…has announced thirteen total cases at its prison/jail facilities just under two months following an outbreak at the John A. Bell Adult Correctional Facility (Golden Grove Correctional Facility) on St. Croix. According to a release…
Health Commissioner Justa Encarnacion announced Friday new pop-up testing capacity in the USVI as active Covid-19 cases continue to surge, setting a new record every day for the past several days. The commissioner also explained w…
…the variant's presence in the territory. The highly transmissible strain was first detected late November in South Africa, and it's responsible for the current rapid increase of active infections territory-wide. “Yes, we have conf…
…related to the coronavirus, as active infections skyrocketed past 1,200. "After further investigating cause of death and ensuring notification of next of kin, the Virgin Islands Department of Health is saddened to confirm the terr…
…Covid-19, Omicron, has not only arrived in the territory, but is most likely the dominant strain. According to D.O.H. data, St. Croix accounted for 491 active cases, followed by St. Thomas with the same amount at 491, and St. John…
…of all ages, and it does so locally for Virgin Islanders. It was established in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus, a retired school teacher and since then has offices across the entire nation, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islan…
ST. CROIX — United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced Wednesday that Lynell Hughes, age 35, St. Croix and Nicolette Alexander, age 30, of St. Thomas were sentenced recently in federal court by Judge Wilma A. Lewis fo…
…before David Jones, the chief bankruptcy judge for the Southern District in Houston, Texas on behalf of West Indies Petroleum asking the judge to reopen the Limetree Bay auction, the Environmental Protection Agency said it preferr…
…Commission (VICCC) chairperson Anne Golden was subpoenaed and testified on Monday at the Almeric L. Christian Federal Building on St. Croix before District Court Chief Justice Robert Molloy. Ms. Golden admitted to conspiring with …
…patients in need of emergency care off island because of severe staffing issues at its intensive-care unit. The hospital further stated that while the ICU remains operational, it was under pressure and at capacity. JFL said it has…
…announced Monday. D.O.H. said in a release, "After further investigating cause of death and ensuring notification of next of kin, the Virgin Islands Department of Health is saddened to confirm the territory’s eighty-eighth death r…
ST. CROIX — The V.I. Police Department said Friday that body remains found decomposed in bushes near the roadside in Mount Welcome just east of Sharkey’s Bait Stand on Oct. 20, could possibly be the remains of Johnny E. Caines, ag…
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