On Sunday, July 11, all roads lead to historic Lindbergh Bay where a number of civic organizations have banded together to celebrate the survival of the ecosystem of the fragile marine environment of the area.

Named after Charles Augustus Lindbergh who landed his Spirit of St. Louis on the estate during his good will tour of 1928, Lindbergh Bay has recently captured the attention of visitors and locals alike.

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Local dishes are extremely popular with visitors as well as the locals. Traditional local food tends to be spicy and hearty. Curried Goat, stewed mutton, Chicken, Oxtail, and Fish are all popular mainstays of local cuisine.

Fungi (fun-gee) consists of cornmeal that has been boiled and cooked to a thick consistency. It is flavored with bits of okra. Fungi is usually eaten with boiled fish or saltfish.

Callaloo (or kallaloo) is a soup made from callaloo bush/ leaf and various meats and okra, and is boiled to a thick stew consistency.

Pates are pastries enclosing spiced meats, fish, and/or vegetables, then deep fried.

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The Virgin Islands Government has the ability to offer tax benefits to businesses doing business in the Virgin Islands. Under the mirror tax system the VI uses the US Internal Revenue Code and all the US tax forms but the taxes collected are remitted to the Virgin Islands Bureau of Internal Revenue rather than the IRS. An individual who is a bona fide VI resident for the entire tax year files a VI return and pays VI tax on his worldwide income for that year. If the US citizen properly files and reports all his income from all sources on a VI tax Return and pays the VI tax, he is not subject to tax in the US. Special rules apply to determine if a person is a bona fide VI resident and if income is possessions source income. There are various tax benefit programs available to residents and businesses of the Virgin Islands through the Economic Development Program (EDC) and the University of the Virgin Islands Research and Technology Park (RTPark). These programs offer tax credits of up to 90% of the income tax due.

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Any time is a wonderful time to be in the Virgin Islands. This time of this year is a great time to spend some time at night sky watching. Once another beautiful Virgin Island day has ended, the Sun has set, and the sky has grown dark, look overhead and you will see a bright, red, star-like object. This is not a star at all but the planet Mars.

If you look slightly northwest of Mars you will find two bright stars of about the same brightness. These are Pollux and Castor and mark the head of the Gemini Twins. If you know the name Gemini, it is probably because it is one of the twelve constellations that form a band which encircles the sky, the zodiac. It is to the zodiac that we must look to see the planets. Moving eastward along the zodiac, we next come to Aries, the Ram. There are no bright stars to be seen here and thus Aries is usually difficult to find, but since Mars is currently seen against the background of stars of Aries, once you locate Mars you have found Aries. If you look still farther East, you will come to a bright star, Regulus, the red heart of Leo, the Lion.

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