Completion of the proposed engineering, rehabilitation and construction necessary to restart the refinery is anticipated to take approximately 3 years at an estimated cost of $1.1 billion. The initial engineering phase is expected…
…getting passed to more mosquitoes, and then to more people. -- Dr. Esther Ellis While the chikungunya disease seems to be at an all-time high on St. Croix, a Department of Health (DOH) official told VI Consortium she projects the …
Of the many questions and concerns some Virgin Islanders have raised about the Atlantic Basin Refining (ABR) Operating Agreement that was signed by Governor John de Jongh, Jr. and is now awaiting Senate approval, the one which rem…
…preparation to shut down the facility that it has used as an oil storage terminal since announcing it would cease oil refining operations in 2012, the company on Tuesday gave its remaining employees, approximately 100 workers, a 9…
…John P. de Jongh, Jr. recently signed a $20 million contract with St. Croix-based GEC, LLC for the revitalization of the Paul E. Joseph Stadium in Frederiksted. The funds--which have been made available by bonding authorization ap…
FirstBank VI is in the middle of a massive security breach crisis, with many of its Visa Debit card customers blocked from using their cards and some customers claiming to have had "thousands of dollars" stolen from their personal…
Voters who cast their ballots in the November 18 Run-Off Election will have a very different experience than they did during the November 4 General Election. This time around, after selecting the gubernatorial candidate of their c…
…and wants to employ 1,500 to 1,600 workers in an effort to "restore St. Croix to better than it was before," but was not allowed in the bidding process, told the VI Consortium that Atlantic Basin Refining's (ABR VI) Operating Agre…
…campaign that morphed into what the VI Consortium is calling a 'stick-in' effort, longtime St. Croix Senator Alicia "Chucky" Hansen was not re-elected to serve as a lawmaker in the 31st Legislature. Based on the latest unofficial …
Longtime St. Croix District Board of Elections member, Raymond Williams, after 12 years, has lost his seat to a newcomer, Barbara Jackson-McIntosh, who defeated the incumbent by 234 votes with more than 87 percent of votes counted…
At a last-minute Joint Boards meeting on Monday, a motion was passed to hand-count all ballots with write-in candidate names, as well as those that contain sticker adhesives bearing the name of a candidate. The VI Consortium has l…
…of the Virgin Islands Thursday released the results of its first pre-election scientific poll* for the U.S. Virgin Islands conducted by the University’s Institute for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (ILOE) in collabora…
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