Shaun Connolly

Hamilton

Business Editor of the British Virgin Islands Beacon newspaper. All views my own - unless you want them...DMs open for stories.

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Articles

Not the step dog dad

1 week ago | worcestersucks.email | Shaun Connolly

Bill here real quick! Merch orders help us sustain the four regular columns (like this one) and a podcast that make up the Worcester Sucks project. Just like being in a band, merch sales are one of the last remaining ways to make money when you’re an independent local journalism outfit in these rotten hollowed-out times. We have a bunch of the Eye of Sauron longsleeves restocked and other good stuff in there!Should we get a dog?
Businesses tapped for Road Town revamp

2 weeks ago | bvibeacon.com | Shaun Connolly

Government hopes businesses will fund half of a $10 million effort to spruce up Road Town over the next five years, but the needed financing is not yet in place, according to Premier Natalio "Sowande" Wheatley. Launching the Road Town Partnership during a Friday press conference at the Financial Services Commission, Mr. Wheatley said the initiative will aim to improve commercial and civic areas from the Prospect Reef roundabout to the Purcell roundabout.
Premier warns about food, energy costs

2 weeks ago | bvibeacon.com | Shaun Connolly

There is a "real threat" that food and electricity bills in the Virgin Islands will spike because of the tariff war unleashed by United States President Donald Trump, Premier Natalio "Sowande" Wheatley has warned. Mr. Wheatley gave his assessment after the White House slapped levies on nearly every country and territory across the world, including a ten percent import duty on goods from the Virgin Islands.
April Horrorscopes

2 weeks ago | worcestersucks.email | Shaun Connolly

We run this outlet on a shoestring budget but we’re able to put out such a diverse array of local journalism, between this column, my work, Liz, Chris, Aislinn… every dollar you spend on supporting us goes straight to producing more alternative community journalism. We’re building the alt weekly we all want to see, I think. Paid subscribers are all part owners in whatever sorta sauce we got going. Hop aboard. —BillAries- Moons are rising, stars are crossing, planets are spinning.
Cancer registry gets boost from bank

2 weeks ago | bvibeacon.com | Shaun Connolly

The Virgin Islands' battle against cancer has been boosted to the tune of $67,000 thanks to grassroots action and corporate sponsorship. A cancer research and analysis project by the territory's Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit received $10,000 of the money to compile information that officials said will help advance a long-promised cancer registry in the Virgin Islands.
Walwyn fires back at Skelton

2 weeks ago | bvibeacon.com | Shaun Connolly

New Opposition Leader Myron Walwyn has hit back at Ronnie Skelton's claim that toppling him from the role amounted to "stabbing" him "in the front.""To imply that Hon. Skelton was betrayed is to venture into personal politics, a path that has historically proven to be unproductive and has not served us well," Mr. Walwyn told the Beacon yesterday. The member for the Sixth District added that he had been sworn in in full accordance with the territory's Constitution.
Shipper warns about Trump moves

3 weeks ago | bvibeacon.com | Shaun Connolly

The many Virgin Islands businesses that use Tropical Shipping could be hit hard by United States President Donald Trump's tariffs and other policies, the company has warned. In testimony before the US Trade Representative last week in Washington DC, Tropical CEO Tim Martin pleaded for a rethink, claiming that his company and the Caribbean in general would be badly impacted by Mr. Trump's aggressive trade tactics.
Five tips to become beautiful like me

3 weeks ago | worcestersucks.email | Shaun Connolly

Bill here with a quick note. Me and Shaun had a blast at the punk rock flea market Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came out and said hi and bought some stuff. Shaun sold more on-the-spot bad advice than last time! We think the phone booth placement had something to do with it. Some leftover stock up on the merch store: 18 of the new Bad Brains shirts (gonna go quick!) and some restocked Eye of Sauron longsleeves.
If music be the food of love, play on

4 weeks ago | bvibeacon.com | Shaun Connolly

For at least one couple, love was on the menu at the Taste of Virgin Gorda food festival on Saturday evening. As the island's top restaurants offered up culinary delights at the sugar works ruins at Nail Bay, a couple on a yachting holiday from Yorkshire, England, stumbled across the extravaganza and found it to be the perfect place to celebrate their second anniversary. "The food is equally as delicious as the company," said Victoria Harris, a 29-year-old chartered surveyor from Leeds.
'He stabbed me in the front'

4 weeks ago | bvibeacon.com | Shaun Connolly

A new rift has reopened old wounds in the House of Assembly. Ronnie Skelton said this week that Myron Walwyn "stabbed" him "in the front" to replace him as leader of the downsized opposition after Lorna Smith's recent departure for the government bench. In response, Mr. Skelton has now rejoined the National Democratic Party, which he previously served for about two decades before losing an acrimonious NDP leadership battle to Mr. Walwyn in 2018.