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Sept 10 - 16, 2015 Vol. 28, No. 2

A Walk to Remember 2

Fashion show & Grand Drawing at Caribbean Insurers Courtyard

Friday, September 11th at 5pm

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This Week’s Feature Story by Claudia Colli

Art and History at the Sugar Works From art shows to nature and historical exhibits, the Lower Estate Sugar Works Museum has been displaying the BVI’s diverse cultural heritage for nearly a decade. For six of those years Olive Vanterpool, Museum Supervisor, has been instrumental in organizing and often painstakingly researching each presentation.

The former teacher and guidance counselor says she finds it rewarding to research and disseminate the information used for each of my exhibits. I get joy from doing this.”

The current exhibit, which centers around Emancipation and its origins is timed to coincide with the Territory’s August Emancipation Festival. Among the exhibits are photos and short bios of the Festival Village Booth Honorees and Booth Owners. Also on exhibit are slave records including a list of slaves living on the cays in the Virgin Islands at the time of emancipation as well as the transcript for the Emancipation Proclamation of 1834. There is also a copy of the Freedom Address by A. Readie, Secretary of Sir W.M.G. Colebrooke, Governor of the Leeward Islands which was read out in different communities on August 1, 1838.

There could be no better venue for such cultural shows than the Lower Estate Sugar Works Museum a sugar refinery and rum distillery built in 1780. It was later used to process and bale cotton. Today it houses a permanent collection of artifacts from VI life through the centuries.

The Emancipation theme is an ongoing one. Last summer the exhibit featured Festival Queens throughout the years. This year some of the past Prince and Princess contestants are highlighted. Also on display are news clippings, posters, flyers and booklets of past Festivals.

There is always something new at the museum and upcoming exhibits include the Youth Chairity Exhibit and Auction from November 6-27, and in December, Annie McPhail of Nutmeg Designs will exhibit innovative art and furnishings made of sustainable materials. In March Lisa Gray of The Gallery will host an art show.

“I would like more residents to visit the museum,” says Mrs. Vanterpool and I encourage them to bring their children as well. There is so much to learn here about their history.”

The Festival Exhibit will be on display through September.

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Ask Koren

Your personal E-therapist, is in the house!

My Happiness or My Child’s Happiness

Ask Koren

Dear Koren, I have a four year old daughter with my ex boyfriend and she really loves her father and is happy when he is around. The problem is that I have to subject myself to his touching, his comments and sometimes even intimacy and all that just to keep him happy so he can visit her. I lost a guy I was interested in because of him. Should I let him go and let my daughter suffer or endure this torture for her sake?

She is so happy when we are all together. I should add that he has a girlfriend.

–Fed-up

She has gotten used to having him around, so it will be difficult for her if he stops.

No one can take his place but you can ensure that she has a strong support system of grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. Find interesting things for her to do during the times he would have visited.

If he still comes around, try to minimize the tension between you two and if possible. Remind him that as a father, he is a role model for his daughter and he should recognize that his behavior and attitude will be a reflection of what she expects or looks for in a guy when she gets older. Help him to understand that he should treat women the way he wants someone to treat his daughter and that should help to put things in perspective.

You also need to be a role model and accepting emotional and sexual abuse by tolerating his advances are just not the right way. It’s also confusing to her to see you together and feel happy as a family, when you are not truly a family.

I hope you can get the courage to separate your job as a mother from your role as an ex and work as co-parents rather than pretend partners. In the long run, it will be better for all involved.

Dear Fed-up, Under no circumstances should you allow yourself to be touched or involved in any intimacy with anyone against your will; that is abuse and a violation of your basic human rights. I can only imagine how horrible you feel when you describe it as torture and it pains me to think that you have to endure this from a man you are not involved with.

Your daughter’s happiness is a priority, but it should not involve you sacrificing yourself; please stop immediately. You don’t have control over his comments, but you can ask him to be respectful of you at your home. If he stops visiting her or contributing to her care, then take him to court for maintenance because that is his responsibility. He might tell her it’s your fault why he is not coming, so she might blame you. Don’t try to bad talk him to her; that is not productive.

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 Claudia Colli

A Walk to Remember 2 Enjoy an elegant fashion show, and music by VIBE, DJ Dre, Jeremy Vanterpool and Monique Chapedelaine in “A Walk to Remember” hosted by Caribbean Insurers, in association with the BVI HIV/AIDS foundation and UMI Fashions this Friday September 11th at 5pm. Held in the courtyard behind Caribbean Insurers, the event will also feature a special preview of the contestants for the Miss World BVI competition in October.

Models “walking down the runway” will be wearing evening and casual wear from UMI’s and swimwear and resort wear by Trefle. And all this fun is for a good cause. There will be a grand drawing for a Mercedez Benz ML300 with proceeds going to the BVI HIV/Aids Foundation. Event organizer Simone Monsanto described last year’s event as “fun-filled and relaxing” and expects the same for this year. So come out enjoy fashion fun, music and a good time this Friday.

Roll the Dice at Myetts Myetts will be hosting a Sunday Social with DJ Ah Milli Sounz from 3 to 7 pm on Sept 13. Chill, eat, drink, dance, socialize and swim at this Ultimate Sunset Party. Feeling lucky? The Myett’s gift shop will be having its annual lucky sale. The number you throw determines your discount of up to 60%. Shop for distinctly original gift ideas, beachwear and other tropical merchandise – or get a jump on your Christmas shopping at a bargain.

Win an iPad Students, you can snag an iPad if you win the Financial Services Essay Competition – Building on a Thriving and Sustainable Financial Services Sector in the British Virgin Islands. Contest details are available

at www.bvi.gov.vg.

Entries must be submitted by email to pclyne@gov.vg and must be received by Sept 14th; the winner will be announced on Sept 17th.

VI Athletes in Action Three BVI athletes have been competing in the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa since Sept 5th. The games continue through the 11th and if you want to see daily highlights and the closing ceremony you can watch online free of charge at www.tv1somoa.tv. Users must register to access footage.

Basketball Continues Basketball fans have more games to enjoy this weekend at the Hon Julian Fraser Save the Seed National Basket Ball League tournament. On Friday Sept 11th the Bayside Blazers play Real Tool at 6:30pm and at 8pm it’s Run it Red vs Starz; On Saturday, Splash Brothers vs Young Starz at 6:30pm; Z6ne 6 Ballers vs New Heights at 8pm and at 9:30pm it’s Avengers vs West Gunners. On Sunday don’t miss Run It Red vs Warriors at 6:30 pm and Talk Done vs Spartans at 8pm.

And Coming Up . . .

Transformation Church International will be holding its 6th annual Spirit of Jubilee from Sept 16-20 with a special concert by Sherwin Gardner on Saturday, the 19th. Also, bid farewell to Father Ronald Branch of St George’s Episcopal (Anglican) Church at a reception and dinner at Maria’s by the Sea on Saturday September 19th.

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live music • events • concerts • p

THURSDAY - SEPTEMBER 10

DUFF’S BOTTOM SAVE THE SEED — Basketball League. Bayside

ROAD TOWN

Blazers vs. Real Tool 6:30pm; Run it Red vs. Starz 8pm

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

CANE GARDEN BAY

CANE GARDEN BAY

MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour w/ $2 Carib & Coors Lights w/special priced bar menu. Evolution Band 7pm. Dance contest. Speciality Pizza Night.

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

Beach BBQ w/ Live Music. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm

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MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour w/

SATURDAY - SEPTEMBER 12

Candyman. $2 Carib & Coors Light & special

ROAD TOWN

priced bar menu

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

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

DUFF’S BOTTOM

Happy Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion

SAVE THE SEED — Basketball League. Splash

Dinner 6-9pm

Brothers vs. Young Starz 6:30pm; Z6ne 6 Ballers vs.

FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 11

New Heights 8pm; Avengers vs. West Gunners 9:30pm

ROAD TOWN

CANE GARDEN BAY

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

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

CIL COURTYARD — A Walk to Remember 2 Fashion

Coors Lights & special priced bar menu. Buy one dinner

Show & Grand Drawing of Mercedez Benz ML300

entrée get one free! Speciality Pizza Night.

Drawing entertainment by VIBE, DJ Dre, Jeremy

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

Vanterpool, Monique Chapedelaine, Trefle from 5pm

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

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s • parties • sports • movies and more

SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 13

Candyman 5-7pm. Live entertainment

ROAD TOWN

TUESDAY - SEPTEMBER 15

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

ROAD TOWN

DUFF’S BOTTOM

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

UPCOMING HAPPENINGS

CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour with Candyman with $2 Carib & Coors Lights w/ special priced bar menu.

SAVE THE SEED — Basketball League. Run it Red vs.

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

Warriors 6:30pm; Talk Done vs. Spartans 8pm

Happy Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion

CANE GARDEN BAY

Dinner 6-9pm

MYETT’S — Sunday Brunch w/Bottomless Mimosas

WEDNESDAY - SEPTEMBER 16

till 3pm. Sunday Social w/ DJ Ah Milli Soundz 3-7pm.The

ROAD TOWN

ultimate sunset party.

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from

ELM’S BEACH BAR — Lunch Daily 11am -

5pm - 7pm

4pm.Beach BBQ w/ Live Music. Serving Caribbean

CANE GARDEN BAY

Fusion Dinner 6-9pm MONDAY - SEPTEMBER 14 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm CANE GARDEN BAY

MYETT’S — Buy one dinner entrée get one free!

Sunset Happier Hour with $2 Carib & Coors Lights

Sherwin Gardner Live September 19

Rugby World Cup 2015 @ Capt. Mulligans — Sept 18 Ah Milli Soundz Turns 3 Party @ Myett’s Beach Front — Sept 18 Back to School Regatta — Sept 19-20

& special priced bar menu. Dinner & Dance 7pm.

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

Light It Up Run/ Walk — Sept 26

Happy Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion

MYETT’S — Mexican Monday with 2 for 1 speciality

Dinner 6-9pm. 2 for 1 specials on Painkiller &

Margaritas & Munchies. Sunset Happier Hour w/

Rum Punches

Local Arts & Crafts & Wine Tasting feat. Old Mango @ Myett’s — Sept 27 National Theatre Live Man + Super Man — Sept 26

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By Jay Bobbin

You Asked...We Answered Q: Is this really the final season for “Parenthood”?

Is there any chance NBC will change its mind?

A: Though we never like to say “never,” it seems pretty certain that when the network has been saying “Farewell Season,” it’s meant. For a while, it was anything but definite that the current, closing round of the show even would happen. The audience for “Parenthood” never has been huge, but it certainly has been loyal, so NBC should be credited for honoring that fact and allowing the series the wrap-up it evidently feels its fans deserve.

From what co-star Erika Christensen (alias Julia on the series) told us recently, from the time they all returned to work in the summer, the cast and crew have accepted that this is the end. As viewers likely recognize, the stories have been designed to provide some sort of closure for the characters ... or, at least, a strong sense of what the future holds for them.

Q: While I know about a TV movie titled “The Royals” — starring Elizabeth Hurley — that is due out in 2015, is there also a TV series by the same name with the same actors? If so, when will it air and on what channel?

A: Actually, they’re the same project. The contemporary drama is the first scripted series for E!

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Entertainment Television, which will debut it in March.

Hurley plays England’s queen in the program from the main creative forces behind “One Tree Hill,” and even if the premiere winds up being billed as a “movie,” it’ll still be the first episode of the series.

Q: Watching repeats of “The Love Boat,” I always hear Jack Jones singing the theme song, but I seem to recall that Dionne Warwick also did it. Am I right?

A: You are. Jones’ version was used for most of the series’ 1977-87 run, but during the last full season (the 10th and last one consisted of only a few “special episode” airings), Warwick’s take was heard over the opening credits. The idea to utilize her may have come from the fact that she had done the title song for another ABC show produced by Aaron Spelling, Finder of Lost Loves.

Q: It’s nice to see Maura Tierney doing drama again on The Affair. Didn’t she do another comedy series after “NewsRadio”?

A: Since that radio station sitcom, her television work has been principally of a dramatic nature on shows including ER, The Whole Truth, Rescue Me, The Good Wife and even an Internet series titled Ruth & Erica. Tierney has made returns to screen humor with the occasional guest shot The Office and movie work Baby Mama, Semi-Pro, Welcome to Mooseport.

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By Arlena Smith

After the Storm… ing out vital bridges, disrupting water, electricity and telecommunication services.

Links with the outside world were cut, as floodwaters and debris covered the tarmac at the main commercial airport in the east of the country, as well as the smaller landing strip in the capital, Roseau. With the death toll at 20 and more people still missing the prime minister has declared disaster status for nine local areas that were hit hardest by the storm.

Recovery efforts are underway. The storm emergency crews were using heavy equipment sent by the governments of Venezuela, Martinique and Guadaloupe.

Hundreds of men worked to reopen the country's main airport.

But there is still much that needs to be done. The effects of Erika will be felt for generations to come and the storm could set the country’s development back two decades.

Immediate aid arrived from its Caribbean island neighbours, including helicopter airlifts, medical supplies, bottled water and other essentials. Cuba sent doctors and nurses, and the crew of the Royal Navy auxiliary ship Lyme Bay is now assisting with temporary water supplies in areas that have been cut off.

You too can do your part to help our neighbour. The Dominica Relief Effort Group is working with the Rotary Club to collect items to be sent; also the BVI Red Cross is organizing cash donations, which can be dropped off at the Red Cross Headquarters in town or directly deposited into account 2150532299 at First Caribbean Bank. No item is too big or small let’s all Help Heal Dominica.

The eastern Caribbean island of Dominica generally known as the "Nature Island of the Caribbean" with its countless rivers, waterfalls and lush green hillsides. Sandwiched between the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique it is the place I also call home. In fact, I was there just a few short weeks before what will surely go down in history books as the worst storm to hit Dominica, probably, ever.

The night of August 26th began as any other night for many. The entire Leeward Islands including the BVI was on alert, warned of a tropical system moving in that would bring much needed showers as most of the island had been experiencing drought like conditions the past few months. Tropical Storm Erika would be the fifth named storm of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, weather systems that are quite common during this time of year.

But the residents of Dominica were not prepared for what came next. All the forecasts said Erika was an unorganized system and we could expect some rain.

Well, it rained for five straight hours on Thursday, August 27th dumping approximately 12.64 inches of rain in that short period. Here in the BVI we braced for the storm and were very lucky to come away with very little damage.

However, as morning broke across Dominica, the full scale of the devastation became apparent.

Landslides and rock falls had covered villages and blocked major roads. More than 12 major rivers had broken their banks, causing severe flooding and tak11

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By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway

An Invasion by Pirates Through the first four games of the BVI Softball Association best of seven Championships Series between the Pirates and Reds, no team could win consecutive games.

After evening the series at 2-2 last Sunday, the Pirates took control on Friday night with a 10-1 victory, as the first team with consecutive wins.

On Sunday, Rico Penn and his cousin Nicos Penn hit first inning 3-run homers, giving the Pirates a 6-0 lead over the Reds. The resilient Reds didn’t fold and made it 6-5, in their first turn at bat.

With control issues, Reds pitcher Warren Brooks walked the bases loaded in the third and with two outs, Devon Bedford drove in three runs on a double to center, for the Pirates’ 8-5 lead.

In the bottom of the inning, the Reds’ Jerry Gooding tripled with two outs for his second extra base hit, then came home on Akeem Francis’ double to make it 8-6.

Brooks worked the bases loaded in the fourth and was relieved by 65-year old Roy Hill, the league’s oldest player in his 50th season with two outs. Nicos connected for a 3-run double off Hill to give the Pirates an 11-6 advantage and his fifth RBI. The Reds came up with a run in the fifth, but Tramore Fraser lined a 3-run homer to left field for his fifth run batted in on the night, giving the Pirates a 147 victory and the title.

“We didn’t bat and we didn’t stick with our game plan—bunting, bunting, bunting, bunting and more bunting,” Reds manager Julian Adams said. “We didn’t do it. We talked about it, then went for the long ball and Woodrow (Allen Smith) floating it in there – we know he’s a good pitcher and he’s going to pitch – you

2015 Softball Champs Pirates

can’t expect him to go down easy. He’s going to fight it out. But, we did not stick to the game plan.

Congratulations to the champs and nuff respect to Woodrow.”

Brooks who took the loss, said ball control was what it came down to with his deliveries. “I haven’t been having it for a while,” he said of his control.

“There were little things here and there that could have been different, but the who thing it came down to, I didn’t throw strikes. And if I threw strikes, I can beat that team.”

Smith who won the game, thanked God, his sponsors, his mother and fans and said the victory was for the team as he has several titles under his belt. “The team played their heart out and tried to win,” he noted. “Only one thing I regret. I wish Sheep (Neville Smith who retired before the season) was here, so they can’t say since he wasn’t here, I won a championship. I have to call him out of retirement.”

Smith said the Reds are a great team with good batting, good fielding and have good camaraderie and they stick together, but lack one thing – a good pitcher.

“They always fight,” he noted. “If they don’t get that pitcher, they’ll always be in the same position.”

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By Jane Bakewell

The Physician Based on a novel by Noah Gordon, this is a classic epic film in the genre of Exodus or Braveheart – so settle in for dirt, sand, battles and lots of gore with very little hygiene in the mix. That being said, the story set roughly in the 10th century “Dark Ages” is quite compelling – involving a young poor English urchin, Rob Cole (Tom Payne), who loses his mother to an incurable disease and is cast on his own wits.

He becomes the assistant of a traveling English Barber – think “snake oil salesman,” who offers to pull teeth and do quick amputations in a time when doctors were only affordable to the upper class.

The young boy as he grows, develops a real inter-

tas and empathetic acting skills to this character and

est in understanding and curing disease and learns of

draws you into this brew of medicine, religious tradi-

a famous scholar and physician in faraway Persia.

tions and the taboo surrounding “black magic.” This

Desiring to sit at the feet of the famed Ibn Sina (Ben

was an age when autopsies were not performed, as

Kingsley) Rob must first hide his identity in a Middle

the dead body was considered sacred, so much

Eastern world hostile to Christianity, and takes on the

guesswork went into where organs were actually

Jewish persona of Yassi Ben Benjamin, even perform-

placed. Rob however, gets a clandestine chance to

ing a circumcision on himself to seal his religious

open up a cadaver to explore and is caught in the act

identity. He then crosses the sea and embarks on an

and sentenced to death along with his master for

odyssey across the desert in a camel caravan to get

necromancy.

to the famed Islamic city of Isfahan. On the way in the

The film evokes the time and feel of this age with

caravan of travelers he meets a young, dark-eyed

all its superstition and quick executions, a time when

beauty, Rebecca (Emma Rigby) betrothed to an older

the black plague was picking off people like flies, and

Jewish aristocrat and the sub-plot of a blooming

cures were scant and fatalism a religion of its own.

romance is set in motion.

The quest for truth is like a shaft of light in this musty

The young student finds the famed physician and

village atmosphere and the story is strong enough to

is accepted into his elite entourage of disciples. Ben

carry you through the misery to a place of hope –

Kingsley as the famed mystic healer lends his gravi-

even if that place lays in the future.

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