Education Department Suspends School Bus Service On St. Croix ‘Indefinitely’

KINGSHILL — The Virgin Islands Department of Education, St. Croix District, said it has suspended school bus service until further notice.

Parents are asked to continue to provide transportation to and from school for children attending in-person classes.

Special Education students in self-contained classrooms attending in-person classes are not affected and will continue to receive school bus service.

The Department of Education will provide an update on when bus service will resume.

The St. Thomas-St. John District is not affected.

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.