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About John McCarthy
John McCarthy is primarily known for his investigative reporting on the U.S. Virgin Islands. A series of reports beginning in the 1990's revealed that there was everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling. Another report, following Hurricane Hugo in 1989, cited a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confidential overview that said that over 40 percent of the U.S. Virgin Islands public lives below the poverty line. The Virgin Islands Free Press is the only Caribbean news source to regularly incorporate the findings of U.S. Freedom of Information Act requests. John's articles have appeared in the BVI Beacon, St. Croix Avis, San Juan Star and Virgin Islands Daily News. He is the former news director of WSVI-TV Channel 8 on St. Croix.
Traffic stop on Weymouth Rhymer Highway yields gun, ammunition
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

Traffic stop on Weymouth Rhymer Highway yields gun, ammunition

CHARLOTTE AMALIE —A St. Thomas man is in custody after a routine traffic stop on the Weymouth Rhymer Highway turned up a gun and ammunition. Jahmal Braithwaite, 44, was arrested…
Posted by John McCarthy September 15, 2025
Powerball player just misses $55 million jackpot, but still wins big in NC
Posted inBreaking News Entertainment News National News

Powerball player just misses $55 million jackpot, but still wins big in NC

CHARLOTTE —A Powerball player just missed a $55 million jackpot — but still won a big prize in North Carolina. The player bought a ticket that matched all but one…
Posted by John McCarthy September 15, 2025
Trump blames Biden in Nicaraguan worker’s beheading of boss
Posted inBreaking News Crime News National News

Trump blames Biden in Nicaraguan worker’s beheading of boss

DALLAS — President Trump has blamed his “incompetent” predecessor, former President Joe Biden, for allowing an “evil” illegal migrant to be in the country when he allegedly beheaded his boss…
Posted by John McCarthy September 15, 2025
‘I’m furious, and I’m ashamed:’ UN humanitarian chief on crisis in Haiti
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Humanitarian News

‘I’m furious, and I’m ashamed:’ UN humanitarian chief on crisis in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE — United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher walks through the sprawling displacement camp in Haiti’s gang-ravaged capital, moving in silent disbelief through a labyrinth of narrow alleyways, hanging laundry…
Posted by John McCarthy September 15, 2025
Caracas threatens Guyana and Trinidad amid growing tensions with U.S.
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News International News

Caracas threatens Guyana and Trinidad amid growing tensions with U.S.

CARACAS — Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López has issued a stark warning to neighboring Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, saying Caracas would retaliate if any attack against the country…
Posted by John McCarthy September 15, 2025
Invest 92-L forms in the central Atlantic
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Puerto Rico News

Invest 92-L forms in the central Atlantic

A low-level disturbance today and a tropical wave Wednesday and Thursday will bring increasing showers and thunderstorms across the islands, the National Weather Service said. Central tropical Atlantic A tropical…
Posted by John McCarthy September 15, 2025
Venezuela says US navy raided a tuna boat in the Caribbean as tensions rise
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News International News

Venezuela says US navy raided a tuna boat in the Caribbean as tensions rise

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Personnel from a U.S. warship boarded a Venezuelan tuna boat with nine fishermen while it was sailing in Venezuelan waters, Venezuela’s foreign minister said on Saturday,…
Posted by John McCarthy September 14, 2025
Equatorial Guinea enforces yearlong internet outage for island that protested construction company
Posted inBreaking News International News Technology News

Equatorial Guinea enforces yearlong internet outage for island that protested construction company

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — When residents of Equatorial Guinea’s Annobón island wrote to the government in Malabo in July last year complaining about the dynamite explosions by a Moroccan construction…
Posted by John McCarthy September 14, 2025
A strange gas-pumping defect is making $100,000 Corvettes go up in flames
Posted inBreaking News Business News National News

A strange gas-pumping defect is making $100,000 Corvettes go up in flames

Shawn Conner was refueling his high-end 2024 Corvette at a gas station in early June when the car spontaneously caught on fire, torching it in a matter of minutes. Conner…
Posted by John McCarthy September 14, 2025
U.S. added 911,000 fewer jobs in the year ended in March
Posted inBreaking News Business News National News

U.S. added 911,000 fewer jobs in the year ended in March

The U.S. added 911,000 fewer jobs over the 12 months that ended in March, the BLS said, trimming by a bit more than half the 1.79 million jobs the official…
Posted by John McCarthy September 14, 2025

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