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M.A. Dworkin CDC: New Requirements on US/USVI Travelers Due to DRC Ebola Outbreak The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now requiring all air passengers and crew members arriving in the U.S. and USVI from foreign countries to submit a signed attestation confirming they have not been physically present or transited through the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) within the previous 21 days. Falsification could result in fines. The current Ebola outb

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 USVI - The US Virgin Islands sits at the center of a rich marine region, yet much of the seafood eaten in the territory is imported. That gap has made industrial aquaculture (fish farming)an attractive idea for some policymakers, investors, and food security advocates. If done carefully, fish farming could bring jobs, local supply, and new marine expertise to the islands. If done poorly, it could place new pressure on reefs, fisheries, water quality, and coastal

M.A. Dworkin San Juan, PR - A delayed permit can do more than slow a project. It can drain a small business owner’s savings, push a developer’s financing out of reach, or make a multinational company choose another market. That is why Puerto Rico’s new planning and permitting framework matters. The Código de Planificación y Permisos de Puerto Rico is more than a technical update to rules and forms. It is an attempt to change how investment moves from idea to construction, fro

A.J. Pike St. Croix - A small bay on St. Croix holds one of the earliest and most painful contact stories in the Caribbean. In November 1493, Christopher Columbus’s fleet reached the island during his second voyage across the Atlantic. What followed was not a peaceful meeting of two worlds, but a violent encounter between Europeans and Indigenous people that still shapes how Columbus Day is remembered. The event is often called the Columbus Landing at Salt River Bay. It matte

A.J. Pike St. Croix - A single fruit fly can look harmless. The Mediterranean fruit fly is not harmless. The discovery of the medfly on St. Croix has triggered a level of response the U.S. Virgin Islands has never seen before: the first USDA-approved federal quarantine in the USVI for this pest. That step signals more than a technical change in regulation. It means federal and local agricultural officials see a serious threat to crops, food security, backyard fruit trees, and

America needs oil now: Trump is sitting on a sleeping giant in the Virgin Islands By Albert Bryan Jr. Published in the Washington Examiner September 24, 2026 President Donald Trump has made American energy dominance and lower costs national priorities. He recently announced an agreement giving the United States majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven crude reserves and brought refinery executives to the White House with a practical que

A.J. Pike USVI & BVI - A boundary line on the water has become a business line for charter operators in the Virgin Islands. For years, charter boats and water taxis have moved between the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands with a rhythm that supported both economies. Guests flew into St. Thomas, boarded boats in the USVI, cleared into the BVI, and spent money across the chain of islands. That balance is now under strain. The USVI has set a new deadline for res

M.A. Dworkin USVI - A refinery restart on St. Croix is never just a business decision. It is a test of how far regulators will go to protect air quality, how much risk nearby communities are asked to accept, and whether a shuttered industrial site can return as an economic engine without repeating the mistakes that shut it down. The EPA’s recent rollback of clean air regulations could shift that balance. If federal greenhouse gas rules and Clean Air Act upgrade requirements b