News
The month of September takes on a special awareness for Anais and Claudell “DJ Deli Banger” Monsanto. It’s Childhood Cancer Awareness Month — a disease they continue to learn more about with their now 16-month-old son, Logan, who is battling an aggressive form of leukemia.
V.I. Education Commissioner Racquel Berry-Benjamin on Wednesday said grades for the initial part of the school year will not be suspended. The announcement came a week after she made comments that suggested the contrary.
A man charged with aggravated rape of an underage girl “has a terrible criminal history” and has been arrested five times so far this year, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Sports
The U.S. Virgin Islands’ biggest annual sporting event will go on this fall — only it won’t go on in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Just seven months ago, Kristene Kelly was plenty happy in her job as one of the lead administrators with an Ivy League college’s athletics department.
Kristene Kelly is taking another step upward in her career as a college athletics administrator — this time joining a school affiliated with one of the nation’s top athletic conferences.
Opinion
Pitchfork to Governor Bryan and his financial team for cooking up an unconvincing debt relief plan that looks like Three-Card Monte. Their scheme is to create a new entity (just what we need, right?) that will be independent and thus untarnished by the government’s very, very, very bad reput…
Island Life
The Caribbean Genealogy Library, a research library for history, culture and genealogy located in St. Thomas, will hold its first virtual event Sunday at 1 p.m. on Zoom. Danish historian and author Ann Nørregaard will discuss her book “Dollar fo’ Dollar Kulkvinderne på St. Thomas 1870-1917” …
Today
By LORI ABBOTTS
For the Record
ST. THOMAS — Police are investigating the death of a motorcyclist Wednesday night on Weymouth Rhymer Highway on St. Thomas.
A dispute over $15 worth of crack cocaine resulted in one St. Croix man attacking another with a machete so viciously he nearly severed the victim’s wrist, according to documents filed in V.I. Superior Court.
A California woman who was driving an off-road vehicle on St. Croix told police she’d been drinking alcohol and believed she was in the correct lane when she crashed into a motorcycle head on, killing 55-year-old Richard M. Boehm of Cane Bay, according to documents filed in V.I. Superior Court.
Obituaries
Vincent Louis Greaux, 63, of St. Thomas departed this life on …
We regret to announce the passing of Samuel A. Harris.
We are deeply saddened to announce the death of our son, broth…
Relatives and friends, it is with deep sadness that we announc…
We regret to announce the passing of Thomas Descartes, who die…