A new Festival and Fairs Committee Executive Board has been appointed as preparations take shape for the 2018 Emancipation Festival.

Minister for Education and Culture, Honourable Myron V. Walwyn has announced that the 51st Annual Virgin Gorda Easter Festival festivities will take a different format than attendees have grown accustomed to over the years.

Minister for Education and Culture, Honourable Myron V. Walwyn, has announced that the Virgin Gorda Easter Festival Celebrations will be held from Saturday March 31 to April 2.

All booth owners are asked to remove all erected booths, dismantled structures and/or materials from the Festival Grounds in Road Town.

My fellow Virgin Islanders, residents, friends, regular visitors and those who are here for the first time, a festive welcome to our 2017 Emancipation Celebration.

The Licencing Magistrate is reminding all persons desirous of selling intoxicating liquor during the upcoming Emancipation Festival that they are to apply for and obtain a temporary liquor licence to do so.

Vendors are reminded that they are to seek permission and obtain a temporary trade licence for the August Monday Parade on August 7.

Welcome to the official launch of Festival 2017. The Virgin Islands will commemorate 63 years of Emancipation Celebrations under the theme “A Colourful Kaleidoscope to be seen, Creating a Cultural Scene for Festival 2017”.   

The public is reminded that the Virgin Gorda Easter Festival Golden Jubilee Commemorative magazine will officially be launched on Tuesday, May 16 at the Fischer’s Cove Beach Hotel at 10:00 a.m.

The Virgin Gorda Easter Festival Golden Jubilee Commemorative magazine will officially be launched on Tuesday, May 16 at the Fischer’s Cove Beach Hotel at 10:00 a.m.