Government Officials Urge Motoring Public To Avoid Using Bovoni Road

John McCarthyPosted oninAt VIFreep, Breaking News, Community Affairs, Police News, St. Thomas News

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — With increasing efforts to suppress the fire at the Bovoni Landfill, the
Virgin Islands Police Department, Virgin Islands Fire Medical and Emergency Medical Services, and Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority ask that the members of our community refrain from
traversing on Bovoni road, in order for large Emergency and Water Trucks to freely traverse
the roadway in efforts to extinguish the ongoing fire.

The Virgin Islands Education Department will be providing emergency updates regarding the Bertha C. Boschulte Middle School closure instructional plan, alongside other school updates at 10:30 a.m. via VIDE’s Facebook Live.

All previous advisories remain in full effect regarding this ongoing incident for the safety of all residents affected by the landfill fire.

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.