WASHINGTON — USVI parents will soon get cash benefits from the USA COVID-19 Rescue Act. The U.S. Virgin Islands is included in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act that includes payments to parents with…
CHRISTIANSTED — The Federal Emergency Management Agency, through the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, awarded the Department of Public Works $2,551,550 for a territory-wide slope analysis to identify areas at risk for landslides and to design and install slope…
CANE BAY — A former McDonald’s manager has been arrested in connection to the shooting death of a VING mechanic 10 days ago, authorities said. Ta’Jhanique Cumberbatch, 22, of Besty’s Jewel was arrested at 8:46…
NEW YORK — Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion was sold for approximately $51 million to an undisclosed buyer on Tuesday, an attorney for the estate said. Funds from the sale will be transferred to the Epstein…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A British Virgin Islands “king” is going to be operating a bit less regally after pleading guilty to being a cocaine dealer in the territory. King Bob Leonard, 28, of Road Town,…
CHRISTIANSTED — An eighth woman has pleaded guilty in an all-female, multi-level tax fraud scheme hatched in the territory, authorities said. Joanne Benjamin, 41, from the Virgin Islands pled guilty in federal court on March…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Guyanese man who illegally re-entered the United States as an aggravated felon in St. Thomas was sentenced to time served and a second deportation proceeding, authorities said. Warren Michael Whyte, of…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man who was part of a duo that put a bullet in a security guard’s leg after he interfered with their botched bank robbery attempt got 12 years behind…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Dominican Republic native who came back to the United States after being previously deported was given one year in prison, authorities said. Eilin Castillo Montano of Santo Domingo was sentenced after…
LONDON — A new study by a team of international scientists jointly led by Stony Brook University Professor Liliana M. Dávalos and Professor Samuel Turvey of the Zoological Society of London reveals that the largest and smallest…