Virgin Islands News

The U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism has launched its 'Grand Getaway' summer travel promotion, saving vacationers more than $1,000. This offer is only available through bookings made on www.VisitUSVI.com through June 15, 2013, for travel between June 1 and September 30, 2013.

A number of convicted murderers and rapists - as well as Alric Simmonds, a high-ranking staff member for Gov.

Photo courtesy of the Virgin Islands State Historic Preservation Office. The headquarters of the Hamburg-American Line, a German steam ship company, is an example of the architectural style of fireproof warehouses developed on St.

Also, for the convenience of our readers and the online community generally, we have reproduced the complete Caribbean Net News archives from 2004 to 2010 here .

The Right Rev. E. Ambrose Gumbs, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Virgin Islands, along with the entire Deanery of St.

We are writing to you on behalf of V.I. Police Officer David Petersen. This is a letter of commendation for his role in bringing stability to Coki along with an atmosphere where law and order prevails.

Foundation for the Reichhold Center for the Arts at the University of the Virgin Islands, St.

FENDI Casa , the Italian home furnishings designer, has been tapped to design a 1, 334-square-foot penthouse with sweeping views of the Caribbean.

Caribbean Community countries say they will continue to oppose subsidies being granted to the UK-based Diageo, one of the world's biggest producers of rum, because of the impact the subsidy is having on rum producers in the Caribbean.

After spending almost $20 million on the Charles Wesley Turnbull Library, the departments of Planning and Natural Resources and Public Works have announced that the entire roof needs to be replaced because panels on it make an inappropriate popping sound, according to Public Works Commissioner Darryl Smalls.

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Commissioner Darryl Smalls said public works crews in the US Virgin Islands have begun clearing roads of debris in the St Thomas/St John district after torrential rains caused flooding this past weekend.

The University of the Virgin Islands awarded 218 degrees Saturday at its 49th commencement ceremony at the Sports and Fitness Center on its St.

Thomas 81 % humidity. 30.00 Barometric Pressure - rising. Wind from East at 7 -under clear skies.

Two female soldiers with the Third Army, Sgt. 1st Class Shannon Lacy, 32, of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Staff Sgt.

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Frequent laughter, applause and tears punctuated the pinning ceremony Friday afternoon for the University of the Virgin Islands-St. Croix nursing students.

The V.I. Police Department is refusing to clarify issues surrounding an alert for a missing child issued Thursday night who was last seen six days earlier boarding a plane with a woman police described as his maternal grandmother.

Daily News Photo by AISHA-ZAKIYA BOYD University of the Virgin Islands nursing program graduates receive pins at a ceremony Thursday at UVI.

Thomas 79 % humidity. 30.05 Barometric Pressure - rising. Wind from East at 11 -under full cloud cover.