2023 – Page 8 – Virgin Islands Free Press

Help Police Find Missing Minor Felipe Casanova of St. Croix

CHRISTIANSTED — Police are asking for your assistance to locate a missing minor on St. Croix. Felipe A. "Lil Popa" Casanova, 16, was last seen Monday at 4:00 p.m. in…

John McCarthy December 12, 2023

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Venezuela and Guyana to meet on December 14 amid territorial dispute

SAO PAULO (Reuters) — Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro will meet with Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Thursday amid a territorial dispute between the two countries, according to a letter…

John McCarthy December 11, 2023

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48 Haitian migrants have been detained on an uninhabited island west of Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN (AP) — U.S. federal authorities said Wednesday that they detained 48 Haitian migrants who were abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island between Puerto Rico and the Dominican…

John McCarthy December 10, 2023

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A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico indicts three men on environmental crimes

SAN JUAN — Three men have been indicted as part of an ongoing federal investigation into environmental crimes committed on protected land in southern Puerto Rico, authorities announced Thursday. Two of the men…

John McCarthy December 10, 2023

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Book Review: Edel Rodriguez shows Cuban history as a warning for the US in new graphic memoir ‘Worm’

HAVANA (AP) — Decades before Edel Rodriguez made his iconic, mouth-only political illustration of Donald Trump for the cover of Time magazine, he was a boy growing up in Fidel…

John McCarthy December 10, 2023

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Weekend weather forecast: Hazardous marine conditions still in play, NWS says

SAN JUAN — A long-dominant period northwesterly to northerly swell spreading across the regional waters and increasing trade winds, generated by a strong surface high pressure system across the western-central…

John McCarthy December 10, 2023

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Thousands of tons of dead sardines wash ashore in northern Japan

TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of tons of dead sardines have washed up on a beach in northern Japan for unknown reasons, officials said Friday. The sardines and some mackerel washed…

John McCarthy December 10, 2023

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British Virgin Islands: Magnitude-5.2 offshore earthquake strikes north of Anegada today

ROAD TOWN, Tortola — A magnitude-5.2 offshore earthquake occurred in the Atlantic Ocean near the British Virgin Islands at 10:27 a.m. today. The epicenter was about 5 miles (9 km)…

John McCarthy December 9, 2023

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Exclusive: Venezuela prods BP, Chevron to revive gas project near Trinidad, Guyana

CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela has begun contacting energy firms involved in an long-idled offshore gas project to push them to begin new exploration and operations near its maritime border with…

John McCarthy December 9, 2023

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Armed robbery at St. Louis Cardinals complex in Dominican Republic leaves players, staff ‘shaken’

SANTO DOMINGO (AP) — Authorities are seeking at least five people in an armed robbery of the St. Louis Cardinals complex in the Dominican Republic on Friday. Dominican Republic police…

John McCarthy December 9, 2023