This letter is being penned to bring to your attention the cause of the forgotten unionized employees at WAPA. The public has been inundated with the myriad of problems and debts WAPA faces. This writer will not bore you with a reminder of those obligations owed, however there is one obligation that...

Kudos to the Department of Tourism for great representation! The comments of journalists highlight the need for a substantive, quality VI history curriculum. Virgin Islands need to know and understand their history to apply that knowledge for entrepreneurial benefit. For the recognition of each of the three...

Toni Morrison was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1993. She was the author of 11 novels as well as children’s books and essay collections. Among them were celebrated works like “Song of Solomon,” which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977,...

With what I consider a crisis at WAPA, I am sure the issue of privatization will once again be on the table. It is probably under the table already! When Southern Energy was seeking to buy the utility, several of us raised the possibility of becoming a cooperative under the National Rural Electric Cooperative...

The government of the Virgin Islands’ new 2040 Vision infrastructure economic development plan must address the financial hardship caused by the current operational status of the Virgin Island Water and Power Authority. In any great society, a government must address infrastructure for a utility’s...

Dear Governor Bryan: We write to you to express our concern and to seek resolution of the problem of the status of horseracing and the development of the Clinton Phipps Racetrack on St. Thomas. In 2015, there was talk of having a new, upgraded racetrack in St. Thomas. We saw certain people coming out of […]

“Suicide is a global phenomenon,” according to the World Health Organization…“In much of the world, suicide is stigmatized and condemned for religious or cultural reasons. In some countries, suicidal behaviour is a criminal offence punishable by law. Suicide is therefore often a secretive act surrounded...

There has been at times abuses of power in the semi- autonomous branches of our government including WAPA with a failure to follow basic accounting protocols and proper fiduciary oversight. The result is no accountability, mismanagement of assets, no bid contracts, questionable spending, inflated construction...