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Ivanna Eudora Kean High School Student Wows Them At Taste of The Caribbean in Miami
CREATIVE CHEF: Nandi Furet of St. Thomas showed she had the right stuff when it comes to culinary creations. Furet, a senior at Ivanna Eudora Kean High School, got top honors at the 2017 Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s Taste of the Caribbean competition in Miami. MIAMI — Ivanna Eudora
Mapp Has To Take A Break From Munchin’ In Order To Meet With Treasury Secretary Mnuchin … Then It’s On To A Meeting With Crapo
MOMENTS MADE FOR HAND SANITIZERS: Gov. Kenneth Mapp gives U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin a hearty handshake just before he asks him if his signature can appear on U.S. dollar bills alongside Mnuchin’s own. CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Gov. Kenneth Mapp met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin earlier this week
Mapp Hopes To Attract More Moneyed Visitors To The Territory By Speaking To An All-Black Audience On Homophobic Host’s TV Show
GIFT OF GAB: Gov. Kenneth Mapp was careful not to mention violent crime spiraling out of control in the territory nor the number of people fleeing the Virgin Islands due to a lack of meaningful employment and entertainment options. SILVER SPRING, Maryland — Political status, the minimum wage, economic opportunities and St.
Classmates, Teachers Remember 15-Year-Old Puerto Rico Plane Crash Victim Molly Wrede As An Athlete With An Easy Smile
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Molly Wrede, 15, died after the plane she was in crashed near a crowded beach in Piñones, Puerto Rico on Saturday afternoon. ATLANTA — Ironically, the school Molly Wrede went to was located on Ponce de León Avenue. And one of the major cities in Puerto Rico where
UVI’s Failed Research & Technology Park In St. Croix … When ‘Higher Education’ Doesn’t Make Good Business Sense
WHITE ELEPHANT: UVI’s Gillian Marcelle is in New York City trying to draw attention to the few advantages of the empty Research and Technology Park in St. Croix. NEW YORK — The University of the Virgin Islands is beating the bush in the Big Apple trying to attract attention to
Teenaged Girl From U.S. Mainland Dies In Plane Crash Near Crowded Piñones Beach In Puerto Rico
PINONES PLANE CRASH – The choppy beach at Piñones on the north coast of Puerto Rico in the Atlantic Ocean. Beach goers swam out to the crash site to rescue the injured and bring the dead teen-ager to shore. SAN JUAN — A teenage girl from the United States mainland who
PUERTO RICO BANKRUPTCY: Senior Creditors Want To Depose Gov. Ricky Rossello, Key Advisors Over $2.5B Debt
WHAT DID THEY KNOW AND WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT? A source familiar with the COFINA creditors’ thinking said the group wants to depose Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello, one of his key advisers Elias Sanchez, and AAFAF’s director, Gerardo Portela. By NICK BROWN/Reuters News Service SAN JUAN — Senior creditors
Federal Judge Freezes $16 Million Puerto Rico Debt Payment Due June 1 Subject To Claims From Hedge Funds
“PALACE OF THE LAWS”: The Capitol of Puerto Rico (Capitolio de Puerto Rico) is located on the Islet of San Juan just outside the walls of Old San Juan. The building is home to the bicameral Legislative Assembly composed of the House of Representatives and Senate. The building sits in
IT’S OFFICIAL: NFL’s Aaron Hernandez’s Murder Conviction of St. Croix’s Odin Lloyd Will Be Vacated
GARSH TOO HARSH? Massachusetts state judge E. Susan Garsh has ensured that the family of St. Croix’s Odin Lloyd will have a harder time collecting money from the estate of Aaron Hernandez. FALL RIVER, Mass. — A former NFL star’s 2013 murder conviction of a St. Croix native can be erased
FINAL INDIGNITY! Aaron Hernandez Laughing In His Morgue Now That His Suicide Expunges His Murder Conviction of St. Croix’s Odin Lloyd
AVERAGE JOE: Odin Lloyd of St. Croix was savagely murdered by $40 million man Aaron Josef Hernandez of Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots/Urban Meyer’s Florida Gators in 2014. Hernandez’s mom was from Puerto Rico; his father was from Italy. ADVERTORIAL: To find out how you can help someone with a
