Certainly feels like déjà vu all over again. Virgin Islanders awoke on Wednesday to read headlines detailing the awarding of a lucrative no-bid contract to a friend/ relative of the Governor. People scratched their heads and asked what had happened to the change they had been promised and had voted for. Was it nepotism? The facts are not yet fully known and therefore it may be too soon to label it as such. The League of Women Voters of the Virgin Islands (LWV Vi) acknowledges that in a community as small as ours, it is understandable that administrators might find it necessary on occasion to appoint relatives/friends to high positions or award contracts to them. However, we would assume that such appointments or awards had been made, as all others, on a competitive basis using specific metrics that demonstrate unequivocally that the talents…
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April was a horrible month for horse racing fans in the territory, as the Sport of Kings suffered a tremendous blow with a recent District Court ruling. The District Court ruled that Southland Gamblin...
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Dear Editor, One recent Saturday morning during my daily morning routine, I counted over two dozen boats anchored in Magen's Bay. Suddenly, it dawned on me that this is a golden opportunity for us to...
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Our community has endured withering experiences these past ten-plus years: the recession of 2008, hurricanes in 2017 and now the Covid epidemic. These occurrences test our resilience. Difficult ti...
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