ATLANTA — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved five Caribbean island destinations into its highest-risk travel category for COVID-19 on Monday. In total, the CDC moved 15 places to Level 4, or “very…
CHRISTIANSTED — The Virgin Islands Department of Health has confirmed another COVID-19 related death, bringing the territory’s toll to 97. After notifying next of kin, Health announced that the deceased is a 77-year-old man on…
MIAMI — A cruise ship that was supposed to dock in Florida has instead sailed to the Bahamas, after a U.S. judge granted an order to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Two fugitives from justice were detained at the St. Thomas airport on unrelated matters on Sunday afternoon, authorities said. Michael I. Montanez Jr., 24, of Deltona, Florida, was arrested at the Cyril…
KINGSTON — U.S. Army General Laura Richardson, who made history as the first woman to lead United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), visited Jamaica on January 20-22 for three days of high-level meetings focused on the…
Social Security made getting your annual Benefit Statement even easier. The Benefit Statement, also known as the SSA-1099 or the SSA-1042S, is a tax form we mail each year in January to people who receive…
BASSE-TERRE — Protesters attacked police with stones in the early hours of Monday as police moved in to clear out some blockades on Guadeloupe, the authority on the French Caribbean island said, amid ongoing protests…
CHRISTIANSTED — A member of the Virgin Islands Police Department took some extra time to help a family with a flat tire. Sgt. Kirk Fieulleteau assisted a family who was struggling to change a flat…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Virgin Islands Department of Human Services Commissioner Kimberley Causey-Gomez said today that the Head Start Program would return to full in-person classroom instruction on Thursday, January 27, 2022, across the territory. “We…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The United States is becoming increasingly involved in the investigation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise’s murder, with key suspects facing the prospect of trial in U.S. courts, as a probe by the Caribbean…