By THE VIRGIN ISLANDS FREE PRESS EDITORIAL BOARD Editor’s Note: The following is a condensed and edited version of a six-letter exchange between the VIFP Editorial Board and the Office of the CEO at GoDaddy.…
By JOHN McCARTHY / @ the V.I. Freep Investigative Desk It’s been decades since John Lennon sang about the layers of truth in “Glass Onion,” but the song’s core lesson—that looking through a lens doesn’t…
As the publisher of the Virgin Islands Free Press, I’ve spent 37 years translating the staccato of the night—the sirens in Frederiksted and the 200 rounds fired at a Peter’s Rest crime scene—into actionable information.…
CHRISTIANSTED — The Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority (VIWMA) has issued an advisory following mechanical issues that have taken the LBJ Pump Station offline. Overflowing: The malfunction is currently causing wastewater overflows in the immediate…
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSTED, ST. CROIX NOTICE TO HOSTING PROVIDER: This post serves as a formal documentation of a critical infrastructure failure. As of March 14, 2026, the Virgin Islands Free Press remains under a “Digital Blockade”…
Letter to the Editor: “The Also-Ran and the Lightning Strike“ To the Editor: I am an old man living in a beautiful cage. If you saw me today, you’d think I was Benjamin Franklin’s ghost…
ST. CROIX — What happens when a “First Principles” disruptor meets a legacy utility buried in “objective billing fiction”? We imagine a St. Croix where Elon Musk brings his “hardcore” 5-step engineering process to WAPA.…
CHRISTIANSTED — While the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) touts “infrastructure progress” and new composite poles, residents across St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, and Water Island are left in the dark with…
Parenting does not pause just because you are trying to get well. The school run still happens, dinner still needs sorting, and someone always needs you right when you finally sit down. When recovery is…
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…