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May 15th, 2024
USVI: Woman charged for leaving minor children home alone to go partying

VI CONSORTIUM

FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — A woman is now facing felony child neglect charges after her daughter told police that she was left alone with her little brother while their mother went to a party.

May 15th, 2024
‘We should have 4 [music fests]- Claude O. Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Consultant, commentator and clergyman Claude O. Skelton-Cline has said many people are hurting in the territory yet some people continue to talk about everything except what really matters.

May 15th, 2024
Basketball at an all-time low; Gov’t needs to step in- Roy A. Garraway

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Businessman and basketball coach Mr Roy A. Garraway has lamented that basketball is at an all-time low in the territory and has called for the government to step in to save the sport.

May 15th, 2024
Cargo plane makes emergency landing at St. Croix Airport over gear failure

VI CONSORTIUM

ST. CROIX, USVI — This morning, an Air Flamingo cargo flight made a critical emergency landing at the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport in St. Croix after experiencing a landing gear malfunction, the V.I. Port Authority has announced.

May 15th, 2024
Search on for new Haiti PM

CMC

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti on Monday began the search for a new prime minister, in keeping with the agreement reached on April 3 this year allowing for the establishment of the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) that is tasked with ending the political and socio-economic crisis in the French-speaking CARICOM country.

May 15th, 2024
TikTok content creators sue US gov't over law that could ban platform

AP NEWS

WASHINGTON, USA - Eight TikTok content creators sued the United States government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn't sell its stakes within a year.

May 15th, 2024
75-year-old ‘mastermind’ of 2005 armed UK robbery sentenced to life

LONDON (AP) — A 75-year-old man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced Friday for the murder of a British police officer who was shot dead during an armed robbery in northern England nearly two decades ago.

May 15th, 2024
CIMH says bleach warming is present in the Caribbean

LOOP NEWS

The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) says bleach warming level heat stress is present in the southwest Caribbean and with a high probability that it will reach or exceed several alert levels.

May 15th, 2024
Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel

BBC NEWS

The White House has told Congress it wants to send more than $1bn (£800m) in new weapons to Israel.

May 14th, 2024
VIP Gov't's Inaugural Territorial Address set for May 16, 2024

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Virgin Islands Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) will host the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government's Inaugural Territorial Address under the theme ‘Building a Sustainable Nation’ on Thursday, May 16, 2024.

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