…HOVENSA refinery shuttered in 2012, the U.S. Virgin Islands has struggled with double digit unemployment on a territorial level. But during a budget hearing in the Committee on Finance held at the Legislature in St. Thomas on Thur…
Marco Trucking Founder Shawn Baptiste is hosting two massive back-to-school events where an estimated 5,000 backpacks filled with school supplies will be given to children free of charge. The St. Croix event will take place on Aug…
…(B.O.E.) before making a final decision on closing a public school. ST. THOMAS -- Members of the Senate Committee on Education, Youth, and Recreation met at the Capitol Building Wednesday to consider two bills, including a bill ai…
ST. CROIX -- Plans to locally manufacture 16.9-ounce bottled water are underway, board members from the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority learned Tuesday during a public meeting scheduled to hear requests from several …
…Vice President Mike Pence at the White House Monday to discuss the status of the territory’s and preparations being made for the current hurricane season, Government House made known in a release issued late Monday. Governor Mapp …
Customers of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority now have a new option by which they can make payments on their electrical and potable water bills, WAPA has announced. The authority has launched an automated pay-by-phone …
ST. THOMAS -- Commissioner Valdamier Collens, who was acting governor at the time, met Friday with the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen and the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), William…
…approved an engineering services contract aimed at commencing the restoration of the utility’s East End Substation on St. Thomas, WAPA has announced. A $359,000 contract was approved for FX Bonnes to provide engineering design ser…
ST. THOMAS -- Braulio Martinez, 33, of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty on Thursday in District Court before Judge Curtis V. Gomez to possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. …
ST. JOHN -- Attorney General Claude Earl Walker traveled to St. John Thursday morning to meet with the management of American Insurance Group, Affordable Housing (AIG), owners of Bellevue Village, an apartment complex on St. John,…
ST. THOMAS -- Reynaldo Lerburds, 41, of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty today in District Court before Judge Curtis V. Gomez to conspiracy to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute, United States Attorney Gretchen C.…
The St. Croix Foundation is hosting a week of activities geared towards empowering organizations within the nonprofit sector and for the community at-large to become change agents, the nonprofit said in a release issued Wednesday.…
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