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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
Disturbance forms in Atlantic as tropical wave moves towards Caribbean Sea
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Environmental News

Disturbance forms in Atlantic as tropical wave moves towards Caribbean Sea

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are tracking two systems in the Atlantic Ocean, including a tropical wave that is gradually drifting toward the Caribbean Sea. The latest…
Posted by John McCarthy October 17, 2025
Two men dead after shooting outside Walgreens in Florida
Posted inBreaking News Crime News National News

Two men dead after shooting outside Walgreens in Florida

MIAMI — Two men were found dead outside a Walgreens in Miami-Dade early Friday morning after a shooting, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s office. Miami-Dade deputies arrived to Northwest Seventh…
Posted by John McCarthy October 17, 2025
Venezuela at the UN condemns latest US strike in Caribbean as people in Trinidad mourn
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News International News

Venezuela at the UN condemns latest US strike in Caribbean as people in Trinidad mourn

LAS CUEVAS, Trinidad (AP) — Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N., Samuel Moncada, condemned on Thursday a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people, calling it…
Posted by John McCarthy October 17, 2025
Cloudy with a thunderstorm in spots this morning, high 91
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Puerto Rico News

Cloudy with a thunderstorm in spots this morning, high 91

https://twitter.com/NWSSanJuan/status/1979136386121847000 Special Marine Warning Hazardous Weather Outlook from the National Weather Service in San Juan, Puerto Rico at 5:16 AM AST Fri Oct 17 2025For St. Thomas St. John and…
Posted by John McCarthy October 17, 2025
FBI needs your help to find Adrian Alexis Encarnacion Correa
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Crime News

FBI needs your help to find Adrian Alexis Encarnacion Correa

SAN JUAN — The FBI is seeking information from the public regarding the whereabouts of ADRIAN ALEXIS ENCARNACION CORREA. There is an active warrant for ENCARNACION CORREA's arrest, and he…
Posted by John McCarthy October 16, 2025
Record hunger, displacements continue to hit Haiti as hospitals, businesses close
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Crime News

Record hunger, displacements continue to hit Haiti as hospitals, businesses close

PORT-AU-PRINCE — The French medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières is known for working in some of the world’s most difficult combat zones. But in violence-torn Haiti, the stray bullets have…
Posted by John McCarthy October 16, 2025
New York elementary school teacher allegedly admitted to sexting 13-year-old girl in undercover sting
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Education News

New York elementary school teacher allegedly admitted to sexting 13-year-old girl in undercover sting

LONG ISLAND — A New York elementary school teacher is under investigation after he was busted allegedly admitting on camera to sexting a 13-year-old girl and asking for sexually explicit…
Posted by John McCarthy October 16, 2025
Cuba frees prominent dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, sends him into exile in the U.S.
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Humanitarian News

Cuba frees prominent dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, sends him into exile in the U.S.

MIAMI — The Cuban government released dissident leader José Daniel Ferrer from prison Monday and sent him with his family into exile in the United States, the island’s foreign affairs…
Posted by John McCarthy October 16, 2025
Kids charged in 5-year-old girl’s brutal attack, sexual assault, Ohio officials say
Posted inBreaking News Crime News National News

Kids charged in 5-year-old girl’s brutal attack, sexual assault, Ohio officials say

Two grade-school children have been charged in what a mother said was a brutal attack on her 5-year-old daughter that left her unrecognizable. On September 13, Antavia Kennibrew dropped her…
Posted by John McCarthy October 16, 2025
House Republicans continue blocking Arizona Democrat from being sworn in during government shutdown
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House Republicans continue blocking Arizona Democrat from being sworn in during government shutdown

WASHINGTON — House Democrats are criticizing Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., for failing to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva amid the government shutdown, accusing the top Republican of stonewalling her support to…
Posted by John McCarthy October 16, 2025

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