ST. CROIX — While the ground may have felt steady in Frederiksted, the Caribbean Sea was anything but quiet late Tuesday afternoon. A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck at 4:49 p.m. AST, centered approximately 58 kilometers…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — In a scene that looked more like a low-budget action movie than a Tuesday morning in St. Thomas, a gang of burglars used a black SUV as a battering ram to smash…
ST. THOMAS — One Communications, the territory’s leading telecommunications provider, has announced that its St. Thomas retail location at Tutu Park Mall will remain closed today, February 10. The closure follows an overnight security incident…
FREDERIKSTED — Frustration mounted across St. Croix and St. Thomas today as residents woke up to “SOS” icons on their screens and dead silence on their lines, following reports of a rolling network outage affecting…
By JOHN McCARTHY/V.I. Free Press Staff FREDERIKSTED — While the rest of St. Croix was watching the power grid, eagle-eyed reader Mike Allgeier was watching the ground—and he spotted the first sure sign of the…
FREDERIKSTED — While the rest of the world watches Elon Musk catch rockets with mechanical “chopsticks,” the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority is still playing a high-stakes game of “Guess Which Wire is Broken.”…
ST. CROIX — Government House Communications Director Richard Motta delivered a triple-shot of updates Monday, covering a new crackdown on off-duty police conduct, the upcoming Agrifest weekend, and a mea culpa from WAPA following the…
While some people are busy complaining about the news cycle, the VIPD Economic Crime Unit has been busy tracking a different kind of “entrepreneur.” Jeffrey T. Howard, 65, is currently cooling his heels at the…
By JOHN McCARTHY/V.I. Free Press Staff While the rest of the territory was hitting the “snooze” button, the earth north of the British Virgin Islands was clearing its throat. A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck the…
By JOHN McCARTHY/V.I. Free Press Staff In a world of “crossed signals” and corporate doublespeak, sometimes you have to go straight to the source’s brain—even if that brain is made of silicon and hosted in…