In the darkness before dawn on Nov. 23, 1733, two enslaved Africans waited anxiously in Coral Bay for the signal that would mark the beginning of a revolution. The pair’s peers had hidden knives in a wood delivery to Coral Bay’s Fort Fredericksvaern, which they used to kill every soldier but…

With St. John Festival going virtual this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, members of the St. John Festival & Cultural Organization—which handed over the reins to the Department of Tourism’s Division of Festivals—looked back on their memories from Festivals past.

As part of their community COVID-19 response to support distanced learning, the United Way of the U.S. Virgin Islands introduces the “In It to Win It” summer book club initiative for Virgin Islands students.

As more and more flights return to the territory, St. John hotels report that July’s occupancy is looking better than June, though the absence of St. John Festival coupled with coronavirus fears is keeping occupancy rates far below normal. Cruz Bay Boutique Hotel, which is typically sold out…

The USVI Storm Strong program is collecting recipes from the community to publish a hurricane-themed cookbook. The cookbook, “One Territory, One Pot: Easy Recipes for Hard Times” seeks to find creative and delicious ways to spice up meals during and following a storm using the non-perishable…

In my more than 30 years teaching junior high classes of church school, I made it a practice to start the school year, every year, with the frightening passage in Matthew chapter 10, especially verses 34 to 39 in which Jesus warns his disciples:

Bertha C. Boschulte Middle School’s (BCB) Full Force Engineers team is the 2019-2020 winner of the national MATHCOUNTS Video Challenge. The challenge required students to select and solve a problem in a visually creative way while displaying the students’ mathematical skills. The team topped…

The Theovald E. Moorehead Dock and Terminal’s gravel parking lot at Enighed Pond in Cruz Bay is set to reopen July 1 as a paid parking facility. The V.I. Port Authority, which owns the parking lot, removed dozens of derelict vehicles and equipment from the lot last year and spent $400,000 to…

More than two months after the territory closed its doors to visitors, tourists began trickling back June 1, limited by a reduced number of flights arriving on St. Thomas daily. Vacation rental owners and managers report a vast array of circumstances from fully booked calendars to sparse boo…

This past week, the St. Thomas/St. John Friends of Denmark Society honored one of their former members with a special award. Patricia Nicholson-Jones, a member of the society for more than 40 years, received her award acknowledging her service from the society’s President Marlene Peterson-Bo…

From the twin traumas of Hurricanes Irma and Maria to the fear and anxiety caused by the coronavirus and the related economic fallout, Virgin Islands residents have faced numerous challenges over the past few years. Now there’s a listening ear with a unique perspective that seems tailor-made…

The handful of residents who showed up at Maho Bay the morning of May 24 was nowhere near the hundreds that usually turn out for the Friends of Virgin Islands National Park annual Beach to Beach Power Swim, but the group’s fundraising efforts surpassed the organization’s goal.

To assist the territory’s front line responders fighting the coronavirus pandemic, Oriental Bank made a donation of $20,000 to the V.I. Health Department for protective gear.

The University of the Virgin Islands Center for Excellence in Leadership and Learning (UVI CELL) has been reaffirmed accreditation status by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

For the first time in more than two months, hotels and villa rentals will open their doors to tourists starting Monday. The arrival and turnover process will look a lot different than it did in late March, when the territory closed to visitors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On St. Joh…

Those who knew 17-year-old Allegra Muilenburg as a young child growing up on St. John can’t say they’re surprised at the success she found on The Voice, a televised singing competition.

Thanks to the Golden Age Ranch on St. Thomas, many older racetrack horses can look forward to a well-deserved retirement. This non-profit three-acre horse sanctuary in Smith Bay across from Lindquist Beach rehabilitates and trains them to be gentle horses, ideal for riding.

Botanical Garden opens

Greetings to all my brothers and sisters across the Diocese, across the Caribbean, the nation and the world.

Mother’s Day had its origins in the best of quasi-religious intent: desire to heal the wounds of the Civil War, in which so many lives had been lost in our young nation, in expectation that no one felt the pain quite as much as the mothers of the dead. It was as if a gigantic Pietá — a sorro…

University of the Virgin Islands biology student Makeda Mills has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

The Second Sunday of Easter is often referred to as “Doubting Thomas Sunday.” And we commonly find ourselves drawn into the account because we too often decline to believe, like the Apostle Thomas, what we cannot see “with our own two eyes.”