It is hard to know what the future holds for Venezuela, its opposition leader Juan Guaidó, or the present U.S.-led policy that emphasizes sanctions and isolation. Last week, as was wholly predictable, President Maduro’s United…
CARACAS — The Venezuelan government said it had found 14 bodies after a ship carrying migrants bound for Trinidad and Tobago was wrecked en route this past weekend. The government said in a statement that…
KINGSHILL — A St. Croix man who allegedly broke into a family’s Smithfield home early in the morning — and then refused to leave after he was confronted by the family — was arrested by…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police are investigating the Tuesday afternoon discovery of the dead body of a man wearing all dark-colored clothing near the Crown Bay waterfront on St. Thomas, authorities said. The 911 Emergency Call…
WINNIPEG — Finnish-Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard is in official custody after being charged with sex trafficking. Court records show the 79-year-old Nygard was arrested under the Extradition Act, in connection with a U.S. Department of…
FREDERIKSTED — A St. Croix man was arrested early Monday morning after police said he assaulted a woman — and took a cell phone and cash from her. Christopher Carter, 35, of Coral Princesse condominiums,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The U.S. Virgin Islands Commissioner of Tourism has cautioned that while a Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine is on the horizon, protocols and guidelines implemented to protect lives and livelihoods in the…
HOUSTON — A St. Thomas native was at the center of a tragic shooting in Texas last month, according to Houston-area news reports. Mark van Beverhoudt, 29, shot his uncle, 59-year-old Donald Harris, to death…
BRIDGETOWN — China appears to have used mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to surveil United States mobile phone subscribers as part of its espionage campaign against Americans, according to a mobile network security expert who has…
CHRISTIANSTED —The U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Health said it received the first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer on Monday. “This is a major breakthrough and comes amid the current surge of the…