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Tag: Virgin Islands

  • Our President Dr. Safiya George is on FIRE🔥

    Our President Dr. Safiya George is on FIRE🔥

    On behalf of the students, faculty, and staff at UVI, this video is dedicated to our newly inaugurated President, Dr. Safiya George. CONGRATULATIONS🎊 #uvi#drsafiyageorge#uvibuccaneers#girlonfire🔥#inaugurationday

  • What’s a Birthday without Ice Cream? 🍦

    What’s a Birthday without Ice Cream? 🍦

    University of Virgin Islands host an Ice cream social to celebrate UVI’s 63rd birthday. Students come together to enjoy a sweet treat from a local Ice cream truck known as “On Thin Ice” and music.

  • SAY HER NAME: LACOUR

    SAY HER NAME: LACOUR

    LACOUR is on FIRE as she literally jumps over Wiley basketball rival during the Lady Bucs first win of the season. UVI Lady Buc’s First win of the season MA- LAY-AH: Say Her Name! Maliah Lacour is on Fire! The senior guard scored a season-high 27 points in a dominant performance on her senior night….

  • UPCLOSE and PERSONAL-UVI adds “Cool” new leadership

    UPCLOSE and PERSONAL-UVI adds “Cool” new leadership

    UVI Student Journalists Secure Exclusive Interview With University President by Maliah LaCour ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands, Jan 2025— On a bright and bustling fall afternoon in 2024, three young reporters hurried into the administration building on the Orville E. Sheen campus at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI). Members of the UVI Association…

  • The Significance of Carnival and Festival in the Virgin Islands

    The Significance of Carnival and Festival in the Virgin Islands

    By Gimel Pinto (STT-January 4,  2022) Many people outside of the Caribbean see the enthusiasm that carnivals and festivals provide. Still, the natural origins of Caribbean carnivals and festivals lie in the colonization and religious conversion that took place when European explorers made their way to the region. Today, it is a celebration and occasion…

  • KACTF presents play about Ethel Waters: More than Sweet

    KACTF presents play about Ethel Waters: More than Sweet

    by Indeyah Todman (STX, February 5, 2022) Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) “Sweet Mama Stringbean,” is more than sweet. Directed by Evelyn D. Tyler, a cast of talented Florida A&M University (FAMU) student actors bring playwright Beth Turner’s vision to life in the hour-long play. Behind the play is a prolific group of skillful stage management,…

  • Three Times a Charm: 3rd UVI Student Participates in HBCU  White House Press Briefing

    Three Times a Charm: 3rd UVI Student Participates in HBCU White House Press Briefing

      UVIABJ staff/prUVI-January 25, 2022. A communication major at the University of the Virgin Islands has become the third student this academic school year to be selected to participate in the historic White House Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Journalism Press Briefings. The events are part of a White House initiative to strategically position young…

  • STX: Views from Above

    STX: Views from Above

    byEarl Morris, Jr.