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DPNR Celebrates National Museum Day With Bamboula Dancers, Storytelling This Month

CHARLOTTE AMALIE -- The Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) said it will celebrate International Museum Day on May 18, 2018. The chosen theme for 2018 is "Hyper-connected museums: New…

John McCarthy May 10, 2018

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Honeymoon Tourist Continues To Make Medical Progress After Being Shot In Puerto Rico

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] SAN JUAN -- An Alaska woman says she thanks God that her husband has been able to move his extremities after a point blank shooting…

John McCarthy May 8, 2018

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Gov. Mapp Observes National Nurses, Hospitals and Tourism Weeks In Territory

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] CHARLOTTE AMALIE – Governor Kenneth Mapp has issued proclamations recognizing National Nurses, Hospitals and Tourism Weeks. The week May 6-12, 2018 has been declared National Nurses…

John McCarthy May 7, 2018

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Carnival Dream Becomes ‘A Nightmare’ After Water Floods Deck … Passenger Invokes ‘Titanic’

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] MIAMI -- Passengers aboard a seven-day Carnival cruise to the western Caribbean could be forgiven if they felt they were trapped in a scene from…

John McCarthy May 5, 2018

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BVI Threatens To Go Independent Over British ‘Colonial’ Interference In Their Affairs

Lorna Smith, head of British Virgin Islands Finance and wife of the premier, has said that forcing a public register “smacks of colonialism.” [ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] ROAD TOWN,…

John McCarthy May 5, 2018

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17-Year-Old Puerto Rican Boy Shoots Honeymoon Tourist At Point Blank Range

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] SAN JUAN -- Police in Puerto Rico have arrested a 17-year-old suspect in the armed robbery and shooting of tourist Kendric Tyler of Alaska. Tyler…

John McCarthy May 4, 2018

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Soraya Diase Coffelt Asks Plaskett To Find Out What St. Johnians Think of Caneel Bay Plans

CRUZ BAY -- Gubernatorial candidate Soraya Diase Coffelt said that she has been following media reports closely concerning Delegate Stacey Plaskett’s Bill H. R. 4731 that proposes to extend the agreement…

Soraya Diase Coffelt May 3, 2018

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Despite Speedy Recovery, Caribbean Is Poised to Lose Billions of Tourism Dollars

BUENOS AIRES -- The numbers are sobering. When Hurricanes Irma and Maria battered the Caribbean last fall, the region lost nearly one million visitors and an estimated $900 million in tourism-related…

John McCarthy May 3, 2018

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Partnership Between USVI Ports and Florida Caribbean Cruise Association ‘Never Better’

CHARLOTTE AMALIE -- Michele Paige, President of the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA), says the partnership with the ports of the U.S. Virgin Islands is “at an all-time high." Her comments…

John McCarthy April 30, 2018

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Caribbean Airline Alliance Promises Lower Fares, Easier Travel in Region … CaribSKY!

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] PHILIPSBURG -- Three Caribbean airlines have formed an alliance which promises to make it easier and cheaper for travelers to move between 32 countries. Antigua-based…

John McCarthy April 19, 2018