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| Type | Weekly newspaper[1] |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Russell Harrigan |
| Publisher | Russell Harrigan |
| Editor | Freeman Rogers |
| Staff writers | 3 |
| Founded | June 1984[2] |
| Headquarters | 10 Russell Hill Road, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands |
| Website | bvibeacon.com |
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The BVI Beacon is a weekly British Virgin Islands newspaper founded in June 1984 and published on the island of Tortola. The Beacon is owned and published by local businessman Russell Harrigan, also the publisher of Business BVI. The online version of the newspaper was founded on February 14, 2001.[3]
The paper's motto is "The light that comes from wisdom never goes out."[4] The paper is published on Thursdays, and organised into sections: Local News, Business, Weekend and Culture and Sports.
The first Beacon cost 35 cents. In 2018, the price was raised to $1.
- ^ Colleen Ballerino Cohen (27 September 2010). Take Me to My Paradise: Tourism and Nationalism in the British Virgin Islands. Rutgers University Press. pp. 51–. ISBN 978-0-8135-5031-2.
- ^ Islands, British Virgin (1985). British Virign [sic] Islands Territorial Report for the Year.
- ^ "bvibeacon.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ Discover British Virgin Islands: 11th OECS Meeting, May 25-29, 1987. Caribbean Print. Company. 1987.