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.
ICE has imprisoned a Danish father of four due to a “paperwork miscommunication,” his American wife said. Kasper Juul Eriksen, a 32-year-old welder legally in the country with a fifth…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested on Tuesday that the Organization of American States play a greater role in Haiti, where he acknowledged the country is being overtaken by…
SAN JOSE — Guards in Costa Rica have intercepted an unusual prison drug delivery, catching a cat as it jumped over the periphery fence at night with marijuana and crack…
CHRISTIANSTED — Today St. Croix will be partly sunny with widely-separated thunderstorms and a high of 90, AccuWeather said. Tonight St. Croix will experience mostly clear conditions and a low…
WASHINGTON (CBS) — Immigration lawyers told a federal judge today that they received information indicating the U.S. government may have put migrants from countries like Myanmar and Vietnam on a…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A man is facing multiple charges after being accused of a series of burglaries on St. Thomas. Jean Connor, 43, of St. Thomas was arrested and charged…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man was charged in connection to a rooftop burglary on Kronprindsens Gade last month. Craig Stevens, 57, was arrested and charged with second-degree burglary,…
MIAMI (WaPO) — Hurricane season is less than two weeks away, beginning on June 1 and running through November 30, and forecasters are monitoring key trends that may signal an…
SAN JUAN — Coast Guard Sector San Juan’s Incident Management team is investigating and responding to an oil discharge from a legacy pipe structure between piers 2 and 3 in San…