U.S. Virgin Islanders who lost their jobs due to hurricanes Irma or Maria may now apply for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help get them back on their feet, FEMA an…
…Kenneth Mapp's press briefing, which will be held at 11:00 a.m. in St. Thomas. The donation will coincide with the Mapp administration's announcement of an organization that will determine how funds collected on behalf of the USVI…
ST. THOMAS -- Governor Kenneth Mapp, Lt. Governor Osbert Potter, members of the Governor's Cabinet, senators, WAPA Executive Director Julio Rhymer, WAPA Board Chairwoman Elizabeth Armstrong and former WAPA Director Hugo Hodge, Jr.…
…D.C. Representatives from the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislatures (NHCSL) and several White House officials were involved in the talks that initially focused on recovery efforts for Puerto Rico. “I was able to have the …
ST. CROIX -- U.S. Virgin Islanders who were directly impacted by hurricanes Irma or Maria and were receiving rental assistance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) before the storms should register with …
…anxiety when hurricane season is approaching, and then the devastation when one hits. Marilyn was devastating, particularly on St. Thomas. Before Marilyn, Hugo demolished St. Croix. If memory serves, there were 20,000 utility pole…
ST. CROIX -- Before a packed house at Government House here, Governor Kenneth Mapp, William Vogel, federal coordinating officer of FEMA Region II, and other members of the governor’s executive team held a meeting with the business…
…at his Saturday press briefing that the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport on St. Croix will reopen for commercial flights on Thursday, another step in realizing normalcy in the territory following Hurricane Maria, which damaged the airport…
Here are the latest post-Hurricane Irma and Maria updates, divulged by Governor Kenneth Mapp during his Sunday evening press conference. The second Hurricane Maria-related death was confirmed by the governor today. The victim, a m…
…as Dominica is called, have not been encouraging, and foretells of destruction caused by a storm that exacted punishing rain and 160 mile-per-hour winds for hours to the island of just over 73,000. Satellite imagery showed Maria o…
…Mapp said during a brief press conference at Government House St. Croix today, that Hurricane Maria, as of 2:00 p.m. today, was projected to make landfall in the territory in the wee hours of Wednesday morning as a category 4 stor…
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Small Business Administration says it's committed to providing assistance to U.S. Virgin Islanders, whose properties were ravaged by Hurricane Irma, after the deadly Category 5 storm pummeled St. Thomas and …
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