SAN JUAN — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a crew member who went overboard from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Harmony of the Seas some 267 miles (429…
Category: Consumer News
WAPA Cuts The Lights To 3,045 Customers On St. Croix … Even If You Paid Your Bill
CHRISTIANSTED — A major electrical service interruption is affecting the island of St. Croix, the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) said. All generation capacity at the Estate Richmond Power Plant…
Cuba Sees Sweet Economic Recovery Through Raw Sugar Exports in 2019
HAVANA — After suffering from weather damage last year and into 2018, Cuban sugar production is expected to increase significantly in the current season now getting underway, a government minister said, but…
VIWMA: We’ve Moved To Old Patalidis Building In Gallows Bay
CHRISTIANSTED — The Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority (VIWMA) said that it has moved to a temporary office in Gallows Bay (in the old Patalidis building). The office houses VIWMA’s Compliance Management…
Scotiabank To Exit Nine ‘Smaller’ Caribbean Countries In Major Shake-Up
TORONTO — Bank of Nova Scotia said today that it has struck a deal to sell banking businesses in nine of the smaller countries in the Caribbean as the lender continues to narrow…
Millin Young Says WAPA’s Proposed Compensation Package ‘Barely Accounts For Inflation’
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Senator Janette Millin Young said that she was an eyewitness and “willing listener” to the “strong protests” that WAPA employees voiced at the Earle B. Ottley Complex on Wednesday….
VIPD Gives Physical Description of Three Cane Bay Home Invaders Posing As Utility Workers
CANE BAY — The Virgin Islands Police Department is warning residents to check the identification of utility employees after a brazen armed home invasion on St. Croix. Three gunmen gained access to…
Ritz Crackers Are Being Recalled in Virgin Islands Over Possible Salmonella Risk
[ad name=”HTML-68″] DEERFIELD, Ill. — A wide variety of Ritz Bits and Ritz cracker sandwich products got recalled Saturday across the United States, including the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. “These…
After 10 Years of Non-Enforcement, VIPA Says It Will Now Charge Shippers ‘Demurrage’ Fees
CONTAINER PORT IN ST. CROIX [ad name=”HTML-68″] CHARLOTTE AMALIE — In an effort to cut down on “congestion” at seaports in St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, the Virgin Islands Port…
Three Days After Worst Crash Since 1989, Cuba Has Identified 20 of 110 ‘Corpses’
[ad name=”HTML-68″] HAVANA — Cubans in eastern Holguin province held a funeral on Sunday for an art instructor and her small child, the first of 67 Holguin residents to be brought home…