West End News

The handsaw has quietly sat in many a household for years without a sound, without anyone realizing its ability to sing. It is far less expe

The moment you step foot inside the environs of the St. George Village Botanical Gardens (SGVBG) you feel as if you have entered a magical corner of heaven. Your mind whisks you away to a place that is so overflowing with natural beauty, so blanketed with peace and tranquility, that you instinctively feel, deep down inside, that if you were trapped here for all of eternity, it wouldn’t be such a bad way to go. And yet Estate St. George did not always bring to mind such

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - The Bryan-Roach Administration through the Virgin Islands Department of Public Works (DPW) has begun initial mobilization and preparation work for the milling, reconstruction and paving of King Street, Queen Street, Strand Street and portions of Fisher Street in Frederiksted Town. The work is being carried out by DPW contractor Marco St. Croix, Inc., and marks another important step in the Administration’s continued effort to improve road condit

“If there be green in paradise, it cannot but be of this shade, which most assuredly is the true green of hope!” Jules Verne, The Green Ray (1882) The Green Flash is an optical phenomena that you can see shortly after sunset or before sunrise. It occurs when the sun is almost entirely below the horizon, with the upper edge still visible. For a second or two, the upper rim of the sun will appear green in color (or sometimes blue). It is usually observed from a low altit

In a world that appears to be fractured in so many ways it’s impossible to count; in an age increasingly ruled by ungovernable forces polluting the very air we breathe, in a time when egoists, tyrants and maniacs are pushing humanity to the brink…to the rescue entering Frederiksted Town rides a trio of gallant artisans on winged-white horses, hitching their steeds up on Strand Street right in front of CMCArts. Their names are: Peace. Love and Imagination. That trio o

John F. McKeon Melvin Herbert Evans, born in Christiansted in 1917, was a pioneering Virgin Islands politician and physician who made history as the first popularly elected governor of the US Virgin Islands. A Republican, he served as governor from 1969 to 1975, initially as an appointee of President Richard Nixon before winning the territory's first gubernatorial election in 1970. Following his governorship, Evans became the territory's delegate to the US House of Rep