Rosan flags STD ‘outbreak’ among girls at local high school
Media owner and political commentator Cindy Rosan has raised an alarm about what she described as a growing sexually transmitted disease (STD) cases among young girls attending a local high school, warning that the issue forms part of a far wider social crisis affecting youth across the Virgin Islands.
Speaking on her Morning Facts talk show earlier this week, Rosan said she knows of “an outbreak of STDs amongst the young girls” at the school, which she linked to sexual relationships between underage students and older men.
She alleged that some of these men are married or in long-term relationships and warned that diseases are being transmitted “between the young girls and their wives and girlfriends.”
Rosan stressed that the situation should not be viewed in isolation, arguing that it is symptomatic of a broader breakdown affecting children and teenagers in the territory.
“The VI has a crisis with our young people,” she said, citing what she described as rising promiscuity, drug use, and alcohol consumption among minors.
A community issue
According to Rosan, the problems facing young people are “multifaceted” and cannot be blamed solely on parents or schools. She argued that responsibility rests with the entire community, including institutions tasked with social development and child protection.
“It starts at home, yes, but it is everybody’s problem — parents, teachers, the community,” she said.
The commentator was particularly critical of what she described as a lack of urgency from the authorities. While clarifying that her criticism was not aimed at any single individual, Rosan said she does not believe enough is being done at a policy level to confront deep-rooted social issues.
She described the territory’s social challenges as “dire” and accused decision-makers of failing to treat them with the seriousness they deserve.
Child exploitation being allowed for financial survival?
Rosan also pointed to economic hardship and social pressures as factors contributing to the exploitation of young girls, alleging that in some cases, parents are turning a blind eye to older men engaging in sexual relationships with minors as a means of financial survival. She warned that this, combined with social media influences and a lack of guidance, is placing vulnerable children at even greater risk.
She further questioned whether agencies responsible for child welfare and social services are adequately resourced and supported to intervene effectively, suggesting that systemic failures often allow abuse cases to collapse before reaching the courts.
“This is not something we can keep whispering about,” Rosan said, adding that the territory has repeatedly called for governments that would prioritise social issues but has seen little meaningful change.
“We have a serious crisis in the BVI, and we have to be very, very worried.”
Rosan concluded by urging the wider society to confront the realities facing its youth, warning that ignoring the problem would only allow the cycle of abuse, neglect, and social dysfunction to continue unchecked.
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No lies were told here. These children are being groomed and ruined! While there are a lot of force-ripe and hot-tails, they are still children. No adult should be having those types of relations with a child. None! When will a Sex Offender Registry be implemented?
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is facing a youth crisis, then solutions must focus on prevention, protection, empowerment, and accountability. Why is the secondary schools shying away from these sexual education programs? They are thought in other Caribbean Countries. Parents needs to wake up!!!
Below is a evidence-based programme that all high schools should implement.
Comprehensive Health & Family Life Education (HFLE)- this is being thought in the primary and secondary education system in most Caribbean Islands.
HFLE should be age-appropriate, culturally relevant, and mandatory across all secondary schools.
Core Topics:
• Puberty and reproductive health
• Understanding STDs and prevention
• Consent and healthy relationships
• Recognizing grooming and exploitation
• Self-worth and decision-making skills
• Online safety and social media risks
Importantly, this curriculum must:
• Be taught by social workers and guidance counsellors
• Include interactive discussions, journaling, role plays, not just lectures
• Provide access to confidential support services
HFLE is not about promoting promiscuity, it is about equipping students with knowledge to protect themselves.
Give the names to the police
The world is fast approaching the “equality” between men and women it so desperately craved. The rebrand and sexual liberation of women has been in effect for a while now. Loose women are no longer Trollopes or sluts, they’re liberated, free spirited, city girls, living their best life, having hot girl summers. The ease with which women of any age can amass alarming numbers of sexual partners in opposed to their male counterparts who must generally possess more than “available private parts” to garner the same attention, was, is and will always have the capacity lead to disproportionate negative consequences in society.
Whilst few men will complain of the ease with which casual sex becomes available due to these relaxed standards, infidelity, infections, single parenthood and a general decay of wholesome, meaningful relationships is to be expected is it not?
More than ever we need sex education and access to safe sex resources. I recall the ministry of health have condom drives, we need planned parenthood facilities and realistic plans to mitigate an std epidemic. Unfortunately, all we may receive is a call to prayer and fast n a few politicians filled with hot air speaking hollow words ♂️
Some parents are utterly worthless, abandoning their responsibility to care for their children and letting them be exploited just to make money
Well the BVI has become the harbored of the CARICOM set of peoples and their cultural practices and norm.
Them,their lifestyle as import are the the top priority and favored imports.
The Dominican Republic is top of the list with its culture of sexual deviants and practices. They m…the Dingos…make no secret of thus,as it is advertised and paraded practiced in these VI as a commodity for pennies on the dollar by young very young of all Dingo genders.
Thank you Rosan it is more than time this issue brought to the discussion and delt with accordingly
Alot of parents themselves are hurting and incapable of showing love to their children despite their behaviours. Children are children and will be adventurous, curious, sometimes promiscuous but parents have a responsibility to love their children unconditionally and never stop fighting for their wellbeing and safety. Put it the work it takes to guide and nurture them!
Let’s start with the parents! Stop abandoning your children at the first few mistakes. Fathers be present! Stop prefer your stepchildren over your own flesh and blood, stop it! Mothers cannot do it alone, support them! Be the protector and the disciplinarian you are called to be from in the Bible! Be strong! Don’t be embarrassed!
It takes a village to raise a child
This motto has gone through the window
Men and especially women have no respect for MARRIAGE we cannot go against the plan God lsid out for us
The society has long accepted husbands who father children out of marriage to make it acceptable.in theirnhomeb
The perpetrator family say nothing to their sons
The family is forced to accept the children.
There are clashes and conflicts in the home
Children go out and find love where they can
Everything begins in the home that is dysfunctional. It is getting worse
“ Close you door” concept
The family as you described in today’s BVzi is a relatively new phonomenon…trace the degradation. Of these VI,in all areas to the massive import of the updeislun lot,
There is a glaring BEFORE and AFTER to these VI
The self destruct mentality that is evident results from
the mental outlook of VIslanders as it is in too many sons and daughters of slavery.
The AFTER,the now was predictable.
It won’t get better,unfortunately. Every pillar of our communal sustenance has degraded and continues based on the TODAYS character and culture of the massive importees of lesser cohesive and lesser human quality.No turning back unfortunately..we have simply become another CARICOM turd in the toilet. Threw our pearls to swines… that is a sin and disobedience to the Heavenly Master.
Ah yes the youths in the news again
How many more articles will it take for the public to get up and demand a sex offenders list
Are you comfortable leaving you kids with secret sex offenders?
I agree. Also a list for every female who make false rape and sexual abuse claims. Make each gender be known publicly.
this is crazy i would never send my kids to eshs, its lawless up there
Ain’t about the school, if your child bad your child bad.
We don’t want them there either if there’s a chance of them having a retarded mind like yours
Bla Bla…let’s be realistic .
Making it sound like every person that went to ESHS IS condemned to do the wrong thing.. when in reality iits a small percentage of student that make it look bad for everyone else..
Just like any other school.
If your child has good morals, good teachings, is confident and don’t need to impress anyone. It won’t matter what school they’re in or where they’re in. They wouldn’t fall into peer pressure , they would honor their bodies and their parents. Im not saying send your child to ESHS but dont put everyone in one basket.
If YOUU was bad in HS and scared your child follow your steps, thennnn I understand your concern.
Rosan if you have knowledge about this type of behavior with older men and under age school girl its your duty as parents to notify the authority not to just come throwing words that you cant prove and where is the statistics from the hospital or medical faculity to back what you’re saying.
Just spreading awareness! If you or someone you know has had or is currently having sexual relations with one of the linesman … Please I am begging go and get tested, he’s known for having sexual contact with underage/ high school girls and has been spreading STD/STI’s for years! This is a very small island and sexual transmitted diseases is spreading rapidly within our territory.
You have info n still giving half info, how tf can we verify who is the linesman? Do you see how this post is useless in the messiest way possible?
The newsite censored and removed the details of that person, which is very unfair. The community needs to be aware of these predators
What did y’all expect?
We promote sex, drugs, partying, alcohol and gangs as main stream and popular in the BVI on a regular.
Festival got dancehall music with the most vulgar lyrics then we got local rappers on stage with them big chains and local female dancer dancing like stripper’s… Some of them was even Ms BVI contestants!! Don’t be fooled by the young women dressed in office attire or government when party time come then say respectable clothed woman will be half naked on fast boats/clubs/social party outtings
Last year festival …especially Mali don night…it was ram packed with youths smoking weed, minors dressing like prostitutes (their parents let them leave the house like that yes and most cases the parents ain no better…prob a single parent home or a party/nightlife/criminal lova home) ,
young boys dressing like thugs and having no respect for adults or authority bcuz that is the “cool” thing to do.
Wanna know where them boys learned that? When Michael Matthew asked how come y’all got so much youths with big houses and businesses but zero employment history….y’all response was to make a song called “stopped that whatchy watchy) smh
Keep encouraging illegal activity. Keep encouraging criminals… The same criminals that’s gonna ride off your kid’s cuz them ain got no standards or morals
Then wen the old heads cry out on social media saying too many youths was on the festival ground smoking, drinking, female minors dressing with all them skin out and they asked what has the culture become??
The young adults in this country who love to party, drink , smoke, dressed like thugs and prostitutes responded to the out cry cussing out the old heads saying the culture always been like this and stop making noise….let the youth live them life…….
Well we can see them living life here full of STDs, drugs in the schools, young boys dropping out and joining gangs, some ain finish school and done in jail…. And the same male adults that give backlash to the old heads are the same ones jumping on top of the minors…..why you think they defend it??
And lot of the young parents these days ain know better.
Look at the parents of most of the unruly kids
I bet you the father was/is a criminal/party man/ weed head/ drugman /night life person.
Then the mother is either a single mother cuz her standards in men are the bottom of the barrel and her logcal thinking on choosing a responsible partner compares to the logical thinking of a rock.
or the mother herself is party woman , night life woman, criminal lover, Promiscuous woman, weed head, alcoholic, rude and unruly etc.
The young female parents these days got their daughters dressed half naked just like them and got them twerking and listening to the same sexual explicit songs from the age of 5yrs old!!!
While you’re 100% right, this isn’t just a BVI issue this is throughout the world. We are seeing a generalized breakdown in society and what we deemed to be a lack, of morals, ethics and common decency. However! This isn’t something that just started this has been going on for years difference is social media and the world wide web has brought it to the forefront.
Cindy chat to much. Who is she to broadcast that. Stewps.. leave that up to the health department.
Plenty baby showers… No ring ….. 5 years later single mother…we celebrate baby showers more than weddings. We celebrate birthdays dressing have naked for photoshoots. We celebrate hald naked woman over well dressed beautiful women .
What do y’all think the outcome would of been??
Go back to shaming people who lack moral , standards and self respect!. Look down on it. Watch the culture shift down the line.
Bring back good morals and standard’s
Despite all of this watch festival this year still bring a bunch of local rappers and dancehall artist singing about gangs , sex , drugs , fast life, violence.. I’m not saying you gotta play Christian music buy some conscience music or less vulgar less violent music mheen.
Festival committee do y’all job and background check y’all artist. Check them songs. Check the lyrics and the message them sending out.
. But I don’t expect much from the festival committee either.
Word on the street is they themselves didn’t want Police presence at the last festival. That alone speaks volumes about them.
Serious. And the same time when them was fighting to not have police and only security it had a bunch of fights break out to even when an officer got stabbed!!
Bring role models to talk to students regularly. Background check the role models too cuz the same role models you bring is the same one’s encouraging the new filthy culture
I am sadly amused when at the beginning of a New Year News photo shows the first birth of the NewYear in these Vi
Yep…
Rarely a baby daddy in photo..just the she alone
Baby mommas not a wedding ring in sight .
These hang about boys and bike riders..when accosted by police.,,never ever a Daddy show up.
The BEFORE BVI families were manned by the male gender as head of household.
What STD is it?
You folks are seriously unreal. First, girls being pimped out to help pay household bills is old news. I heard that one 25 years ago. The only person who tried to stem the tide was a High School principal who discovered adult men having sex in their blacked out cars lunch time with high school girls. That’s how we got the tint law. Aside from that I’ve not seen or heard of anything that any government, association, etc., has attempted to do about that situation. Of course there is free cervical cancer screening being done by a non profit, something the girls with STDs could benefit from. In the same post on this article I saw girls/women being referred to in derogatory ways, men were referred to as men. Unless the word men is derogatory I take that to mean that the girls are bad and the men are okay. Asking Ms. Rosan to report the names of the men who are perpetrating this increase in STDs is putting her in harms way. Men are trafficking women into this country on a regular basis. The operative word is “bartender”. So far while the police may know the names the Labour Department who could even try to do something about that issue have received no reports with names so that they could stop the trafficking. There are so many unemployed young men out there who could be trained as bartenders, but the men who are bringing in the women to be “bartenders” are referred to as “businessmen” who aren’t allowing that and are getting away with it. There’s a lot going on in these little islands. Maybe if we who consider ourselves law abiding, CHRISTIANS spent less time blaming downislanders rather than trying to find serious and concrete solutions, actually demanding that people in Social Development be put to work trying to fix some of these social problems, employees already overworked and underpaid, instead of which we’ve got them doling out money to people on behalf of the HOA for whatever their various financial problems are. High school girls and big men having sex is old news. If you really want a public health problem to look at ask the Health Services Authority how many heart attack deaths they recorded last year or this year even. Ask them how many amputations they are seeing. How many people are on dialysis? Ask if the hospital is properly staffedor even have sufficient supplies. There’s an entire ward they can’t use unless seriously pressed because they don’t have adequate staff. We have lots of social problems in the BVI. Ms. Rosan did not discover a new one, or even the most important problem. She’s brave though to be putting it out there for most people to look at , criticize and then blame it on the girls and the downislanders and then go back to shoving their heads in the sand and hoping it will go away.
She talking about her children