With only one arrest from 25 homicide cases, lawmakers pressed VIPD over staffing shortages, limited foot patrols and weak street presence, while the department said it has only half the personnel needed to sustain enforcement acr…
…be prepared when schools reopen, but the Claude O. Markoe kitchen still needs a gas-line overhaul and other repairs, leaving lawmakers skeptical after roughly eight years without a fully functional food-service facility on site.
…Jean refused repeated orders to sit inside a ferry returning from St. John, was removed after the captain refused passage, then struck, threw tickets at and pushed an officer; bail was later set at $1,000 after probable cause was …
The first-term senator said a paid-leave law for parents of children with disabilities and a Westin-related GERS provision show his impact, while acknowledging unresolved work on WAPA, crime cameras, hospital accountability and GR…
…acted on bills passed May 28, approving measures on mental health instruction, paid leave for parents of children with disabilities, green waste disposal, C-PACE, election funding, GERS and hospital financing, zoning and honor bil…
Senator Kenneth Gittens requested an immediate update on WAPA’s long-delayed forensic audit, while Senator Ray Fonseca called for federal intervention as outages disrupted waste management, health services, government offices and …
UVI’s St. Croix commencement celebrated graduates at Island Center, where speakers emphasized local impact, originality, community support, hidden growth, political change and the responsibility to use time and talent with purpose…
…has been completed in Savan, Bolongo, Skyline, Midland Road, Estate Diamond Ruby, and parts of St. John, while paving in Bovoni and work at the East Airport intersection are scheduled to begin this week.
VIPD said Keshawn Louis was arrested April 29 in connection with an attempted murder case tied to an Estate Grove Place incident, fled while being escorted to the John A. Bell Correctional Facility, and was recaptured the next day…