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M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Santa is planning to come  early this year in the form of St. Croix’s fabulous array of artists and jewelry artisans delivering presents of Christmas joy at the December 18th Art Thursday event in downtown Christiansted.       To visit Art Thursday is to be transported into another world that is about as far away from the worries and troubles of everyday life as you can imagine. Upon entering each gallery you are immediately struck by the totally uni

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - There is always something ultra-exciting about Art Thursday kicking off the start of the Holiday Season in Christiansted. You walk down the streets of Gallery Row and you can feel the creative buzz electrifying the air. New works of art are catching your eye inside every gallery. New gold and silver jewelry designs are beckoning you off the street and into the store. New Chaney pieces are taking over your thoughts with their unique history of the isl

M.A. Dworkin Puerto Rico - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), acting under the direction of the Department of War (DoD), has issued a new Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) establishing temporary flight restrictions over an area off the southeast coast of Ceiba, Puerto Rico.        The order, identified as FDC 5/9106, takes effect on November 1, 2025, and will remain active through March 31, 2026.       According to the FAA, the restrictions are for “Special Security Reaso

M.A. Dworkin David Hamilton Jackson was born on September 28, 1884, in the Estate East Hill, on the island of St. Croix, in the Danish West Indies. He died on May 30, 1946, on the island of St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was vilified as a rebel to the Danish officials who ruled toward the end of the Danish era. Yet, he was lionized as a hero to the Black population who demanded their freedom from slavery in their homeland of St. Croix.       Jackson’s maternal gran

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   St. Croix - Millions of people came out nationwide and globally in peaceful protest to voice their opposition to Trump Administration policies on everything from strong-arm immigration tactics to mass firings of government employees, to overall quasi-Monarch applications of the law.       The nationwide effort involved more than 300 grassroots organizations, with protest events held at over 2,600 locations in all 50 States. Protest events rose up in cities rang

M.A. Dworkin USVI - “There’s a new world comin’   And it’s just around the bend…There’s a new day dawning, That belongs to you and me…” sings Nina Simone.       Such is the battle cry of the U.S. Virgin Islands as it works to reinvent itself as a people who are willing to rise up, shake off its past industrial disappointments, and carve out a new vision for itself as one of the innovative leaders of tourism in the Caribbean Basin.       Now imagine this scenario if you will:

M.A. Dworkin USVI - Governor Albert Bryan Jr. led a Territorial coalition to meet with senior leaders at the U.S. Department of the...

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - After years of false promises, excuses, and a series of frustrating legal moves that amounted to kicking the can...