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JOHNNY HIDE YOUR GUN! Mapp Re-Issues Controversial Executive Order Re-Authorizing VING’s Ability To Snatch Guns From Law-Abiding Citizens

[ad name="HTML-68"] CHARLOTTE AMALIE – Gov. Kenneth Mapp has renewed a controversial executive order that authorized the scandal-plagued Virgin Islands National Guard (VING) to seize the firearms and ammunition of…

John McCarthy December 7, 2017

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SWORD FIGHT! Assistant Public Works Commissioner Roan Creque ‘Sis’pended Without Pay For Openly Defying Mapp On Debris Burn Policy During Legislative Hearing

IT'S RAINING MEN! Assistant Public Works Commissioner Roan Creque enjoys some good times with his "back" street buddies in St. Thomas. Despite the tiff between Creque and Gov. Kenneth Mapp,…

John McCarthy December 6, 2017

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LET THEM LIVE ON THE BEACH! Mapp Hails Opening of Magens Bay on St. Thomas As A ‘Great, Great Sign of Progress’

CHRISTIANSTED -- Gov. Kenneth Mapp described the official opening and dedication of Magens Bay on St. Thomas this Thursday, December 7 with Royal Caribbean International as a “great, great sign…

John McCarthy December 6, 2017

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Mapp: Another Bipartisan Congressional Delegation Tours St. Croix To See If Virgin Islands Is Worthy of Federal Disaster Aid

CHRISTIANSTED -- The territory needs the help of Congress in order to rebuild a "stronger and more resilient infrastructure," Gov. Kenneth Mapp said Sunday. Speaking to a visiting congressional delegation…

John McCarthy December 4, 2017

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STUFFING THE TURKEY: Mapp Says He Is Grateful To Lineman From The U.S. Mainland Who Are Helping To Restore Electricity To The Territory … No Mention of WAPA

[ad name="HTML-68"] CHARLOTTE AMALIE -- Gov. Kenneth Mapp wished Virgin Islanders and all those in the territory assisting with the recovery efforts a Happy Thanksgiving. Mapp said that he was "enormously…

John McCarthy November 24, 2017

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THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS, VIRGIN ISLANDS (and Puerto Rico) Will Not Be Paid Before Christmas For Hurricane Recovery

WASHINGTON -- The Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico were left out of the latest congressional money merry-go-round. The $44 billion President Donald Trump asked Congress for is for Texas and…

John McCarthy November 19, 2017

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DUE DILIGENCE: Deputy Interior Secretary Arrives On St. Croix Today To Try To Independently Verify Mapp’s Accounting of The Disasters Here … Hurricane and Otherwise

[ad name="HTML-68"] CHRISTIANSTED -- The Number Two man at the Department of Interior -- the federal government agency that has oversight authority over the territories -- will arrive in St.…

John McCarthy November 18, 2017

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Tourism Commissioner Tells Travel Magazine The USVI Pushed St. Thomas Ahead of St. Croix … ‘Because It Has More To Offer’

CHARLOTTE AMALIE -- The commissioner of tourism admitted that the government pushed to get St. Thomas ready ahead of St. John and St. Croix to try to protect its biggest…

John McCarthy November 18, 2017

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POOR JUDGMENT: Mapp Joins Hands With Puerto Rico As PREPA’s Whitefish Energy Scandal Threatens To Take Down The Virgin Islands Funding As Well

BIG MISTAKE: Gov. Kenneth Mapp did not distance himself, or the territory, from the PREPA Whitefish Scandal that has inflamed the U.S. Congress. Here Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Gov.…

John McCarthy November 15, 2017

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STOLEN THUNDER! Puerto Rico’s Governor Asks For Its Billions Ahead of Sleepy Mapp … Who Headed For The Bar At His Five-Star Hotel As Soon As He Got To D.C.

[ad name="HTML-68"] WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico’s governor got the jump on the territory on Monday when asked the federal government for $94.4 billion ahead of the Virgin Islands. Gov. Ricardo Rossello…

John McCarthy November 14, 2017