MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Instead of a message in a bottle, it was the decals on a barnacle-covered trash barrel that shows just how far it traveled, from the southeastern U.S. coast…
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Roach Pays Homage To Legacy of Rights Leader D. Hamilton Jackson On Liberty Day
FREDERIKSTED — Lt. Governor Tregenza Roach, prior to leaving the territory on a personal matter, called on Virgin Islanders to pay homage to native son D. Hamilton Jackson today. “In celebration of…
VIDOJ Employees Donate $350 To Ribbons For A Cure Cancer Non-Profit Organization
KINGSHILL — Virgin Islands Department of Justice employees delivered a check for $350 to Ribbons For A Cure on St. Croix. The cancer financial assistance program aims to provide cancer outreach and…
Courage Of Ancestors Reflected Today In Modern-Day Observance Of Contract Day
It was 143 years ago on October 1, 1878, when Crucian agricultural laborers set fire to Frederiksted town and western plantations on St. Croix. The objective was to burn all the way…
London’s Finance District, Steeped In Slavery, Confronts Its Past
LONDON — British ships ferried over three million enslaved African people across the Atlantic Ocean. Lloyd’s of London insured many of those vessels, the people chained below deck sometimes categorized as “perishable…
Panama Burying More Migrant Victims Of Brutal Darien Gap
AGUA FRIA — In an isolated cemetery in Panama’s Darien province, migrants who die crossing the most treacherous segment of their journey toward the United States are buried with a plasticized card…
Police Need Your Help To Identify Woman Found Wandering In Estate Frydenhoj
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The VIPD needs the St. Thomas community’s assistance with identifying the person depicted in these photos. The woman was found by a concerned citizen wandering in Estate Frydenhoj, disoriented,…
Women’s Coalition Of St. Croix Observes Domestic Violence Awareness Month
CHRISTIANSTED — October is recognized nationally as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence has been defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control…
FEMA Has $578,970 For USVI Organizations That Provided Food, Shelter During COVID
CHRISTIANSTED — Reimbursements of up to $578,970 are available for USVI organizations that have provided emergency food and/or shelter programs in the territory during the period of January 1, 2020, through October…
Coalition Of 17 Attorneys General Protests ‘Inhumane’ Treatment Of Haitians In Texas
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Denise George is one of five attorneys general leading a coalition in sending a letter to President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas expressing…