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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
American-Caribbean history moment: Teenage George Washington in Barbados
Posted inAt VIFreep Black History News Caribbean News

American-Caribbean history moment: Teenage George Washington in Barbados

Did you know that the father of the United States of America went to Barbados as a teenager as moral support for his ailing half-brother? George Washington visited Barbados in…
Posted by John McCarthy June 10, 2025
St. Croix: Cloudy, breezy, afternoon shower, high 89
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Puerto Rico News

St. Croix: Cloudy, breezy, afternoon shower, high 89

CHRISTIANSTED — Today St. Croix will be cloudy and breezy with a stray shower this afternoon and a high of 89, AccuWeather said. Tonight St. Croix will experience partly cloudy…
Posted by John McCarthy June 10, 2025
Cuban students seek concessions as frustration grows over internet rate hikes
Posted inCaribbean News Consumer News Education News

Cuban students seek concessions as frustration grows over internet rate hikes

HAVANA (Reuters) — Cuban students clamored for further concessions to roll back a rate hike on internet data, saying a decision on Monday to offer them discounted access did not…
Posted by John McCarthy June 9, 2025
California man gets just 8 months for threatening to kill postal employees
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

California man gets just 8 months for threatening to kill postal employees

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Simon Peters, 42, of California, was sentenced on Friday, June 6, 2025 to 8 months’ imprisonment, followed by 30 months of supervised release, for threatening to kill…
Posted by John McCarthy June 9, 2025
How Trump defanged the Justice Department’s political corruption watchdogs
Posted inBreaking News National News U.S. Department of Justice

How Trump defanged the Justice Department’s political corruption watchdogs

WASHINGTON — Created after the Watergate scandal, the U.S. Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section has fought political corruption for nearly half a century. Five months into President Donald Trump’s second…
Posted by John McCarthy June 9, 2025
Day at the beach ends with assault charge after water bottle incident
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

Day at the beach ends with assault charge after water bottle incident

CHRISTIANSTED — A day at the beach ended badly for a woman who allegedly clapped a man over the head with a frozen water bottle as he was driving. Shakeria…
Posted by John McCarthy June 9, 2025
Man accused of domestic violence threatened to slit woman’s throat
Posted inBreaking News Crime News Police News

Man accused of domestic violence threatened to slit woman’s throat

FREDERIKSTED — A St. Croix resident is accused of threatening to slit a woman's throat in telephone messages to her, David Muzzy, 52, of Frederiksted Town, was arrested and charged…
Posted by John McCarthy June 9, 2025
Haiti faces record hunger, food stocks are dwindling and warehouses sit empty
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Crime News

Haiti faces record hunger, food stocks are dwindling and warehouses sit empty

Haiti, torn by violence and rampaging gangs, is one of five countries in the world facing catastrophic levels of hunger, with nearly half the population going without food, the regional…
Posted by John McCarthy June 9, 2025
Los Angeles police order immigration protesters in downtown to go home
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Los Angeles police order immigration protesters in downtown to go home

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Police declared all of downtown Los Angeles to be an unlawful assembly area and ordered protesters to go home on Sunday night after a third day…
Posted by John McCarthy June 9, 2025
Trump’s new travel ban takes effect today
Posted inBreaking News National News U.S. Department of Justice

Trump’s new travel ban takes effect today

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries took effect Monday amid rising tension over the president’s escalating campaign of immigration…
Posted by John McCarthy June 9, 2025

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