WTJX NEWSFEED: July 17, 2025

By Isabelle Teare

Published July 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM AST

Photo description: Charter boats docked at Yacht Haven Grande on St. Thomas during the 2023 USVI Charter Yacht Show.

On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed: Governor Albert Bryan Jr. meets with leaders from the Virgin Islands Professional Charter Yacht Association to outline plans for revitalizing the territory’s marine tourism industry. Members of the 36th legislature meet with Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett to better understand the Big Beautiful Bill Act’s impact on the territory, now that it has been passed by congress. And lawmakers clash with the Chief Public Defender over the analysis of data mined from their new case management software. 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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