CHRISTIANSTED — Governor Albert Bryan, Jr. announced today that the U.S. Department of Labor has awarded the Virgin Islands Department of Labor a $1.5 million National Dislocated Worker Grant to provide disaster-relief employment, along with…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man was shot to death after being struck multiple times by bullets this morning, authorities said. The Emergency Call Center received a report of shots fired in the Garden…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A confirmed COVID-19 patient was taken off of a cargo ship docked behind Hassel Island on Thursday and brought to St. Thomas for needed medical treatment, the Virgin Islands Free Press has…
NASSAU — We are all in the same COVID-19 storm, but not all countries are in the same boat. Here in the Bahamas, 70 percent of our GDP is generated from tourism. Tourist-based economies like…
CRUZ BAY — Two men dressed in black broke into a St. John woman’s home and gun-butted her in the head during a home invasion last night, authorities said. Police were notified of a residential…
MIAMI — The family of a cruise crew member who died after testing positive for COVID-19 filed a lawsuit against Royal Caribbean Cruises on Tuesday saying the company failed to protect its employees as the…
CHRISTIANSTED — Police responded to a burglary in progress in La Grande Princess on Tuesday night, authorities said. The 911 Emergency Call Center dispatched officers to a residential burglary in progress in La Grande Princesse…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert of the District of the Virgin Islands today urged the public to report suspected fraud schemes related to COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. If you think you are…
SANTO DOMINGO — There are now at least 8,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in a single Caribbean country, which saw a whopping 281 new cases today. The Dominican Republic reached 8,235 cases yesterday as its death…
CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man was arrested after breaking his elderly neighbor’s arm with a pickaxe handle near Sunny Isle one month ago, authorities said. Raymond Ward, 58, of Sion Hill, was served with…