Category: Local news
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Health Beat: Aziyza Shabazz
Aziyza Shabazz said her calling is to help people stay healthy and connect to nature’s healing. ‘My philosophy is to help people…
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Wedding Expo Draws Crowd
The St. Croix Caribbean Wedding Expo Sunday drew a crowd of brides and grooms, their parents, attendants and friends and people who…
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Jogger Jam Draws more than 300 Women to Annual Run
Women of all ages clustered in front of the Fruit Bowl in Wheatley Shopping Center at 4:30 p.m. Sunday for the 33rd…
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Owners Clean Up in Wake of Mongoose Junction Blaze
The day after a blaze ripped through the second level of Mongoose Junction I, employees and business owners Saturday morning were assessing…
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Diase-Coffelt: Mapp Was Treating DOJ as 'Own Private Law Firm’
Fighting the “war against corruption” being waged within the V.I. Department of Justice takes the right “weapons and tools” but former V.I.…
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GERS Enacts Pension Reform
Aiming to keep the Government Employee Retirement System from projected insolvency in just seven years, the GERS board voted during its regular…
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Fire at Mongoose Junction Guts The Beauty Lounge, St. John Brewer’s Tap Room
Fire alarms rang throughout Cruz Bay’s popular shopping complex Mongoose Junction early Friday afternoon as smoke began billowing out into the street…
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WAPA Signs Solar Purchase Agreement
After the WAPA board meeting Thursday, Executive Director Hugo Hodge Jr. signed a 25-year agreement to purchase 6 megawatts of solar energy…
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Port Authority Aims to Organize Taxi Pickup at Airport
Independent taxi drivers will no longer be allowed to park along the curb near the terminal at Cyril E. King Airport on…
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Mapp Sends Nominees to Senate
Gov. Kenneth Mapp sent his previously announced cabinet nominees to the V.I. Legislature for approval Thursday. The nominees are currently acting in…
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JFL Board Meets New COO and CFO
The Board of the Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital Wednesday reaffirmed a two-year old hiring freeze, discussed staffing and introduced two new…
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Mapp Re-Organizes PFA, WICO and viNGN Boards
Re-organizing the Public Finance Authority, West Indian Co. Ltd., and V.I. Next Generation Network boards was the first order of business Wednesday…
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Elections Board Replaces Chairman
After two previous attempts to meet this month, the St. Croix Elections Board finally mustered a quorum to name a new board…
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VIPA Negotiates Deal for Crown Bay Dredging
The V.I. Port Authority board of directors approved a negotiation with Orion Marine Construction Wednesday to keep the Texas-based contractor in the…
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Upheaval Continues at DOJ with Two More Resignations
Two prosecutors have resigned from the V.I. Department of Justice, Government House confirmed Wednesday, adding to an already fluid personnel situation in…
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Early Signups Begin for Women's Jogger Jam
The Fruit Bowl and The St. Thomas Association of Roadrunners urge girls and women of all ages to take part in the…
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Crime Stoppers: Help Solve the Following Crimes
To make sure that no crime goes unsolved, everyone needs to speak up. If you know something about the following recent crimes,…
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Plaskett Urges President to Remember Territories While Opening to Cuba
In a response to Tuesday’s state of the union address, V.I. Delegate Stacey Plaskett endorsed President Barack Obama’s moves to improve relations…
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Propane Conversion is Already Providing Some Rate Relief
Measures to reduce the Virgin Islands’ astronomical energy costs, which are up to five times higher than the U.S. average, will begin…
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David Turbe Remembered by Friends, Family on Tuesday
David Turbe’s little Frenchtown house became a living memorial Tuesday as the day wore on and the news passed through the community.…
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Missing Fisherman David Turbe Found Dead
Fisherman David Turbe, who has been missing since Sunday afternoon, was found floating Tuesday in West Gregory channel off the Enkoi Restaurant…
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Frenchtown Fisherman David Turbe Missing at Sea
A massive sea search in the waters off Frenchtown, St. Thomas, continued all day Monday for local fisherman David Turbe. Turbe was…
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Undercurrents: VIHFA Takes Care of the ‘Pennies’
Little things can mean a lot, for example the $1.9 million of federal funds channeled through the V.I. Housing Finance Authority to…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service in Frederiksted
Operation Clean Sweep Frederiksted, marking Monday as a Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, cleaned up the streets along the parade…
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St. John Celebrates MLK Day
In prayer, reflection and song, St. John celebrated the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with a ceremony Monday in Cruz Bay…
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@ School: 4-H Ambassador Rachelle Jn Baptiste
Four-4 Club Ambassador Rachelle Jn Baptiste uses her communication skills to talk to other students about the benefits of 4-H. “Kids get…
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@ School: Poetry Puts Jahmari Boynes in the Spotlight
At the recent inaugural celebration on St. John, Jahmari Boynes read Elizabeth Alexander’s poem “Praise Song for the Day.” Boynes is a…
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Regional Director Hears Complaints abut Campground Conditions
Stan Austin, the National Park Service’s southeast regional director, got an earful Sunday from disgruntled Cinnamon Bay Campground campers fed up with…
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@School: King’s Message Reverberates for Students
Almost 47 years after his death, students across St. Thomas studied Martin Luther King Jr., he man, his words and his legacy,…
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Government House Questions Authenticity of Letters Alleging 'Turmoil’ at DOJ
The day after Attorney General designee Soraya Diase-Coffelt resigned from the V.I. Department of Justice, unverified letters alleging ‘turmoil’ at the DOJ …