CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man who wanted to short circuit the telephone conversations of his girlfriend allegedly broke into her apartment, assaulted her and then left with her cell phone, authorities said. Jahneil Herbert,…
WASHINGTON — Larry Summers, the former U.S. treasury secretary who has reportedly advised President-elect Joe Biden, thinks $2,000 stimulus checks would be a “pretty serious mistake” that could overheat the US economy. Congress approved a…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — V.I. Attorney General Denise George is pleased to announce that the Department of Justice has once again adopted two families as a participant of the Adopt-A-Family program through the Family Resource Center.…
SAN JUAN — A series of earthquakes in Puerto Rico on Thursday ranged from magnitude 2.1 to a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale. The Puerto Rico Seismic Network, Red Sísmica, has recorded…
FREDERIKSTED — On December 21 approximately 6:33 p.m., the 911 Emergency Call Center dispatched officers to Estate Paradise, in the vicinity of the shuttered Evelyn M. Williams Elementary School, about a vehicular accident involving a…
SAN JUAN — Thousands of Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs are snorting and squealing their way across Puerto Rico in what many fear has become an unstoppable quest to eat and reproduce on an island struggling to…
SPANNING A MILLION square miles and dotted with more than 700 islands, the Caribbean Sea was one of the last places colonized by Native Americans as they explored and settled North and South America. Archaeologists have…
FREDERIKSTED — Governor Albert Bryan congratulated the Virgin Islands Hemp Commission on its action to issue the first license to produce hemp in the territory after voting unanimously during a virtual meeting on Wednesday, December 23,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Department of Public Works (DPW) is advising the community of VITRAN’s adjusted holiday schedule. Fixed route services will not be offered on December 25, 2020 or January 1, 2021. ADA Paratransit services will…
SAN JUAN — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says crews from its Caribbean Air and Marine Branch (CAMB) have collaborated with federal and local law enforcement partners in disrupting a human smuggling attempt in…