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Category: Consumer News

After 10 Years of Non-Enforcement, VIPA Says It Will Now Charge Shippers ‘Demurrage’ Fees

Posted on July 19, 2018July 19, 2018 by John McCarthy

CONTAINER PORT IN ST. CROIX [ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] CHARLOTTE AMALIE — In an effort to cut down on “congestion” at seaports in St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, the…

Three Days After Worst Crash Since 1989, Cuba Has Identified 20 of 110 ‘Corpses’

Posted on May 21, 2018 by John McCarthy

[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] 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…

Governor Mapp Praises Doctors Who Plan to Open Surgical Center on St. Croix

Posted on May 17, 2018December 3, 2020 by John McCarthy

CHRISTIANSTED ― Governor Kenneth Mapp offered his congratulations Wednesday to the physicians behind Liberty Medical Development, which recently announced that it has successfully secured financing for a state-of-the-art surgical center at Estate…

IT’S OFFICIAL: Silver Airways Absorbs Seaborne Airlines … The Two Merge Next Year

Posted on April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 by John McCarthy

[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] SAN JUAN — Florida-based Silver Airways has bought the Caribbean’s largest regional airline — Seaborne. Officials say Puerto Rico-based Seaborne Airlines will operate as a stand-alone subsidiary…

GOLDEN EGGS? People Boiling Hot About High Price of Eggs on St. Croix Since Salmonella Scare

Posted on April 19, 2018April 20, 2018 by John McCarthy

[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] FREDERIKSTED — People are boiling hot about the high price of eggs on St. Croix, according to social media. Some people said businesses were “price gouging” while others…

Bovoni Landfill Scrap Metal Section Operations Schedule Updated By VIWMA

Posted on April 17, 2018 by John McCarthy

[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority (VIWMA) Preserving Paradise team advises the community and solid waste haulers that the section of the Scrap Metal yard…

FACEBOOK CLONE: Of Tourism Commissioner Beverly Nicholson-Doty Shilling For ‘NEH Grants’

Posted on April 14, 2018September 20, 2020 by John McCarthy

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Facebook clone of Tourism Commissioner Beverly Nicholson-Doty is asking people in the Virgin Islands to apply for National Endowment for the Humanities grants, the Virgin Islands Free Press…

PRIVATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: First-Ever Clothing Optional Cruise Will Visit Virgin Islands

Posted on April 2, 2018August 14, 2021 by John McCarthy

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — South African cruise company Cruiseabout announced over the weekend that they are launching “an innovative Caribbean cruise itinerary aimed at the naturist market” in that country. They say that sun-worshippers…

Federal Deadline Extended for Emergency Prescription Assistance Program For Uninsured

Posted on April 1, 2018April 1, 2018 by John McCarthy

[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] CHRISTIANSTED – The federal program that provides emergency prescription assistance for uninsured disaster survivors has been extended through May 15 at the territory’s request. Virgin Islanders who have…

‘DIRTY THIRTY?’ European Union Puts U.S. Virgin Islands on Blacklist of Illegal Tax Havens

Posted on March 9, 2018March 10, 2019 by John McCarthy

BRUSSELS — The U.S. Virgin Islands, the Bahamas and Saint Kitts and Nevis are set to be added next week to a European Union blacklist of tax havens, raising to nine the…

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