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WTJX NEWSFEED: October 9, 2025

Pictured: The Virgin Islands Legislature raised a Pride flag in June 2024 at their St. Croix location (as well as St. Thomas and St. John) and five months later stalled a bill submitted by Governor Albert Bryan Jr. that would have created a formal process for changing gender markers on government-issued IDs.
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Pictured: The Virgin Islands Legislature raised a Pride flag in June 2024 at their St. Croix location (as well as St. Thomas and St. John) and five months later stalled a bill submitted by Governor Albert Bryan Jr. that would have created a formal process for changing gender markers on government-issued IDs.

On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed: Last November lawmakers stalled legislation submitted by Governor Albert Bryan Jr. that provided for a judicial process that grants gender marker and name change on government-issued identification. Almost a year later, the governor took matters into his own hands, signing Executive Order no. 543-2025, establishing the formal process by which individuals in the VI may request a change to the gender marker on their official government-issued documents. The Department of Public Works reports that two VITRAN buses are back in service on St. Croix with a third expected this week. The agency is working to modernize its aging fleet as it prepares for the arrival of six new fixed-route and six paratransit buses. A St. Thomas woman has been rearrested and faces new charges for fleeing the scene of a crash that seriously injured a pedestrian in Smith Bay. Listen to these stories and more.

Marcellina Ventura-Douglas is the Radio News Reporter for WTJX-FM, 93.1.&nbsp;She was born and raised on the island of St. Croix, where her grandfather founded&nbsp;the&nbsp;historic&nbsp;newspaper, The&nbsp;St. Croix Avis.&nbsp;Marcellina earned her&nbsp;bachelor’s degree in criminal justice&nbsp;from the University of the Virgin Islands,&nbsp;also&nbsp;working in the office of Senator Shawn-Michael Malone while she attended school.&nbsp;After leaving Malone's office,&nbsp;Marcellina&nbsp;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.&nbsp;She then joined WTJX-TV, Channel 12 as a producer, but was soon&nbsp;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&nbsp;podcasts.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br/>Email: mvdouglas@wtjx.org<br/>Phone: (340) 474-1682
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