The St. Croix Board of Elections has announced it will start counting the mail-in absentee ballots from the run-off election on Wednesday, Nov. 26 at the Elections System office on St. Croix beginning at 12 p.m.
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...
The Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center (JFL) on St. Croix said it took the necessary steps to ensure patient safety during an extended island-wide power outage that lasted close to three hours on Sunday morning.
It was a violent weekend on St. Croix. The scorched remains of a man was found in a vehicle Sunday at about 1 p.m. after his wife failed to pay $30,000 in ransom money the man’s captors demanded in order to release her husband, sources within the VIPD, who requested anonymity because they were...
After years of legislative wrangling, compounded by funding and contractor setbacks, Gov. John P. de Jongh, Jr. recently signed a $20 million contract with St. Croix-based GEC, LLC for the revitalization of the Paul E. Joseph Stadium in Frederiksted. The funds–which have been made available by bonding...
The Lower Love Gas Station on St. Croix was robbed by two armed suspects Saturday at 7 p.m., leaving the gas station owner wounded by gunfire. One suspect is in police custody and the other is on the loose, police spokesperson Melody Rames has revealed.
Update: New information provided by police spokesperson Melody Rames confirms that there was one other suspect, apart from the three VI Consortium reported earlier, who was involved in the attempted robbery and shootout in Sunny Isle, St. Croix. Of the four males, there was only one adult, while the remaining...
The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority recently announced that its conversion to propane, expected to roll out in the first quarter of 2015, now has a price tag of $150 million–up $63 million from the original $87 million price cap. However, WAPA officials say the increase in the program’s...
The Commissioner of the Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs Wayne Biggs has told VI Consortium that his department has asked HOVENSA to provide evidence that the gas it’s been selling to local gas stations up until Oct. 24 is from fuel it purchased since June 2014, adding that if HOVENSA...
