During a Committee on Education and Workforce Development hearing in St. Thomas on Monday, Racquel Berry-Benjamin, commissioner of the Department of Education (D.O.E.), testified that the territory’s public schools were on schedul…
…secured because Mr. Mapp was the governor of the Virgin Islands. Fast forward less than a year later, and Governor Albert Bryan's wife, Yolanda Bryan, is employed at the Economic Development Authority as the E.D.A.'s business amba…
ST. CROIX — Six of the ten contestants who participated in Sunday evening’s Miss Universe U.S. Virgin Islands were women from outside the USVI, most with no known ties to the territory and some of whom had participated in other pa…
Gov. Albert Bryan is moving toward openness in what his administration does on a day-to-day basis. Government House announced Friday that the governor's Communications Director, Richard Motta Jr., will hold weekly press briefing t…
…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 hotels, to house off-island relief c…
Only two named storms have emerged from the Atlantic hurricane season this year, making it the slowest year since 1999, according to Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University specializing in Atlantic basin sea…
The Department of Human Services Division of Family Assistance, which administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), widely known as food stamps, said Thursday that it recently received complaints from some clie…
…officials appeared before Senate lawmakers Wednesday for the first time since ex-chairwoman of the commission, Violet Anne Golden, was charged with looting the CCC treasury. Usie R. Richards, vice chairman of the CCC, testified at…
United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that approximately 50 V.I. youths are attending Camp DEFY (Drug Education for Youth) this week in St. Thomas with plans for Camp DEFY next week on St. Croix. Camp DEFY …
The University of the Virgin Islands’ Agriculture Experiment Station (AES) has been featured in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic, one of the leading magazines on science, geography, history, and world culture, UVI has …
With the start of the 2019-2020 school year around the corner, Sen. Allison DeGazon said recently she is pushing for the Department of Education to work in conjunction with the Bureau of Corrections (B.O.C.) to expedite school sum…
…Virgin Islands in front of over 3,000 top African American journalists, among them influential movers and shakers, at the opening ceremony of the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Miami, Florida on Wednesday.…
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