The main focus at WAPA’s emergency board meeting on Thursday was hurricane preparedness and prompt post-hurricane response in the event of a major storm. Also discussed on the agenda was the procurement of ships, called floating h…
…additional $779 million to help the state continue to rebuild from Hurricanes Maria and Irma, according to a HUD release issued this evening. The plan was put in place during the Mapp administration, and funding of $243 million wa…
…the USVI realized through the influx of federal dollars after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which resulted in the growth of the construction industry, and spoke of activity at the Limetree Bay Terminals that has boosted St. Croix. Bu…
…Schneider Regional Medical Center (S.R.M.C.) to help survivors of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, according to a release issued Wednesday. The money was donated to support dialysis patients at the hospital. The check was presented duri…
…Federal Emergency Management Agency for an initial briefing on the hurricane recovery efforts in the territory, and with the financial advisors of the current administration, according to the release. Mr. Bryan made the selfsame a…
…in Washington, DC on October 12, 2018, roughly one year after Hurricanes Irma and Maria turned both his professional and personal lives upside down, according to a release issued Wednesday. According to the release, months before …
…in federal funding for the U.S. Virgin Islands following 2017 Hurricanes Irma and Maria, are finally becoming tangible. Today, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Deputy Secretary Pamela Hughes Patenaude and Gov…
…weather systems have formed in the Atlantic during the 2018 hurricane season, including Tropical Storm Florence which is expected to curve northwards without impacting land. But a new system, which the National Weather Service (N.…
The U.S. Virgin Islands is at a crossroads. If it were not for Hurricanes Irma and Maria, storms which made way for the overflow of federal dollars into the territory, there's no telling how the government would fare financially. …
…described as "unbearable" working conditions 10 months after Hurricane Maria walloped the island. Today's action appeared to be well planned; it came with an accompanying letter that detailed the horrendous working conditions at b…
…of the U.S. Virgin Islands. In the ten months that have passed since Hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged the Caribbean, much interest has been focused on Puerto Rico and its roughly 3.3 million American citizens, who weathered the l…
…working to restore power to the island during the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. She imagined that maybe he’d been shocked or had fallen, but she never anticipated the news that would come next. According to Ms. Liburd, it was an em…
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