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PAHO: Caribbean Has Many Overweight People … Helpful Tips To Avoid Diabetes

BRIDGETOWN — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has sounded alarm on increasing obesity in the region, saying that it is one of the main risk factors for diabetes. According…

VI Free Press November 18, 2017

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DUE DILIGENCE: Deputy Interior Secretary Arrives On St. Croix Today To Try To Independently Verify Mapp’s Accounting of The Disasters Here … Hurricane and Otherwise

[ad name="HTML-68"] CHRISTIANSTED -- The Number Two man at the Department of Interior -- the federal government agency that has oversight authority over the territories -- will arrive in St.…

John McCarthy November 18, 2017

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Tourism Commissioner Tells Travel Magazine The USVI Pushed St. Thomas Ahead of St. Croix … ‘Because It Has More To Offer’

CHARLOTTE AMALIE -- The commissioner of tourism admitted that the government pushed to get St. Thomas ready ahead of St. John and St. Croix to try to protect its biggest…

John McCarthy November 18, 2017

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PUERTO RICO: $115 Billion In Damage From Hurricane Maria … Mass Population Exodus And 10 Years Of Economic Misery Expected

HARD TIMES AHEAD: Puerto Rico is expected to experience an economic downturn for the next 10 years as a result of Hurricane Maria. SAN JUAN — Puerto Rico could face…

VI Free Press November 17, 2017

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‘Heavy Winds’ Expected To Knock Down ‘Wrong-Way’ Storms’ Chances For Further Development … Still, ‘Heavy Rains’ Expected This Weekend

[ad name="HTML-68"] MIAMI -- A low pressure system moving through the region could bring rain to parts of the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Colombia and Hispaniola over the weekend, forecasters said…

John McCarthy November 17, 2017

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YO HO HO HURRICANE RELIEF: Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Might Get A Rum Tax Break … And The U.S. Congress Could Make It Even Bigger

WASHINGTON -- A shot of rum to help the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico? So says the U.S. tax code, which since 1917 has included a provision that sends taxpayer money…

John McCarthy November 16, 2017

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PUBLIC NOTICE: Limetree Bay Terminals Applies To U.S. Army Corps of Engineers To Expand Its Marine Operations In St. Croix

CHRISTIANSTED — Limetree Bay Terminals LLC has applied to the federal government to grant them permission to expand their St. Croix marine operations, the Virgin Islands Free Press has learned.…

John McCarthy November 16, 2017

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American Medical Association Agrees With Mapp: ‘Adequately Fund Medicaid’ Programs In The Territories So Hospitals Can Support Themselves

[ad name="HTML-68"] HONOLULU -- It has been nearly two months since Hurricanes Irma and Maria, but the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico continue to struggle to recover. At the 2017…

John McCarthy November 16, 2017

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OPINION BY TIM DUNCAN: To My Friends, Family and All U.S. Virgin Islanders: ‘I’m Not Giving Up On You’

[ad name="HTML-68"] By TIM DUNCAN Special to the V.I. Free Press The three islands that make up the U.S. Virgin Islands — St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas…

John McCarthy November 15, 2017

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POOR JUDGMENT: Mapp Joins Hands With Puerto Rico As PREPA’s Whitefish Energy Scandal Threatens To Take Down The Virgin Islands Funding As Well

BIG MISTAKE: Gov. Kenneth Mapp did not distance himself, or the territory, from the PREPA Whitefish Scandal that has inflamed the U.S. Congress. Here Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Gov.…

John McCarthy November 15, 2017