By FREDERICK HANDLEMAN SPECIAL TO THE VIRGIN ISLANDS FREE PRESS Health Care in the Virgin Islands is on life support and in critical condition. There is an urgent need for major changes to the antiquated, protectionist, draconian laws and regulations relating to the provision of health services in the Virgin Islands. If we are […]
Category: Community Affairs
Missouri Linemen Say St. Croix ‘Showed Them’ A Good Time While They Were Here Connecting Power
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] CHRISTIANSTED — Linemen from across Missouri sent personnel to St. Croix for storm restoration including Independence Power & Light, City of Harrisonville, Mo., Columbia Water & Light, and Macon Municipal Utilities. Hannibal Board of Public Works Line Superintendent and four Journeymen Linemen left the continental U.S. on Nov. 25, 2017, […]
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 New World, these decimated natives of the Caribbean – who once numbered somewhere in the hundreds of thousands – had declined to fewer than 500, […]
Some 531 Emergency Patients Were Airlifted From The Territory To The Mainland After Irma and Maria … Where Are They Now?
CHAMBLEE, Ga. — Juanita Edwards’s children, grandchildren and pets are waiting for her here on St. Croix. The Big Island’s air would be salty and familiar: Before the monster storms of 2017, she had never left the region. But if she went home now, she would quickly die. Edwards, 84, requires regular treatment for kidney failure, […]
Mapp Says V.I. Paving Gets $5.2 Million FHWA Project For Clifton Hill
FREDERIKSTED – Gov. Kenneth Mapp said that he approved a contract on Wednesday for major improvements to Route 75 on St. Croix, better known as Clifton Hill Road. The road project will begin from the Melvin Evans Highway and continue to the Queen Mary Highway at the container port intersection. “As many of you know when […]
Former Attorney General Soraya Diase Coffelt To Make Campaign Push For Governor This Month
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Beginning on February 12, 2018, the Committee to Elect Soraya Diase Coffelt Governor said it will launch a broad-ranging media campaign introducing Soraya’s vision to the people of the Virgin Islands. Her vision is centered on transforming the Virgin Islands into the economic powerhouse and leader in the Caribbean and becoming the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Lorraine Village Residents Still Don’t Have Electricity After Maria ‘Unleashed’ Its Punishing Fury Five Months Ago
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] By VANISA SOLOMON SPECIAL TO THE VIRGIN ISLANDS FREE PRESS For many of our Virgin Islands residents, hurricanes Irma and Maria felt like an atrocious dream. Unfortunately, the sad reality is those two Category 5 hurricanes unleashed their “punishing fury” on our lovely Virgin Islands. I commend the first responders, […]
V.I. Republican National Committeeman Says Plaskett Should Be Willing To Work With G.O.P. For Good of Territory
CHRISTIANSTED — V.I. Republican National Committeeman Jevon Williams released the following statement in response to Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett’s criticism of the administration in the opinion page of today’s Virgin Islands Free Press among other media: “Congresswoman Plaskett has repeatedly shown that she is more interested in party politics than rolling up her sleeves and working […]
Some Lorraine Village Residents Feel They Are Being Put Through ‘Hell’ Because They Still Don’t Have Electricity Five Months After Maria
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Good day Editor: Some residents in Lorraine Village apartments in the grove place area on St. Croix are still without electricity. The management needs to repair weather heads in order for power to be restored. I feel like I’m in a ruthless dream that is […]
Former President Bill Clinton Tours St. Thomas and St. John and Promises Disaster Aid From Clinton Foundation
CHARLOTTE AMALIE – Former President Bill Clinton backed up Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp’s assertion that rebuilding with added resiliency is the right thing to do in the territory. During a visit to St. Thomas on Monday, President Clinton agreed that hardening the territory’s infrastructure will save both tax dollars and lives. “The taxpayers will […]