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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
Pastor: Donald Trump is worried about getting into heaven. He shouldn’t be.
Posted inBreaking News National News Territorial Affairs

Pastor: Donald Trump is worried about getting into heaven. He shouldn’t be.

It’s been a long time since I was shocked by anything Donald Trump said. But when the president called in to Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” this week to discuss…
Posted by John McCarthy August 25, 2025
U.S. confirms nation’s first travel-associated human screwworm case connected to Central American outbreak 
Posted inBreaking News Health News National News

U.S. confirms nation’s first travel-associated human screwworm case connected to Central American outbreak 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday reported the first human case in the United States of travel-associated New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite,…
Posted by John McCarthy August 25, 2025
Windy, variable cloudiness with a morning shower in spots, high 91
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Puerto Rico News

Windy, variable cloudiness with a morning shower in spots, high 91

[August 25, 2025] U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, Today’s Weather is Not Playing! Primary Hazards: Heat Advisory: Limit time outdoors, hydrate, and chill in the shade. High Rip Currents…
Posted by John McCarthy August 25, 2025
4 surfers survive, 3 swimmers drown in high surf off Puerto Rico today
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Military News

4 surfers survive, 3 swimmers drown in high surf off Puerto Rico today

SAN JUAN — Coast Guard watchstanders at Sector San Juan and Coast Guard rescue crews so far have responded to four separate search and rescue cases throughout the northern coast…
Posted by John McCarthy August 24, 2025
Police shoot Seattle suspect dead in response to burglary at Frenchman’s Bay
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

Police shoot Seattle suspect dead in response to burglary at Frenchman’s Bay

CHARLOTTE AMALIE – At approximately 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 24, 2025, the Virgin Islands Police Department’s (VIPD) Central Dispatch received a call from a female resident reporting a burglary…
Posted by John McCarthy August 24, 2025
Tropical Storm Fernand forms in the open Atlantic. No threat to USVI
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Environmental News

Tropical Storm Fernand forms in the open Atlantic. No threat to USVI

Tropical Storm Fernand formed in the open ocean, hundreds of miles from any land Saturday afternoon, hurricane forecasters say. Another system is also being tracked that has low chances of…
Posted by John McCarthy August 24, 2025
High school teacher who groomed a teenage student before performing a sexual act on him is identified after she loses her bid to keep it a secret
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Education News

High school teacher who groomed a teenage student before performing a sexual act on him is identified after she loses her bid to keep it a secret

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – A high school teacher who admitted to grooming a 15-year-old male student and performing a sexual act on him has had her prison sentence quashed, but…
Posted by John McCarthy August 24, 2025
Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere
Posted inBreaking News Business News Environmental News

Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere

WASHINGTON (AP) — With electricity prices rising at more than twice the rate of inflation, President Donald Trump has lashed out at renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, blaming…
Posted by John McCarthy August 24, 2025
Three young sisters drown, dozens rescued from boat carrying migrants to Italy
Posted inBreaking News International News Police News

Three young sisters drown, dozens rescued from boat carrying migrants to Italy

MILAN (Reuters) - Three young sisters drowned when the rubber boat carrying them and dozens of other migrants got into difficulties on the perilous central Mediterranean crossing from Libya to…
Posted by John McCarthy August 24, 2025
California teacher, 46, locked boy, 14, in her classroom and raped him
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Education News

California teacher, 46, locked boy, 14, in her classroom and raped him

GRIDLEY, California – A former Gridley school teacher was sentenced to four years in state prison today for having sex with a 14-year-old boy who was her student in June…
Posted by John McCarthy August 24, 2025

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