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WTJX NEWSFEED: October 27, 2025

By Marcellina Ventura-Douglas

Published October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM AST

Pictured: St. Thomas Social partner and executive chef, Sunil Sharma, prepares food to distribute to SNAP beneficiaries.

On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed: We speak with St. Thomas Social partner and executive chef, Sunil Sharma, as the restaurant offers up to three free meals a day to anyone with a valid SNAP card during the federal government shutdown. Police on St. Croix arrested husband and wife — Elliot and Omayra Navarro — as suspects in the sexual assault of a 7-year-old child. A St. Thomas man was arrested for drunk driving after crashing into a utility pole on Magens Bay Road Friday morning which triggered a series of cascading outages across St. Thomas and St. John. Governor Albert Bryan Jr. announced $2 million to expand the VI Slice Moderate Income Homeownership Program as funding nears exhaustion. Listen to these stories and more.

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Marcellina Ventura-Douglas

Marcellina Ventura-Douglas is the Radio News Reporter for WTJX-FM, 93.1. Born and raised on St. Croix, Ventura-Douglas graduated from the University of the Virgin Islands, where she received her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. While at UVI, she worked in the office of Senator Shawn-Michael Malone before beginning her career in radio. Ventura-Douglas fell in love with radio growing up, when she and her father would spend every morning and afternoon listening to local radio news legend, Alvin G. After leaving Senator Malone's office, she became the program director of Vivid Streaming. She then joined WTJX-TV, Channel 12 as a producer. Soon after, she was tapped to switch to WTJX-FM to present an evening news. She is passionate about bringing radio news to the Virgin Islands community through the WTJX NewsFeed, airing every weekday at 5:00pm on 93.1 FM and available online, on demand.<br/>Email: mvdouglas@wtjx.org<br/>Phone: (340) 474-1682

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