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M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - On October 27, 2025, a team of three local high school students left for Panama City, Panama, to represent the U.S. Virgin Islands in a Global Robotics Challenge hosted by First Global, a nonprofit organization focused on STEM education for youth.        The six-person delegation includes: Resa O’Reilly Sheam, Executive Director and Founder of the St. Croix nonprofit Project Promise, who is managing the team; Three official team members - Alejandro Qu

M.A. Dworkin USVI - The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) has received a “notice of award” from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the Virgin Islands Center for Autonomous Research (VICAR), advancing marine research and strengthening the local STEM workforce. The notice of award provides the UVI with $7 million in funding over five years through the U.S. National Science Foundation’s EPSCoR ERISE program. The funds will be disbursed to UVI on a reim

M.A. Dworkin USVI - Cancer Support Virgin Islands (CSVI) launched its 12th Annual Pinktober, a month-long series of events, community initiatives, and fundraising efforts, dedicated to providing direct financial support to cancer warriors across the Territory. This milestone also marks Cancer Support VI’s 20th year of service - two decades standing shoulder to shoulder with cancer warriors, patients and their families when they need it most.        Since its founding in 2005,

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Ocean Point Terminals announced that it has awarded $15,000 in scholarships to eight noteworthy U.S. Virgin...

M.A. Dworkin U.S. Virgin Islands – Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition, Inc. (dba Virgin Islands Good Food), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit...

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - The Rotary Club of St. Croix Mid-Isle, in partnership with Ocwen USVI Services, LLC, continues its longstanding...

M.A. Dworkin       Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking” which was issued on August 7, 2025.        “This latest EO represents another example of a broad national policy from the Trump Administration that will have significant implications for the U.S. Virgin Islands’ federal funding streams. The sweeping directive affects grant recipients

M.A. Dworkin       St. Croix - St. Croix Foundation for Community Development (SCF) recently announced the recipients of $534,000 in grant funding through its 2025 Healing Humanities Cultural Place Keeping Grant Program.        Thirteen innovative nonprofits and community groups serving the island of St. Croix have been selected to receive grants supporting projects that celebrate, preserve, and elevate St. Croix’s rich cultural and historical heritage through arts, storytell

M.A. Dworkin       St. Croix - Ocean Point Terminals celebrated the success of 17 interns during their recent 2025 Summer Internship Presentation Day and Closing Ceremony. Friends and family members of the interns joined Ocean Point staff who looked on as the students offered testimonials and presentations on some of what they learned during their summer work experience.       Ocean Point Terminals is a world-class energy logistics hub located in St. Croix, USVI, with the cap

M.A. Dworkin PHOTO CREDIT: Jeffrey Canton USVI - When you examine the type of people in the U.S. Virgin Islands, they generally fall into one of two categories: the ones that give back to their community and the ones that don’t give back. There’s really  nothing wrong with either type, but it’s the ones that continue to give back to their community that seem to have an extended run of good will heaped upon them. Such are the grand folks at Sterling Optical who have been servi

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Resa O’Reilly Shearn’s groundbreaking Project Promise and its Caterpillar Project students are heading home after a remarkably successful Summer of Service Road Trip that took them to Washington, D.C., across the country to Chicago, Illinois, and up to Seattle, Washington, before heading down the west coast to San Francisco, California.  What an incredible trip it was for the Caterpillars who reached deep into the culture of the United States and came

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Resa O’Reilly Shearn’s groundbreaking Project Promise and its Caterpillar Project students are taking a road trip across America this summer with their first stop touching down in Washington, D.C. on June 26, 2025 with designs on making an impact on communities outside the U.S. Virgin Islands.        After the ‘Caterpillars’ touch down in D.C. the group will volunteer at the United Way of the National Capital Area by creating Healthy Snack Kits for lo