News Articles

St. Croix Times Staff       St. Croix - A Green Sea Turtle which is considered “Threatened” due to human and natural impacts was apparently shot recently with a spear gun in a malicious manner by some brutal or careless individual.        The Sea Turtle Assistance and Rescue (STAR) team was contacted about a Sea Turtle in distress near the Frederiksted Pier in St. Croix. Divers sent photos to STAR’s Sea Turtle stranding hotline of a Green Turtle with a fishing spear through i

St. Croix Times Staff       St. Croix - The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) in partnership with the Growing, Research,...

St. Croix Times Staff Governor Albert Bryan Jr. met recently with the leadership of the Virgin Islands Professional Charter Yacht...

St. Croix Times Staff USVI - Commissioner Jean-Pierre L. Oriol of the Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) reminds the...

St. Croix Times Staff St. Croix - Governor Albert Bryan Jr. joined the Rev. Dr. Robert Vernon Lee, Executive Director of Fresh Ministries, and Dr. Safiya George, President of the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), for a landmark event: the formal gifting of Fresh Ministries’ Aquaponics Farm facilities to UVI at the historic Bethlehem Sugar Factory restoration site.        The Island Fresh Aquaponics project, launched by Fresh Ministries, has become a successful model of

M.A. Dworkin The renowned Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego is working alongside Native Americans to discover the...

M.A. Dworkin Record-breaking Sargassum levels are expected to invade the shorelines of the U.S. Virgin Islands and other islands in the Caribbean Sea beginning in the month of May 2025. According to a report issued by Optical Oceanography Lab at the University of South Florida (USF), record high levels of the ultra-smelly algae have been recorded in the Eastern Caribbean Sea and Western Atlantic.        “Sargassum inundation will continue to occur in most of the Caribbean nat

St. Croix Times Staff Gallows Bay - Future Job Skills of Tomorrow Inc. (FJSOT) has launched an innovative pre-apprenticeship on-the-job...

St. Croix Times Staff Scientists have captured the sound of plants “screaming” when harvested. The sound is not the same made by humans,...

M.A. Dworkin Close your eyes and imagine a world without any plants. Ridiculous. Not even within the realm of possibility. Never going to...

M.A. Dworkin A delegation of Farmers from the U.S. Virgin Islands recently attended the Black Belt Meat Summit hosted by Tuskegee...

Seasonal selections. Call ahead for times and availability.