Tamika King St. Croix - Some people protect a place from a distance, through reports, meetings, and policy. Professor Olasee Davis protects St. Croix by walking it. He has spent decades on ridgelines, beaches, ghuts, old estate roads, coastal wetlands, and dry forest trails, teaching people to see the island as a living classroom. To many Virgin Islanders, Davis is known as an environmental activist, ecologist, naturalist, cultural historian, scholar, writer, and mentor. Thos

Axel Dash St. Croix - Maureen O’Hara seemed born for Technicolor. Her red hair caught the light like flame, her voice carried the music of Ireland, and her screen presence could turn a simple entrance into a declaration. She was beautiful, yes, but that was never the whole story. O’Hara played women with wit, temper, dignity, and backbone. She could spar with John Wayne, command a scene beside Charles Laughton, charm a department-store Santa, and still make it feel as if she

Axel Dash St. Croix - Dan Aykroyd’s link to St. Croix feels less like a celebrity footnote and more like a full-circle movie story. The island is not just a scenic escape for him. It is tied to one of the sharpest comedies of the 1980s, a place where his screen history, Caribbean beauty, and personal reinvention now overlap. His recent move to St. Croix has drawn attention because Aykroyd is not a casual name in film history. He helped shape modern movie comedy. He co-created

Axel Dash St. Croix - Michelle Smith’s rise on the track carries the force of a fast final curve: controlled, fearless, and built from years of work that began far from the biggest stadium lights. For St. Croix and the wider U.S. Virgin Islands, her success means more than medals. It is a young athlete showing what island talent can do when skill, discipline, family support, and national pride meet at full speed. Smith has become one of the most exciting track athletes connec

Axel Dash St. Croix - Before Tim Duncan became the quiet center of the San Antonio Spurs dynasty, he was a tall kid on St. Croix learning how to compete in a place with no shortcuts. His story did not start under NBA spotlights. It started on an island with salt air, school routines, family expectations, and a basketball court that helped turn a late-blooming player into one of the most respected athletes in the game. Duncan’s legacy is often told through championships, bank

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Some people like chocolate. Some people love chocolate. Some people are obsessed with chocolate. And then there is Chef Erika Dupree Cline: The Wizard of St. Croix Chocolate. Her Bleu Chocolat Workshop in the Caravelle Arcade, Christiansted, has recently celebrated its 1st Anniversary. Chocolate Lovers Rejoice! Over the past twenty-five years, this celebrated pastry chef has created some of the most scrumptious desserts and chocolates on the pl

M.A. Dworkin Audre Lorde, the radical feminist and award-winning poet, inventor of the term “Blackfullness.” founder of The Women’s Coalition of St. Croix, spent the last seven years of her celebrated life on St. Croix with her partner Gloria Joseph, a St. Croix native. Ms. Lorde’s achievements during her time spent on the island still resonate loudly throughout our community. In her biomythography “Zami” Ms. Lorde uses her writing style to convey her feelings of mistru

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - When you head down to the Boardwalk on St. Croix, there’s really only one name that comes to mind when you’re looking to have a good time, catch a brew, chill out on the harbor view, and have the juiciest burger and fries on the Big Island, that name is Shupe’s! For ten years, Derek Shupe and his wife Jenn have built STX’s Go-to gathering spot, for locals and tourists alike. Shupe’s on the Boardwalk was created in the same cozy space as the ic

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - The list of invitees to Violette’s Boutique on Strand Street in Frederiksted, included the Governor, several Senators, a few Senatorial candidates, the Queen Bee of the West Side Claire Roker, and Jenna Monet, who is a candidate for Miss Universe from the Virgin Islands. The A-List crowd showed up in force to celebrate Christine Hilty’s return to the ranks of top retailers on St. Croix. It was nothing less than a loving tribute to a great family and t

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Transfer day in the U.S. Virgin Islands is celebrated annually on March 31. It marks the formal transfer of the islands from Denmark to the United States in 1917. It commemorates the end of colonial rule, the lowering of the Danish flag, and the raising of the American flag. Over the last 109 years there have been many heroes and heroines who have graced the Territory stage in the name of freedom, in the name of resilience, in the name of advancement.

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - President Joe Biden recently arrived back on his island home of St. Croix, USVI. His arrival brings to mind the tough and turbulent world of U.S. politics. It’s a common tactic in all politics, or shall we say “all dirty politics” for the incoming administration to blame everything that is going wrong with their policies on the previous administration. It’s so easy to say: that incompetent so-and-so has screwed everything up while he was in office, an

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - It’s one thing to love what you’re doing. But when you also love the place where you’re doing it and the people you’re doing it for, you’ve hit a grand slam in the world of business. Dani Facenda and her niece Annabel are two such people who have made St. Croix their home and brought with them Tea Mama teas which have taken the tea lovers on St. Croix by storm. Their wonderful product which comes in all flavors is distributed in grocery stores