Governor Albert Bryan Jr. is upping security efforts in Frederiksted, St. Croix after three consecutive days of shootings. In a press conference on Monday, Gov. Bryan said he would use $1.5 million to create a camera surveillance system in Frederiksted. This comes after six people were injured in a beach shooting Sunday along with two […]
A Florida man is arrested for forging several checks and cashing them here in the US Virgin Islands. 39-year-old Alain Rodriquez was arrested after he was found cashing, possessing and forging several checks belonging to the Virgin Islands Port Authority Marine-Revenue. This after an employee of Virgin Islands Port Authority reported that several checks belonging […]
A man is dead after a shooting in St. Croix Saturday. 20-year-old Taheem Samuel was found by police outside of building 33 in Mutual Homes, Grove Place. Police said they got a call around 7:30PM Saturday night of shots fired and a man down. When they arrived Samuel was already dead. Detectives canvassed the area […]
Early Sunday morning in St. Thomas, four armed men robbed a bar in Smith Bay. It happened around 4AM when 911 got a call that an armed robbery just happened at the Galaxy Bar at the bottom of Cassi Hill. The victim told police that while closing the bar four men came in with guns. […]
A beach party turned violent in St. Croix over the weekend, leaving six people injured after a shooting broke out. It happened around Fort Frederik Beach in Frederiksted around 9:30 at night at an event called Float-topia. VIPA identified six people that had gunshot wounds. Five of the six have non-life threatening injuries. Five were […]
By bike and by foot. People in Puerto Rico took to the streets to celebrate the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rossello. It was a sea of Puerto Rican flags Thursday with celebrities and supporters of Governor Rossello’s resignation cheering in the streets. “I think it is amazing that everyone has to come together because usually […]
The people spoke. “He needs to go,” Carmen Arreaga, From Puerto Rico And the Governor, after 12 long days of endless protests, listened. Puerto Rico’s Governor Ricardo Rossello finally resigning at midnight Wednesday. It was rumored to happen on Wednesday, first in the morning, then noon, then at press conferences set for 4 then 5 […]
One by one four groups of eager entrepreneurs shared their business plans. “As an aspiring entrepreneur in my future I learned that each department has a job and I learned to respect each department and the process,” one student said. It was a part of the US Virgin Islands Junior Achievements’ competition. It took place […]
It took seven months and just over a dozen volunteers now My Brothers Workshop is ready to launch its’ very first boat. “There was a lot of sanding involved so we were there for hours,” Kielli Donoghue, My Brothers Workshop Trainee. Kielli Donoghue was one of those volunteers. He was the only one that can […]
Another shooting in St. Croix over the weekend left two people injured but luckily no one was killed. It happened at the Cool Out Bar in Peters Rest in Christensted around 10:30 P.M. Friday night. One man took a gunshot to the chest, another to his hand. One is in serious but stable condition, the other […]
