CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands celebrated 30 years of serving the community today, a milestone highlighting its decades of collecting, distributing and managing funds by partnering donors and community organizations to help the Virgin Islands recover and grow. The foundation was established in 1990 with a founding gift of $540,000 […]
Category: Community Affairs
VIDOJ Adopts 2 Single Parent Families For The Christmas Holidays
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — V.I. Attorney General Denise George is pleased to announce that the Department of Justice has once again adopted two families as a participant of the Adopt-A-Family program through the Family Resource Center. Employees purchased Christmas gifts and personal care items for the families and presented them to the Family Resource Center on […]
HOG WILD! Pot-Bellied Pigs Running Amok In Puerto Rico And Ruining Christmas
SAN JUAN — Thousands of Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs are snorting and squealing their way across Puerto Rico in what many fear has become an unstoppable quest to eat and reproduce on an island struggling to stop them. They forage through gardens and farms, knock over trash cans and leave pungent trails of urine and excrement, […]
VITRAN Works Out Holiday Service, None On Christmas Day Or New Year’s Day
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Department of Public Works (DPW) is advising the community of VITRAN’s adjusted holiday schedule. Fixed route services will not be offered on December 25, 2020 or January 1, 2021. ADA Paratransit services will be available for certified passengers as scheduled. VITRAN will operate on an adjusted schedule on December 24 and December 31: […]
Virgin Islands Police Department: ‘Don’t Fire Guns Into The Air On New Years Eve’
SAN JUAN — In many cultures and geographic regions, it’s customary to shoot guns into the air to celebrate New Year’s Day or other holidays. The purpose of what is called “celebratory gunfire” is to make loud noise to mark a joyous occasion. However, what people don’t often realize is that those bullets will eventually […]
Police Need Your Help To Find Missing 16-Year-Old Girl Yolainny Martinez On St. Croix: VIPD
CHRISTIANSTED — Police need your help tonight to find a St. Croix minor who has been missing for three days. Yolainny Martinez, 16, of Catherine’s Rest, has been missing since Sunday, the Virgin Islands Police Department said today. “The VIPD St. Croix District is asking for the community’s assistance in locating 16-year-old Yolainny Martinez,” police […]
VIPD Gets $17.4 Million For Overtime And Emergency Work Done In The Wake Of 2017 Hurricanes
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Office of Disaster Recovery announces the award of $17,451,154 from the FEMA Public Assistance Program to reimburse the Virgin Islands Police Department for emergency work performed territory-wide after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017. After the storms, the VIPD worked tirelessly to protect public health. Officers led patrols and participated in […]
Health Department Won’t Answer Important Questions From Public On COVID-19
CRUZ BAY — The Virgin Islands Department of Health has had the number of COVID-19 cases on St. John pending for six days now. People on social media were publicly asking the VIDOH how does coronavirus testing “work” on St. John. “Wondering how testing works on St. John?” Jane Porter Roskin asked. “We have had […]
Kirwan Terrace Residents Get Free Boxes Of Food From The Virgin Islands Police Department
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Christmas season is the time for giving. And Police Commissioner Trevor A. Velinor and the Virgin Islands Police Department continued that tradition this weekend by providing boxes of food to needy residents. Commissioner Velinor himself was in the spirit of giving Saturday at Michael J. Kirwan Terrace where free boxes of […]
St. John Cuts The Ribbon On Its First Major Recovery Project, A Senior Center
CRUZ BAY — A beloved but storm-torn building on St. John, George Simmons Terrace Community Center had its ribbon-cutting on Thursday with Governor Albert Bryan doing the honors after a stem-to-stern renovation by the Virgin Islands Housing Authority (VIHA) in partnership with the Office of Disaster Recovery. At about 2,000 square feet in total, the […]