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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans
Posted inBreaking News Humanitarian News International News

US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites…
Posted by John McCarthy July 25, 2025
Teacher slapped with rape charges after having sex with teen while using other students as ‘lookouts,’ boy’s dad busted  for allowing relationship
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Education News

Teacher slapped with rape charges after having sex with teen while using other students as ‘lookouts,’ boy’s dad busted  for allowing relationship

ST. LOUIS — A Missouri teacher has been charged with statutory rape for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student while other students served as “lookouts” — with the boy’s…
Posted by John McCarthy July 25, 2025
SOB officers seize firearm, ammunition during traffic stop, VIPD says
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

SOB officers seize firearm, ammunition during traffic stop, VIPD says

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Virgin Islands police announced today that Special Operations Bureau officers seized a firearm and ammunition during a routine traffic stop on St. Thomas. Cai Jonte Andrew, 19.…
Posted by John McCarthy July 25, 2025
City commissioner in Florida asked 12-year-old Illinois girl for nudes
Posted inBreaking News Crime News National News

City commissioner in Florida asked 12-year-old Illinois girl for nudes

FORT PIERCE, Florida — An elected official in Florida is facing two dozen felony charges after a mom in Illinois reported he had been sexting her 12-year-old daughter over Snapchat,…
Posted by John McCarthy July 25, 2025
Haiti sends 150 soldiers to Mexico for training as gang violence surges
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News International News

Haiti sends 150 soldiers to Mexico for training as gang violence surges

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government announced Friday that it has sent 150 soldiers to Mexico for training in the latest effort to fight back gangs that have gained almost entire…
Posted by John McCarthy July 25, 2025
Jamaican police kill 5 men as department criticized for surge in fatal shootings
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Jamaican police kill 5 men as department criticized for surge in fatal shootings

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Police in Jamaica say they have filled five men suspected of plotting to kill someone as the department on the Caribbean island comes under fire for a surge in…
Posted by John McCarthy July 25, 2025
St. Croix: Partly sunny with a couple of morning showers, high 91
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Puerto Rico News

St. Croix: Partly sunny with a couple of morning showers, high 91

CHRISTIANSTED — Today St. Croix will be partly sunny with a couple of morning showers and a high of 91, AccuWeather said. Tonight St. Croix will experience mainly clear conditions…
Posted by John McCarthy July 25, 2025
Jazz legend Chuck Mangione, known for ‘Feels So Good,’ dies at 84
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Jazz legend Chuck Mangione, known for ‘Feels So Good,’ dies at 84

NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck Mangione, who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-flavored single “Feels So Good” and later became a voice actor on the animated…
Posted by John McCarthy July 24, 2025
Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71
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Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71

CLEARWATER, Florida (AP) — Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing, bicep-busting icon of professional wrestling who turned the sport into a massive business and stretched his influence into TV, pop culture…
Posted by John McCarthy July 24, 2025
Daryl Jean-Baptiste guilty of involuntary manslaughter for fatal crash in Sion Farm
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

Daryl Jean-Baptiste guilty of involuntary manslaughter for fatal crash in Sion Farm

KINGSHILL — Daryl Jean-Baptiste, 26, has been found guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in connectionwith a 2019 fatal car crash, the Virgin Islands Department of Justice said today. The verdict followed…
Posted by John McCarthy July 24, 2025

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