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Vol. 30, No. 31 Nov 8 – Nov 14, 2018

IN THIS ISSUE: Remembrance Day | Jost Pork Festival | Scorpio Bash | Car Wash | Much More

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Akeem Stanley Born and raised in the British Virgin Islands, Akeem Stanley is an aesthetic designer with an international appeal focusing on colors and sophisticated silhouettes.

His fascination with red carpet events began young and his constant desire to know how celebrities got to wear beautiful gowns led him to fashion designing.

“To me, the ability to construct a garment and change someone’s personality and character has always been my inspiration,” Akeem said. ”From an early age, I was always creative and at 18 I began my fashion designing and creating garments.”

One of Akeem’s career highlights was when he got the opportunity to showcase his collection at Summer Sizzle BVI for the first time in 2016. (He got to do it again in 2017.) His first runway show solidified his status as an emerging designer, as well as his commitment to both the creative and business side of fashion. He looks forward to participating in lots more runway shows in his future.

He takes pride in his progress, although he acknowledges that there have been many ups and Limin’Times Entertainment Gude

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“Being a self-taught fashion designer and an entrepreneur, I expected trials and errors,” he said.

“All have been lessons learnt.

There were many late nights and rethinking that made an impact on progress. I am very proud of myself.”

Akeem’s designs are custom made. Most of his clientele wants something for a special event. He sketches, chooses fabric and constructs the garment according to each client’s unique shape. Young as he is, Akeem has big dreams for his future.

“I like to be optimistic, but my ultimate goal is to become a successful world-renowned fashion designer,” he said.

If you want to be able to look back when that happens and say you supported Akeem before he was a star, you can purchase his work by contacting him directly through Facebook @akeemstanley, Instagram @designerakeemstanley or via email at designsbyakeem@gmail.com.

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BVI Food Fete 2018 Regular readers will know that Food Fete activities are in full swing, but to help you plan the rest of your month, we thought we should share the details on the rest of the line up.

First up, catch the Jost Pork Festival on Sunday (see our roundup on pg 9 for more information).

Then on the 17th, it’s Taste of Virgin Gorda at Toad Hall and the Cooper Island Rum Festival on the 18th.

The famous Anegada Lobster Festival is on the 24th and 25th.

Don’t forget the Bar Crawls which take place this Sunday at Jost Van Dyke, the 16th on Virgin Gorda and the 23rd on Anegada.

At Taste of Virgin Gorda, enjoy dishes from Chefs Ariq Flax, Jermaine George, German Villatoro, Vikraim Garg and Radiance Modest. Entertainment for the event will be provided by It’s A Secret Band, DJ Bertrum and VI Groove Project. Admission is $50.

Over on Anegada for Lobster Fest weekend Kelly’s will be offering Conch Shell Tours. Adults are $25 and kids under 16, $15. There will be 45 minutes to one hour trips at various times and 5–8 boats with life vests on board available. The boats depart from Faulkner Gas Station and there will be drinks

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Big Bamboo presents a lobster fest warm up jam with VIBE on the 23rd. Road Town Fast Ferry departs Tortola 8pm and Virgin Gorda 8:45pm and returns from Anegada 3am. Fare is $45 roundtrip. Action starts 10pm.

Also for Lobster Fest weekend they are various transportation services available. VI Air Link is offering fare at $79 for round trip and $60 for one way over to Anegada. To book or find out more information, please call 495-2271 or email info@viairlink. com.

The C. Breeze is also offering services to Anegada at $35 per adult and $20 for kids.

Speedy’s is having a Lobster Fest Boat Ride on both days departing from Virgin Gorda at 9am and Beef Island 9:30am and returns at 6pm both days.

Adult tickets are $30 and children are $20. Music will be provided by DJ Wiz. For more information, please call 495-5240/5235/5779 or email info@speedysbvi. com.

For more information all Food Fete events, please visit www.bvifoodfete.com.

While every effort is made to ensure that information is correct, we cannot accept responsibility for any errors, changes in schedules, ads or other information in this magazine, which is intended as a guide only. If you have an entertainment event coming up that you would like published, give us a call at 494-2413. Special Notice: Purchase of advertising space in this publication does not guarantee editorial coverage of any event.

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When I looked at the forecast Monday morning, I had a mixture of excitement and dread: It says to expect rain.

All week long. Between the cooler temperatures rain usually brings and the built-in excuse to cozy up at home with the family, I usually look forward to wet weather, but a week might be too much, even for me.

It got me wondering about the forecast we all rely on so much, especially during the hurricane season.

According to a 2015 article in the BBC Magazine by Peter Moore, the first weather forecaster was Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who famously captained the HMS Beagle. He began by issuing storm warnings in 1860. He founded what came to be the Met Office, and created the word forecast to reflect that he was extrapolating from scientific data and not a psychic making predictions. A year later, his forecasts were published in newspapers across Britain, and were “fantastically popular.”

Not unlike today, people had mixed reactions to the reports, according to Moore. On the one hand, horse racing fans were said to choose what to wear to the track based on his reports.

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FitzRoy even had the support of Queen Victoria, who once sent messengers to his home to ask what to expect on a coming voyage to the Isle of Wight.

On the other hand, politicians lamented the high cost of the telegraph, which FitzRoy used to gather data and disseminate reports.

And, since the science was new and the calculations had to be worked out by hand, the forecasts weren’t as accurate as we’re accustomed to today.

Moore says that although meteorologists of today revere FitzRoy as a founder of their science, after just five years publishing his reports, FitzRoy had fallen into a depressive state and felt the work was failing. He killed himself in April 1865.

His life may have had a sad ending, but I think we all owe some gratitude to FitzRoy as a meteorological pioneer. He was among, if not the first, to recognize that the weather predictions that had been common up to that time were dangerously unreliable. Besides setting up the public weather watch office that would become the prototype for met offices around the world, he also invented a barometer that could be usefully interpreted by common people.

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You might think that after nearly 70 years, Disney’s animated version of Alice in Wonderland might feel a little dated, but if you only look at the characters and story and don’t pay too much attention to the music, you could believe it’s almost contemporary.

The film starts with Alice sitting under a tree listening to her sister read to her, but the historical subject matter isn’t interesting to Alice, so she wanders off to gaze at bubbling stream.

Soon, Alice spies a rabbit in a waistcoat rushing off to an appointment. Too amazed and/or thoughtless to consider where she might wind up, Alice gives chase. She falls into a hole so deep she has time to wonder whether she will arrive on the “upside” down part of the world. The fact that she is parachuted by her voluminous skirt is our first clue, if not Alice’s that she is no longer in a world that follows logical rules.

At the bottom of the hole, Alice is frustrated to find that she can’t continue to follow the rabbit because she doesn’t fit through the door. Advised by a doorknob that she will change size by eating and drinking some things he mysteriously has handy, the Limin’Times Entertainment Gude

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naive Alice winds up growing so giant that her tears cause a flood, then small enough to fit right inside the container she previously drank from.

Alice makes it out of the hole, but has a long way to go before she will get the chance to talk to the rabbit.

Along the way, she meets the creepy twins Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum; a classroom full of garden flowers; a Dodo bird; a stoned caterpillar; a crew of “mad” folks celebrating their unbirthdays; and a clearly deceptive cat with the ability to appear and disappear at will. At every turn, Alice gets questionable advice, but, on her own and with no understanding of where she is, she feels she has no choice but to follow directions.

Eventually, all this terrible advice leads to Alice meeting the despot of the area, the Queen of Hearts, who makes about as much sense as everyone else Alice has met so far. The difference is, as Queen, she has the power to send Alice to trial and hand down a deadly sentence.

How does Alice get free from the Queen? Will she learn anything from all this calamity?

Alice in Wonderland is available on iTunes and other streaming services.

By Jost Pork Festival On Sunday, it’s Jost Pork Festival over on Jost Van Dyke. The festival will begin in White Bay from 11am5pm and then move to Great Harbour from 5-10pm.

Enjoy pork dishes from Coco-Locos, Hendo’s Hide Out, Soggy Dollar, Corsairs, Ali Baba, Cool Breeze, A&B Bar and Restaurant, and Foxy’s. There will be live entertainment throughout the day and a bonfire on the beach in the evening. For those not staying overnight, there is a special return ferry to Tortola at 10pm.

Want to attend from Virgin Gorda? Call Dream Speed at 340-2603 to reserve your seat on the ferry

by Saturday.

Remembrance Day

this Sunday at the annual Remembrance Day Service, which begins at 4:30pm at the Eileene Parsons Auditorium at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College.

Veterans will perform a march to kickoff the ceremony and a beacon will be lit after the service in honor of the fallen.

If you want to support military veterans, you can contribute to their welfare by purchasing a poppy to wear to the service.

Poppies are available from the Governor’s office, the Deputy Governor’s office, or from students at many of the territory’s schools.

Steps Against Diabetes The BVI Diabetes Association invites everyone to their first walk-run in memory of Elton Georges this Saturday morning. The run-walk is part of a global diabetes walk to raise funds to help the association educate the public about the disease as well as support those who live with it.

Participants will set out from the Queen Elizabeth II Park at 5:30am. Registration costs $25 and includes a t-shirt.

For more information, call 494-4125 or email bvidiabetes@gmail.com.

Car Wash Support young Rotarians by patronizing their car wash this Saturday morning beginning at 7am in the parking lot of the Old Traffic office. The car wash will go until 3pm.

They will wash the exterior of your vehicle for This year marks 100th anniversary of the end of $15, the interior-only for $10, or let them do the World War I. Take time to remember fallen military service personnel and thank those who have served whole vehicle for $20.

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UPCOMING EVENT

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THURSDAY – NOV 8 ROAD TOWN PIER PARK – Myett’s “Chill Zone” Thirsty Thursday $3 beers, Happy Hour 5-7pm EAST END EMILE’S – Happy Hour 3-5pm CANE GARDEN BAY PARADISE CLUB – Open 3pm-midnight or until. Drink specials and dinner from 8:30pm FRIDAY – NOV 9 ROAD TOWN PIER PARK – Myett’s “Chill Zone” TGIF Party. Happy Hour 5-7pm PANCAKE PARADISE – Open Stage 7pm MARCHE – Turbo Sounds 7pm LYNDON BAR – Turbo Sounds 5pm until NANNY CAY CAPTAIN MULLIGAN’S - Feel Good Friday 6pm EAST END RED ROCK – Quiz Night. Pub-style specials including cracked conch, half-price pizzas, $5 wings, $5 goat water, $3 mixed drinks & live music EMILE’S – Happy Hour 3-5pm CANE GARDEN BAY PARADISE CLUB – Open 11am until. Lunch or dinner on the beach 10

TRELLIS BAY TRELLIS BAY MARKET – “Vybez & Chill BBQ Night” Live music w/DJ. Grill – Full menu w/ grill lobster, steak & shrimp and lobster pasta SATURDAY – NOV 10 ROAD TOWN PIER PARK – Myett’s “Chill Zone” Happy Hour 5-7pm PIER PARK – Aromas Cigar & Martini Bar “Saturday Night Vibes” 10pm QUEEN ELIZABETH II PARK – Run/ Walk for Diabetes 5:30am OLD TRAFFIC LOT – Rotaract Car Wash 7am CANE GARDEN BAY PARADISE CLUB – Open 11am until. Lunch or dinner on the beach MYETT’S – Beach Bar opens from noon EAST END EMILE’S – Movie Night 6pm TRELLIS BAY TRELLIS BAY MARKET – “BBQ Night” 11am-10pm drink specials.

Pizza Saturdays VIRGIN GORDA THELMA’S HIDEOUT – Scorpio Birthdays “Level Up” Bash 10pm

SUNDAY – NOV 11 CANE GARDEN BAY PARADISE CLUB – Open 11am until. Lunch or dinner on the beach.

MYETT’S – Beach Bar opens from noon PARAQUITA BAY HLSCC – Remembrance Day Ceremony and Beacon Lighting 4:30pm EAST END EMILE’S – BBQ Dinner RED ROCK – Sparkling Brunch 9am-5pm TRELLIS BAY TRELLIS BAY MARKET – Serving lunch & dinner from noon–8pm.

Menu: Conch fritters, Lobster & Shrimp pasta & wraps JOAST VAN DYKE WHITE BAY & GREAT HARBOUR – Jost Pork Festival from 11am MONDAY - NOV 12 EAST END EMILE’S – Mexican Night. Margarita, Tequila & Corona specials plus Mexican food from 4-8pm CANE GARDEN BAY PARADISE CLUB – Open 3pm–midnight or until. Drink specials and dinner on the beach

TUESDAY – NOV 13 ROAD TOWN PIER PARK – Myett’s “Chill Zone” Taco Tuesday with Happy Hour 5-7pm EAST END RED ROCK – Seafood Night. Menu includes fresh salmon, local lobster, crawfish, coconut shrimp, cracked alligator CANE GARDEN BAY PARADISE CLUB – Open 3pm–midnight or until. Drink specials and dinner on the beach WEDNESDAY – NOV 14 ROAD TOWN PIER PARK – Myett’s “Chill Zone” Wacky Wednesday with Bushwacker specials 5-7pm CANE GARDEN BAY PARADISE CLUB – Open 3pm-midnight or until. Drink specials and dinner on the beach EAST END EMILE’S – Paint & Sip party group painting class 4-6pm. Call 441-4110 to reserve your space.

UPCOMING EVENTS All Black Silent Party – Nov 16 Round Tortola Race – Nov 17 Pure All White 4 – Nov 17 Farmers Market – Nov 17 Taste of Virgin Gorda – Nov 17 Full Moon Party – Nov 23 Lobster Fest Warmup – Nov 23 Young Marx – Nov 24 Lobster Fest – Nov 24-25 How VIBE Stole Christmas 3 – Dec 9 & 16

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Open Stage

Feel Good Fridays Every Friday at Captain Mulligans, ‘feel good’ with DJ Wiz from 6pm until. Admission is free.

Black Friday Mark your calendars now because Digicel’s Black Friday Sale on Nov. 23 is going to be bigger and better than ever.

The telecoms company is celebrating their 10th birthday in the BVI, but the gifts are for their customers, including prepaid-plan smartphones as low You’ve heard of open mic, where musicians, em- as $39, or sign up for a postpaid plan and get a cees and other artists are invited to take up a micro- Samsung Galaxy S9 for just $99. phone and share their work with the public.

The best deals are sure to go fast, so make sure This Friday beginning at 7pm, Pancake Paradise you get there early. Doors will open at 6am. is upping the stakes at Open Stage. They welcome DJs, dancers, poets, bands and artists of all stripes to come take over the stage. For more information, The Pusser’s Warehouse at Lower Estate is call 346-1633. opening up to the public for a special “Everything Must Go” clearance sale next weekend (Nov 16 & 17) from 9am-5pm.

Saturday at Thelma’s Hideout, come out to the Perfect for early holiday shopping, the sale will Scorpio “Level Up” Bash. Entertainment will be pro- have amazing deals on goodies from their company vided by DJ Sellie, DJ Tero, DJ Fire Blaze, DJ Rookie store, including select items for just $1. and Turbo Sounds. Admission is $10 before midnight (a little more after). Action starts at 10pm.

Speaking of big holiday events, don’t forget about Christmas on DeCastro Street, which is coming Sorry youth, this one is for the adults: Aroma’s up on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. The event will be honorCigar and Martini Bar hosts Saturday Night Vibes ing the memory of one of its founders, Honorable Grown Folks Party from 10pm until late.

Delores Christopher, as well as celebrating the 20th DJ Wiz will provide the music, and don’t forget anniversary since the event’s beginning on Main your ID because this party is strictly 21-and-up.

Street.

Pusser’s Sale

Scorpio Bash

Save the Date

Grown Folks

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Lights, Camera, Action; Part 2 Chapter 16: Malice Aforethought

Kevin

so I knew I was appropriate. Before I got out of my Who the hell does Jazz think she is? Doesn’t she jeep, I turned off my cell phone and put it in the know how bad I can make things for her? How dare glove compartment. she close the door in my face? It’s been three days When Jazz got to the bench, she turned around since she slammed the door in searching the courtroom. She smiled when my face but I’m still fuming. she saw me and turned back around. She I tried calling her but “click” had had to meet with her lawyers before was the only sound I heard when the session started so we hadn’t had a she heard my voice. I thought I chance to talk beforehand. made myself clear when I let her Listening to the answers Shelly gave knew who was in charge of this on the stand, you could tell that she arrangement. I was going to her wasn’t very bright. Her story sounded to house again tonight and she was me like someone helped her cook up this going to give me what I came for. allegation in a plot to bring down Jazz.

Every answer was “according to her late husband.” I Why does that dog Kevin keep trying to contact don’t understand how someone can make an accume? My trial starts in less than 24 hours and I don’t sation and the court has a whole case. Shelly wasn’t need him distracting me. He turned his back on me event around during the time Jazz’s mom was alive. when I needed him the most. Now he thinks that he Anyway, what man’s pillow talk with his wife is all about his ex? can walk back into my life?

By 4 o’clock when court finished for the day, I The knock on my office door drew me from my thoughts, it was my assistant bringing me some was even more convinced that Shelly was wasting documents I had asked for. Thank God the news of the court’s time. I wondered how long it would take my arrest didn’t hinder my business, which was still for everyone else to realize it.

Jazz

Jazz

booming.

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After I met with my lawyers I called Bella immediately to make a dinner date for tonight. We were now at a pizza joint because none of us wanted real food. After day one, I really needed my friend and I had to thank her for staying by my side.

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Don’t Try To Change Me Most of us don’t mind stepping outside of our comfort zone every now and again, but we feel resentful of people who try to make us into someone we are not.

If we are introverts, don’t try to force us to be social butterflies. If we are vegan, don’t bombard us with comments like “a little meat never hurt anyone yet.”

In our relationships, it’s important to recognize the difference between an invitation to try something new and an attempt to control us by someone who doesn’t think we are good enough as we are.

Here are five signs that the person you are with is trying to change you: 1. You feel put down when they make the suggestions. Somehow, no matter how charmingly given the advice is, you feel a blow to your self-esteem. It doesn’t feel like a loving gesture for your well-being, but rather like you are broken and need repairing.

2. They reward you for being who they want you to be. You know how we give a dog a bone when it is obedient? The partner who wants to change you will make you feel like the most wonderful person in the world - if you do what they want - showering you with compliments and nice treatment.

3. You are subtly punished when you are the self they don’t like. He or she won’t come right out to tell you what the reason is, but you notice whenever you do the things they dislike, they withhold affection and might even give you the silent treatment.

4. You are often compared to others. We all know that everyone is different, so why are you always being told that Susan does this or Harry does that? You are not Susan or Harry and we all are unique and have our own strengths and weaknesses.

5. You are told you don’t take constructive criticism well. This is the biggie. When you complain about your partner trying to change you or explain how uncomfortable the constant suggestions are, your partner responds by saying that you are too sensitive or stubborn to accept advice meant to help you. I emphasize this one because a truly loving partner will check themself upon hearing this, not double down on the criticism.

If you recognize these behaviors, I think you should run away at full sprint, unless you want to end up a creature of someone else’s making, bitterly wondering what happened to the real you.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that you need to change to hold onto a relationship. If you are not good enough, then you never will be, because the problem is with that person who is trying to change you.

Find someone who loves with you with your messy, awkward, bohemian, loud-laughing self.

There is someone out there who will love you as you are, and even find your foibles adorable.

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College Classic’s Fastest Finish Runners had been chasing Lyndell Roberts’ Mourant College Classic Series record for 20 years, until Clif Struiken eclipsed the 10 minutes 45.3 seconds mark on Sept. 29, with 10:38.12.

On Saturday, Struiken brought the curtains down on the 2018 Series with another record performance, when he stopped the clock at 10:30.96, the fastest time in the event’s 23-year history. Neil Riley followed in 10:41.86, becoming the series’ second fastest all time performer.

“The goal today was to run very relaxed especially since I’ve been having some calf issues in the last few weeks and haven’t been focusing on speed,” Struiken explained. “I was just trying to get my miles in for the 10K next week and the BVI Half Marathon on December 1, and just to make sure there wasn’t additional tension building up in my calf, because my Achilles started to pull a bit, so it was all about being relaxed. Apparently, that relaxed training in the past few weeks paid off because I didn’t slow down and I was about nine seconds under my record. This, I think, is very, very good.”

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Struiken said time wasn’t on his mind. Instead he was focused on being able to push and running without any stress.

“Often you hear the elite runners talk about a state of smooth flow, where they just run easily but fast, and I think that worked for me today, and it’s something to take into the upcoming races,” he said.

Race director Stephanie Russ Penn said it was an excellent finish to the series. Organizers couldn’t have hoped for more than having the record broken by the overall champion after Irma wiped out the 2017 series. She said the race was extremely fast, with many runners seeing improved times.

“It was just an excellent finale at the end of the day,” she said. “The 2018 series has been absolutely inspiring. We had one race in 2017 (because of the hurricane) and persons came out in 2018 and they made sure the series happened. Our numbers were down but they were still excellent numbers. Now that the momentum is back, I can’t wait for 2019, so I’m looking forward to bigger and better.”

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Roundup

How to win: The object is to insert numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once.

It’s harder than it sounds!

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