WASHINGTON — The House Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by Jean-Pierre L. Oriol, commissioner of the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources, as part of a remote hearing entitled “Discussion on the Insular Area Climate…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Jerome Feudjio, vicar general and chancellor of the Diocese of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, to head the diocese, as first reported by the National Catholic…
KINGSHILL — A routine traffic stop resulted in a St. Croix man being arrested for allegedly having a pound of marijuana in his vehicle, authorities said. Daniel M. Ramos, 20, of Estate Glynn, was arrested…
KINGSHILL — A second victim from the shooting incident at the Corner Pocket Grillhouse, Bar and Nightclub in Estate La Reine has succumbed from his injuries, authorities said. The victim, identified as 25-year-old Kadeem Baptiste,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Police Department is looking for 23-year-old Tarik Babrow in connection to a shooting incident that occurred on Tuesday on Veteran’s Drive near the Cancryn Bridge. Babrow is a Black…
ROSEAU — A Dominica native who allegedly fled murder charges in the U.S. Virgin Islands five years ago, has been denied bail in his home country because the court said he posed “a flight risk”…
FREDERIKSTED — The hits keep coming for St. Croix’s Malachi Benjamin, who was sentenced Thursday to just over a year in prison for dealing cocaine. Benjamin and four co-defendants are facing new federal drug and…
FREDERIKSTED — The Virgin Islands Police Department observed Employee Appreciation Day 2021 with a banquet-style lunch buffet for VIPD employees at two locations in St. Croix on Friday. Some of the VIPD’s top brass rolled…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Croix man was given a little over a year in prison for having cocaine in a car in which he was a passenger, authorities said. Malachi Benjamin, 25, was sentenced…
CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti — A prison director was among at least eight people killed on Thursday after several inmates tried to escape from a prison in Haiti’s capital, a police officer and witnesses said. The incident…