ST. CROIX -- Lieutenant Governor and Commissioner of Insurance Osbert Potter indicated on Thursday that a recent public announcement of Blue Cross Blue Shield-Virgin Islands withdrawal from the territory's insurance market was pre…
ST. THOMAS -- Governor Kenneth Mapp has disapproved an application from Islands Roads for a ten-year extension on tax benefits from the Economic Development Authority (E.D.A.), Government House made known via press release this af…
ST. THOMAS -- In keeping with his pledge that the Department of Finance (D.O.F.) would immediately process checks for tax refunds, Commissioner Valdamier Collens has announced that more than 3,500 tax refund checks related to 2015…
ST. CROIX -- Department of Licensing and Consume Affairs Commissioner Devin Carrington on Wednesday warned business owners who do not uphold sanitary standards at their supermarkets that D.L.C.A. maintains the right to revoke, sus…
A few days ago I listened as a group of frantic parents discussed the advantages of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) educational program. Prior to STEAM, the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering …
ST. THOMAS -- The full Senate on Monday voted 15-0 to send a bill dubbed the Public Officials Compensation Act -- which seeks to create a compensation commission with the goal of setting salaries of public officials every four yea…
ST. THOMAS -- Lawmakers on Monday, led by Senator Kenneth Gittens and Kurt Vialet, approved a measure that would force the Government Employees' Retirement System to reinstate its loan program for approximately one year, that woul…
ST. THOMAS -- Senators on Monday attached multiple amendments to a measure that would see the Government of the Virgin Islands reimbursing some $500,000 to the U.S. Department of Justice for funds the Mapp administration says were…
ST. CROIX -- Department of Health Commissioner Nominee Dr. Michelle Davis announced this morning her decision to donate brand new dental chairs to the St. Thomas East End Medical Clinic and the Frederiksted Health Center, D.O.H. a…
ST. THOMAS -- Lieutenant Governor Osbert Potter departed the territory on Sunday to conduct a progressive technology school site visit at the Paul Robeson High School campus in Brooklyn, New York, a press release Mr. Potter's offi…
ST. THOMAS -- "I move for the override of Section 3 of Act. No. 7866, vetoed by the governor, so move." Those were the words of Senator Janette Millin Young on Monday, who, as promised, moved to override Governor Kennneth Mapp's l…
ST. THOMAS -- For anyone who wants to extend the Carnival experience just a little longer, the West Indian Company, Ltd. will host Carnival on the Dock from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17th on the West Indian Company do…
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