Virgin Islands High School) St George's Secondary School Seventh-day Adventist Secondary School Cedar International School Ansted College and approved Distance University Programs Eslyn Henley Richiez Learning Centre serves as Tortola's special-needs school. The H. Lavity Stoutt Community College provides Tortola's tertiary education Sports Tortola has been one of the Caribbean's prime basketball destinations, hosting three of the last four Caribbean Basketball Championships. Horse racing is also a popular sport in the Virgin Islands, and Tortola's Ellis Thomas Downs is one of the three race tracks in the region. Notable people J'maal Alexander, Olympic sprinter, was born in Tortola Melanie Amaro, lived in Tortola with her grandmother as a child; she was the season 1 winner of the X Factor reality show Isaac Glanville Fonseca, early political figure in the British Virgin Islands around the time of the restoration of democracy in 1950 George French (1817–1881), born and raised in Tortola, was the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone and the British Supreme Court for China and Japan Samuel Hodge (c. 1840 – 1868), recipient of the Victoria Cross Richard Humphreys (philanthropist), silversmith and Founder of Cheyney University, the first historically black institute of higher learning in the United States Iyaz, international singing star, is from Carrot Bay, Tortola Jon Lucien (1942 – 2007), vocalist and musician, born Lucien Harrigan on the island of Tortola Stanley Nibbs (1914 – 1985), teacher and one of the first black citizens to appear on a BVI postage stamp Images See also British colonization of the Americas Dutch colonization of the Americas References External links Official website of the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board Former English colonies