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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
Somebody please explain to me why a mother of a nursing baby, whose husband is a U.S. citizen, was snatched from her family and sent back to Cuba. Or why…
CHRISTIANSTED — Today St. Croix will be cloudy most of the time with a shower or two in the morning and a high of 87, AccuWeather said. Tonight St. Croix…
SANTO DOMINGO (AP) — The Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court has banned law enforcement in the Caribbean country from publicly bestowing nicknames on police operations or court cases, a common practice in the…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Miami Herald) — From the onset, the international mission to help Haiti wrest back control from armed gangs faced challenges and skepticism. There were legal challenges in Nairobi and…
WASHINGTON (NYP) — A Cambodia-based gang with ties to North Korea has “stolen” billions of dollars from Americans through romance scams and other cyber-heists since August 2021, federal officials said Thursday in…
HARRISBURG (Law & Crime) — A 20-year-old woman in Pennsylvania has been arrested for allegedly killing her boyfriend’s 1-year-old daughter, conducting “meticulous” research on how to kill the toddler with household items before ultimately giving her…
PHILADELPHIA (Daily Mail) — A married special-education teacher in Pennsylvania is facing over 60 charges after allegedly bringing a student to her parents' home and having sex with him about a dozen…
WASHINGTON (CBS) — National security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts in the Trump White House, according to multiple sources familiar with their…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE— The Virgin Islands Department of Health is reporting a significant decline in Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) cases across the territory, following a coordinated public health response and…
MIAMI (MH) — A Broward high school has confirmed an active case of tuberculosis, one of the deadliest, but treatable, infectious diseases in the world. The bacterial infection, also known…