CHARLOTTE AMALIE — At least 48 people have tested positive for the coronavirus on Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas cruise ship that docked in St. Thomas on Wednesday, the company said, as the omicron variant continues…
NEW YORK — A company founded by a Caribbean immigrant in the US Diaspora has been named a Comcast RISE 2021 winner. Hard Beat Communications, (HBC), the award-winning digital Caribbean PR and AD agency founded…
CRUZ BAY — St. John has been named one of the world’s 50 best places to travel in 2022 by the U.S.-based online travel guide Travel Lemming, placing eighth in its annual list of the…
SAINT JOHN’S — The COVID-19 pandemic has decimated economies across the tourism-dependent Caribbean costing losses as high as 20 percent in some countries in just one year, the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda and…
CANE BAY — North Shore Road (officially Sidney Lee Road) is a “death trap” — especially trying to drive it at night — St. Croix residents angrily complained on social media this weekend. Teams of…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — All the former hostages from a U.S.-based missionary group kidnapped in Haiti have been flown out of the country after a two-month ordeal, the leader of their Ohio-based missions organization said Friday, as…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The VIPD held a joint press conference with the Attorney General’s office today to announce that four teenagers have been detained in connection to the Havensight Mall robbery of a St. Thomas…
CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man is being held without bail after police said he brutalized his girlfriend. Vernon Sackey, Jr., 23, of Orange Grove, was arrested at 2:58 p.m. Thursday and charged with simple…
FREDERIKSTED — An unidentified man was killed in a single-vehicle accident on St. Croix late last night, authorities said. On December 16, at 11:10 p.m., the 911 Emergency Call Center dispatched officers to the Melvin…
CHRISTIANSTED — The VIPD St. Croix District is asking for the community’s assistance in locating 17-year-old Julitza Gladys Herrera. Herrera is a Hispanic female with a brown complexion, maroon and black/brown hair, stands 5 feet…