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  • Kyle Fleming, former director of the VI Energy Office, questions WAPA’s generation projects and accountability as the territory continues to face high electricity costs.
  • On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed: Continued power outages lasting more than 24 hours have prompted protest on St. Thomas, with demonstrators demanding that the government request federal intervention as WAPA struggles to restore reliable electricity service.
  • On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed: Senate Vice President Kenneth Gittens calls for the government to consider selling WAPA's power generation assets to a qualified private operator, arguing that repeated outages and rising costs have made the territory's electricity crisis economically unsustainable. This comes on the heels of WAPA’s Executive Director Karl Knight attributing the latest St. Thomas/St. John power outages to a series of equipment failures during a board meeting today, noting that significant relief is still months away.
BBC News World Service
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Israel's Prime Minister is vowing to launch a major military operation in the West Bank in response to an attack by two Palestinian gunmen on an Israeli military checkpoint that killed two soldiers.