News Articles

Bright Lights Cause Death to Baby Sea Turtles

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Hatchling Sea Turtle disorientations cause their early death every year around this time on St. Croix. This tragedy is due to problematic landward lights that lead the babies away from the water instead of towards it. After hatchlings emerge from their nest, they go towards the brightest horizon, which in a natural environment is the ocean. With increasing coastal development, bright inland lights are often visible from the beach and can cause

Retail Shop Directory - Frederiksted

Strand Street CMCArts Gift Shop Gifts, Books & Art 340-772-2622 Violette Boutique Perfumes, Luxury Handbags 786-622-1910 Cane Bay Dive Shop West Dive Shop 340-718-9913 Molly’s Tropical Boutique Men’ & Women’s Beachwear 340-690-7560 S.C.U.B.A. Dive Shop 340-690-7560 Strand St. - The Frederifsted Mall L&F Castle Men’s & Women’s Fashion 340-719-2400 Daphne’s Caribbean Vybez Women’s & Men’s Fashion 340-332-5295 Brooklyn VI Boutique Shoes, Clothing & Bags 340-727-0979/422-2227 Co

Cruise Ships & War Ships Spell Economic Boom for PR & USVI

M.A. Dworkin The Caribbean - In a war-like, politically charged, atmosphere that has suddenly rolled across the Caribbean Sea like a tsunami, moving from the drug-struck shores of Venezuela, up to the friendly shores of Old San Juan, Charlotte Amalie and Frederiksted, there currently exists an explosion of a much-needed, economic boost to the retail environments of the U.S. Territorial islands of Puerto Rico and the USVI. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest nuc

Cruise Ship Arrivals Frederiksted Pier

December 2025 12/2/25 Tues 8-5pm Jewel/Seas 3432 12/3/25 Wed 8-6pm Adventure/Seas 5238 12/3/25 Wed 8-6pm Vision/Seas 3206 12/7/25 Sun 7-3pm Seven Seas Grandeur 1271 12/9/25 Tues 8-5pm Jewel/Seas 3432 12/16/25 Tues 8-5pm Jewel/Seas 3432 12/17/25 Wed 8-6pm Adventure/Seas 5238 12/22/25 Mon 8-6pm Brilliance/Seas 3438 12/23/25 Tues 8-5pm Jewel/Seas 3432 12/24/25 Wed 7-6pm Celebrity Summit 3587 12/28/25 Sun 7:30-6pm Viking Sea 1393 12/30

USS Iwo Jima Docks in F’sted Harbor

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - In the wake of the 17th go-fast boat being blown out of the water in the Caribbean and Pacific - a war-like act off the coast of Venezuela that has killed 80 suspected “narco-terrorists” and is part of the Trump Administration’s attempt to destabilize the corrupt Maduro regime and put a damper on the cartel's drug trade infiltrating the U.S.- imminent signs of a broad military build-up in the Caribbean has settled upon the quiet shores of the sleepy

VIEDA Buys Padilla Bldg for Agro & Food Ctr in F’sted

St. Croix Times Staff Frederiksted - The Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority’s (VIEDA) Enterprise Zone Commission (EZC) has purchased the Padilla Building at 53 A&B King Street in Frederiksted, St. Croix. The historic building will become the future site of the Agro and Food Innovation Center, the anchor project of the Frederiksted Enterprise Zone. Supported by an appropriation provided by the 33rd Legislature of the Virgin Islands, the center will serve as a

Final Arrest of Gang that Shot-up F’sted

A.J. Pike St. Croix - The final arrest of the gang that shot-up Frederiksted last February, parts of which were broadcast on social media while they were driving through town near The Fred, was implemented by the VIPD’s Criminal Investigation Bureau. On Friday, February 28, 2025, at approximately 10:48 pm, the ShotSpotter application reported multiple gunshots fired in the Frederiksted Town area. Officers responded to the scene and recovered several spent shell casings.