Saturday night at the 10th Annual West Indies United Awards Gala, VirginiaReggae.com won the Community Service award.<\/p>\n
\nSaturday night at the 10th Annual West Indies United Awards Gala, VirginiaReggae.com won the Community Service award. We are very pleased to have this prestigious award from one of the areas premier Caribbean organizations. To those of you who support us, this is your award! \n<\/p>\n
\nHere is the list of winners:
\nVolunteer of the year: Debbie Reynolds
\nVanguard Award: Anthony Chambers
\nCaribbean Community Service award: VirginiaReggae.com
\nLifetime Achievement award: Tony and Eupha Jackson
\nBusiness Of the year award: Montego’s Restaurant and Grocery
\nThe two scholarship winners were: Sha’ Kara Chambers and Keivan Zolfaghari
\n
\nThe following persons were recognized in the Sports personality category; Shawn Gale, Patrick McCalla, Marlin Machlin and Seko Francis.\n<\/p>\n
\nIn his opening remarks, the President of WIU, Mr Otwell "Johnny" Richardson reminded us that, "Our culture must be preserved! If not by us then who? If not now then when? Become a member today an renew your member ship in WIU annually." The keynote speaker was Dr. Wanda Barnard- Bailey, Deputy City Manager for Human Development and Community Initiatives in Chesapeake, Virginia. Master of ceremonies was Desmond Figaro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saturday night at the 10th Annual West Indies United Awards Gala, VirginiaReggae.com won the Community Service award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}