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Like many Virgin Islanders, September 6, 2017, is forever etched in my mind. For what seemed like an unending day, Hurricane Irma relentlessly pummeled the territory, and Virgin Islanders watched in mute shock as the Category 5 storm shredded roofs, uprooted trees, and shattered lives. Then, exactly two weeks after Hurricane Irma ripped through the U.S. Virgin Islands, Hurricane Maria made landfall. For hours that stretched into the early morning, rain poured down in torrents across the already battered islands, inundating vulnerable areas, and wrought destruction across the parts of the islands that had not been shredded by Irma. The compounded impact of two Category 5 hurricanes is unfathomable. Virgin Islanders, undeterred by the dramatic scale of devastation, rallied in the face of tragedy and proceeded to rebuild their lives and their…
Because the economy of the U.S. Virgin Islands is almost entirely dependent on tourism, the multiple…
Frank Crosswaith was born in 1872 in Frederiksted. He immigrated to the United States in his teens.…
The cost of housing in the U.S. Virgin Islands is very high, both to construct new dwellings and to…
Raising Cane: A Lost Opportunity
Staff Consortium August 12, 2022As a practicing attorney on St. Croix for thirty-one years, I am compelled to correct the misinformation…
WICO Dock Dredging Cost of $17 Million Will be…
Staff Consortium July 22, 2022Dear Editor, the West Indian Company, Limited would like the opportunity to commend the Public Finance…
How NOT to Spend Seventeen Million Dollars
Staff Consortium July 19, 2022The V.I. Consortium recently reported that the Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority had miraculously…
What Does the USVI and Puerto Rico Have in Common?…
Staff Consortium July 10, 2022“Soy de aqui como el coqui!” (Puerto Rican Adage) “I am from here like the leap frog!” “We bahn ya!”…
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