The Healthy Lifestyles School Intervention programme will be launched this week following three weeks of baseline data collection in the Territory’s primary schools.

The Government of the Virgin Islands is advising residents of the Virgin Gorda community that Premier and Minister of Finance Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, OBE will hold office hours on Tuesday, October 6, at the Virgin Gorda Administration Complex, Vanterpool Building.

The Ministry of Communications and Works and the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force are investigating a fire at the Road Town pump station which damaged several wires, vaccum pumps and other components at the main pump station.

The Ministry of Communication and Works is working vigorously to restore water service to interrupted areas in the Territory, in particular Virgin Gorda and Sea Cows Bay.

The Territory will soon improve its capacity to restore coral reefs following Cabinet’s approval of the development of Coral Reef Restoration Nurseries throughout the BVI’s fishing waters.

Leonora Delville Primary School grades two and three students were all smiles as baseline data collectors visited their school today as part of the Healthy Lifestyle School Intervention Programme.

The Ministry of Communications and Works is informing all motorists that nightly road works on the James Walter Francis Highway will commence on Monday, September 28.

The Ministry of Communications and Works is informing interested persons in the field of telecommunications and technology and industry players that registration is open for the upcoming Ministerial Strategic Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Seminar, to be held on September 30.

A team of officials from the Ministries of Education and Culture and Health and Social Development and volunteers collecting data from students in grades two and three at the Francis Lettsome Primary School as part of the Healthy Lifestyle School Intervention programme.

Director of the FSIU, Mr. Kedrick Malone, accompanied by Delivery Specialist, Ms. Monique Hodge-Bell and Communications Specialist, Ms. Philomena Robertson, delivered a presentation to principals of primary schools in which he identified potential areas of partnership.