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M.A. Dworkin Bentonville, AR - Imagine stepping into your flying car in Frederiksted and zipping over to Christiansted to pick up some burgers at Shupe’s on the Boardwalk, then zipping back out to the East Side to have lunch with some friends, all the while not getting caught up in that nasty mid-day traffic tie up around Sunny Isles. Sounds like a good daydream? Well, it’s not a dream any longer. A company called Jetson’s, is taking orders for 2026 with 2028 deliveries of th

A.J. Pike St. Croix - On October 26, 2025, Elliot Navarro, 54, and Omayra Navarro 41, were detained at the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport white attempting to leave the Territory.         Their attempt to flee stems from charges brought against them in a case dating back to January 30, 2024, when officers of the School Security Bureau were notified by the Juanita Gardine School personnel department of a sexual assault on a minor.        Detectives of the Criminal Investigation Burea

A Thriving Business Community St. Croix - When you mix together the most influential business organization on St. Croix, the St. Croix Chamber of Commerce, with the Territory’s most innovative economic development organization, RTPark, and invite them both to a business mixer at an ultra-hip building, 64 West, on the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) campus, you create a unique opportunity. Imagine about 100 Chamber members, RTPark representatives, and highly interested

M.A. Dworkin USVI - In a deep blow to the USVI’s hopes to fund residential community solar projects and power storage, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revoked a $62.5 million “Solar For All” grant to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). The grant, which was approved in April 2025, was intended for residential and community solar projects but has now been rescinded under the Trump Administration’s new governmental efficiency policy. The revocation of the funds forces

M.A. Dworkin Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made an unprecedented demand on States to share personal information on all 41.7 million  federal food assistance recipients who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The identifying information includes, but is not limited to, names, dates of birth, addresses, and Social Security numbers, as well as the dollar amount each recipient has received over a time peri

M.A. Dworkin The Atlantic - The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season has been suspiciously quiet for the Virgin Islands. ..Is a big storm waiting to exit off the African Coast and barrel its way across the Caribbean? Is there still a Cape Verde Hurricane in its early stages of development? At this point it doesn’t seem too likely.        “The Conga line of tropical waves exiting Africa that hits its peak by late August and September - is a little late to the party this season,” wro

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix -What kind of a world are we living in where 9 million people die of hunger and hunger-related causes every year, of which 3 million are children, and malnutrition is a factor in half of all child deaths worldwide.        What kind of world are we living in where 3 million children under the age of five die from poor nutrition and hunger-related causes each year?        As of this moment, according to The World Counts 7,242,785..86..87..88 and counting,

M.A. Dworkin Caribbean Sea - Green Turtle populations have recovered so successfully that their official status has been downgraded from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Least Concern’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.        Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) have declined in numbers by between 48 to 67 per cent over the last 200 years, largely due to human influences such as fisheries bycatch, loss and degradation of nesting sites and

M.A. Dworkin London - A group of blind patients can now read again after being fitted with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye. A surgeon who inserted the microchips in five patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, England, says the results of the international trial are “astounding.”      The technology offers hope to people with an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), called geographic atrophy (GA), which affects five million worldwi

A.J. Pike St. Croix - At approximately 11:53 pm on Friday, October 17, 2025, officers were dispatched by VITEMA’s 911 Emergency Call Center to Bienvenido’s Bar in Estate Profit, St. Croix, in reference to a reported gunshot victim.        Upon arrival, officers discovered an unresponsive male lying face down inside the establishment. Emergency Medical Technicians arrived shortly after the call and confirmed the male had no vital signs.       The victim was identified by next

A.J. Pike British Columbia - Just when you thought there were no more exciting inventions, except those created by AI, along comes the Myco Toilet, the world’s first mushroom (fungi) powered, odor-free, eco-friendly composting marvel of an outhouse.        A team at the University of British Columbia (UBC) has created the Myco Toilet, a waterless composting toilet powered by mushroom mycelia (root-like structure of the fungi). This innovative outhouse separates solids and liq

A.J. Pike St. Croix - On Saturday, October 4, 2025, at approximately 4:42 pm, the VIPD’s Criminal Investigation Bureau responded to a report of an incident that occurred on Company Street in downtown Christiansted.        The 911 Emergency Call Center received a call from the Juan F. Luis Hospital (JFL)  Emergency Room where a female victim had been admitted with severe injuries. Responding Officers arrived at JFL and interviewed the woman who told investigators that she had