ST. CROIX -- Declaring that “the government is not entitled to impair its contracts at will,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled this week that a Virgin Islands law slashing public employees’ pay was unconstitutio…
…Department of Planning and Natural Resources is warning residents to steer clear of seven of the territory's beaches in its weekly beach advisory press release, as we head into the Veteran's Day holiday weekend. The unsafe beaches…
ST. CROIX -- If Austin Nibbs and the Board of Trustees of the Government Employees' Retirement System (G.E.R.S.) were expecting the Mapp administration to release to them a recent Senate approval of $100 million for the pension sy…
…Tuesday, citizens of the U.S. Virgin Islands will go to the polls in St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John to vote for candidates of their choice. This will happen in tandem with U.S. mainland citizens, who are currently enthralled i…
ST. CROIX -- The Virgin Islands Department of Education, St. Croix District, named Dinah Browne, an English teacher at the St. Croix Central High School, as its 2016 District Teacher of the Year at a reception held Sunday, October…
ST. CROIX -- Committed to community outreach and the enhancement of the tourism product in the territory, the United States Virgin Islands Department of Tourism is supporting young culinary talent during the 2nd Annual Restaurant …
ST. THOMAS -- Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced this morning that its officers had identified two individuals wanted by local authorities in New Orleans and St. Thomas, during separate incidents this past week. CBP Pre…
ST. THOMAS -- In the regular session of its quarterly meeting on Oct. 22, on the St. Thomas Campus, the University of the Virgin Islands Board of Trustees approved a Bachelor of Science Degree Program in Physics with a concentrati…
ST. THOMAS -- Former Governor John P. de Jongh will be a guest speaker at the opening session of a course sponsored by the University of the Virgin Islands's Cell Center along with Real Impact Corporation, LLC and SVN Internationa…
In 2015, Yvette Thomas-Henry found her way into the history books after becoming the first female African American general manager of the Four Seasons Hotel, and the first Virgin Islander to accomplish such a feat. For Ms. Thomas-…
ST. THOMAS -- After a one-day trial, on October 4, 2016, a federal jury on St. Thomas convicted Tomas Liriano Castillo, 44, of Conspiracy to Possess a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute, Possession of a Controlled Subs…
ST. THOMAS -- A second sex offender who was wanted by authorities has been taken into custody. Daniel Cove, 33, walked into the St. Croix office of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday morning – a day after the DOJ launched a…
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