Pandemic Opportunities: St. Croix Family Launches Residential and Commercial Cleaning Business as More People Work, Learn From Home

ST. CROIX — The deadly coronavirus has laid waste to many businesses, some even generational, as customers — spooked by the disease and under government lockdown orders — stay at home and seek online alternatives. Yet as more people stay inside, with children participating in virtual learning and some companies letting their employees work from home, opportunities once thought risky are now proving to be the winning business models.  Enter Jaclyn O'Garro, a St. Croix native whose penchant for cleaning has been a given among family and friends for years. In fact long before Covid-19, Ms. O'Garro would crisscross the island cleaning homes and businesses as a side gig. She also worked with cleaning companies at Omni Hotel and Resorts in Atlanta, GA and at the CNN Center for 2½ years before moving home, where she continued cleaning as a second job. Then, of course, Covid-19 hit, and suddenly the work that had supplemented her income was threatened.  But that was only an appearance; a mir...