Welcome to the tenth edition of the Monday Digest, a new series on VI Consortium that is simple as it sounds: helping our readers start the week with excerpts of stories that occurred over the weekend. The best way to get our news as it happens is by downloading the VI Consortium app. Do so here. Below, the top weekend stories: Drunk Driving Leads to Tragic Death Another family is mourning the death of a loved one following a tragic accident that ended with the death of a 25-year-old man identified as Marvin Barton. He was killed after a drunk driver, identified as 27-year-old Kaley Lund, crashed into his vehicle early Sunday on the Queen Mary Highway near the Sunshine Mall on St. Croix, according to the V.I.P.D. Lund was remanded to the Bureau of Corrections after failing to make bail of $25,000. A female passenger in Barton's vehicle was…
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced Friday that it's holding its 19th National Prescription…
The Mu Eta Chapter - Chi Eta Phi Sorority donated much needed personal protective equipment (PPEs) to…
AARP Virgin Islands, the Virgin Islands Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, the St. Croix Long…
Census Count in the USVI Continues Even Though…
Staff Consortium October 19, 2020The Census count of the territory has not ended, the 2020 Census of the U.S. Virgin Islands announced…
Census Count in the USVI Continues Even Though…
Staff Consortium October 19, 2020The Census count of the territory has not ended, the 2020 Census of the U.S. Virgin Islands announced…
Pandemic EBT Has Not Been Approved for October,…
Staff Consortium October 19, 2020The V.I. Department of Human Services announced Sunday that Virgin Islanders should not expect to receive…
Monday Digest: Police Sergeant Arrested; 42nd…
Staff Consortium October 19, 2020Welcome to the ninth edition of the Monday Digest, where we gather snippets of stories that occurred…
The University of the Virgin Islands for the first time will observe World Food Day virtually, with some physical events planned. In a release issued Friday, UVI said its School of Agriculture Coopera...
ST. JOHN, USVI – The Virgin Islands Police Department is asking the community for assistance in locating 33-year-old Lubens Besse, who was reported missing by his girlfriend. Besse is a black male...
ST. CROIX — Limetree Bay Refining announced Friday that it is being recognized for what the company said was its "excellent safety performance in 2019." During a virtual ceremony this month, Limetr...
The Ticket to Work (TTW) program, a national program that provides job services to people who receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) has resumed services to residents of the U.S. Virgin I...
ST. THOMAS — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will open a new cargo processing facility at the St. Thomas Sandfill on Monday, CBP made known via release Thursday. The new facility is lo...
United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced this week a YouTube video promoting the partnership between the USVI Project Safe Neighborhoods, Project ...
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 70 million Americans will increase 1.3 percent in 2021, the Social Security Administration announced today. According...
Virgin Islanders are heading to the Election System offices across the territory and are voting early for the 2020 General Election, with a total of 1,733 people casting ballots as of Monday. Early vo...
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