News
Virgin Islands author Kacen Callender’s “King of the Dragonflies” is the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The book has also won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry.
TORTOLA — The British Virgin Islands Rugby Football Union and CrossFit are well on their way to raising $20,000 for a player in need.
A Virgin Islands man was at the center of a tragic shooting in Texas on Nov. 18, according to Houston-area news reports.
Sports
Aliyah Boston well remembers her freshman season, cutting down the nets after South Carolina’s women’s basketball team won the Southeastern Conference tournament just over eight months ago.
St. Thomas teen in top 20 in archery competition
There’s an old fishermen’s saying that the sport is called fishing, not catching. But on Sunday, at the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club’s 2020 Wahoo Windup, it was definitely a day of catching for St. Thomas’ Keith Terry Jr.
Opinion
Editor’s note: This story by Cidney “Cid” Anne Hamling originally appeared 20 years ago in St. John Times. We are reprinting it as part of Remember When, a throwback of past articles and photos to be published from time to time.
Years from now, when we are telling future children and grandchildren the story of the Year 2020, we will detail the hardships, describe all the restrictions and deplore all that we have given up.
Island Life
Friday
Vacationers and business travelers alike now have a new accommodation option in Cruz Bay thanks to the introduction of Marketplace Suites, 12 hotel room-style units on the third floor of The Marketplace.
For the Record
A Virgin Islands man was at the center of a tragic shooting in Texas on Nov. 18, according to Houston-area news reports.
A St. Thomas man was arrested Wednesday and charged with tampering with evidence after he was seen on surveillance video removing a gun from the dead body of a shooting victim, according to V.I. Police spokesman Toby Derima.
ST. THOMAS — Federal agents intercepted a vessel carrying 433 pounds of cocaine off St. Thomas on Wednesday night, and charged the five men aboard with drug smuggling, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court.
Obituaries
The family regrets to announce the passing of the late Alfredo…
India Kelisha Charles
Dianne Elvira Angol of Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Is…
Lisa N. Langrehr
The family regrets to announce the passing of the late Alfredo…