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Opinion: Puerto Rican rum row is un-American
The Virgin Islands is implementing public-private partnerships that benefit our territory and the United States. In the middle of a recession, the territory’s leaders should be commended for keeping companies in America, generating significant direct and indirect economic activity, preventing thousands of government layoffs and funding construction of roads
Okafor says he always looked up to St. Croix’s Tim Duncan
Jahlil Okafor is a fan of Steph Curry and enjoyed watching the MVP lead the guard-heavy Golden State Warriors to the NBA championship. But Okafor still thinks the best road to a title is through the big man. That is what makes the 6-foot-11 center out of Duke glad
St. Croix’s Warren Mosler questions ‘tea party’ push for drastic spending cuts
“Tea party” activists are exhibiting a fervor for budget cuts not seen in years, pushing to slash everything from Social Security to unemployment benefits in their drive to cut the burgeoning federal debt. But while applauding their budget-cutting zeal, economists are divided over whether their prescription is good medicine
David Feherty New Ambassador to Provo Golf Club, Turks & Caicos Islands
David Feherty, CBS & Golf Channels’ most popular golf analyst, is announced as the new Course Ambassador for Provo Golf Club, the only 18 hole Championship golf course in Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands. PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos islands, June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Provo Golf Club is honored to
Riots in The Hague after death of Aruba man in police custody
The Hague (dpa) – The death of a man in police custody triggered riots in the Dutch city of The Hague, leading to one injury and multiple arrests, police reported Tuesday. Hundreds of demonstrators fought lengthy skirmishes with police in the early hours of Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
Wanted woman seen as symbol for U.S.-Cuban differences
PHILADELPHIA — It was a murder on the New Jersey Turnpike — stunning violence near the New Brunswick exit. Now, decades after Black Liberation Army leader Joanne Chesimard was sentenced for the 1973 killing of a state trooper, escaped prison and surfaced in Cuba in 1984, she is first
Ending U.S. oil export ban would be good for the Virgin Islands
CHRISTIANSTED – Forty years after President Gerald Ford banned the export of crude oil from the United States amid supply worries, momentum is building to remove the restriction – and some of the benefits could spill into Caribbean oil refining-countries. With more Iranian oil re-entering the market if sanctions

Panama Sends Helicopter To Assist in Emergency in The Caribbean
Photos courtesy of the Ministerio de Seguridad Publica de Costa Rica [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] PANAMA CITY — The government of Panama has sent a helicopter and crew to provide support to first responder institutions working in the affected areas by the rains in flooding of this past week. The Ministerio
MSM GOES AFTER CHRISTIE, THUS HE’S THE FRONTRUNNER
It’s always easy to tell who is the strongest Republican candidate. How? The mainstream media goes after him — hard. That’s why more than a year ago, the New York Times set out on a mission to take down Chris Christie. The “paper of record” tied the New Jersey