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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
ST. GEORGE'S — A retired husband and wife from Great Britain have died after being found on a beach in Grenada. The couple were found on Paradise Beach on the…
SAN JUAN – A Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued a boater from a life raft early Sunday, approximately 20 nautical miles south of Guanica, Puerto…
BALTIMORE — The search was to resume this morning for six people missing and presumed dead in the wake of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It crumbled early…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Gangs have intensified their rampage in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital, setting fire to a school and looting pharmacies across the road from the country’s largest…
NEW YORK (AP) — Two properties belonging to music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in Los Angeles and Miami were searched Monday by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as…
NEWARK — Someone in New Jersey overcame the odds Tuesday night and won the $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot, breaking a winless streak that dated to last December. The numbers…
SAN JUAN — Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency over dengue, a mosquito-borne illness that has surged throughout the Americas this year. Health officials in Puerto Rico have identified…
MIAMI — Brendan Paul, the 25-year-old man accused of being Sean “Diddy” Combs’ drug mule, was arrested on Monday on cocaine and marijuana possession charges. According to Rolling Stone, Paul was detained by…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police Commissioner Ray A. Martinez was involved in an "officer-involved shooting without injuries" on March 5, the Virgin Islands Police Department said today. "This incident occurred in…
DETROIT — Jayden Daniels had comfortably settled in as the favorite to go second overall in the NFL Draft. Then, suddenly, the odds had a very interesting turn. The BetMGM odds for…