VOL 31, 7

Your Free Guide To our island’s Happenings

Vol. 31, No. 7 | May 30 – Jun 5, 2019

SEE DETAILS ON THE ABOVE EVENT AND MORE INSIDE

Limin’Times Entertainment Guide

2

3

Vol. 31, 7 / May 30 - Jun 5, 2019

Limin’Times Entertainment Guide

4

Masquerade Party Black Pearl Marketing Group is a new marketing and promotions company that specializes in creating cutting edge events throughout the BVI and USVI. Black Pearl was founded by Melvin Rymer and Ayana Phillips in February of 2019.

Their first event was the successful All-White Villa party hosted in Cane Garden Bay earlier this year. The group hopes to continue that success with their next themed event, Behind The Mask: Masquerade Ball going down this Saturday, June 1st.

The duo is striving to establish a firm, dominant force within the industry through hard work and dedication. With the combination of stellar service, trendsetters, and tastemakers throughout the BVI and USVI, Black Pearl designs and produces one-of-a kind events. They are not just in the business of creating events, but more so creating experiences that will be remembered and

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.

talked about long after the event.

For the Masquerade party, entertainment will be provided by the cut creator DJ Outkast, DJ Grimm, DJ Mac Milli and Lady Mix. The party is from 5pm–12am at a secluded villa. A shuttle will be provided from Hodge’s Creek Marina to the villa for all attendees. Troupes for the 65th Emancipation Festival celebration will also display their costumes at the event.

Tickets are $60 and food and a welcome drink are included.

Tickets can be purchased at Aromas and JSpot. VIP packages are available for groups of 6 at $600 (includes one Moet champagne and 2 bottles of choice [Hennessey, vodka or any rum]). VIP also comes with personal service and its own personal section. For VIP packages please call 547-1111.

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.

5

Published by Island Publishing Services.

Printed by Caribbean Printing Company Limited, P.O. Box 133, Road Town, Tortola, B.V.I. laura.thomas@bviwelcome.com, © 2018 www.limintimesbvi.com Editor: Ron Henry Production: Laura Thomas Tel: 494-2413

Vol. 31, 7 / May 30 - Jun 5, 2019

As droplets of rain sporadically pierce the dry, humid air that has been the constant that is our weather lately, my thoughts are increasingly turning to that kitchen garden that I keep meaning to get around to starting.

A recent errand run with the little ones provided the perfect opportunity for a geography refresher on cloud types and what they mean for the amazing weather we usually have year round in these beautiful Virgin Islands.

Suffice to say, the intricacies of cumulus and nimbostratus cloud properties have long since slipped through my grasp. As they discussed which clouds help to determine the various types of weather, I couldn’t help but reflect on the extensive dry spell we’ve been having here in the territory.

The Virgin Islands has been experiencing what might be considered an extensive period of drought. In fact, much of the Caribbean has either been under a drought watch or warning according to information released in the latest Caribbean Drought Bulletin.

While forecasts have suggested that we can expect a few more showLimin’Times Entertainment Guide

6

ers in the coming days, the weather is expected to revert to sunny and dry in the not too distant future.

As for the rainfall that has been gracing us so far this week, it must surely be seen as an incredible boon for the many depleted wells and echoing cisterns around the BVI. We should also spare a thought or two for the farmers in the BVI whose produce and livelihood depend on wet weather to a significant degree.

Meanwhile, I will continue to keep a pleading eye and a prayerful watch out for those stratus clouds.

Volunteers Fair

Please see our middle pages for daily activities of our weekly advertisers. Also, please see pg 11 for Volunteers Week kicks off with a fair on SatPusser’s at Myett’s daily and weekend specials. urday, 10am–3pm. Come out and interact with non profit organizations, enjoy sessions on the importance of volunteering hosted by Henderson Tittle of Kmart is having deals from today (Thursday) M.A.L.E. There will be entertainment throughout the until Wednesday at their St. Thomas and St. Croix day and food and drinks on sale. locations in the USVI. Please see ad on page 3 for full details.

Deals

Swim & SUP THE SOUND

Vybez & Chill This Friday’s edition of Vybez & Chill at Trellis Bay Bar & Grill features entertainment by Young Money Sounds, 6–10pm. Happy Hour is from 4-6pm.

To place orders from their famous menu, please call 495-1421.

Cheer Competition This Saturday at the Multi Purpose Sports Complex, come out and show your support for the High Schools at the Battle of the High Schools Cheer Competition, 5pm. Participating schools are the ESHS Rams, VISTS, BFEC Senior Division, Charlotte Amalie High School and Ivanna Eudora Kean High School from St. Thomas and Central High School out of St. Croix. During the event the Dazzling Gems Festival Troupe will launch their costume for the 65th Festival celebrations. Tickets are $15 adults and $10 children under 10.

VISAR’s 2019 Swim & SUP THE SOUND is this Sunday. Entrants can participate on the Swim (one or two-mile race) or SUP (two-point-five-mile race).

Entry is $100 and it includes race, transport from Trellis Bay to Leverick Bay, BBQ, medal and goodie bag. To register, please log onto www.visar.org. The Family Fun Day is at Leverick Bay and you can bring the whole family out and enjoy beach games, the pool, kayak and frozen t-shirt races and much more.

The ferry from Tortola is $55 (includes BBQ), $35 kids and from Virgin Gorda $25 adults and $10 kids.

The beach games are free.

Career Exposition On Friday, 10am–2pm at the Noel Lloyd Positive Action Park, Hire BVI is hosting a Career Exposition.

Come out and discover career opportunities, make network connections, educational opportunities and do a little shopping from the various pop up shops.

Art Festival

Celebration Service

On Friday come out to the Art Festival at GovernThe Carrot Bay Methodist Church is celebrating ment House, 7pm. Tickets are $30 and proceeds go 40 years (1979–2019) and they are inviting everyone towards Re-Create BVI project. to join them for a celebratory service on Sunday, 4pm.

Cont. on page 10 7

Vol. 31, 7 / May 30 - Jun 5, 2019

THURSDAY – MAY 30

TRELLIS BAY

CANE GARDEN BAY PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm. Elm Tones 6:30-9:30pm

TRELLIS BAY MARKET – Vybez & Chill w/DJ Krusha 6–10pm. Enjoy their full menu SATURDAY – JUN 1

PARADISE CLUB – Open 11am-until. Lunch & dinner on the ROAD TOWN beach. Jalena live 6pm.

MULTI-PURPOSE COMPLEX – Cheer Competition 5pm ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am NOEL LLOYD PARK – Volunteers Fair 10am–3pm until PIER PARK – Pancake Paradise ‘Pop up Jam’ 10pm FRIDAY – MAY 31 ROAD TOWN

RITEWAY PASEA – Disenthrall festival Troupe Bake Sale/ Registration 9am

NOEL LLOYD PARK – Career Exposition 10am–2pm

CANE GARDEN BAY

GOVERNMENT HOUSE – Art Festival 7pm ELMS BAR (Baugher’s Bay) – Lingerie & Pajama party 6pm

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

THE AVENUE – Friday Night Chill Vibe w/DJ Millenium King

PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch & dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm

LYNDON BAR – Turbo Sounds 7pm

ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until

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 ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & Dinner daily from 11am until. Beach BBQ w/live music

TRELLIS BAY TRELLIS BAY MARKET – “BBQ Night” 11am-10pm drink specials.

VIRGIN GORDA THELMA’S HIDEOUT – Shake it Down 9pm ANEGADA KISSES SPORTS BAR – Old School Party 8pm

Limin’Times Entertainment Guide

8

UPCOMING EVENTS CANE GARDEN BAY

PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch and dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm

PUSSERS @ MYETT’S – Serving Sunday Brunch 10am– 3pm . Akeem on steel pan 1-4pm

ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until

SUNDAY – JUN 2

TUESDAY – JUN 4

PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch & dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm

ROAD TOWN

ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner from 11am until.

Happy Hour 4-7pm. Beach BBQ w/live music

WICKHAM’S CAY I (ACROSS FROM ADMIN COMPLEX) – Methodist Circuit Evangelistic Service 7pm

CARROT BAY

CANE GARDEN BAY

THE CARROT BAY METHODIST CHURCH – 40 Celebration Service 3pm

PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner.

Happier Hour 4-7pm. Jeff Ross 6:30–9:30pm

LONG LOOK

PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch and dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm

th

THE STICKET – Repentance Gathering 3–6pm TRELLIS BAY TRELLIS BAY MARKET – Serving lunch & dinner from noon-8pm

ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until. Happy Hour 4-7pm WEDNESDAY – JUNE 5

Queen’s Birthday Parade – Jun 7 Jr Minister of Tourism – Jun 8 Aloha Sunset – June 9

VIRGIN GORDA

ROAD TOWN

Duck Curry Competition – Jun 9

LEVERICK BAY – Swim & SUP THE SOUND

WICKHAM’S CAY I (ACROSS FROM ADMIN COMPLEX) – Methodist Circuit Evangelistic Service 7pm

Soca Wee – Jun 14

MONDAY – JUN 3 ROAD TOWN WICKHAM’S CAY I (ACROSS FROM ADMIN COMPLEX) – Methodist Circuit Evangelistic Service 7pm CANE GARDEN BAY PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm

CANE GARDEN BAY

Long Walk to Freedom Show – Jun 15

PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm.

KMS Turns 5 – Jun 15

PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch and dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm

GenY Factor – Jun 22

ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until

VIBE Album Release Party – Jul 13 Summer Sizzle 2019 – Jul 25-28

9

Vol. 31, 7 / May 30 - Jun 5, 2019

Roti Sale

Lingerie & Pajama

Today (Thursday) is the last day to place those On Friday at Elms Bar, come out to the Lingerie orders for roti sale from Kulture Mass Festival Troupe. & Pajama Party. Entertainment will be provided by DJ To place orders, please call 499-8070/544-6300. Lefty and doors open 6pm.

Prices are $12 chicken (boneless) and $20 shrimp with two sides – salad, coleslaw and corn. Delivery will be done on Friday between 11am–2pm.

Disenthrall festival troups is havign a bake sale and registration on Saturday 9am–4pm at Riteway Pasea.

This Friday night, it’s ‘Chill Vibe’ at The Ave. Entertainment will be provided by DJ Millennium King.

The Premier is inviting the public to join him for a National Service Prayer and Praise today (ThursThis Sunday, 3–6pm at the Sticket, come out to day), 4pm at the Ellis Thomas Downs.

A Day of Repentance Gathering.

Evangelistic Services The BVI Methodist Circuit Evangelistic Services begins on Monday until June 7th. The theme this If you’re on Virgin Gorda this Saturday and lookyear is A hunger & A thirst for God and the theme ing for somewhere to go, how about heading to song is Fill my cup Lord. Guest preacher is Rev. Ever- Thelma’s Hideout to ‘Shake It Down’? Entertainment ald Galbraith, Bishop of the Methodist Churches in will be provided by by DJ Short Boss, Construction the Caribbean and the Americas. Service will be held Sound and Turbo Sounds. Action starts at 9pm under the tent next to the Admin Building and they begin 7pm nightly.

Bake Sale

Chill Vibe

Community Notice

Gathering

Virgin Gorda Shake it down

Anegada

Celebration Service

Old School Dance

This Saturday if you’re over on Anegada, go out The Carrot Bay Methodist Church is celebrating and enjoy the Old School Dance at Kisses Sports Bar. 40 years (1979–2019) and they are inviting everyone Entertainment will be provided by DJ Richie Rich and to join them for a celebratory service on Sunday, DJ Millennium King. There will also be a $100 cash 4pm. prize dance competition. Action starts 8pm.

Pop Up Jam On Saturday come to the Pop Up Jam at Pancake Paradise, 10pm. Entertainent will be provided

by Showtime Band and OMG. Admission is $10.

Limin’Times Entertainment Guide

10

11

Vol. 31, 7 / May 30 - Jun 5, 2019

Cupcakes & Cocktails Chapter 4: Down Memory Lane

Saturday 2:59pm Sarah decided since she was home alone as usual she would search every inch of her home for any evidence of why her husband was hardly home.

She was going to start with downstairs, and the obvious first – her husband’s home office.

After an hour of searching high and low, she didn’t find one bit of evidence. No room was left out; she searched the laundry room right down to the half bath. When it was over, Sarah headed upstairs to the guest bedrooms and bathroom. Just to be sure, when she entered their bedroom, Sarah searched her walk-in closet first just in case Brian was slick and hid something in there. She only turned up empty handed, as there was nothing out of the norm.

It was now well into the night by the time Sarah began her search. She was now approaching her husband’s walk-in closet and froze at the entrance.

She was so sure that she would find something he was hiding in there that she hesitated. After a long sigh, she made her way in and decided that she was going to check all of his pockets first. There wasn’t even a paper in any of them. She was beginning to think he wasn’t hiding anything in the house at all but continued her search. She took down all the boxes from the top shelves and began to go through them one by one.

She was on box number four when she found a stack of pictures they had taken in their first year of marriage. Looking through the pile took her down memory lane. She was about to put the stack back when she looked in the box and saw some old pictures, one of the day they went to the amusement Limin’Times Entertainment Guide

park and began to smile. She remembered that day like it just happened.

“Baby lets take a picture right here, it looks so exotic, would be nice to look back on this when we get old and gray,” Sarah told Brian.

“Girl, I’ll never get gray, I’ll stay this handsome forever,” Brian joked as he found a passerby to take the picture of them.

Brian was so head-over-heels in love with Sarah that he promised himself that this would be the girl he spends his life with. After riding most of the rides, the couple decided to take a break and get some lunch. While they were eating, Brian stood up in the middle of the eating area and declared his love for Sarah.

Sarah was so taken aback from that memory that she never realized she was crying until the tears dropped on the picture she was holding. As she dug deeper in the box, she found another picture, this one was from their first year of marriage from their trip to the Caribbean.

The couple had checked into their room and decided to take a walk around the resort premises before dinner although it was a rainy day. They were on their way back when the rain came down and as Brian was hurrying her to get to shelter, Sarah grabbed his hand and pulled him into a kiss. One of the hotel guests who happened to have been a photographer captured the image of them and and presented it to them.

“What the hell are you doing going through my things?” Brian asked, scaring Sarah a bit and causing her to drop the photo.

12

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!

13

Last Issue Answers (Vol 31, 5)

Vol. 31, 7 / May 30 - Jun 5, 2019

Eldred Henry launches the BIG One It was a big weekend for the territory’s athletes on the Collegiate scene competing in the NCAA Division I and II Track and Field Championships, but none bigger than Eldred Henry’s Shot Put throw to shatter the NCAA Division II Championships mark.

On his third attempt after opening with 19.62m then following up with a 20.62m effort, just .01cms off his bronze medal Central American and Caribbean Games personal best set last year, the Findlay Junior launched the big one that measured an astounding 21.47m. It was the best measurement in all levels of NCAA Divisional competitions over the weekend.

The mark erased his 20.56m outdoors season’s best after 20.61m indoors and vaulted him from No 30 on the 2019 IAAF list, to No 9. Henry’s launch, that landed 70 feet 5¼” in imperial measurements, is the 75th best all-Time mark in the history of the event— globally!

In the process, Henry shattered his own 20.63m BVI National Record, his own OECS Record, his School, Conference and Championships Records, and outright qualified him for the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar slated for Sept 29-Oct 6.

Remarkably, in a country with just 32,800 inhabitants (2017), the territory has an athlete with the No 1 Long Jump mark in the world in this year in Chantel Malone, Henry at No 9 in the Shot Put, and Kyron McMaster who uncovered his 400m Hurdles campaign in Guadeloupe with 49.37 seconds last week at No 16.

Limin’Times Entertainment Guide

The trio have all qualified for Worlds, which will be preceded by the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru from August 6-10.

The weekend also saw three of four athletes qualifying for the June 5-8 NCAA Division I Championships in Austin, Texas with two in individual events for the first time since Illinois’ Ashley Kelly and Texas’ Chantel Malone, in 2011.

Competing in the NCAA East Regional, Clemson Junior, Lakeisha “Mimi” Warner advanced to the championships for a second successive year when she finished fifth in her 400m Hurdles heat and seventh overall after combined times in 57.21 seconds. It’s a new personal best and National Record, eclipsing the 57.23 established last year.

Florida Junior, Kala Penn, coming off a 13.36m National Record effort in the SEC Championships, advanced to her first championships with a leap of 13.05m, the 11th best mark of the competition.

University of Central Florida Freshman Beyonce DeFreitas, anchored her 4x100m Relay team to 43.72 seconds and made it to the big dance.

While he did not advance to the championships, Indiana Freshman Rikkoi Brathwaite ran a 100m personal best of 10.35 seconds in the quarter finals, becoming the BVI’s fastest debuting freshman since track and field athletes began competing Collegiately in 1976. He also recorded a 21.02 seconds 200m best this season—the best times for a first year BVI collegian.

14

15

Vol. 31, 7 / May 30 - Jun 5, 2019