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…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George and Police Commissioner Ray Martinez will be holding a joint press briefing at 3:30 p.m. today at the Public Finance Authority Conference Room in St. Thomas.…