Some residents in Lorraine Village apartments in the grove place area on St. Croix are still without electricity.
The management needs to repair weather heads in order for power to be restored.
I feel like I’m in a ruthless dream that is putting me through hell.
It’s going on five months and these residents has been neglected.
Nobody is saying anything!!!
I am a young resident in this community and it’s so frustrating to wake up everyday to the same condition.
I desperately need your help to get this story as soon as possible in order to draw attention if even it is national attention.
People think all is well in this area. It’s not!
Some of my other neighbors have their electricity back way before Christmas.
What’s really taking so long?
No communication nothing.
Please assist. Greatly appreciated.
–Vanisa Solomon
EDITOR’S NOTE: Lorraine Village has 250 units in Estate Pleasant, Frederiksted and 245 of the units are Section 8 assisted living units. It is managed by Community Realty Management at (609) 646-8861.
John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV).
Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.