…Signed closing statement or Deed or Property Tax Receipt AND current WAPA Bill * B. Renters – Lease Agreement signed by the landlord and tenant and current WAPA Bill (WAPA Bill is required when lease includes utilities) *Child mus…
…chicken joint/ bowling alley’s demise may also have been tied to WAPA, whose sky-high electricity rates have led to the slow bleeding of territory businesses. Ironically, Monday’s massive, daylong power outage on St. Thomas and St…
…cash on hand, needs funding to function. And in order to rein in WAPA, lawmakers must pass laws. That's why today's Senate session is paramount: on the agenda are multiple items, the most pressing being a bill authorizing the Brya…
…and Power Authority facing the U.S. Virgin Islands. At least for WAPA, there is federal help, but the local government is left to come up with solutions for a pension system that is on a road to collapse, needing more than $4 bill…
…that they working to be fully prepared in case of a hurricane. WAPA CEO Lawrence Kupfer said the semiautonomous entity had learned from the 2017 storms and is now better prepared. Department of Public Works said it has executed co…
WAPA is advising business owners and residents in the town of Christiansted that work has begun on the installation of approximately 14,000 linear feet of new six-inch C-900 PVC, and 1,300 linear feet of new ten-inch C-900 PVC alo…
…revealed during an interview with The Consortium on Wednesday, that WAPA would be among the stakeholders invited to testify during the Senate session on June 5, since the authority is owed millions of dollars from the Juan F. Luis…
…debts of $54 million to vendors, $13 million of which is payable to WAPA." Yet even as Mr. Bryan says a one-time infusion of cash should not be used for reoccurring employee raises, Mr. Vialet, during the meeting on Tuesday, revea…
…electrical service interruption which occurred at 9:35 a.m., WAPA has announced. “Initially, we are focused on confirming whether a suspected transformer fault at the point where generators connect to the transmission and distribu…
…forecasts do not include the over $10 million each hospital owes to WAPA nor the more than $50 million debt amassed by the healthcare facilities before the hurricanes," Mr. Bryan said. WAPA has over $50 million in fuel debt and in…
…of a meter, giving the occupants the impression that they were WAPA meter readers. But once inside, the intruders pointed guns at the family and demanded the location of a perceived safe. They also asked for cash, credit cards and…
…Virgin Islanders pay for electricity. And he said over 50 percent of WAPA's operating expenses come from buying fuel. However, the governor announced that his administration would work to fix the issue. "Thanks to our federal part…
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