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Several boats destroyed by fire @ Road Reef!
ROAD REEF, Tortola, VI- Several boats have been destroyed by fire at Road Reef on Tortola, Wednesday, April 26, 2023.
USVI holds off on burning hurricane debris
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- The Department of Planning and Natural Resources in a release issued Friday December 29, 2017 made known that it had issued the permits for the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to conduct air curtain incineration of debris in the territory.
USVI lawmakers pass bill to ban large scale burning
VI CONSORTIUM
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI— Lawmakers on Friday December 1, 2017 passed a bill that prohibits large-scale burning of vegetative debris in the US Virgin Islands (USVI), a move that goes against the Kenneth E. Mapp administration and federal government’s plan to incinerate the hundreds of thousands of debris left behind by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Six youths charged for burning homeless man
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Police yesterday charged all six male teenagers with unlawful and malicious wounding in relation to the burn wounds received by a man while asleep in a parking lot.