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M.A. Dworkin St. Thomas - Governor Albert Bryan Jr. used Monday’s Government House weekly press briefing on St. Thomas to address the recent repeated power outages in the St. Thomas-St. John District over the last two weeks, acknowledging the frustration and hardship experienced by residents and businesses.       The Governor said he has been briefed on the issues affecting the system, including the failure of Unit 15 at the Randolph Harley Power Plant, which left the distric

A.J. Pike St. Croix - On Monday March 30, 2026, at around 7:00 pm, the 911 Emergency Call Center received alerts from the Shot Spotter Detection System that a number of shots had been fired in the vicinity of the Gas For Less Gas Station in Estate Diamond across from the Sunny Isles Shopping Center.       Shortly after, calls began to come in from residents who had heard the multiple shots fired and reported a male was lying wounded on the ground near the gas station. When VI

M.A. Dworkin 109th Anniversary of Transfer Day in USVI Transfer day marks the historic moment on March 31, 1917, when the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John were formally transferred from Denmark to the United States. "Transfer Day is more than a date on a calendar," said Governor Bryan. "It is a powerful reminder of the resilience, strength, and enduring spirit of the Virgin Islands people. For 109 years we have continued to shape our own

M.A. Dworkin Washington, D.C. - The battle over birthright citizenship has finally wound up before the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. In what could be one of the most significant cases of the 21st century, affecting life in the 50 States and the U.S. Territories, the highest Court in the Land will hear the argument whether President Donald Trump, by Executive Order (EO), has the right to end birthright citizenship as it is now implemented, and if that EO complies wi

A.J. Pike  St. Croix - Over two-hundred rounds of ammunition were fired in a gunfight that took place in the vicinity of Carlos Bar in Christiansted on St. Croix just before dawn on Sunday March 29, 2026. Two individuals with gunshot wounds were transported to Juan F. Luis Hospital by private vehicle.       At around 4:50 am, the 911 Emergency Communications Center received a ShotSpotter notification indicating over 200 rounds were fired in the Peter’s Rest area near Carlos B

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - The No Kings protests, also known as No Dictators or No Tyrants, which in reality are anti-Trump protests, drew more than 8 million people nationwide at over 3,300 rallies from Maine to California. The Trump protests also spilled over U.S. borders into European cities including Amsterdam, Madrid and Rome.       The first No Kings nationwide protest day was June 2025 organized on President Trump’s 79th birthday which coincided with a military parade he

M.A. Dworkin  The Middle East - The exiled Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, told the Conservative Action Conference (CPAC) in Houston, that “freedom in Iran is within reach.”       The son of Iran’s last Shah made the comment during his speech to a crowd of conservatives in Grapetree, Texas.        “A free Iran is not a fantasy, Pahlavi said. “A free Iran is within reach right now, but as we all know, freedom never comes free.”       Pahlavi encouraged the U.S. to “stay th

One Man’s Vision        It takes a man of unusual vision to study the terrain, size up the possibilities, and see the future. It takes a man of even greater determination and drive to maneuver his way through all the obstacles, do an end-run around all the naysayers, and deliver his vision to the public as a finished project. Texas entrepreneur, Peter Zielke, of Z Property VI is just such a man. He has pulled a rabbit out of his Texas ten-gallon hat and is well on his way to

M.A. Dworkin The Middle East - Although the U.S. has established complete superiority in the skies over Iran, and has destroyed Iran’s naval capacity along with its air defenses, what is left of the crippled Iranian regime has been able to cause extensive damage to a number of U.S. bases stationed in the countries surrounding Iran.         The NY Times has confirmed that several military bases in the Middle East have been severely damaged in Iran’s retaliatory efforts in resp

John F. McKeon  Danish Archivists Asbjørn Hellum and Ruth Hedegaard are not your average tourists  taking photos on vacation. The two historians are leading an effort to save Virgin Island  history by digitizing records spanning from 1672 to 1917. They are photographing  historical records ranging from plantation deeds to church records. Their intent is to  communicate the silent voices of the enslaved. This work, funded by a private foundation and supported by the Danish Nat

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - As gas prices at the pump on St. Croix have suddenly jumped around 70 cents per gallon, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, in consultation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and in accordance with the Clean Air Act (CAA) issued a temporary emergency fuel waiver on March 25, 2026, to allow the nationwide sale of E15, gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol.        E15 is a safe and increasingly common fuel