CHRISTIANSTED — We certainly aren’t going out on a limb to call the Year 2017 the Year of the Hurricane. Not when you live here.
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Virgin Islands GOP National Committeeman Jevon O.A. Williams Returns From Washington After Meeting With President, Vice President and French Ambassador
WHITE HOUSE ACCESS: Vice President Mike Pence (left), Karen Pence (middle) and Virgin Islands GOP National Committeeman Jevon O.A. Williams meet for the Christmas holidays.
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OPINION: Puerto Rican Americans Can’t Be Second-Class Citizens Forever … Now’s The Time To Do The Right Thing By Its People
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] By JACQUELINE N. FONT-GUZMAN SPECIAL TO THE V.I. FREE PRESS SAN JUAN — Hurricanes do more than destroy homes,
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Governor Please Reconsider Your Order To Burn Tree and Plant Debris Because It Is Dangerous To The Health Of The People
By POLLY HOPPIN As health professionals with expertise in the links between air pollution and human health, we are writing to express our grave concern
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Mapp-Potter Administration Goes Forward With ‘Test Burn’ On The South Shore of St. Croix Over Objections Of Environmentalists, Senators
CHRISTIANSTED — The Virgin Islands Free Press has confirmed that the local government conducted a “test burn” on the South Shore of St. Croix Wednesday.
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OBITUARY NOTICE: Rita Mahoney In St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
[ad name=”HTML-68″] Relatives and friends are advised of the passing of Rita V. Mahoney, who passed away on Dec. 3, 2017. She was preceded in
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Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) Invites Residents of St. Thomas To Clean-Up Downtown With ‘Rock City Clean Streets’
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Department of Planning and Natural Resources Commissioner Dawn Henry invites the residents of the St. Thomas community to volunteer their services for
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5 Names of People Who Died In Plane Crash At Henry Rohlsen Airport On Thursday Released
TRAGIC FLIGHT: Killed five people on St. Croix, including soca singer Kyle “Kylo” Sylvester of the Stylee Band and the pilot David Richardson of St.
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Reckless St. Croix Motorist Drives Into Utility Pole Near Gallows Bay Early Sunday Morning … No Injuries Reported
[ad name=”HTML-68″] CHRISTIANSTED — An errant St. Croix motorist drove into a utility pole early Sunday morning downtown and when it fell it knocked down
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Hurricanes Irma and Maria Left Government 36 Percent Short on Revenues … And FEMA $300 Million Loan Is Just A Drop In An Empty Bucket
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands government is grappling with a staggering revenue shortfall in the wake of the two category 5 hurricanes that hit
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