…the territory's total to 14, four of which occurred in the past week. "After further investigating cause of death and ensuring notification of next of kin, the Virgin Islands Department of Health is saddened to confirm the territo…
ST. THOMAS —The Department of Human Services on Wednesday evening confirmed the passing of a 101-year-old woman, a resident of the Queen Louise Home for the Aged, at the Schneider Regional Medical Center. The centenarian died at t…
…of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday, with St. Croix accounting for 17 of the new cases, and St. Thomas 7. On St. Croix, 11 of the new cases were transmitted through close contact, 3 through community spre…
When former V.I. District Court Judge Curtis Gomez ruled in April that the government of the Virgin Islands and its partner, VIGL Operations, LLC, violated the contract clause of the United States Constitution when the Legislature…
…has reported the 8th Covid-19 death in the territory, with the latest fatality occurring in St. Thomas. The number of deaths are now split equally per district: 4 in St. Thomas and 4 on St. Croix, according to the D.O.H. latest in…
…to spread in territory. On Friday, D.O.H. reported 7 cases on St. Croix and 3 in St. Thomas. There were no new cases on St. John. The Friday infographic showed 5 community spread cases in St. Thomas, a scenario that is difficult t…
…of coronavirus cases reported in the USVI on Wednesday night saw a steep drop from a day earlier, with the Dept. of Health reporting 6 cases territory-wide: 2 on St. Croix and 4 in St. Thomas. A day before, the department reported…
Within the past week, several government arms have been impacted by the surging coronavirus, to include the V.I. Legislature, the Election System of the V.I. in the St. Thomas-St. John District, the V.I. Department of Health and m…
Both the St. Thomas-St. John and St. Croix districts were affected by V.I Water and Power Authority outages on Tuesday, with some customers on St. Croix reporting outages up to five times during the disruption. The outages started…
…projects aimed at hardening the utility’s electric and water systems, WAPA has announced. The board awarded a $5.9 million underground project management contract to FX Bonnes, a company that has done work with WAPA in the past, s…
ST. THOMAS — Approximately 2:00 a.m., April 6, 2020. Police reports say a masked gunman in Hospital Ground lay in wait for Lyle Bryan. As Bryan ambled past the stand of rusty, galvanized fencing on Glass Bottle Alley, the gunman e…
An agreement ratified by the 31st Legislature in December 2016 and signed into law by former Governor Kenneth Mapp, which promised the development of two state-of-the-art horseracing facilities in the territory, has been thrown in…
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