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USVI senate race: Vialet holds No. 1 spot in St Croix District
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— Senator Kurt A. Vialet maintained his number one spot in the 2020 General Election Senate race on St Croix, US Virgin Islands (USVI) on November 3, 2020, demonstrating the senator's staying power over the years.
Man arrested for allegedly raping 11-year-old girl
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CHRISTIANSTED, St Croix, USVI - USVI Police on Tuesday arrested and charged a 34-year-old man who allegedly raped a 11-year-old girl.
US man who brutally murdered St Croix teen in 1994 to be executed
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Attorney General William P. Barr on September 30, 2020, directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of Orlando Cordia Hall, who was sentenced to death after kidnapping, raping, and murdering a 16-year-old girl from St Croix, US Virgin Islands (USVI) in 1994.
1 dead, 4 injured in spate of shootouts on St. Croix
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FREDERIKSTED, St. Croix, USVI - Friday night, October 9, 2020, was exceptionally violent on St. Croix, with five shooting victims, including one who died, being reported across the island—from Kingshill to Smith Field, and on King Street in Frederiksted—the latter leaving a female victim in her twenties dead.
New poll favourable to Gov Albert A. Bryan Jr's handling of pandemic in USVI
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- A new poll has revealed frontrunners in the legislative elections scheduled for November 3, 2020, high support for Governor Albert A. Bryan Jr’s handling of the coronavirus, and a majority of US Virgin Islands (USVI) residents in favour of more economic development and tourism.
USVI police searching for men who forced cat to smoke marijuana
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— The [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) is seeking the community's assistance to identify and locate two men who were seen on video forcing a cat to smoke marijuana, according to police spokesman Toby Derima.
Human skull, bones discovered on USVI beach
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— A local couple discovered a human skull and bones at Coakley Bay on the East End of St Croix, US Virgin Islands (USVI) Thursday morning, September 24, 2020, triggering a number of questions relative to the origin of the finding.
UPDATE: VI artistes ‘honoured’ to feature in music video with USVI’s
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The three Virgin Islands’ artistes featuring in an 'uplifting' music video alongside artistes from the US Virgin Islands (USVI) have all said they are honoured to be a part of the production aimed at motivating persons in the Greater Virgin Islands to get through difficult situations.
Calls for state of emergency in USVI after 7 homicides in a month
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— Senator Kurt A. Vialet on Tuesday morning, August 18, 2020, called for a state of emergency to be declared against violence in the US Virgin Islands (USVI), following the shooting incident in Sion Farm last night that left a 16-year-old boy, described by many as holding promise, dead.
USVI records 30 New COVID-19 cases on Friday; 52 in two days
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI - The USVI Department of Health on Friday, August 14, 2020, reported 30 new cases of the novel coronavirus, leading to a total of 52 new cases in two days, as the contagion continues its spread in the territory with St. Croix registering 7 of the new cases, St. Thomas, 22 and St. John, 1.