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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
SOB sweeps up 6 in drug arrests on St. Thomas
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

SOB sweeps up 6 in drug arrests on St. Thomas

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Local police teamed up with their federal counterparts to make six arrests at a notorious open-air drug market on St. Thomas recently, the Virgin Islands Police Department…
Posted by John McCarthy April 11, 2024
Police investigating assault in Simmonds Alley
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

Police investigating assault in Simmonds Alley

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police are investigating after a man was assaulted in Simmonds Alley in broad daylight Wednesday. Criminal Investigation Bureau units found a crime scene in Simmonds Alley where…
Posted by John McCarthy April 11, 2024
Creation of transitional council that will select Haiti’s next prime minister is imminent, US says
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Crime News

Creation of transitional council that will select Haiti’s next prime minister is imminent, US says

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The creation of a transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leaders is imminent, a U.S. diplomat said Wednesday during a heated forum about Haiti’s spiraling crisis. The…
Posted by John McCarthy April 11, 2024
Small craft advisory, high rip current risk: NWS
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News International News

Small craft advisory, high rip current risk: NWS

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The U.S. Virgin Islands will be under a high surf advisory starting this afternoon, NOAA's lead meteorologist Ian Carlos Colón-Pagán said this morning, St. Thomas, St. John…
Posted by John McCarthy April 11, 2024
Coast Guard takes 101 migrants back to the Dominican Republic
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News International News

Coast Guard takes 101 migrants back to the Dominican Republic

SAN JUAN — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos repatriated 101 migrants to Dominican Republic, Monday, following three interdictions of unlawful, irregular migration attempts during the weekend…
Posted by John McCarthy April 10, 2024
Triple-murder trial of Chad Daybell begins with claims about zombies and doomsday plot
Posted inBreaking News Crime News National News

Triple-murder trial of Chad Daybell begins with claims about zombies and doomsday plot

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Opening statements are expected Wednesday in the trial of an Idaho man charged with killing his wife and his then-girlfriend’s two youngest children in an unusual case rooted…
Posted by John McCarthy April 10, 2024
Medical care and supplies are scarce as gang violence chokes Haiti’s capital
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Crime News

Medical care and supplies are scarce as gang violence chokes Haiti’s capital

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Fresh gunfire erupted Tuesday in downtown Port-au-Prince, forcing aid workers to halt urgently needed care for thousands of Haitians. Weeks of gang violence have forced some 18 hospitals…
Posted by John McCarthy April 10, 2024
High surf advisory now in effect for parts of St. Thomas and St. John
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Environmental News

High surf advisory now in effect for parts of St. Thomas and St. John

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A high surf advisory is now in effect for St. Thomas and St. John and surrounding areas, NOAA's lead meteorologist Ian Carlos Colón-Pagán said this morning. Pulses…
Posted by John McCarthy April 10, 2024
Cops arrest project man who fired shots at car
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

Cops arrest project man who fired shots at car

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A man on foot who police observed to fire shots at a moving vehicle was arrested on Monday night. Foster G. Webster Jr., of St. Thomas, was…
Posted by John McCarthy April 9, 2024
St. Croix man steals $500K from OMB and then flees to Atlanta with the proceeds
Posted inBreaking News Crime News National News

St. Croix man steals $500K from OMB and then flees to Atlanta with the proceeds

CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man who siphoned more than $500,000 from the government's economic stimulus account and then fled to Georgia is facing fraud charges tonight. Japheth Roberts, 37,…
Posted by John McCarthy April 9, 2024

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