Read Governor Kenneth Mapp’s full 2019 budget proposal. It’s a 477-page document with intricate details about the government’s inner workings. [embeddoc url=”https://viconsortium.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FY-2019-Executive-Budget.pdf”]
Data provided in the Mapp administration’s 2019 $1.278 billion budget proposal shows a dramatic decline in the territory’s tourism sector following the devastating 2017 storms. Visitor arrivals dropped to 799,969 in the first six months after the storms from the 1,447,219 visitor arrivals...
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season has officially begun, and the territory’s residents are being advised to start getting ready immediately. According to a May 24 news release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there’s only a 25 percent chance that this hurricane season will...
Governor Kenneth Mapp has put forth several proposals in his Fiscal Year 2019 $1.278 billion budget aimed at saving the Government Employees’ Retirement System (G.E.R.S.), which is on track to collapse by 2023 without the infusion of a substantial amount of cash. In the first proposal, Mr. Mapp...
The U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Park this week announced $3.2 million in historic preservation grants specifically for the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, along with the freely associated states...
ST. THOMAS — V.I.P.D. Commissioner Delroy Richards confirmed to The Consortium on Thursday that the V.I.P.D. has concluded its investigation into Police Officer Tianna Hunt, who Senator Janelle Sarauw alleged had pulled a firearm on her. The V.I.P.D.’s investigation concluded approximately...
ST. THOMAS — An investigation by the Office of the Inspector General of the Virgin Islands into whether Department of Education Commissioner, Sharon McCollum, had stolen a generator belonging to D.O.E. and installed it at her residence for personal use, concluded that Ms. McCollum had indeed utilized...
ST. THOMAS — Governor Kenneth E. Mapp submitted a proposed $1.278 billion budget Wednesday evening to the 32nd Legislature to fund the operations of the Government of the Virgin Islands (G.V.I.) for Fiscal Year 2019, which commences on October 1, 2018, Government House announced Thursday morning....
With the election season coming to bloom and the Democratic primary drawing closer, the Petrus-Sanes gubernatorial ticket is taking direct aim at Governor Kenneth Mapp for what the team said was the administration’s decision to “force our teachers and students to attend school this past Monday,...
The F.B.I. has made an urgent request to anybody with internet routers, asking Americans both on the mainland and in U.S. territories to turn them off and back on in an effort to thwart a sophisticated malware system linked to Russia that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers. The bureau...
