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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
Elon Musk and Don-old Trump set to make money on our fact-free misinformation dystopia
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Elon Musk and Don-old Trump set to make money on our fact-free misinformation dystopia

If there is ever a peak of the fact-free dystopian politics we’ve endured over the last decade, it will come tonight when Twitter’s — er X’s — billionaire owner Elon…
Posted by John McCarthy August 12, 2024
Federal grand jury indicts St. Thomas man on gun and cocaine possession charges
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

Federal grand jury indicts St. Thomas man on gun and cocaine possession charges

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man who sold cocaine to an undercover DEA agent at Red Hook has been indicted on gun and drug possession charges, authorities said. N’Kel…
Posted by John McCarthy August 12, 2024
Dominican coke don indicted by federal grand jury in St. Thomas
Posted inBreaking News British Virgin Islands News Crime News

Dominican coke don indicted by federal grand jury in St. Thomas

CHARLOTTE AMALIE  — A recently unsealed case in the U.S. District Court alleges that a Dominican man smuggled cocaine between Road Town, Tortola and St. Thomas. Santos Jiminez Caraballo, 42,…
Posted by John McCarthy August 12, 2024
Colombian man charged with illegal re-entry and alien smuggling
Posted inBreaking News British Virgin Islands News Caribbean News

Colombian man charged with illegal re-entry and alien smuggling

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Colombian man who was deported four years ago has been indicted by a federal grand jury for re-appearing in St. Thomas as an illegal migrant ...…
Posted by John McCarthy August 12, 2024
St. Croix man pleads guilty to illegal gun possession inside school zone
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St. Croix man pleads guilty to illegal gun possession inside school zone

KINGSHILL — A St. Croix man has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm inside a school zone, authorities said. Jimmar A. Payne, 31, of Estate White Lady, made that plea…
Posted by John McCarthy August 12, 2024
Social Security expands compassionate allowances list
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Social Security expands compassionate allowances list

Martin O’Malley, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced nine new Compassionate Allowances (CAL) conditions and revisions to two existing CAL conditions: Bainbridge-Ropers Syndrome, Costello Syndrome, Adult Heart Transplant Wait List…
Posted by John McCarthy August 12, 2024
Potential Tropical Cyclone Five is expected to become the third hurricane of 2024 season
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Potential Tropical Cyclone Five is expected to become the third hurricane of 2024 season

SAN JUAN — Potential Tropical Cyclone Five will become a depression early this morning and then will develop into Tropical Storm Ernesto. As of the 8 a.m. advisory, PTC Five…
Posted by John McCarthy August 12, 2024
Tropical Storm Ernesto looms as a rain threat to the USVI and Puerto Rico
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Tropical Storm Ernesto looms as a rain threat to the USVI and Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN — Tropical Storm Ernesto is forecast to move west-northwestward across or near the region as a tropical tropical storm by early Wednesday. A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued…
Posted by John McCarthy August 12, 2024
Russia sets Ukrainian nuclear power plant on fire
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Russia sets Ukrainian nuclear power plant on fire

KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that Russia has started a fire on the grounds of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest such facility in Europe. It…
Posted by John McCarthy August 11, 2024
Successful Ukrainian incursion highlights Russia’s border weakness
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Successful Ukrainian incursion highlights Russia’s border weakness

MOSCOW — Russia was fighting intense battles on Saturday against thousands of Ukrainian troops as deep as 12 miles (20 km) inside the Kursk region after Ukraine's biggest attack on…
Posted by John McCarthy August 11, 2024

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