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A crew from Marco St. Croix stripes Airport Road earlier this month.

Marco’s launch of in-house road striping expected to reduce STX backlog; delays possible in STT/STJ

Tom Eader

Marco’s new in-house road striping expected to reduce backlog on St. Croix with two options now available; delays possible in STT-STJ District due to one contractor.

The Intox EC/IR-II instruments used to determine alcohol content were not working Sunday morning at either the Wilbur H. Francis Command in Frederiksted, pictured, or the Ancilmo D. Marshall Command in Christiansted, according to court documents.

Instruments used to chemically test DUI suspects on St. Croix failed to function over the weekend

Tom Eader

Offline instruments at two St. Croix police stations prevent officers from giving chemical test to DUI suspect involved in car crash after failing field sobriety tests.

Op-Ed: WAPA at the Fiscal Brink

Nellon L. Bowry

Nellon L. Bowry has an extensive career in public finance. He is a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, serving in that capacity during the Schneider and Mapp administrations.

Jerry Smith, a physical therapist who owns Therapy Works on St. Thomas and in the British Virgin Islands on Tortola and Virgin Gorda, serves as chair of the Virgin Islands Government Hospital & Health Facilities Corporation, also known as the territorial hospital board. Smith, pictured testifying during a Committee on Health, Hospitals and Human Services meeting on February 25 in the Earle B. Ottley Legislative Hall on St. Thomas, also chairs the St. Thomas/St. John District hospital board.

AHEP union members call for salary reform amid recruitment crisis at both territorial hospitals

Tom Eader

Outdated starting salaries from 2002 present a barrier for hospitals to retain physicians; union calls for new contract.

Senator Marise James chairs a Committee on Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure and Planning meeting on June 16 from the Earle B. Ottley Legislative Hall on St. Thomas.

Sen. James preempts Bryan on bill allowing government workers to run for office without taking leave

Tom Eader

Senator Marise James to reintroduce bill to repeal law requiring government workers take leave to run for office; Democratic Party supports measure.

Delroy “Ital” Anthony, a culture bearer on the island of St. John, exhibits one of the hand-made local crafts he is known for selling.

St. John culture bearer arrested and charged following disjointed Food Fair vendor placement process

Isabelle Teare

Delroy Anthony, a longtime St. John vendor and culture bearer, to fight interfering with an officer charge in court after dispute over Food Fair booth leads to arrest.

Karen Dickenson, of The People’s Choice, right, speaks in the microphone while protesting the territory’s broken health care system today across the street from the Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center on St. Croix.

Protesters rally outside territory’s hospitals, offer aid amid ongoing supply shortages

Tom Eader

The People’s Choice organize hospital protests, commit to donating resources to aid Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital in struggle to keep basic supplies in stock.

Peter Chapman, the former CEO and executive director of the University of the Virgin Islands Research and Technology Park who filed a whistleblower complaint against the RTPark last November and a lawsuit alleging discrimination based on disability in April, recently resolved all claims in mediation.

Former CEO Peter Chapman settles whistleblower, discrimination lawsuits against RTPark in mediation

Tom Eader

Peter Chapman, former UVI Research and Technology Park CEO, settles whistleblower and disability discrimination lawsuits against RTPark through mediation.

Pernell Towers Jr., left, walks out of Superior Court today along with his friend and alibi witness, Selwyn Gonzalez, after a jury acquitted him of all charges including first-degree murder in connection to the March 20, 2019 killing of Kelvin Woodson on St. Croix.

Pernell Towers Jr. acquitted of all charges including murder in 2019 killing of Kelvin Woodson

Tom Eader

Jury finds Pernell Towers Jr. not guilty of all charges including first-degree murder in 2019 fatal shooting of Kelvin Woodson.

The KFC on St. Thomas waterfront which is owned and operated by Kazi Foods of the Virgin Islands Inc., the company being sued by their landlord Drake’s Passage Inc. over tens of thousands in unpaid rent.

Landlord sues to evict KFC operator on St. Thomas waterfront over tens of thousands in unpaid rent

Isabelle Teare

Drake’s Passage Inc. moves to evict KFC operator Kazi Foods over almost $40,000 in unpaid rent.