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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
SAN JUAN — The National Weather Service says "a wet and unstable weather pattern" will set the table for a moderate to high chance of flooding rains in the U.S.…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haitian activists on Thursday demanded that other countries temporarily stop deportations to their country due to a surge in gang violence and deepening poverty. Tens of thousands…
MALABO — Equatorial Guinea’s recent sex scandal has garnered a ton of attention, resulting in a crackdown on sex in government offices. Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a relative of the president…
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba was left reeling Thursday after a fierce Category 3 hurricane ripped across the island, destroying hundreds of homes, knocking out the country’s power grid and damaging other infrastructure.…
KURSK, Ukraine — Videos of Russian army soldiers eating canned meat supplied by the DPRK are being circulated on various social media. As it turned out, the Russians received canned dog meat from North Korea. This was reported…
CHRISTIANSTED — Viya, the premier telecommunications provider in the US Virgin Islands, will beclosed on Monday, November 11, 2024, in observance of Veterans Day, Jennifer Matarangas-King, Viya's Vice President of…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The lawyer for a jailed senior Haiti policeman accused of planning the assassination of a motorcycle driver with alleged gang ties is demanding his release from jail. Mario…
HAVANA — Cuban authorities struggled to return power to the island this morning after Hurricane Rafael knocked out the country`s electrical grid, leaving 10 million people in the dark. The…
SAN JUAN — Wet and unstable weather conditions are expected to continue into the next fewdays, the National Weather Service said Wednesday evening. The main feature will be a deepening…
CHRISTIANSTED — A scooter driver is dead after crashing into the back of a pickup truck on St. Croix Tuesday morning. Robert A. Serrano, 65, of St. Croix, struck a…