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The Virgin Islands government has so far failed to identify the cause of a persistent chemical stench on St. Croix, and the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that federal investigators have not yet begun air quality testing.
CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti — Boston’s Berklee College of Music is one of the world’s preeminent music study institutes. Many graduates go on to become industry professionals while others become megastars. But only one graduate — a Virgin Islander — now serves in the U.S. Army in the Horn of Africa.
ST. THOMAS — A COVID-19 outbreak among congregants who attended a church service is driving an increase in positive cases on St. Thomas, V.I. Health Commissioner Justa Encarnacion said during a press briefing Monday.
Sports
Arizona, which came close to pulling off the biggest surprise of the 2020-2021 women’s college basketball season, will headline the field for this fall’s Paradise Jam tournament in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
USVI’s Swayne qualifies for U.S. Women’s Open
D’Amour wins Jr. Pan Am Qualifier, 5th in Pan Ams
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Island Life
Dr. Chester D. Copemann, PhD, was awarded a presidential citation for his many years of work with children, adolescents, adults and families in the Virgin Islands — and his efforts to organize and support the Association of Virgin Island Psychologists and to keep the association connected to…
Dr. Kimberly Mills, executive director for the Virgin Islands University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, was awarded the Disability and Disasters Award by the Natural Hazards Center.
If you keep my commands, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my father’s commands and abide in his love. John 15:10
For the Record
After a night that left three individuals dead on St. Croix, the territory is on pace for 2021 to be the deadliest year in at least a decade.
Police are investigating a series of shootings over the weekend on St. Croix that left one person dead and three others injured, according to V.I. Police spokesman Toby Derima.
At a court hearing Tuesday morning, a magistrate judge found probable cause for four of five criminal charges filed against a man who admitted to forging fake COVID-19 test results so he and his wife could travel to St. Croix.
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