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M.A. Dworkin DLCA Supermarket Comparison of STX Prices Week September 7, 2026 89 Total Items Surveyed - Market Basket Cost per Store Plaza Extra $443.05 The Market $460.01 Pueblo (Golden Rock) $439.21 Pueblo (La Reine) $425.33 Sop and Shop Supermarket $495.75 DPNR Invites Public to Maroon Commemorative Day Event The special commemorative gathering and tree planting ceremony on Friday, September 24, 2026, at 3 pm, honors the enslaved Africans, known

St. Croix Times Staff Washington, D.C. - FinCEN's federal anti-money laundering agency has put a hard number on a problem that patients, providers, insurers, and investigators have seen for years: health care fraud is not a fringe crime. It is a nationwide financial threat. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, better known as FinCEN, identified $17.5 billion in suspicious financial activity tied to possible health care fraud. The activit

Axel Dash USVI - Far below the sunlit coral gardens that most snorkelers and divers know, another reef world begins. Around St. Thomas and St. John, deep-reef habitats sit in dim blue water, often out of sight and out of mind, yet they may hold key clues about fish populations, coral resilience, and the future of marine conservation in the U.S. Virgin Islands. NOAA’s move to seek a diving team for surveys in these deeper waters signals more than a field assignment. It reflect

M.A. Dworkin USVI - A show-cause order sounds alarming because it is serious. It does not mean the University of the Virgin Islands has lost accreditation. It means the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, known as MSCHE, has asked UVI to prove why its accreditation should continue. UVI’s recent submission of its show-cause response is a major moment for the university, its students, faculty, alumni, and the wider Virgin Islands community. Accreditation affects more

M.A. Dworkin The Caribbean - A beach covered in sargassum can change in a single night. Clear water turns brown at the shore. The air fills with the smell of rotten eggs. Fishers struggle to launch boats, hotels scramble to reassure guests, and cleanup crews face a task that feels endless. Sargassum is not new, and it is not always harmful. Floating mats of it in the open Atlantic provide shelter for fish, turtles, crabs, and seabirds. The problem begins when huge amounts was

M.A. Dworkin USVI - Eight major airline carriers have submitted a joint letter and objected to the Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA) proposed remodeling plans, a public-private partnership (P3), claiming it would make flying in and out of Henry E. Rohlsen Airport and Cyril E. King Airport more expensive than competing regional airports. In a June 3, 2026 letter to Governor Albert Bryan Jr. and VIPA Interim Executive Director Ava Penn, the USVI Airlines Airport Affai

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Governor Albert Bryan Jr. on Monday, August 10, 2026, announced at a Press Briefing at Government House on St. Croix that he has formally requested of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to issue a federal drought disaster declaration for all three of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The request comes as the Territory continues to experience extreme drought conditions on St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John, according to a Drought Information St

M.A. Dworkin Washington, D.C. - The Trump Administration is looking to reopen closed oil refineries, including the embattled one on St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, amid high gasoline prices spurred on by the Iran war. A White House official confirmed to several news sources that the Trump Administration “would like to see refineries across the country reopen, especially the St. Croix refinery,” stating that the St. Croix refinery is of particular interest because

M.A. Dworkin USVI - Governor Albert Bryan Jr. expressed disappointment with the 36th Legislature’s decision to once again delay action on the revised horse racing agreement he presented to Senators, calling it a failure of leadership that wasted public and private resources and denied Virgin Islanders the up or down vote that would have put the matter of horse racing in the USVI in forward motion or back to square one. “Today was the day to hear the agreement, debate it