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WTJX NEWSFEED: January 15, 2025

By Marcellina Ventura-Douglas

Published January 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM AST

On today's WTJX Radio NewsFeed, Virgin Islands educator, Andre Douglas, has been awarded with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Senator Ray Fonseca is urging Governor Albert Bryan Jr. to declare a Hospital State of Emergency. A man from Puerto Rico has been sentenced in VI District Court for his conviction on cocaine trafficking. DOH has issued a clarification regarding the source of the legionnaire’s disease found at Hotel on the Cay. Listen to these stories and more.

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Marcellina Ventura-Douglas

Marcellina Ventura-Douglas is the Radio News Reporter for WTJX-FM, 93.1.She was born and raised on the island of St. Croix, where her grandfather founded the historic newspaper, The St. Croix Avis. Marcellina earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of the Virgin Islands, also working in the office of Senator Shawn-Michael Malone while she attended school. After leaving Malone's office, Marcellina went on to serve as program director of Vivid Streaming before working for the Virgin Islands National Guard as a Family Assistance Center Specialist from 2017 to 2018, where she supported service members and their families following Hurricanes Irma and Maria. She then joined WTJX-TV, Channel 12 as a producer, but was soon tapped to switch to WTJX-FM to deliver local evening news through the WTJX NewsFeed, airing every weekday at 5:00 pm on 93.1 FM and available on demand, wherever you get your podcasts.  <br/>Email: mvdouglas@wtjx.org<br/>Phone: (340) 474-1682

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