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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
Rainmaker Conditions Expected For USVI and Puerto Rico Starting Thursday
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Rainmaker Conditions Expected For USVI and Puerto Rico Starting Thursday

SAN JUAN — Satellite images indicate that the area of low pressure located roughly midway between Africa and the Lesser Antilles has become better organized overnight and is close to…
Posted by John McCarthy June 19, 2023
Tropical System Invest 92L Has 90 Percent Chance of Formation
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Tropical System Invest 92L Has 90 Percent Chance of Formation

MIAMI — Showers and thunderstorms are gradually becoming better organized in association with a tropical wave located several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands according to the National Hurricane…
Posted by John McCarthy June 18, 2023
Haiti Humanitarian Aid Needs To Come To Terms With Gangs, Says Caribbean Leader
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Haiti Humanitarian Aid Needs To Come To Terms With Gangs, Says Caribbean Leader

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) — Humanitarian aid to Haiti will need to take into account the influence of heavily armed gangs who control large parts of the country, the president of a…
Posted by John McCarthy June 18, 2023
Jamaican Finance Minister Sees Interest In Regional Caribbean Catastrophe Bond
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Jamaican Finance Minister Sees Interest In Regional Caribbean Catastrophe Bond

KINGSTON (Reuters) — Jamaican Finance Minister Nigel Clarke said he is seeing "definite interest" from other Caribbean countries to join in issuing a regional catastrophe bond that would protect their…
Posted by John McCarthy June 18, 2023
NHC Monitors Invest 92L
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NHC Monitors Invest 92L

MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center continues to monitor Invest 92L, which could eventually become the second named system of the Atlantic hurricane season. Forecasters have been watching a disturbance,…
Posted by John McCarthy June 17, 2023
Texas Fugitive From Justice Nabbed By VIPD At St. Thomas Airport
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Texas Fugitive From Justice Nabbed By VIPD At St. Thomas Airport

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Texas man was arrested on St. Thomas and charged with being a fugitive from justice. Henry Thomas Houston, 57, was detained by federal agents with U.S.…
Posted by John McCarthy June 16, 2023
Costa Rican Man Pleads Guilty To Smuggling 4,000 Pounds of Marijuana To St. Croix
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Costa Rican Man Pleads Guilty To Smuggling 4,000 Pounds of Marijuana To St. Croix

CHRISTIANSTED — A native of Costa Rica admitted to drug smuggling charges in federal court in Golden Rock today. Luis Antonio Orellana- Orellano, 69, of San Jose, pled guilty in…
Posted by John McCarthy June 16, 2023
Laws In Some Caribbean Countries Still Criminalize Gay Sex
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Laws In Some Caribbean Countries Still Criminalize Gay Sex

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — In recent years, several Caribbean nations have struck down laws criminalizing same-sex relations. Courts in Belize in 2016 and Trinidad and Tobago in 2018 found…
Posted by John McCarthy June 16, 2023
Help Police Find Raheem Wyre Wanted For Cyber Stalking
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Help Police Find Raheem Wyre Wanted For Cyber Stalking

KINGSHILL — Police need your help to find a man wanted for cyber stalking and other charges on St. Croix. Raheem Wyre, 30, is wanted for cyber stalking and harassment,…
Posted by John McCarthy June 15, 2023
Cops pick up Florida ‘fugitive from justice’ at Cyril E. King Airport
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Cops pick up Florida ‘fugitive from justice’ at Cyril E. King Airport

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police are investigating after a man was detained Wednesday morning at the St. Thomas airport for being a fugitive from justice. Brandon C. Shaw, 32, is currently…
Posted by John McCarthy June 15, 2023

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