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Thousands in Puerto Rico Still Under FEMA Blue Tarps as Hurricane Threat Looms

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] SAN JUAN — Hurricane Maria ripped away part of the steel roof from Carmen Lidia Torres Mercado’s home in the Puerto Rican capital. Nine months…

VI Free Press June 20, 2018

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Coast Guard Promotes St. Croix’s Claricia Gautier in Ceremony At Nation’s Capitol

PROMOTED: Claricia Gautier [ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] WASHINGTON -- U.S. Coast Guard senior chief Yeoman Claricia Gautier, a 1995 graduate of Central High School on St. Croix has been…

John McCarthy June 7, 2018

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Colombian Navy Says It Continues To Collect Cocaine Off Its Caribbean Coastline

BOGOTA -- The Colombian National Navy said that it continues its frontal assault against narco-trafficking in the Colombian Caribbean. “We seized 27,419 kilograms of cocaine [from January to April 2018],…

John McCarthy May 31, 2018

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REPORT: Pirate Attacks In Caribbean and Latin America Up 163 Percent in 2017

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] GEORGETOWN -- Pirate attacks around Caribbean and South American waters are growing, and violence is increasingly used during robberies committed on vessels at anchor, a…

John McCarthy May 23, 2018

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Coast Guard Searches For Missing Filipino Crew Member Who Fell Off Cruise Near St. Thomas

CHARLOTTE AMALIE -- U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue crews are still looking for a crew member of the cruise ship MSC Seaside who went overboard about eight nautical miles southeast of…

John McCarthy May 17, 2018

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Puerto Rico Stocks Food, Water, Radios as Hurricane Season Approaches June 1

SAN JUAN -- Federal and local officials said that they are stockpiling radios, food, water and generators in Puerto Rico and demanding rigorous emergency training to prepare the U.S. commonwealth for…

John McCarthy May 15, 2018

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Coast Guard Tall Ship ‘Eagle’ To Visit St. Thomas on Patrol For Community Outreach

CHARLOTTE AMALIE -- The U.S. Coast Guard Tall Ship Eagle will kick off its 2018 summer patrol of cadet training and community outreach by making its first port stop at St. Thomas.…

John McCarthy May 9, 2018

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Honduran Army Seizes 700 Pounds of Cocaine Worth $5.2 Million In Caribbean Waters

TEGUCIGALPA -- Honduran authorities seized 319 kilos of cocaine on a Panamanian-flagged ship in Caribbean waters in an operation that also arrested two Colombians and one Honduran, an official source said.…

John McCarthy May 8, 2018

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Puerto Rico Air National Guard C-130 Crashes in Georgia Killing All Nine On Board Today

THE WC-130 WAS ONCE A HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT. [ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] SAVANNAH -- A Puerto Rico Air National Guard plane crashed in Georgia shortly after takeoff today, killing nine people aboard…

John McCarthy May 2, 2018

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Customs, Coast Guard Stop Go-Fast Boat with $12.8 Million Worth of Cocaine and $540K Worth of Heroin In-Route to PR

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] PONCE — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO)and the U.S. Coast Guard collaborated to intercept Saturday a go-fast vessel seizing 1,084 pounds…

John McCarthy April 22, 2018