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USVI Delegate Plaskett snubs President Obama on Cuba trip invitation
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — Delegate to Congress in the US Virgin Islands, Stacey E. Plaskett said on Wednesday March 16, 2016 that she has refused an invitation from President Barack H. Obama to take the historic trip to Cuba with him, opting instead to attend a previously scheduled panel discussion on this islands with members of Congress and business executives in the technology sector on March 19, 2016 at the Buccaneer Hotel and Resort.
AK-47 used in St Croix, USVI shootout
VI CONSORTIUM
GOOD HOPE, St Croix, USVI — It was just after 8:00 pm on Monday night, March 14, 2016 when contact lines of The Consortium started buzzing with messages of incessant gunshots coming from within Good Hope Condos, a gated community located across the former Good Hope School and just off the Melvin Evans Highway in Frederiksted, St Croix, US Virgin Islands.
Two injured in St Croix, USVI drive-by shooting
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — The [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) has released the names of the victims injured during Saturday’s, March 12, 2016 drive-by shooting incident that occurred near a Concordia gas station on St Croix, US Virgin Islands.
Argument leads to death of St Croix, USVI man
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — A 30-year-old man was shot multiple times on Tuesday night, March 8, 2016 and succumbed to his wounds at the Juan F. Luis Hospital on St Croix, US Virgin Islands, Police Commissioner Delroy Richards confirmed to The Consortium on Wednesday morning, March 9, 2016.
USVI to revoke business & driver’s licenses of 25 deadbeat dads
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — US Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker made known through a statement issued on Sunday March 6, 2016 that the Department of Justice was in the process of revoking the driver’s and business licenses of 25 delinquent parents — all of them fathers — who had failed to adhere to the Department of Justice’s (D.O.J) call of coming into compliance with the territory’s child support laws.
Arabs have stranglehold on St Croix, USVI gas market- Local owners
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, VI- Businessmen of Arab descent have such a stranglehold on the price of gas on St Croix, US Virgin Islands that it would be near impossible for the few locally owned gas stations here to mount a price drop war and win, according to Senator Novelle E. Francis Jr.
USVI man gets 27 months in prison for FB death threat
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — Chief District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis sentenced on Thursday Kamoui Francis, 25, to 27 months in federal prison for transmission of threat to injure, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
2 new cases of Zika, 3 new cases of dengue confirmed on St Croix
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- The US Virgin Islands Department of Health confirmed two additional cases of Zika — both female — on St Croix, US Virgin Islands, bringing the total cases to 4, according to a press release the Department of Health (D.O.H) issued late Tuesday February 23, 2016.
Horse racing in USVI @ ‘Mexican standoff’
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- The horse racing industry in the US Virgin Islands, once a thriving and economy-boosting segment, has hit a standstill that is showing no signs of easing, as TRAXCO officials, and members and representatives of the Flamboyant Horsemen Association are tied in a two-way blame game that Senator Novelle Francis called a “Mexican standoff.”
2nd case of Zika confirmed in USVI
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- A new case of the Zika virus has been confirmed on the island of St Croix, US Virgin Islands, coming one month after the first case was reported. The news was revealed to The Consortium on February 19, 2016 by Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.) officials, during a previously planned interview that took place at the Charles Harwood Memorial Hospital.
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