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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
Cops Arrest Man For Brandishing A Weapon In Front of Two Others at Emancipation Garden
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Cops Arrest Man For Brandishing A Weapon In Front of Two Others at Emancipation Garden

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man wanted for brandishing a weapon in front of two others in Emancipation Garden in April surrendered to authorities without incident on Monday. Kishon…
Posted by John McCarthy August 1, 2023
Fate of American nurse and her daughter kidnapped by armed men in Haiti remains uncertain
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Fate of American nurse and her daughter kidnapped by armed men in Haiti remains uncertain

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The fate of an American nurse and her daughter kidnapped in Haiti last week remains unknown Tuesday as the U.S. State Department refused to say whether the…
Posted by John McCarthy August 1, 2023
Tropical Wave Should Bring Increased Rainfall To The USVI and Puerto Rico
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Tropical Wave Should Bring Increased Rainfall To The USVI and Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN — The month of August arrived with a tropical wave that should increase the frequency of rainfall in the Virgin Islands and the east and south of Puerto…
Posted by John McCarthy August 1, 2023
Firefighters Contain Fire At Agave Restaurant In Havensight Mall On St. Thomas
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Firefighters Contain Fire At Agave Restaurant In Havensight Mall On St. Thomas

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Firefighters were able to contain a kitchen fire at Agave Restaurant in Estate Thomas on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The Hotel Company was dispatched at 2:19 p.m.…
Posted by John McCarthy August 1, 2023
JPMorgan moved $1.1 million from Jeffrey Epstein to ‘women or girls’ after terminating client relationship, USVI alleges
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JPMorgan moved $1.1 million from Jeffrey Epstein to ‘women or girls’ after terminating client relationship, USVI alleges

NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase handled more than $1.1 million in payments from Jeffrey Epstein to “girls or women” after the giant bank says it fired the sex offender as a client, a lawyer for the U.S. Virgin…
Posted by John McCarthy August 1, 2023
Firefighters Extinguish House Fire In Hard Labor On St. John
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Firefighters Extinguish House Fire In Hard Labor On St. John

CRUZ BAY — Firefighters worked to extinguish a house fire in St. John this morning, authorities said. Firefighters responded to a structural fire in Hard Labor at 10:05 a.m., the…
Posted by John McCarthy July 31, 2023
NHC Sees tropical depression in the offing
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NHC Sees tropical depression in the offing

MIAMI — A tropical depression is expected to form in the next day or so to the far east of the Caribbean. Meanwhile, odds dropped for a “short-lived” tropical cyclone…
Posted by John McCarthy July 31, 2023
Leon Black accused of raping teen with autism at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in new lawsuit
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Leon Black accused of raping teen with autism at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in new lawsuit

The new accusations follow Epstein-related rape allegations made against Black last year NEW YORK (TAN) — Financier Leon Black has been accused for the second time in as many years of raping…
Posted by John McCarthy July 31, 2023
Rastafarians celebrate freedom of worship after gaining sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua
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Rastafarians celebrate freedom of worship after gaining sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua

LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this small island nation are now legally growing and ritualistically…
Posted by John McCarthy July 31, 2023
France’s Supreme Court rejects groups’ request for slavery reparations in case from Martinique
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France’s Supreme Court rejects groups’ request for slavery reparations in case from Martinique

PARIS (AP) — France’s highest court has rejected a request by three groups seeking reparations for slavery in a case that originated on the French Caribbean island of Martinique. The…
Posted by John McCarthy July 31, 2023

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