…virulent disease are compounded by the imminent threat of the 2020 Hurricane Season, a concern that was shared by Mr. Bryan with Senate President Novelle Francis. “The threat of COVID-19 is even more impactful to our territory as …
…storm warnings as Tropical Storm Gonzalo, which the National Hurricane Center has descried as a small tropical cyclone, approaches the southern Windward Islands on Saturday. The government of St. Lucia has issued a tropical storm …
…food-related small businesses, who saw their operations paralyzed by Hurricanes Irma and María, to revitalize and regenerate their long-term capacity for the production, distribution, and sale of food. In the long-term, Plow to Pl…
…Dr. Duane Sands, about people still missing following the passage of Hurricane Dorian last September. In a statement, the Ministry of National Security said that Sands recent statements in the Parliament were “particularly surpris…
…that it was slow in responding to the territory's needs following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, and that it underfunded the Sheltering & Temporary Essential Power (STEP) program. The criticism was levied by the V.I. Housing F…
…leading to cost overruns of disaster-related projects following Hurricanes Irma and Maria of $296 million. V.I.H.F.A. pushed back forcefully, laying blame for the overruns on FEMA, stating that the agency had projected costs for p…
…of dollars in Community Disaster Loans to the territory following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, FEMA must first grant its approval before the local government could secure additional borrowing. On FEMA's action to block the loan, Ms.…
…said Thursday it will be conducting door-to-door interviews for a hurricane recovery survey on March 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Staff members from the department will be interviewing residents using a rapid assessment tool called CASPER, …
…there some construction ongoing on the site to repair damage done by Hurricane Maria in 2017, which Mr. Nelson said will facilitate even more activities. "We will be getting closer to what we were [before Hurricane Maria] and cont…
…station’s existing structures will consist of the installation of hurricane-rated shutters; impact and wind rated, single and double glass steel entry and garage bay doors; hurricane straps to harden the roof to wall connections a…
…Islands Police Department (VIPD) for the Leander Jurgen Command Hurricane Wind Retrofit Project to mitigate the risks associated with hurricane winds and wind-driven rain, the Office of Disaster Recovery (O.D.R.) has announced. Th…
…with their oversight – painted a rosier picture of the territory’s hurricane recovery than members of the Senate are seeing in their districts, two years after sister storms Irma and Maria ravaged the islands. The Virgin Islands S…
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