National Tourism Week in the 

Virgin Islands

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Tourism Week ended on Saturday, May 13, 2000 with a cultural celebration in Buddhoe Park in Frederiksted.

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The school children played steel pan music, performed different dances and plaited the May Pole.  The vendors had mouth watering delicacies including stew tamarind.

 

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Assistant Commissioner Pamela Richards and Commissioner Rafael Jackson

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Sandy and de Masqueraders' Art Cards

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Plaiting the May Pole

St. Croix Pan-African Youth Orchestra 

 
 

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