WTJX NEWSFEED: May 7, 2025

By Isabelle Teare

Published May 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM AST

Photo description: Footage from the U.S. Coast Guard’s rescue operation, following an accident on St. Croix’s Carambola Zip Line on November 1, 2024.

On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed: A woman is suing the Carambola Zip Line on St. Croix following a mid-air collision last November that resulted in the Coast Guard airlifting her from the scene by helicopter. A federal judge hears an update on the discovery process in the bribery case against former Police Commissioner Ray Martinez and former Management and Budget Director Jenifer O’Neal. And we speak with Kayla Blincow Israel, a professor at the University of the Virgin Islands, about a new report that warns of record breaking sargassum levels arriving in the territory. Listen to these stories and more.

WTJX NEWSFEED

Isabelle Teare

Isabelle Teare is a new member of the WTJX team. She is a recent graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in radio broadcast and audio storytelling. Raised on the island of St. Thomas since the age of seven, Isabelle attended and graduated from Antilles School before moving to Washington, D.C. where she earned her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in Justice and Peace Studies. Originally planning on pursuing a career in the law, Isabelle worked as a paralegal on St. Thomas for several years before making the decision to pursue her passion for storytelling.

See stories by Isabelle Teare

Latest Episodes