Vol. 31, No. 5 | May 16 – May 22, 2019
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Vol. 31, 5 / May 16 - May 22, 2019
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5K Charity Run/Walk This Saturday, Caribbean Insurers Ltd. is having their 2nd Annual Charity Run/Walk at 5:30am. The route is from the Queen Elizabeth II Park to Port Purcell and back. A light breakfast will be served after the race. The entire BVI Community is invited to participate and win prizes in categories such as youngest and oldest participant, most creative team, winning team and family, first place male and female, second
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place male and female and largest Government Department group. Registration starts at 5am on Saturday, however large groups are asked to register by Friday. Registration fee is $10 adults and $5 children. All proceeds go towards the rebuilding of the BVI Alzheimer’s Association. For more information or to register, please email simone.monsanto@caribbins.com or call 340-7879.
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Vol. 31, 5 / May 16 - May 22, 2019
“Your battery is only getting up to like, 38 percent.” Not a flattering thing to hear from one’s loved ones, but in my case, it came from a loving place. My beloved may have been noticing my paler than usual complexion or the bags under my eyes – he’s too wise a husband to point out such details, so I’m not sure what gave me away – but he was right! I needed to recharge. Luckily, living in the land of chill vibes and a worldwide holiday destination, I have plenty of options for how I should recharge my internal battery. Top of my personal list is a bit of solo time. Between work, the toddler and other obligations, sometimes the best way to recharge is to be alone with my thoughts. If that solo time comes around sunrise with a hot cup of coffee, so much the better. Peak solo recharging happens outside, which may have something to do with the restorative power of nature, or then again it might be that being outdoors makes me less likely to check my schedule and messages. You can often find me on the deck outside my apartment seeking this solitude. This might seem like the exact opposite, but another thing I find reLimin’Times Entertainment Guide
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freshing is an intentional catch up with friends and loved ones. Like many on island, I have close friends and family scattered around the world. Sure, we can keep up with the day-to-day minutiae of each others’ lives via social media, but that’s just trivia. The refreshing part comes from being able to hear the person’s voice as they tell one of their quintessential stories, or from being able to offer some words of encouragement to a friend who’s struggling with something. If you can do it in person and exchange hugs too, so much the better. The one I struggle the most with can also be the most effective way to recharge: to sweat it out. When you’re bone-tired and feel too spread thin to make a decision about dinner, the last thing you want to do is go for a workout. But for me I find if I can get over the hump and get myself started, I never regret it. Whether it’s challenging myself to break a personal plank record or taking a quick walk/ jog down the hill and back again, something about getting my blood pumping and those natural endorphins works wonders for bringing me back to myself. So how do you recharge? Head over to the Limin Times Facebook page and let us know!
Open House hour is from 4:20-5:20pm. Enjoy their BBQ buffet, drinks specials and bonfire. The New Horizon Ferry departs 6pm from West End and returns after.
Vybez & Chill This Friday’s edition of Vybez & Chill at Trellis Bay Bar & Grill features entertainment by DJ Krusha 6–10pm. Happy Hour is from 4–6pm. To place orders The Public is invited to check out the recovery of from their famous menu, please call 495-1421. beautiful Lambert Beach reopening in October 2019 under the Wyndham Worldwide Resort brand. Interested Real Estate investors, here is your chance to The Treasures get in at the ground floor. Lambert Reception 11amof the BVI are back 4pm on Saturday. For more information, please call for the 65th Anni495-3003. versary of Festival.
Treasures Weekend
The troupe’s costume launch is on Friday at Fantasea. Entertainment will be provided by Pumpa, VIBE and DJ Mac Milli. Admission is $25 and $20 (past Treasure members). Action
Full Moon Parties
It’s time again for Trellis Bay Market Bar & Grill’s monthly Full Moon Party this Saturday. Enjoy entertainment by 3G’s Band and Young Money Soundz. Come out and enjoy their famous BBQ and drinks specials. To place orders, please call 495-1421. Foxy’s Taboo Full Moon Party is this Sunday. Enjoy entertainment by VIBE and DJ Mac Milli. Happy 7
starts 9pm. On Saturday, the treasure box will be officially open. Come out to their bake sale and registration drive on Saturday, 10am at Bobby’s Parking Lot. Then on Sunday, 11am come out to the beach jam, Long Bay Beach, Beef Island. Entertainment will be provided by DJ Lefty, 624 Ent and DJ Grimm.
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ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & Dinner daily from 11am until. Beach BBQ w/live music
THURSDAY – MAY 16 CANE GARDEN BAY PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm. Elm Tones 6:30-9:30pm PARADISE CLUB – Open 11am-until. Lunch & dinner on the beach. Jalena live 6pm. ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until FAT HOGS BAY NATURE’S WAY – Busy Moms Cooking Class, 6–8pm
TRELLIS BAY MARKET – Vybez & Chill w/DJ Krusha 6–10pm. Enjoy their full menu SATURDAY – MAY 18 ROAD TOWN MELLOW MOODS CAFE – Open Mic Night 7:30pm THE VAULT – Lingerie/Pajama Party ISLAND SIZZLE – Vincy Mas 10pm
FRIDAY – MAY 17 ROAD TOWN
BOBBY’S SUPERMARKET PARKING LOT – Treasures of the BVI Bake Sale & Registration 10am
BAMBOUSHAY LOUNGE – Mingle w/Mrs. BVI 2019 5:30pm
PIER PARK – Mac’s Restaurant. Kickin it w/Kyra 3rd Anniversary Celebration 7–9pm
PIER PARK – Tropix Cocktail Bar. Mingle w/Miss BVI 2019 Contestants, 6:30pm
NANNY CAY
DUFF BOTTOM FANTASEA – Treasures of the BVI Costume Launch 9pm PARAQUITA BAY EILEENE PARSONS AUDITORIUM – ESHS Spring Concert 7:30pm CANE GARDEN BAY PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Opens 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch & dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm Limin’Times Entertainment Guide
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CAPTIAN MULLIGANS – Bingo Night, 6pm MEYERS ESTATE THE CURVE – Oui Jammin’ 9pm PARAQUITA BAY EILEENE PARSONS AUDITORIUM – HLSCC Spring Concert 8pm CANE GARDEN BAY PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm. Marlon Da Pan Man 4-6pm. Evolution Band 6:30–9:30pm
UPCOMING EVENTS PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch & dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm
FOXY’S TABOO – Full Moon Party
ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until
CANE GARDEN BAY
TRELLIS BAY TRELLIS BAY MARKET – “BBQ Night” 11am-10pm drink specials. Full Moon Party (see ad on pg 3) JOST VAN DYKE FOXY’S – Music Fest & Full Moon Party
MONDAY – MAY 20 PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch and dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until
SUNDAY – MAY 19
TUESDAY – MAY 21
ROAD TOWN
CANE GARDEN BAY
JR O’NEAL BOTANIC GARDEN – Tea Party 3pm
PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm. Jeff Ross 6:30–9:30pm
Health Wellness Expo – May 25
PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch and dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm
Incredible Race – May 25–26
ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until. Happy Hour 4-7pm
7th Districk Health Watch – May 25–26
CANE GARDEN BAY PUSSERS @ MYETT’S – Akeem on steel pan 1-4pm PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch & dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner from 11am until. Happy Hour 4-7pm. Beach BBQ w/live music
WEDNESDAY – MAY 22
PARAQUITA BAY
CANE GARDEN BAY
EILEENE PARSONS AUDITORUM – Not so newlywed game, 5pm
PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm.
BEEF ISLAND
PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch and dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm
LONG BAY BEACH – Treasures of the BVI Beach Jam, 11am TRELLIS BAY
Cirque de Dance – May 26 Poker Run – May 26
ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until
Seniors Ball – May 29 Career Exposition – May 31 Cheer Competition – Jun 1 Swim & Sup the Sound – Jun 2
TRELLIS BAY MARKET – Serving lunch & dinner from noon-8pm
KMS Turns 5 – Jun 15
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Bingo Night The Cancer Society is having a Bingo Night on Saturday, 6pm at Captain Mulligan’s. Come out and enjoy games, win prizes and have some fun. Admission is $25. For more information, please call 4410023
Tea Party
Basketball Explosion This Friday-Sunday, come out to Cleo’s Miracle Basketball Explosion at the Multipurpose Sports Complex featuring D’Moi Hodge. Admission on Friday and Saturday is $7 adults and $5 children under 12. Sunday’s admission is $10 adults and $5 children under 12.
Mix & Mingle
The BVI Diabetes Association is hosting their Tea Come out and meet the 2019 Miss BVI ContestParty - A Spring Gala on Sunday, 3pm at the J. R. ants on Friday, 6:30pm at Tropix Cocktail Bar. EnO’Neal Botanic Garden under the distinguished patronage of Mrs. Rosalie Adams, OBE. The dress code tertainment will be provided by Lady Mix (reigning is formal (hats and gloves are encouraged). Tickets Miss BVI). are $25 and can be purchased at the Diabetes Resource Centre, Main Street. HLSCC Spring Concert is this Saturday, 8pm at the Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium. Come out and Balance Promotions presents Vincy Mas featur- enjoy performances by the Woodwind and Jazz Ening Hance L Plank - 42 years of celebration on Satur- semble and the college Chorale. Tickets are $25 and day, 10pm. Entertainment will be provided by Selecta can be purchased at UMI Fashions and HLSCC Book Taz, DJ Dre, DJ Dagga and DJ Donovan. Tickets are Store.
Spring Concert
Vincy Mas
$20 (more at the door).
Open Mic Night
Meet and Greet
Callaloo Poets and Mellow Moods present Open Mic Night on Saturday, 7:30pm at Mellow Moods Come out and mingle with Mrs. BVI 2019 Shondrea Turnbull on Friday, 5:30pm at Bamboushay Cafe. Enjoy pieces from feature poet Jovan Wilson and more. Lounge. Entry is free.
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Oui Jammin
As celebrations continue for the 30th edition of On Saturday, come out to Oui Jammin at The Senior’s Month, come out and enjoy the Not So NewCurve. Entertainment will be provided by Deejay lywed Game on Sunday, 5pm at HLSCC Auditorium. Smoove and DJ Millenium King. Action starts 9pm. Participating couples are The Hodges, Archers, Leonards, Wrights, Chawells and Crabbes. Tickets are $20 Limin’Times Entertainment Guide
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and can be purchased from J&C Trading and Social less. Registration is $50 and to register, please call 495-2852. Development Department.
Community Notice
Lingerie/Pajama Party
Volunteers are needed for garden cleaning at On Saturday at the Vault, come out to Donlania’s the Old Government House on Saturday, 7-10am. The lingerie/pajama party. Entertainment will be provided by DJ Grimm and 624 Ent. There will be a lap dance main task is clearing wood for mulching. For more competition and prizes for the best dressed male information, please email milliep@gmail.com. and female. Admission is $15 and the dress code will be enforced.
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Music Fest
Pop Up Shop
Foxy’s Music Fest 2019 is this Saturday. On stage Kickin it w/kyra is celebrating three years with from 8pm is Foxy’s Funky Friends and Foxy’s School a pop up shop on Saturday, 7-9pm at Mac’s Restaurant. Enjoy complimentary refreshments and live of Music. There will be an auction with all proceeds band karaoke ft.Tdom while you shop. There will to benefit the Music School on Jost Van Dyke. The night will also feature Foxy’s Full Moon also be food on sale. Party. Dance the night away with Final Faze, enjoy Foxy’s famous BBQ dinner, mushroom shots and Nature’s Way is having a busy Moms Cooking more. For persons on Tortola wishing to attend, the Class today (Thursday), 6-8pm at Nature’s Way, Fat New Horizon Ferry Service leaves West End at 6pm Hogs Bay. Moms come out and learn how to prepare and returns 11pm. Ask about their Tortola Full Moon healthy, easy and delicious meals in 30 minutes or Shuttle.
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Cupcakes & Cocktails Chapter 2: Skeletons
Liz stood up and watched Michael like he was stupid and attempted to walk past him out the door. He grabbed her by her hair and wrestled her. “You must be meeting some nigga tonight because you never lost your damn mind before,” Michael told her. She pushed him off her into the wall where he hit his head then ran upstairs to fix over herself. ********* “Damn!” Sarah and Beth exclaimed when Liz walked up to them outside the theater. “Why your face so flawless, you plan on shagging a new man tonight?” Sarah asked. “No, I just felt like going a li’l extra tonight, been a while since I had a reason to dress down outside my work clothes,” Liz replied. “Besides, I know y’all ladies was going to come looking like a meal, so I had to keep up,” she continued. “You got that right!” Beth chimed in. “Are we going to talk or are we going in to see this movie?” Sarah cut the girls off. Truth is Liz had to cover up the cut on her face she received from Michael when he tried to stop her from leaving. Look at you, yea you, the one reading this now. I don’t need your sympathy, Michael is a good man, he just gets over the top sometimes. He just likes his woman home with him. Once the movie was over the ladies walked down the block to their favourite Italian joint for dinner. “Ay Papi,” Beth told the waiter as they got seated. Limin’Times Entertainment Guide
“Woman that’s Spanish not Italian” Liz told her. “I know itch!, but he understands me though. I will be tapping that a$$ tonight, watch and see,” Beth Responded. “Girl that man don’t want you, can’t you see he wants what you are looking too,” Sarah told her. “Y’all just a bunch of haters. Anyway, let’s eat,” Beth replied. Throughout the dinner the ladies laughed and talked and enjoyed each other’s company until the next time. Sarah had just walked into her home and as usual her husband was not home. No matter how much I keep fit and dress nice for him it doesn’t seem to work, she thought to herself. My bed have been more empty than filled with the two bodies that should be in it. She never got the courage to tell her besties that she had been lonely for months. As a matter of fact, she never talked about her business because she was too ashamed. You see in High School, Sarah was very popular and also in college she maintained that level of admiration from her peers. Her marriage was great in the first couple of years but in the last six months her husband became so busy that he came to bed sometimes during the night and now he’s barely home at all. Who would think behind closed doors she wasn’t important. Sarah let out a sigh and locked her door behind her. She made sure her home was secured and headed upstairs. After her bath she tried calling her husband but as usual, he ignored her calls. 12
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Cleo’s Miracle Basketball Explosion To Give Back At a time when Cleodine “Cleo” King-DeFreitas should be more concerned about her own health issues after numerous surgeries and a minor stroke, she has adopted the theme of ‘giving back’ after Doctors told her she will be bed ridden by 40. This weekend, Cleo’s Miracle Basketball Explosion takes place at the Multipurpose Sports Complex, where the 41-year old school teacher will use funds raised to benefit students in need when the next school year begins. That’s sheer selflessness. “I’ve had 19 surgeries, a minor stroke on my right side and doctors gave me by 40 not to be as mobile as I am now,” the 41- year old school teacher and mother of five reflected. Cleo had been diagnoised with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension at 35. “The stroke was on my right side and I have a device in my head called a VP Shunt—it drains the excess fluid off my brain. The disease takes your sight and cripples you. I wasn’t supposed to be this mobile by 40 and would have had to stop teaching. I’ve had four brain surgeries in three years and doctors said I would have succumbed to the disease.” Approaching 40 and healthy in 2018, Cleo planned a gospel concert—to help others. “My theme is giving back and the concert was to help women in need and I also decided to bless the group MALE (Mentoring Anointed Leaders Everywhere) and gave them some money because that was something meaningful to me,” she said. “Long story short, I helped pay some women’s rent, helped others
with their bills for women who I knew for sure were in need. I signaled them out, went to them and I blessed them. After that, I decided this is something I’d do annually and every year, I’d do something differently or, if I run out of things to do, I’ll repeat some of the things I did before but, I’m going to be giving back.” When Cleo, who has been teaching for 16 years, returned to the classroom in 2018 after being out 2016– 17, she noticed that there are needy children. Those who don’t have proper uniforms, those who came to school without lunch or proper books so she decided on giving to children this year. Thus the weekend basketball miracle tournament. Her team includes Sherna Robinson, Ereia Smith and Tylia Nibbs-Henley. She has already contacted the principal of the Joyce Samuel School and will reach out to other schools including Virgin Gorda, as a team is coming from there. “We’re going to principals/teachers about students who they know in fact are needy, their parents are less fortunate than others and we’re going to bless them with buying school uniforms and supplies they need for September, after contacting their parents, so that’s what this initiative is for.” Teams include: St. Croix’s Come Together, West Gunners, East, Mystics, Willful Skillful and Shut Down. Admission to the games is $7 and $5 children under 12 and Sunday’s championship games, $10 adults and $5 children.
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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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