Category: Local news
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Government Attempts to Foreclose on Hovensa Refinery
Making good on promises made during a press conference earlier this month to foreclose on the Hovensa property, Gov. Kenneth Mapp this…
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Former V.I. Resident Sentenced to 25 Years for Financial Fraud
Former St. Thomas financier Daniel Spitzer was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in federal prison for cheating 455 investors of $105 million.
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V.I. Gas Prices Stay High While Everywhere Else Falls
V.I. retail gasoline prices continue to hold steady at double the U.S. average and $1.50 more per gallon than neighboring Puerto Rico,…
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Survey to Determine What Visitors Know About Chikungunya
While most Virgin Islands residents know a lot about chikungunya, the V.I. National Park in conjunction with the Health Department and the…
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DLCA: Stores Must Honor Sticker Prices
The V.I. Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs is warning businesses they must honor posted sale prices after the agency received formal…
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Fed Appeals Court Reinstates 'Bad Faith' Sanctions Against Former Innovative Owner
A three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated roughly $137,000 in sanctions against Jeffrey Prosser for filing bogus bribery…
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Jewels of the Virgin Isles: Randolph Bennett
Randolph Bennett has seen and done a lot in his life, but if you ask him where his heart is, he’ll say…
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Four Sent to Federal Prison for Jewelry Store Robbery
Four men were sentenced Thursday to federal prison for their parts in last March’s daylight armed robbery of the Imperial Jewelry Store…
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St. John Man Arrested on Negligent Homicide Charges
Lester Jackson Jr. was arrested Thursday on negligent homicide charges related to a fatal Jan. 10 accident on Centerline Road in which…
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Park Planning Increase of Trunk Bay and Mooring Fees
A proposal to increase the fees to use Trunk Bay Beach didn’t seem to bother anyone at a V.I. National Park open…
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Cause to Wonder Delights Sprauve Students
The three performers from Cause to Wonder had Julius E. Sprauve School students hooting and hollering at their antics during their performances…
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Schneider Governing Board Declares State of Exigency
The board of the Schneider Regional Medical Center declared the hospital to be in a ‘state of exigency’ because of its still-ailing…
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Schneider Plans to Become Territory's Top Healthcare Choice
Schneider Regional Medical Center would become the first choice for healthcare for Virgin Islanders under an an ambitious strategic plan presented Wednesday…
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Downtown Group Aims to Revitalize Nightlife
Businesses in the downtown area will offer deals and special entertainment events Valentine’s Day weekend to reinvigorate Charlotte Amalie’s slumping nightlife.
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Contractor Challenge Won’t Delay deChabert Demolition
V.I. Superior Court Judge Douglas Brady has allowed the V.I. Housing Authority to move forward with the demolition of the former Ralph…
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Crime Stoppers: Help Generate Information
Crime Stoppers is based on the principle that someone other than the criminal has information that can solve a crime. Crime Stoppers…
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Quantum of the Seas Sets WICO Record on Inaugural Visit
Royal Caribbean International’s 1,140-foot cruise liner Quantum of the Seas became the largest cruise ship ever to berth at the West Indian…
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Interior Confronts Climate Change in Territories
The Virgin Islands is about to get a push in addressing environmental and economic issues associated with climate change, thanks to a…
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Homicide Victim ID'd as Ezekiah Joseph, 21
The victim in Monday night’s shooting on St. Thomas was identified Tuesday as 21-year-old Ezekiah Joseph. It was the third homicide on…
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V.I. Port Authority Updates Flight Cancellations
Although the winter snow storm that halted just about everything in the northeast didn’t turn out to be as bad as predicted,…
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Senators Upbeat on Mapp's State of the Territory Address
Senators gave Gov. Kenneth Mapp high marks for laying out a clear picture of the territory’s financial woes and pointing to a…
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Budget Woes Prominent in Mapp's First State of the Territory Address
Gov. Kenneth Mapp struck an optimistic tone for the future while nonetheless painting a bleak picture of the territory’s financial shape, during…
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Undercurrents: Better Mental Health – So Near, Yet So Far
The private-public sector Mental Health Care Commission finally agreed on the way to overhaul mental health care in the territory. Now they…
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Man Killed at Tutu High Rise
A man was shot and killed Monday evening at the Tutu High Rise apartments, the V.I. Police Department reported. Officers responded at…
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V.I. Film Business on the Upswing, Tourism Says
With diverse locations for filming across the Virgin Islands, the territory’s film and commercial phtography industry is on the upswing, according to…
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Answer Desk – Merchants Commercial Bank is Not Closing
Despite rumors, Merchants Commercial Bank is not closing its St. John branch near the Westin Resort and Villas. Neither is its St.…
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Northeast Storm Causes Cancellations
With blizzard conditions occurring in the northeast United States, vacationers in the Virgin Islands found themselves tacking on unplanned extra days or…
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State of the Territory To Be Delivered Monday
Gov. Kenneth Mapp will deliver his first state of the territory address at 7 p.m. Monday.
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Health Beat: Sleep Center Creates Lullaby Land
Based on medical literature, as many as half of all people will have a sleep disorder at some point in their lives,…
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Health Beat: Medical Technologist Steve Echelmeier
With a busy job as the only medical technologist at Myrah Keating Smith Community Health Center on St. John, an active life…