BOSTON — A man charged with fatally stabbing a teen during a Caribbean festival in Boston this summer was held without bail Monday, prosecutors said. Omara Shears, 44, was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on…
NEW YORK — Wall Street ended lower on Monday, with shares of Carnival Corp and several airlines tumbling as investors worried about the Omicron coronavirus variant ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting later this week.…
KINGSHILL — The Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) Program is a new special purpose tenant-based voucher program funded through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), the Virgin Islands Housing Authority said. ARPA was signed…
DIAMOND RUBY — Contrary to what has been recently communicated by some media outlets, the Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Emergency Room (ER) remain open and caring for…
LONDON — Virgin Atlantic has raised $530 million in fresh funding from shareholders Virgin Group and Delta Air Lines as a new bout of gloom descends on the aviation sector. Founded by Richard Branson in 1984,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police are investigating after a woman reported that she was raped near a restaurant in Frenchtown early Sunday morning. The 911 Emergency Call Center was notified of a female rape victim at…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Port Authority and Royal Caribbean have big plans for the development of Crown Bay Marina and the surrounding Sub Base areas. But the development means that small businesses already…
SAN JUAN — The Coast Guard suspended a four-day search for a missing snorkeler Saturday evening, pending further developments, in waters extending from Vieques to the main island of Puerto Rico. Still missing is Joanna Rebis,…
CASTRIES — As the Fond Gens Libre community in Soufriere, Saint Lucia works to develop an exemplary community-based sustainable tourism product — grass roots education is the key to success. To ensure that the education…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — A spike in violence has deepened hunger and poverty in Haiti while hindering the very aid organizations combating those problems in a country whose government struggles to provide basic services. Few relief workers…