtime drama, Ray Donovan.

“I love the art of acting, and it’s my joy to be on a set trying to bring a character to life,” Voight says with evident pleasure during a chat in Los Angeles. “This is a delicious character, and I’m very grateful for it. I do draw on some of the problems I’ve faced in in the past for it.”

“Liev is very, very special. His work is really extraordinary, and his potential is just enormous.”

The father of actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie, Voight obviously is happy about his 2014 Emmy bid for Ray Donovan, but he also considers it realistically. “To be one of those actors who gets a place where you get consistent work, it’s very hard,” he notes. “All actors are the same. After the job is over, we wonder where the next job will come from, so we all go through that anxiety.

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“As you get older, you say, ‘Well, I’ve been through this before and something will happen, whatever it is.’ Of course, also as you get older, the parts get more scarce. I look back at that young fellow who was trying to make his way and make enough to live on, and I was very fortunate to meet Pam Polifroni, who was the casting director for Gunsmoke.

Indeed, Voight’s history with television — also encompassing the miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove and a stint on 24 — dates back to the start of his career. He appeared on such other classic series as Naked City and The Defenders before the role of hustler Joe Buck in Oscar’s best picture of 1969, Midnight Cowboy, propelled him to bigscreen stardom.

“Each successful series has a set of problems that (its makers have) solved in a unique way, in order for them to produce the show, and I’m very interested by that,” Voight reflects. “That’s one of the reasons I did 24.

Having watched it, I was intrigued to see how they made it. I wanted to see how they worked it out.”

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By Claudia Colli

Foxy Birthday Bash

Rotary Clubs to collect

The incomparable Foxy will be celebrating his 77th birthday in style this Saturday, September 5th and is inviting his friends from around the Virgin Islands to join him. One of the BVI’s most iconic figures, Foxy launched his first bar and restaurant on Great Harbour in 1968, and since then has officiated at some of the BVI’s best parties including Foxy’s Wooden Boat Regatta, one of the Territory’s classic racing events.

His annual New Years fete is not only one of the biggest happenings in the BVI, it is considered one of the world’s top five New Year’s Eve celebrations.

All the more reason not to miss this year’s Birthday Bash, which will begin at 1 pm and feature music by the St Croix fungi band Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights, and DJ Dre from Tortola. The party starts at 1 pm and will carry on into the evening. There will be a free lunch (while it lasts), a birthday cake and a champagne toast. If you don’t have your own boat, the New Horizon Ferry will be providing ferry service from Tortola.

Over the years Foxy has been honored for his contributions to BVI tourism and his help in forming the Jost Van Dyke Preservation Society which is dedicated to preserving the islands’ historical and natural heritage. Make sure to come to Jost on Saturday and toast Foxy on his 77th birthday and his many achievements.

items to be sent down

Dominica Relief

Gunners vs Starz 9:30pm; Saturday 5th September

Relief efforts continue for the island of Dominica, devastated by tropical storm Erika which caused mud-

to Dominica. To donate look for the Nagico tent on the Festival Grounds which should be set up by this weekend. One container has already been shipped.

Drinking water, dry goods/groceries, baby supplies, food and clothes, blankets, comforters, shovels, pick axes, chain saws, wheelbarrows and inflatable beds, among other items, are being requested.

The BVI Red Cross is organizing cash donations as well. BVI Red Cross Director Helen Frett says a cash collection box is located at the Red Cross headquarters. Or deposit directly into account 215053229 at First Caribbean.

Basketball Play Basketball Fans have more games to enjoy this month as the Julian Fraser Save the Seed National Basketball

League

schedule

continues

into

September. On Friday Sept 4th Young Starz vs Spartans 6:30pm, Knights Vs Pure Payaz 8pm, West

Avengers vs Real Tool 6:30pm, Bayside Blazers vs Run It Red 8pm, Talk Done vs New Heights 9:30pm;

slides and flooding and numerous deaths. The

Sunday 6th September Real Tool vs Starz 6:30pm and

Dominica Relief Effort Group is working with all the

Splash Brothers vs Knights 8pm.

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THURSDAY - SEPTEMBER 3

ELM’S BEACH BAR — Lunch Daily 11am-4pm.

Beach BBQ w/ Live Music. Serving Caribbean Fusion

ROAD TOWN

Dinner 6-9pm

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm CANE GARDEN BAY

SATURDAY - SEPTEMBER 5 ROAD TOWN

MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour w/

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

Candyman. $2 Carib & Coors Light & special DUFF’S BOTTOM priced bar menu ELM’S BEACH BAR— Lunch Daily 11am-4pm.

Happy Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion

SAVE THE SEED — Basketball League. Avengers vs.

Real Tool 6:30pm; Bayside Blazers vs. Run It Red 8pm; Talk Done vs. New Heights 9:30pm

Dinner 6-9pm FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 4

CANE GARDEN BAY

ROAD TOWN

MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour $2 Carib Beer &

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

Coors Lights & special priced bar menu.

DUFF’S BOTTOM

ELM’S BEACH BAR— Lunch 11am-4pm. Happy

SAVE THE SEED — Basketball League. Young Starz

Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm

vs. Spartans 6:30pm; Knights vs. Pure Payaz 8pm;

VG & OUTER ISLANDS

West Gunners vs. Starz 9:30pm

FOXY’S — Foxy’s 77th Birthday Bash with music by

CANE GARDEN BAY

Stanley & the Ten Sleepless Knights & DJ Dre at 1pm

MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour w/ $2 Carib &

SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 6

Coors Lights w/special priced bar menu. Evolution ROAD TOWN Band 7pm. Dance contest.

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

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DUFF’S BOTTOM

CANE GARDEN BAY

SAVE THE SEED — Basketball League. Real Tool vs.

MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour with

Starz 6:30pm; Brothers vs. Knights 8pm

Candyman with $2 Carib & Coors Lights w/ spe-

CANE GARDEN BAY

cial priced bar menu.

MYETT’S — Sunday Brunch w/Bottomless Mimosas

ELM’S BEACH BAR— Lunch Daily 11am-4pm.

till 3pm.Vishall & DJ Jephet at Beach Bar. Sunset

Happy Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion

Happier Hour 5-7pm. Live entertainment

Dinner 6-9pm

ELM’S BEACH BAR — Lunch Daily 11am 4pm.Beach BBQ w/ Live Music. Serving Caribbean

WEDNESDAY - SEPTEMBER 9 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from

Fusion Dinner 6-9pm 5pm - 7pm MONDAY - SEPTEMBER 7 CANE GARDEN BAY ROAD TOWN

MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour with $2 Carib

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

& Coors Lights & special priced bar menu. Live

CANE GARDEN BAY

local entertainment by 3D Band Dinner &

MYETT’S — Mexican Monday with 2 for 1 speciality

Dance 7pm

Margaritas & Munchies. Sunset Happier Hour w/

ELM’S BEACH BAR— Lunch Daily 11am-4pm.

Candyman 5-7pm. Live entertainment

Happy Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion

TUESDAY - SEPTEMBER 8 Dinner 6-9pm. 2 for 1 specials on Painkiller & ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

Rum Punches

UPCOMING HAPPENINGS

Sherwin Gardner Live September 19

CIL & UMI presents A Walk to Remember Fashion Show 2 — Sept 11 Rugby World Cup 2015 @ Capt. Mulligans — Sept 18 Back to School Regatta — Sept 19-20 National Theatre Live Man + Super Man — Sept 26 “Divorce Papers” Feat.

Oliver Samuel — Oct 10 Virgin’s Cup — Oct 17 National Theatre Live Of Mice & Men — Oct 24

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By Julian Putley

A Hero in our Midst One usually associates governors to the overseas territories as those men (no women yet) who are in the autumn of their careers and who have been awarded a Caribbean posting almost as a reward for many years in the diplomatic service. This was not so with Peter Penfold, governor of the BVI from 1991 to 1995 and at the young age of 48 years. Penfold’s tour in the BVI was marked by considerable successes in drug interdicting, navigating the tricky waters of the burgeoning offshore international business and getting along with the ‘marvelous chief minister, the irascible Hamilton Lavity Stoutt.’ Penfold married his second wife, Celia from Trinidad, whilst in the BVI. Recently I read a fascinating book by Peter Penfold, Atrocities, Diamonds and Diplomacy, which he based on a subsequent posting as British High Commissioner to West Africa’s Sierra Leone. Three weeks after his arrival the country sank into a civil war where bloodthirsty rebels, notorious for amputations and beheadings, ousted the democratically elected president. Penfold stood by President Kabbah and at the same time saw the evacuation of hundreds of persons from the international community while risking his own life in desperate circumstances.

The ‘Arms to Africa’ Sandline affair was a contentious issue whereby UN sanctions were put in place to prevent arms being supplied to Sierra Leone.

However, the sanctions were obviously meant to deny

weapons to the military junta and in fact were much needed by the legitimate government and its civil defense department to defend itself from the rebels, one of whose objectives was to control the country’s diamond mines and other valuable natural resources.

It seems that Penfold was privy to Kabbah’s association with Sandline and its intention to provide ‘military equipment’ to government forces. Eventually it was Penfold who was made the scapegoat although the UK foreign office was fully aware of the circumstances.

In Peter Penfold’s three year tour in Sierra Leone he was highly regarded by the people of that country and was awarded the status of Paramount Chief. It was his unwavering intention that the people should be helped to maintain their fledgling democracy and share in the country’s wealth for the good of all.

I found the book to be an insightful look at Sierra Leon’s civil wars which raged on and off for years after his departure in the year 2000. If any lesson can be learned from the Sierra Leone story it is that civil servants in Whitehall should pay closer attention to those on the ground in the thick of the action. That the book was written by a former BVI governor, made it all the more interesting.

Peter Penfold’s book: Atrocities, Diamonds and Diplomacy published by Pen and Sword Books had a second printing in 2013.

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By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway

Good Bye Bird’s Nest While many witnessed the 15th International In the 400m, the event I ran in as a competitor, Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World was the greatest field ever assembled for the event in Championships in Beijing, China, some luckily by telits history with five, yes, five men in the lineup who evision, or via online streaming, I had a front row seat had run 43.96 seconds or faster, including our to see all the action and walked away with the experiCaribbean’s Kirani James of Grenada. South Africa’s ence of a lifetime.

Wayde Van Niekerk, the leader coming in, led the field Of 216 presidents of associations making up the to the line in 43.48 seconds with the USA’s LaShaun IAAF, not only was I able to see the action, but was the Merritt finishing in a personal best 43.65 and James in only association president accredited as a photojoura season’s best 43.78. nalist. It was my third time carrying the North A proud moment was seeing Anguilla born Shara American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Proctor – who now competes for Great Britain and has banner, covering our regional athletes – including family here – winning the Long Jump silver medal with Daegu, South Korea in 2011 and a British Record leap of 7.07m Moscow, Russia in 2013.

(23’2 ”). Proctor competed in While Jamaica’s Usain Bolt the territory several times repreand ShellyAnn Fraser-Pryce senting Anguilla, during the were leading the way with stelLeeward Islands Jr. lar performances and picking up Championships which she won their third 100/200 and 4x100m and had her first leap over 5.50m relay doubles, regional athletes (18 feet) here. did well on a whole.

It was also good to see Our own Chantel Malone, Antigua and Barbuda’s Men’s despite missing the Long Jump 4x100m Relay quartet making The Bird's Nest Stadium final, was 10th in Group B and the final, with two of the athletes – 21st overall of 34 competitors. She finished three Daniel Bailey and Tahir Walsh – who compete in the positions ahead of three times defending champ BVI, on their squad. They followed up on St. Kitts and Brittney Reese of the USA, who won the event in Nevis’ 4x100m final’s berth in 2013 in Moscow and it 2009, 2011 and 2013. was also a preview of what we can see when the BVI Veteran Tahesia Harrigan-Scott, didn’t have a hosts the OECS Track and Field Championships next good race, running 11.47 seconds in her 100m.

July 1-3, as athletes come to our shores in a final tune Having been in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic up for the Rio Olympic Games.

Games, the venues looked just like they were then.

Seeing our regional athletes holding their own on The Chinese maintain and keep their property clean the world stage and being able to capture the images, and there’s no graffiti. was a wonderful experience and lots of Bird’s Nest Outside of Bolt and Fraser-Pryce, there were a memories. Photos can be seen on the BVI Athletics myriad of stellar performances from the world’s best Association’s Facebook page. athletes across the board.

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By Claudia Colli

Black or White As it turns out things are neither black or white in this melodramatic story of Elliot Anderson (Kevin Costner), who loses his 17-year-old daughter in childbirth, leaving he and his wife to take care of their biracial granddaughter, Eloise (Jillian Estell).

But when his wife, the primary care giver, dies unexpectedly in a car crash, the wealthy, hard drinking lawyer is suddenly thrust into full time fatherhood. Taking time off from work to take care of Eloise, now seven, Elliot knows that eventually he will have to return to work, and throws himself into his new parental role. When Eloise has trouble with her math homework, Elliot hires Duvan, a brilliant African immigrant tutor (a delightful Mpho Koaho), who not only helps Eloise with her math, but also teaches her piano and acts as chauffeur when Elliot goes on a bender. Before long he becomes an indispensable part of the family.

Eloise is happy with her almost storybook life, she has a beautiful home, loves her grandfather and does well at the private school she attends. But Elliot is not her only close relative, she also has her paternal grandmother, Rowena (Octavia Spencer). Rowena is a powerhouse who lives in the “other section” of LA. She is an entrepreneur running several businesses and is the matriarch of a large family – many of whom seem to live in her large home or very nearby.

It is a loving, happy, but messier existence than Eloise is used to.

Family is everything to Rowena and she cannot understand how Eloise can be happy with a family that consists only of her father, a housekeeper and a tutor, so she goes to court to win custody of her Limin’ Times Entertainment Guide

granddaughter. Her lawyer is her brother Jeremiah (Anthony Mackie), a slick attorney who will bend the truth in order to win a case. But while Rowena is a doting mother and grandmother, she is in denial about her son Reggie, Eloise’s father – a petty thief and drug addict that abandoned Eloise’s mother after she got pregnant.

The case hinges on proving that Reggie has reformed, a hard but not impossible sell. The movie addresses race head on, Rowena is not shy about showing that Eloise has to accept her black roots, while Elliot has to determine if his dislike of Reggie, the Dad, is racially motivated, or solely in the best interest of his granddaughter.

Whatever their motivations, it is clear that both Elliot and Rowena love Eloise and want what they think is best for her. What is sometimes left out of the equation is what Eloise wants for herself. A courtroom custody battle ensues and like many a battle it is not initially clear who will win – or at least not until the very end.

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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.