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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
HURRICANE RECOVERY: Spirit Airlines To Expand Service To St. Croix Starting In May
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HURRICANE RECOVERY: Spirit Airlines To Expand Service To St. Croix Starting In May

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] MIRAMAR -- Spirit Airlines is bringing more flights to the territory even as the region as a whole recovers from the destructive 2017 hurricane season. The…
Posted by John McCarthy February 20, 2018
UVI WORKSHOP: Pruning Trees Is of Supreme Importance Especially After A Hurricane
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UVI WORKSHOP: Pruning Trees Is of Supreme Importance Especially After A Hurricane

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] FREDERIKSTED -- The University of the Virgin Islands’ Cooperative Extension Service (UVI-CES) - Agriculture and Natural Resources Program will hold a tree pruning workshop entitled,…
Posted by John McCarthy February 20, 2018
Taino Indians Are Alive and Well and Living In Puerto Rico … At Least Their Descendants … DNA Says
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Taino Indians Are Alive and Well and Living In Puerto Rico … At Least Their Descendants … DNA Says

SAN JUAN -- They were called the Taíno, and the Europeans who colonized their land took almost everything away from them. A half-century after Christopher Columbus set foot upon the…
Posted by John McCarthy February 20, 2018
Police Seek Four F’sted Men For Questioning In Connection With Double Murder at Cockpit Saturday
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Police Seek Four F’sted Men For Questioning In Connection With Double Murder at Cockpit Saturday

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] FREDERIKSTED -- Police say they are looking for four men as "persons of interest" in the St. Croix Coliseum Cockpit double murder that took place…
Posted by John McCarthy February 20, 2018
Minor Earthquake Felt in Tortola Was One of Nine Quakes Around BVI, St. Thomas and Puerto Rico on Sunday
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Minor Earthquake Felt in Tortola Was One of Nine Quakes Around BVI, St. Thomas and Puerto Rico on Sunday

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] ROAD TOWN, Tortola -- A minor earthquake took place about 24 miles off the coast of the British Virgin Islands on Sunday afternoon. The U.S.…
Posted by John McCarthy February 19, 2018
Double Murder At St. Croix’s Coliseum Cockpit Saturday … The Second One In Less Than A Year
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Double Murder At St. Croix’s Coliseum Cockpit Saturday … The Second One In Less Than A Year

MID-ISLAND ST. CROIX -- Two men were killed after a shooting at the Coliseum Cockpit on Saturday afternoon. Luis Colon, 32, and Jacobo Garcia, 46, were shot to death sometime…
Posted by John McCarthy February 19, 2018
Guyana Hopes To Go From Zero To Hero In Two Years With Offshore Oil Drilling Program
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Guyana Hopes To Go From Zero To Hero In Two Years With Offshore Oil Drilling Program

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] GEORGETOWN -- Guyana’s government has said the cabinet is reviewing a profit sharing contract with United States oil giant ExxonMobil amid mounting criticisms about its…
Posted by John McCarthy February 18, 2018
BORINQUEN RINGER: Puerto Rico Has One Entrant in 2018 Winter Olympics … He Was Born in Cincinnati
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BORINQUEN RINGER: Puerto Rico Has One Entrant in 2018 Winter Olympics … He Was Born in Cincinnati

SEOUL -- Charles Flaherty doesn’t remember thinking that he was about to give his bones — and therefore his life — to his younger brother, but that’s the story they tell him. At seven,…
Posted by John McCarthy February 18, 2018
U.S. Coast Guard Cleanup of Abandoned Boats In Water Moves To St. John
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U.S. Coast Guard Cleanup of Abandoned Boats In Water Moves To St. John

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] CRUZ BAY -- U.S. Coast Guard Petty officer Jake DiPaola arrived on St. John about a week after Hurricane Maria. In Coral Bay, on the…
Posted by John McCarthy February 17, 2018
UVI’s Youth Ocean Explorers Program To Expand Thanks to Donation From Tropical Shipping-Saltchuk
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UVI’s Youth Ocean Explorers Program To Expand Thanks to Donation From Tropical Shipping-Saltchuk

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] FREDERIKSTED -- Each summer the Youth Ocean Explorers (YOE) Program educates middle school and high school youth about the marine ecosystems that surround the territory.…
Posted by John McCarthy February 16, 2018

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