CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man moving through the St. Thomas airport with 17 pounds of marijuana in his packed luggage was detained by federal agents on Monday afternoon. Kiani J. Smith, 25, was…
SAN JUAN — Tropical Storm Bret is projected to be a hurricane when it approaches the U.S. Virgin Islands in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. NHC forecasters say Bret will…
SAN JUAN — Tropical Storm Bret has formed over the central Atlantic, and could strengthen to a hurricane by the end of the week when it passes the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred in the downtown area of St. Thomas on Saturday afternoon. The 911 Central Dispatch received a call at 2:45 p.m. about a possible robbery…
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 becoming a tropical cyclone. If…
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 Center. NHC added environmental conditions…
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 regional bloc said ahead of…
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 budgets from hurricanes and spread…
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, known as a tropical wave,…
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. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)…