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M.A. Dworkin San Juan - Multiple hospitals in Puerto Rico are financially distressed and at risk of closure due to a systematic healthcare crisis. This crisis is driven by several long-standing issues, including chronic underfunding, the emigration of medical professionals, and the aftermath of natural disasters, namely the recent Hurricane Maria. The COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated financial collapse causing hospital occupancy to plummet, leading to an estimated $1.1 b

M.A. Dworkin Puerto Rico - The former Puerto Rico Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, after being shuttered by the Navy in 2004, is back in...

M.A. Dworkin Santo Domingo - Amazon Air has begun operating dedicated cargo flights from Miami, Florida to the Dominican Republic (DR),...

M.A. Dworkin San Juan, P.R. - The U.S. has ordered 10 F-35 Fighter Jets to be deployed to Puerto Rico, arriving next week, as the Trump...

M.A. Dworkin Havana, Cuba - Cuba is one of 19 countries listed in President Trump’s latest travel ban. U.S. citizens were already...

M.A. Dworkin Caribbean Sea - Over the last decade, China and Russia have focused on the Caribbean Basin. Beijing has invested billions in...

St. Croix Times Staff Havana, Cuba - The U.S. has revoked visas and imposed restrictions on former Pan American Health Organization...

St. Croix Times Staff Kingston, Jamaica - “Jamaica will not waiver in its pursuit of reparations for slavery,” Minister of Culture,...

A.J. Pike The Blue Waters of the Caribbean - Five Eastern Caribbean nations: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and...

John F. McKeon (Photo:Flag of Spanish Puerto Rico) Puerto Rico is a “country” within a country, with its own traditions, culture and...

John F. McKeon To an observant historian the most commonplace objects can be the key to an intriguing history. One such object is a forged iron manhole cover I came across on Company Street in downtown Christiansted. I spied this prominent hunk of iron slab laid flat near the gutter on a ramble in Christiansted that took me along East Street and down Company Street. While pausing at the corner for a passing car, I spotted this unusual piece of history that had survived

St. Croix Times Staff Governor Albert Bryan Jr. welcomed the Honorable Melissa Poponne-Skerrit, Minister of Housing, Land & Urban Development and First Lady of the Commonwealth of Dominica, wife of Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, to the U.S. Virgin Islands as a distinguished guest of the Department of Tourism’s (DOT) Future Female Leaders Luncheon: Shaping the Future for Young Women in Our Virgin Islands Communities. Minister Skerrit is a dynamic leader and d