WTJX NEWSFEED: May 8, 2025

By Isabelle Teare

Published May 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM AST

Photo description: A banner outside the Legislature Building on St. Thomas celebrates National Nurses Week, which runs from May 6-12.

On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed: National Nurses Week prompts Senator Ray Fonseca, chairman of the Committee on Health, Hospitals and Human Services, to reflect on the lack of nursing resources available for the territory’s aging population. The man who was shot and killed near Emancipation Garden on St. Thomas on Sunday has been identified as 26-year-old Dion Williams. And we speak with Averil George, Human Services commissioner, about the relocation of residents at the Queen Louise Home for the Aged to allow for long overdue repairs to the facility. Listen to these stories and more.

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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.

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