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WAPA slapped with $48M Breach of Contract Lawsuit
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) has been hit with a lawsuit from Wärtsilä North America, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based firm which in March 2017 entered into an engineering, procurement and construction agreement (EPC Agreement) with WAPA to design, engineer, procure equipment for, construct, start-up and test an LPG-fired reciprocating engine power plant at the Randolph Harley Generating Complex in St Thomas.
Guyanese sentenced to time served for Illegal Re-Entry into US via USVI
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI — United States Attorney, Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the US Virgin Islands (USVI) recently announced that Warren Michael Whyte, a citizen of Guyana, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to illegally re-entering the United States after being ordered deported and removed.
USVI sets 50,000 vaccination goal
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- On the US mainland, some scholars are confident that the country will achieve Covid-19 herd immunity by April, a projection that would end the pandemic, by some estimates, rather early. Particularly, Johns Hopkins professor Martin Makary wrote in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed that the US will achieve the feat, pointing to a steep 77 percent decline in cases in the past six weeks.
4 killed in helicopter crash on St Thomas, USVI
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BOTANY BAY, St Thomas, USVI — A helicopter crashed at Botany Bay, in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI) Monday afternoon, February 15, 2021, has left at least four individuals dead, including the pilot.
Over 12,000 vaccine doses have been administered in USVI
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The Albert A. Bryan administration on Monday, February 8, 2021, announced that 12,094 vaccinations, including 2,967 second doses, were administered in the US Virgin Islands as of Monday.
Moderna vaccine halts in USVI due to high allergic reactions
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI - The USVI Department of Health announced that it would stop administering vaccine doses it received from a particular batch of the Moderna drug, the same vaccine batch sent to counties across California now being blamed a higher than usual number of recipients responding with severe allergic reactions.
2 USVI police officers, National Guards held in US cocaine bust
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- Two police officers from the St Thomas-St John District, a former [US] Virgin Islands Port Authority enforcement officer and other persons, including members of the USVI National Guard were caught in Florida's Opa-Locka County with over 300 kilos of cocaine, well-placed sources with knowledge of the bust have told the Consortium.
New COVID-19 strain reaches Florida; USVI on high alert
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FLORIDA, USA - The new COVID-19 variant said to be up to 70 per cent more contagious than the current strain has been reported in Florida, coming closer to the USVI, as Florida is a major hub of travel to the U.S. Virgin Islands.
No entry to USVI without COVID-19 negative test from Jan 18, 2021
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CHARLOTTE ALMALE, St. Thomas, USVI - USVI Governor Albert Bryan Jr announced on Thursday afternoon, December 31, 2020,that beginning Jan. 18, no one will be allowed to enter the U.S. Virgin Islands via air travel without a negative COVID-19 test, an action he said is being undertaken in partnership with airlines.
USVIPD warns against firing gunshots in air
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CHARLOTTE AMALE, St Thomas, USVI - The USVI Police Department is urging locals with guns to abstain from firing gunshots into the air on New Year's Eve, as the result could turn deadly and those responsible could be jailed.
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