…year, students and faculty experienced two consecutive Category 5 hurricanes, costing them at least a month of instruction. Many attended school without running water and electricity in their homes. Taylor Lampkin, Salutatorian (C…
…SBA approved 7,458 disaster loans for more than $515.7 million for hurricanes Irma and Maria. SBA’s Customer Service Representatives have been at each center to provide information about disaster loans, answer questions and help s…
…patients. ⇒ Shelters have not been inspected and certified for new hurricane season. (Mona Barnes, the director of the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency, said VITEMA had inspected 20 hurricane shelters territo…
ST. THOMAS -- There is no escaping the impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on the lives of Virgin Islanders. The two Category 5 storms wreaked havoc on the islands in September 2017, disrupting the daily routine that islanders ha…
…in the U.S. Virgin Islands' insurance laws were exposed following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, when many residents reported their grievances to the Division of Banking and Insurance, which is part of the Office of the Lieutenant Gov…
…above) testimony, damage to the department’s structures following Hurricanes Irma and Maria are significant. Among the issues described are unusable workspaces at Knud Hansen and Kongens Gade and the need to either renovate or reb…
…and communities that rely upon them to recover and rebuild following hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N.O.A.A.) announced Wednesday. Out of the $200 million allocatio…
…of the stadium. Weeks later -- On September 5, 2017 -- Category 5 Hurricane Irma devastated St. Thomas and St. John, with Hurricane Maria, another Category 5 storm, exacting the same to St. Croix on September 19.
…as a remembrance of the devastation and human suffering caused by hurricanes Irma and Maria and as supplication for protection during the 2018 hurricane season. Bill No. 32-0227-A Act amending Title 27 Virgin Islands Code, Chapter…
…Campus were the team of Kedisha Charles and Ajani Gordon who created Hurricane Busters. Hurricane Busters is an app that would give alerts of important information after a storm such as curfew hours and location of the day’s MRE o…
…team had to face a difficult transition between life before Hurricane Maria and life post-Maria. Their natural disaster story is similar to so many others, including a fly-away roof, lost records, broken chairs, busted walls, and …
…much more resilient in the event of a future storm event. After the hurricanes, St. John remained without electrical service for more than 50 days, awaiting reconstruction and restoration of the transmission and distribution syste…
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