…income for Virgin Islanders who pay hundreds of dollars monthly to WAPA, hence stirring economic growth. Mr. Bryan sees the current high price of oil caused by Russian's war in Ukraine and U.S. inflation, as portending a catastrop…
…on it, so there were several checks that they had written, including WAPA, and the checks bounced and that's how they found out the account had a lien on it," said one of the people. After learning of the lien, the Estate on Febru…
…debt of the Water & Power Authority The securitization of WAPA is essential with mandatory PSC regulatory oversight The role of the PSC should WAPA go into involuntary receivership or bankruptcy The role of the PSC in restructurin…
…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…
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