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May 23rd, 2016
STT man fatally shot near McDonald's in Wheatley Shopping Centre

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI - A 21-year-old St. Thomian was fatally shot near the McDonald’s Restaurant in the Wheatley Shopping Center in St Thomas, USVI on Sunday May 22, 2016, V.I.P.D. Media Specialist Sakeeda Freeman announced today Monday May 23, 2016.

May 12th, 2016
Operation Gun Dog nets 18 firearms from 24 year-old STT man

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI - Naeem Akil Smith, 24, of St. Thomas, USVI, was arrested and charged with the unlawful possession of 18 firearms, including two assault rifles, at the Cyril E. King Airport in St. Thomas, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe on Thursday May 12, 2016.

April 27th, 2016
STT man shot by Police after attempting to rob off duty officer

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI - An off-duty officer in St Thomas, USVI wound up shooting an assailant who attempted to rob him at gunpoint, after being fired upon several times, V.I.P.D. Media Specialist Sakeeda Freeman announced today.

April 9th, 2016
Under pressure USVI's Mapp Admin changes tune on retro pay

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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, VI - At an impromptu press conference called by Government House on behalf of the Office of Collective Bargaining, the Kenneth E. Mapp administration of the US Virgin Islands changed its tune on retroactive pay for government employees, with Chief Labor Negotiator Natalie Tang How stating yesterday April 8, 2016 that all government employees would receive their salary increases that the governor promised earlier this year.

April 1st, 2016
STT, USVI man stabs ex-girlfriend in stomach with pocket knife

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, VI — A man named Ricardo Rhymer, 33, of Agnes Fancy, St Thomas, USVI was arrested and charged with third degree assault after he stabbed his ex-girlfriend with a pocket knife, V.I.P.D. Media Specialist Sakeeda Freeman announced on Wednesday March 30, 2016.

February 18th, 2016
USVI man Malaki George turns himself in for 2012 homicide

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI - Public Information Officer Kevin Jackson of the US Virgin Islands Police Department announced this afternoon February 18, 2016 that Malaki George, 31, of Anna’s Retreat turned himself in and was arrested based on a warrant signed by Judge Adam Christian on February 2, 2016.

January 31st, 2016
US Coast Guard gets new ship to patrol Eastern Caribbean waters

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FREDERICKSTED, St Croix, USVI - The United States Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier was commissioned into service during a ceremony at U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday afternoon January 29, 2016, a press release issued the same day has made known.

January 18th, 2016
Man jailed after guns & bulletproof vests found @ his STT, USVI home

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI - A man living in Vester Gade, Savan, St Thomas, USVI, was arrested and charged with possession of unlicensed firearms after police found three guns and two bulletproof vests at his place of residence, US Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) Public Information Officer Kevin Jackson announced on January 16, 2016.

January 13th, 2016
Woman falls 40ft to her death in St Thomas, USVI

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI — A woman succumbed to wounds she sustained after falling some 40 feet from a hotel room in St Thomas, USVI, VIPD Media Specialist Sakeeda Freeman announced yesterday afternoon January 12, 2016.

December 24th, 2015
Visa pages in US passports to end Jan 1, 2016

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FREDERICKSTED, St Croix, USVI — Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) Osbert E. Potter is advising the community that the U.S. Department of State will no longer add visa pages into U.S. passports beginning January 1, 2016, according to a press release issued on Wednesday December 23, 2015.

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