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September 23, 2019
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The Virgin Islands Alliance for Consumer Justice is circulating a petition calling on lawmakers to use their bully pulpit to hold the Water and Power Authority accountable for financial missteps. The petition to the Legislature’s Committee of the Whole asks that WAPA be urged to turn over within...
By Robert /
September 23, 2019
The U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, including Vieques and Culebra, were placed under a tropical storm warning as of 5:00 a.m. Monday as Tropical Storm Karen draws closer to the islands, the National Hurricane Center made known in its 5:00 a.m. advisory. Karen, which N.H.C. described as a disorganized...
By Staff /
September 23, 2019
VIPD Commissioner Nominee Trevor Velinor’s nomination was supposed to be among names forwarded to Governor Albert Bryan following a Senate session last Monday. But lawmakers decided to remove Mr. Velinor’s name from the agenda after he failed to attend the session, where senators had sought...
By Ernice /
September 23, 2019
Governor Albert Bryan will return to the U.S. Virgin Islands sometime Monday, cutting short a weeklong trip Mr. Bryan had planned to meet with congresspeople in Washington, along with FEMA and HUD officials. Mr. Bryan heads back to the territory as Tropical Storm Karen is expected to approach the USVI...
By Ernice /
September 22, 2019
ST. JOHN — Lucy Schuhmann, 48, of Kentucky, was reported missing on Thursday by the proprietor of the Airbnb where she was staying in Coral Bay on St. John. Ms. Schuhmann had not checked out as scheduled, her belongings were in her room, and her rental jeep was subsequently found at the Salt Pond...
By Staff /
September 22, 2019
The National Hurricane Center in its 11:00 a.m. advisory issued a tropical storm watch for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, including Vieques and Culebra as Tropical Storm Karen is expected to approach the U.S. territories on Tuesday. Additionally, a tropical storm watch is in effect for Trinidad...
By Ernice /
September 22, 2019
FEMA’s Ready Campaign relaunched newly updated Ready.gov/kids webpages was relaunched last week. The relaunch is part of week three of National Preparedness Month, which focuses on the importance of including young people in disaster preparedness. Ready.gov/kids is the youth preparedness platform...
By Staff /
September 22, 2019
ST. THOMAS — A man called a friend using a stranger’s cellphone to transport him to the Schneider Regional Medical Center on Wednesday, after being shot multiple times in the lower extremities by an unknown assailant, V.I.P.D. Public Information Officer in the St. Thomas-St. John District,...
By Staff /
September 22, 2019
Tropical Storm Karen formed in the Atlantic this morning, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 5:00 a.m. advisory, and the storm is expected to approach the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Tuesday. N.H.C. said a tropical storm watch would likely be issued for the U.S. Virgin Islands...
By Ernice /
September 22, 2019
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