…deteriorated. Cash reserves were depleted following the 2017 hurricanes and during an 18-month period of the COVID-19 pandemic when WICO received no cruise ships. At a January hearing before the Committee on Economic Development a…
…Development Board found that economic shocks including the 2017 hurricanes, the closure of the Limetree Bay refinery and the Covid-19 pandemic had contributed to population losses and reduced the number of people available to work…
…through much of the past week have disappeared from the National Hurricane Center’s development outlook, but their underlying tropical waves have not entirely disappeared from the regional weather picture. As of 2 a.m. Sunday, the…
The National Hurricane Center has sharply lowered the development potential of two tropical waves in the Atlantic, including the system now near the Windward Islands, whose formation chance has fallen to 10 percent even as strong …
The National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression is likely to form within the next couple of days from a disturbance in the central tropical Atlantic that now has an 80 percent chance of development within seven days, whil…
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring three disturbances across the Atlantic, led by an area of low pressure southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands that now has a 70 percent chance of developing within seven days, with a tropic…
…schools also extends beyond the Claude O. Markoe contribution. After Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, J. Benton says it assisted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with emergency recovery work and participated in efforts to provid…
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two tropical waves moving westward across the Atlantic, including one expected to emerge from Africa early this week that now carries a 40 percent chance of development over the next sev…
…debt stems from work performed by local contractors following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, including services that the Federal Emergency Management Agency ultimately declined to reimburse. Sen. Marvin Blyden said several vendors pro…
…lacked a “permanent home” in the St. Thomas-St. John District since Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017. Jones said the Estate Nazareth property “presents an extraordinary opportunity to develop a venue capable of hosting internatio…
…The candidates agreed that federal awards established after Hurricanes Irma and Maria had not kept pace with escalating construction, shipping, materials and labor costs. The dispute centered on how the next delegate should respon…
…19 percent of multifamily rental projects nearly nine years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria. None of 329 planned housing mitigation projects had been completed, HUD said. The department also cited $52.6 million in administrative c…
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