Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett will address constituents tonight at the close of President Obama’s State of the Union Address, according to a press release issued Tuesday from the congresswoman’s Washington, D.C. office.
The longest-serving Delegate to Congress for the U.S. Virgin Islands has been Donna M. Christensen, the former gubernatorial candidate who lost her bid for governor against Kenneth Mapp in a run-off election last November. While the 69-year-old Christensen says she will always be a servant of the territory,...
Former Police Commissioner Franz A. Christian, Sr., has been tapped by Governor Kenneth Mapp to lead the Law Enforcement Planning Commission in the new administration.
Governor Kenneth Mapp Friday named Jamila A. Russell as Territorial ADA Coordinator.
Soraya Diase-Coffelt has resigned her post as Virgin Islands Attorney General, two weeks after being appointed to the position by Governor Kenneth Mapp. According to a press release issued late Thursday by Government House, Diase-Coffelt cited among reasons for resigning, “a staffing conflict with...
Since there remains no recourse for former Sen. Alicia “Chucky” Hansen in her efforts to hold on to the Senate seat she lost in the 2014 General Election after the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands denied her a recount of her write-in ballots, Hansen is considering taking her case to the highest...
Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett, who was recently sworn in as the territory’s new representative in Washington, has been assigned to serve on the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, becoming the first U.S. Virgin Islands Delegate to serve on the powerful committee.
The Legislature of the Virgin Islands has announced activities centered on the swearing in of the 31st Legislature, the first of which is scheduled to take place this weekend.
The Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands Thursday upheld a decision made by the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands on Dec. 24 to grant petitioner, Sen. Nereida Rivera-O’Reilly, a writ of mandamus–an order from a court to an inferior government official ordering the government official to properly...
I Kenneth Mapp do solemnly swear that I will support, obey and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States applicable to the Virgin Islands, and the laws of the Virgin Islands. That I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will faithfully...
