Simon Jones-Hendrickson No Longer With Mapp Administration
- Staff
- August 02, 2016
ST. CROIX -- Simon Jones-Hendrickson, above, former University of the Virgin Islands dean of college of liberal arts and social sciences, who resigned his post from U.V.I. in January 2015 to join the Mapp administration as chief economist, is no longer with the administration, Cherie Munchez, Mr. Mapp's communications director confirmed to The Consortium this morning. Ms. Munchez, however, said she did not know the circumstances surrounding Dr. Jones-Hendrickson's departure. "I don't have the full story of that," she said. The news comes at a time when the territory's bonds have been downgraded by multiple U.S. ratings firms, including W.A.P.A. bonds by Fitch, Standard and Poor's, and Moody's, and the central government's four liens of matching fund revenue bonds, issued through the Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority, also downgraded by Moody's. Moody's said the government’s challenged financial position increases the possibility that i...
