ST. CROIX -- Employees of the Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center filled the hospital's third floor classroom on Thursday evening, a small space where meetings and other activities are held, to first listen and later voice th…
ST. THOMAS -- With the recent Senate approval to appropriate $8.1 million to pay down the amount owed to the Virgin Islands Water & Power Authority by the Juan F. Luis Hospital and the Schneider Regional Medical Center, Department…
ST. THOMAS -- Two suspects walked up to a vehicle and started firing shots at the male driver on Friday just after 7:00 p.m. in the Bovoni area, Police Commissioner Delroy Richards told The Consortium. The incident left the male v…
ST. THOMAS -- Senate Vice President Janette Millin Young said when the Legislature reconvenes in session on Monday, May 9, she will move for the override of Governor Kenneth Mapp's line-item veto of an amendment prohibiting the pu…
ST. CROIX -- Senator Novelle Francis, Jr. is seeking answers to issues the senator says are plaguing the territory’s 911 system, after a recent spate of reported systemic breakdowns. As the Chair of the Senate’s Committee on Homel…
ST. THOMAS -- A loss of communication between key systems in W.A.P.A. generating unit 23 was responsible for the unit’s tripping off line, the loss of another generating unit and subsequently the failure of all electrical feeders …
ST. CROIX -- Governor Kenneth Mapp said on Tuesday that he had been invited on a trade mission with officials of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), a leading AA-rated Chinese state oil company traded in Hong Kong,…
ST. CROIX -- The Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed five new cases of Zika virus in the territory, with two of the individuals infected being pregnant women. The new cases bring the total so far to 21, with 15 in St. Croix,…
ST. CROIX -- Sounding frustrated, Governor Kenneth Mapp on Tuesday said he would wait until teachers and their unions could clearly state what they wanted before attempting to find additional funds for further salary increases for…
ST. THOMAS -- Governor Kenneth Mapp on Tuesday took action on several measures, among them one that sought to end symbol voting in the territory, an option that had caused much confusion during the 2014 General Election. The measu…
ST. THOMAS -- Governor Kenneth Mapp signed into law an Emergency Vehicles bill that makes available a $10 million line of credit to purchase vehicles and other equipment for the territory's first responder departments and agencies…
ST. THOMAS -- Governor Kenneth Mapp signed into law Senator Positive Nelson's hemp bill on Tuesday, according to the governor's transmittal letter to Senate President Neville James. The bill, after being indefinitely tabled in the…
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