Senators of the 30th Legislature, on Tuesday night, passed measures that force the de Jongh Administration to only spend 25 percent of the Executive budget, leaving the governor to make do with $2.25 million for fiscal year 2015.
A strong attempt to make smoking weed legal in the Virgin Islands is sending the wrong message to our teenagers. Numerous studies have found that marijuana smoke contains a range of harmful chemicals similar to those of tobacco smoke. As a matter of fact, the risk of respiratory effects from inhaling...
The Water and Power Authority will soon be able to bill customers for the usage of street lights, after an amendment, sponsored by Senator Clifford Graham of St. Thomas, gave the semi-autonomous entity the power to pass the expense on to customers when the company reduces the LEAC, currently labeled...
On Tuesday night, with just hours remaining before the V.I. Government’s health insurance contract with CIGNA came to an end, senators of the 30th Legislature were able to find $6.24 million in extra funding to prevent the premiums of over 7,000 government employees from rising, while averting...
According to a press release made available on Tuesday by the Bureau of Corrections (BOC), in an effort to come in alignment with an agreement reached between the Bureau and the U.S. Justice Department, 78 inmates were transferred this morning from prisons in the territory to cells on the mainland. Because...
At a meeting of the St. Croix District Governing Board on Monday, Dr. Kendall Griffith was appointed as permanent CEO of the Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center on St. Croix for a contract of one year. Griffith had been serving in the capacity of interim CEO since January 2013.
On Monday, after years of indecision, the West Indian Company Limited (WICO) and officials of the Government Employees Retirement System (GERS), joined Governor John P. de Jongh, Jr. for the official signing of a five-year contract between the two government-owned agencies.
Upon receiving the health insurance contract for government employees by the Health Insurance Board of Trustees, Governor John P. de Jongh, Jr. declined signing the contract because of a $6.24 million increase in the government’s portion of the health insurance premiums, and has sent the contract...
As the fallout continues from the 112-page CMS report issued last week outlining a long list of serious violations and countless instances of sub-standard care that took place at St. Croix’s Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital (JFL) from 2011 through August 2014, dozens of posts have surfaced online...
In a five-minute, prerecorded statement aired today on radio station 1620 AM The Reef in St. Croix, gubernatorial hopeful Soraya Diase Coffelt said she is “declaring war against corruption” and demanded the immediate unsealing of records in the criminal case involving former Virgin Islands...
