CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Director Barbara Jackson-McIntosh told the motoring public that the Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ (BMV) St. Thomas Office will be closed effective immediately (August 11) until further notice. “The employees were exposed to…
CHRISTIANSTED — One of the two latest winners of the “USVI Vax To Win” sweepstakes lottery is an nurse employed by a private health care clinic on the north shore of St. Croix. Naita Salmon…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Six detainees at the Alexander A. Farrelly Criminal Justice Complex on St. Thomas tested positive for COVID-19 Monday evening, the Virgin Islands Bureau of Corrections said Tuesday. Corrections began testing detainees Monday…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A 47-year-old St. Thomas man has died of COVID-19, bringing the territory’s death toll from the virus to 41, the Virgin Islands Health Department said today.. “The department continues to work to…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Bureau has identified the victim of the August 6 Estate Contant shooting as 19-year-old John Paul Pelaiz, a resident of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Detectives…
KINGSHILL — Merlinda Philomene has been named Deputy Director of Human Resources and Labor Relations for the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency (VITEMA) effective Monday – August 16, 2021. Philomene started her career in…
SAN JUAN — The U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are bracing today for the storm that could be “Fred.” The National Hurricane Center issued tropical storm warnings for the USVI and Puerto Rico, where…
CHRISTIANSTED — One more person has died from COVID-19 in the U.S. Virgin Islands — a 77-year-old man on St. Croix, Health Commissioner Justa Encarnacion confirmed in a press conference on Monday.. Pop-up testing centers…
MIAMI — A disturbance in the Caribbean is expected to become Tropical Storm Fred today and bring needed rain to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm, currently named Potential Tropical Cyclone Six, moved…
MIAMI — Tropical storm watches were issued for various Caribbean islands this evening for what soon could become the sixth named tropical storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. Watches were in effect for Martinique,…