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Community Center · Archive
…court area to the top of Jacob’s Ladder from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., a WAPA press release has made known. Crews will work in the area to install a new utility pole and transfer primary lines from a rotten pole to the newly planted po…
VIC News · Archive
…Almando "Rocky" Liburd made a presentation that sought to urge WAPA to start its own bottled water business in the territory; a move he contends would stir economic growth by adding 20 additional people to the workforce while crea…
Community Center · Archive
…8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. for network system maintenance, a press release WAPA issued on Thursday reveals. Fortress Electric will be performing an electrical upgrade to the Authority’s Data Center. The upgrade will allow for the instal…
VIC News · Archive
…insulators and other hardware exposed to the elements. On Thursday, WAPA Executive Director Hugo V. Hodge, Jr. explained that the continued drought, evident for months now, has caused branches and limbs on some of the territory’s …
Politics · Archive
…new board members that will serve on the Water and Power Authority (WAPA) and Economic Development Authority (EDA) boards. Marvin Pickering, director-designee of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Gustav James, commissioner-design…
Business · Archive
The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) has announced the arrival of two more of the 10 propane storage tanks to service the St. Thomas-St. John district at Crown Bay, St. Thomas from St. Croix's Container Port. Accord…
VIC News · Archive
WAPA has confirmed that at the height of tropical storm Bertha's passage on St. Croix, 50 percent of residents were without power. That's according to the firm's spokesman Jerain Fleming, who also confirmed that several feeders we…
Health
…medical equipment from disruptions. Beyond the BESS upgrade, WAPA also announced plans to expand its fleet with electric vehicles (EVs), including additional bucket trucks and essential line department vehicles. These upgrades, al…
Technology
Despite escalating complaints against Liberty, Viya, and WAPA on social media, most grievances are not being officially reported to the PSC, leaving many issues unresolved and unaddressed
Hurricane Season
…extended power outages as Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthens; WAPA assures public that crews are on standby to address any disruptions
Politics
…of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers. The aim is to modernize WAPA's electrical grid and water systems, improve reliability, and incorporate advanced technologies. The governor noted that WAPA has already been working with se…
Senate
…“We just went through a crisis with agencies not paying WAPA, and here it is [where] we are building a budget shorting the utility category,” she pointed out. The FY2025 budget reduction will also force the Bureau to contend with…
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