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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
Trump Rolled The Dice Taking His Hush Money Case To Trial And Lost. Now He Might Lose Again.
Posted inBreaking News Crime News National News

Trump Rolled The Dice Taking His Hush Money Case To Trial And Lost. Now He Might Lose Again.

NEW YORK — A long-standing, unwritten rule that evolved to avoid clogging up the criminal justice system could now work to sentence newly convicted felon Donald Trump to prison when he appears before…
Posted by John McCarthy June 15, 2024
10 workers admitted to hospital after construction scaffold collapses
Posted inBreaking News Business News Health News

10 workers admitted to hospital after construction scaffold collapses

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Ten construction workers were rushed to Schneider Regional Medical Center on Friday morning after a scaffold collapsed in western St. Thomas. A spokeswoman for the medical center…
Posted by John McCarthy June 15, 2024
Janitor who masterminded $4 million theft of HUD funds after storm granted leave by VIDE
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Education News

Janitor who masterminded $4 million theft of HUD funds after storm granted leave by VIDE

FREDERIKSTED — A Department of Education maintenance man who masterminded a scheme to steal $4 million in federal disaster recovery funds has been granted leave by VIDE so he can…
Posted by John McCarthy June 14, 2024
La Niña is likely to arrive this summer. Here’s what that means for hurricane season
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Environmental News

La Niña is likely to arrive this summer. Here’s what that means for hurricane season

El Niño is so last season. Federal forecasters say the climate pattern, which brought warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures to the Eastern Pacific — and helped drive global temperatures to new heights…
Posted by John McCarthy June 14, 2024
Government gets climate change assessment
Posted inBreaking News Environmental News Government House News

Government gets climate change assessment

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Governor Albert Bryan and Lieutenant Governor Tregenza Roach participated Wednesday in an information session on climate change conducted at the UVI Innovation Center by UVI President Emerita…
Posted by John McCarthy June 14, 2024
Barbados disagrees its currency should be devalued
Posted inBreaking News Business News Caribbean News

Barbados disagrees its currency should be devalued

BRIDGETOWN (AP) — Barbados' government does not support devaluing the Caribbean island's currency and says it is determined to maintain its fixed exchange rate with the U.S. dollar. The Barbados…
Posted by John McCarthy June 14, 2024
Rare twin elephants in Thailand receive monks’ blessings a week after their tumultuous birth
Posted inBreaking News International News

Rare twin elephants in Thailand receive monks’ blessings a week after their tumultuous birth

BANGKOK (AP) — Buddhist monks in Thailand on Friday blessed twin baby elephants, one male and the other female, a week after their rare birth came close to being a…
Posted by John McCarthy June 14, 2024
Sudan tops UN envoy’s concerns about children caught in conflicts, with Congo and Haiti next
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Humanitarian News

Sudan tops UN envoy’s concerns about children caught in conflicts, with Congo and Haiti next

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations envoy charged with reporting on violations against children in conflicts around the world said Thursday that first and foremost she is worried about what’s happening…
Posted by John McCarthy June 14, 2024
St. Croix hospital CEO found his golden parachute … in Kearney, Nebraska
Posted inBreaking News Community Affairs Health News

St. Croix hospital CEO found his golden parachute … in Kearney, Nebraska

CHRISTIANSTED — When Douglas Koch leaves St. Croix he is hardly being put out to pasture in the Midwest. Not at all. That's because Juan F. Luis Hospital CEO Koch…
Posted by John McCarthy June 14, 2024
Dollar and euro trade halted on Russia’s biggest exchange
Posted inBreaking News Business News International News

Dollar and euro trade halted on Russia’s biggest exchange

MOSCOW — New U.S. sanctions against Russia have forced an immediate suspension of trading in dollars and euros on its leading financial marketplace, the Moscow Exchange. The exchange and the central bank…
Posted by John McCarthy June 14, 2024

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