The Social Security Administration (SSA) has re-opened seven local offices with limited services in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands following the terrible destruction caused by Hurricane Maria, SSA announced Friday. The of…
ST. CROIX -- Officials of the Juan F. Luis Hospital, including the facility's new CEO, Wanda M. Ruben, its acting board chairman, Troy deChabert-Schuster, along with Dept. of Health Commissioner Michelle Davis, spoke about a new d…
ST. THOMAS -- Senator Janette Millin Young said on Wednesday that the Mapp administration should considering flying in a special team from the U.S. mainland to assist the local Dept. of Human Services to expedite "any and all" Dis…
ST. CROIX -- Governor Kenneth Mapp told this Consortium reporter during his Monday press briefing that he did not use an expletive when responding to a post critical of him on Facebook by a resident and staunch Republican, Herbert…
ST. CROIX -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has provided more than $41 million in expedited funding to support efforts by the Virgin Islands government to clean up storm-related debris, restore power, and protect r…
To the Editor: Two ideas follow. First is the need to kick start economic activity beyond that of the construction sector. Second is to evaluate where we are in the recovery effort and if necessary make changes to ensure we are on…
ST. CROIX -- Ongoing communications challenges throughout the Virgin Islands have made it difficult in some cases for FEMA’s housing inspectors to reach survivors to verify damages to their homes, the federal agency said on Tuesda…
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has extended the deadline to apply for physical disaster damages in St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the SBA announced late Monday. Businesses and individu…
…rendered during Hurricanes Irma and Maria, while 40 percent were still waiting to be paid. The information was released following grumbling in the community that General Howell's statement weeks ago that soldiers were receiving th…
In the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, with cellular service still intermittent in many areas and with companies such as Viya, the territory's largest internet service provider, being badly damaged by the storms (most of Viya's…
…may be available to both commercial and recreational fishers who sustained hurricane damage to their gear, boats, or other fishing equipment. The Division of Fish and Wildlife will be available at the times and locations listed be…
ST. CROIX -- The Sunday afternoon sky went from cloudy to sunny and cloudy again, a process that would reoccur until the sun went down, as if the day was unable to make up its mind about what it should be. But that was not the cas…
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