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A.J. Pike Hollywood - After decades of wild rumors and greatly exaggerated tales, Rock Legend Alice Cooper has finally set the record straight on rock ‘n’ roll’s most enduring myth: The truth about the infamous “Chicken Incident” is actually wilder and more incredible than the legend that has built up around it for all these years. The 77 year-old Shock Rock pioneer finally spilled the tea on what really happened that night at Toronto’s Peace Festival in 1969. The rev

A.J. Pike Hollywood - There have been few greater unfulfilled romances on the silver screen than the Whitney Houston-Kevin Costner connection in The Bodyguard. If you didn’t shed a few tears by the time the movie ends, you probably need to check and see if your heart is still in its rightful place. Any devoted fan of these two legends could easily feel the reality of their body language, and read between the lines of the script to know there was something else goi

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

In her brilliant documentary, Sugar Pathways, award-winning filmmaker, Johanna Bermudez-Ruiz, has turned her camera’s focus on the migration

Television Icon and Filmmaker, Tim Reid, has announced the launch of LGCY TV Network in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Initially, the network will begin streaming 3 hours of programming per week on Viya’s TV2 on Channel 4. This significant development follows nearly a year of discussions between Tim and the UVI Research and Technology Park (RTPark) through its inaugural Entrepreneur-in-Residence program, which played a significant role in facilitating the launch of the LGCY T

Amidst the persistent challenges of power shortages, Guyana is witnessing a glimmer of hope in its battle against frequent blackouts. ...

The government of the Dominican Republic is facing increasing pressure to remove a ban that restricts exports of plantains to Haiti....

Challenges: According to ClearCaribbean.org , the Caribbean is considered to be one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the...