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WTJX NEWSFEED: July 18, 2025

By Isabelle Teare

Published July 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM AST

Virgin Islands Public Broadcasting System

On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed: Congress has approved a sweeping rollback of public media funding — a move that will impact local stations across the country, including right here at home. WTJX’s CEO, Tanya-Marie Singh, addresses this loss in funding. The University of the Virgin Islands outlines a grim financial situation to lawmakers, including a backlog of audits. And a domestic dispute on St. Croix culminated in the death of 48-year-old Alejandro Torres III, who was shot and killed by a responding police officer yesterday. Listen to these stories and more.

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Isabelle Teare

Isabelle Teare is the Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of WTJX. She also serves as a multi-media journalist for the System – writing print stories, reporting for the radio NewsFeed, and hosting <i>Trial Watch</i>, a live online program that covers high-profile cases in the territory. Isabelle is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in radio broadcast and audio storytelling. Born in Brooklyn but raised on St. Thomas since the age of seven, she 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 to pursue a career in law, Isabelle worked as a paralegal on St. Thomas for several years before deciding to follow her passion for storytelling.

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