Government House Says OMB Director Julio Rhymer Is Acting Governor Until Friday

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Governor Kenneth Mapp said that he will be traveling out of the territory on Tuesday afternoon for meetings with Arclight Capital Partners, majority owners of Limetree Bay Terminals on St. Croix, and Island Global Yachting, which operates Yacht Haven Grande and American Yacht Harbor on St. Thomas.

Mapp said that he will return to the U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday, June 15.

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Julio Rhymer, will serve as Acting Governor until Thursday, June 14 when Lt. Governor Osbert Potter returns to the territory.

Rhymer is the former executive director of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA).

John McCarthy

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.