The ratification process of the Atlantic Basin Refining deal with HOVENSA needs to “slow down,” the man who will be the Governor of the Virgin Islands in under two months said on talk radio Wednesday morning.
Virgin Islanders, as it relates to the sale of HOVENSA, we are at a place in time where haste is neither desirable nor advisable and our Legislators need to carefully analyze every step they take and try to foresee not all, but some of the expected or unexpected outcomes and consequences. It’s a concept...
Although chikungunya is not being talked about as much compared to when it first struck the Virgin Islands in the spring, the disease remains a problem in the territory, new data released by the Virgin Islands Department of Health shows.
Children and adults in the U.S. Virgin Islands living with chronic illnesses such as cancer, Hodgkin’s disease and diabetes will be glad to know that the newly established Nigel O. Hodge Foundation, Inc., was created specifically to assist them.
On Monday, HOVENSA issued a letter to its wholesale gas customers stating that the company has stopped purchasing fuel because it can no longer afford to do so. The defunct refinery, which is being used as an oil storage terminal since February 2012, said it made the Virgin Islands Government aware...
A shooting on Monday in Estate Humbug resulted in the death of Trevor Pamphile, 24, who was found motionless with multiple gunshot wounds to his body at about 10:15 p.m., police spokesperson Melody Rames has revealed.
With the Virgin Islands economy faltering, the ongoing trend has been to move away and search for a better life on the U.S. mainland. It goes without saying that the migration from the territory to elsewhere has been high since the shuttering of HOVENSA in 2012. But, what about those who choose to remain...
On Monday afternoon, HOVENSA issued a notice to its truck rack customers and haulers informing them of the plant’s preparation for shutdown “given HOVENSA’s deteriorating financial condition.” To that end, HOVENSA, which is being used as an oil storage facility, said it will no longer...
Today marks exactly three weeks since Monarch Energy Partners testified at a November 10 Committee of the Whole Senate hearing related to the sale of the defunct HOVENSA refinery. Last week, company representatives were back on St. Croix to drum up support for their mission to become HOVENSA’s...
