SVG’s Orano Andrews held off a hard challenge from visiting Italian cyclist Andrea Vaght and defending champion Chris Ghiorse, to win the 2008 Tour de Tortola in 2 hours 30 minutes and 40 seconds…giving him his 3rd win in a row in the VI.  Andrews and Ghiorse were having a classic two man battle up Windy Hill until Vaght, caught them on the descent down the Ridge road to East End.

Gasoline and food prices spikes have had what could be called a “Miracle –Grow” on the Backyard garden movement. Some local stores and seed merchants are reporting a number of customers buying vegetable seeds and starter plants.

History is being made every day in all sorts of ways; the normal routine things we do, the regular occurrences that range anywhere from a political speech to a vehicular accident. Or something more pleasant, like a wedding or the birth of a baby. Or something that evokes a sense of loss, like the death of a national hero.

About 50 percent of the vendors operating in the vicinity of the cruise ship pier obliquely opposite Captain’s Table could face eviction as government seeks to regularise the vending situation before it spirals further out of control.