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With power outages cascading across the territory and the news in the last week – even getting attention on National Public Radio on the mainland – we worry these events might presage a new drive toward privatization of our public utility. #visource #usvi
Editorial: Beware the Pitfalls and Profits of Privatization
stcroixsource.com
With power outages cascading across the territory and the news in the last week – even getting attention on National Public Radio on the mainland – we worry these events might presage a new drive ...Profits? Any power company providing a serve will have no competition. So there is no way their will be a power company that is not a public utility.
PRIVATIZE NOW!
It can only get better with privatization. This editorial is meant to detract from this option. Once a private company comes in, they can be held accountable like all private companies stateside are. Where as, no accountability thus far has been provided. Except, a donkey ran into a pole, it's raining, we are still trying to figure it out..etc... Incompetence and theft is rewarded with prison time. With privatization comes competition. With competition comes better pricing and better customer service.
An early July weekend of culture and fun, celebrating V.I. Emancipation Day and U.S. Independence Day, are in the works for the island of St. John. Even with pandemic precautions in place, organizers say they’re encouraged that an abbreviated July 4 fete is possible.
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✏: Article by Judi Shimel
📸: Spectrum Band playing at the 2020 St. John virtual 4th of July Festival Village. A few more in-person events are scheduled for this year. (Department of Tourism photo)
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About 15-20 ships, almost half of the Royal Caribbean Group’s fleet, will be deployed in the Eastern Caribbean this year, starting on July 6 with a stop on St. Thomas, according to cruise line officials.
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✏: Article by James Gardner
📸: Royal Caribbean representatives announced four cruise ship calls for the territory this summer, along with COVID-19 protocols meant to keep passengers and residents at each destination port safe from exposure. (Photo courtesy of Government House)
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In high school, Nkosi Thomas was unsure of the career path he would take when he graduated. Now, his path has been a vital part of his career in the U.S. Coast Guard, where he became the first Virgin Islander to captain a cutter into Charlotte Amalie harbor and has worked at the very top of the Department of Homeland Security.
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✏: Article by Adisha Penn
📸: Coast Guard Lt. Commander Nkosi Thomas receives the Legion of Merit from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. (Photo by Zachary Hupp)
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More than five years after the Island Resources Foundation attempted to finalize its operation in the U.S. Virgin Islands by passing 44 acres of environmentally sensitive, protected land in Fish Bay, St. John, to another non-profit, community-based conservation organization, a prominent St. Thomas attorney has filed a suit in V.I. Superior Court against the tax assessor and lieutenant governor.
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✏: Article by Shaun Pennington
📸: Photo by Gail Karlsson
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Brian Everett Francis, along with his project partner, Camelia Febres, included the new USVI Madras in their latest photoshoot, hoping to bring more exposure and attention to the fabric.
“At first we were going to do a bathing suit photoshoot,” Febres said. “But then I came across the Madras fabric project and called Brian.”
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✏: Article by Iyanla Irby
📸: Photos by Brian Everett Francis Phazion Photography LLC
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While driving home from a lovely lunch celebrating my son’s birthday this week, it finally happened. I was hit just shy of head on by a speeding vehicle on the wrong side of the road on a curve less than a quarter mile from home.
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✏: Article by Shaun Pennington
📸: Submitted photo
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The green tassels of sugar canes were a surprising sight on a May morning in 2021, waving in the wind more than half a century since the crop was grown on a large scale on St. Croix.
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✏: Article by Patricia Borns
📸: Photo by Patricia Borns
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The Kids First St. Croix project is asking the St. Croix community to gather Saturday, June 12, at the Midre Cummings Park in Frederiksted to produce drawings and design plans for a renovation of the playground just east of Fort Frederik.
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✏: Article by Susan Ellis
📸: Juliette and Gracie’s mother brought them to the Midre Cummings Playground for a photo shoot, (Photo provided by Christina McPherson)
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I was thrilled when my friend Cheryl sent me a photo of something unusual that had landed on her front step. What could it be?
Actually, I could see right away it was a fat green caterpillar. But I had never seen one like this before. It was close in size to the large striped caterpillars that eat all the leaves off the frangipani trees, but was mostly green, except for a dark band across its face that expanded to look like one big eye in the center of its forehead. Below that was something that looked like a mouth but wasn’t. Weird.
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✏: Article by Gail Karlsson
📸: Photo by Gail Karlsson
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As the start of hurricane season, the month of June fills some people with dread. But for volunteers in the Virgin Islands National Park’s Sea Turtle Program, June is a time to rejoice.
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✏: Article by Amy Roberts
📸: Newly emerged hatchling turtles begin their journey to the sea. (VINP screenshot)
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When a magician is ready to astonish an audience with a trick, he traditionally uses a phrase like “Presto!” or “Abracadabra!”
When magician Lisa Menna travels to a village in India or Ethiopia however, she’ll skip the usual cliches.
Instead, she’ll ask her audience to chant, “Kindness to women brings good things,” or “If you want good luck, don’t hit women.’” At those magic words, a ball suddenly appears in a child’s hand, or colorful handkerchiefs emerge out of nowhere.
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✏: Article by Amy Roberts
📸: Photo #1- Menna shows a trick to a group of men in New Guinea as she was refining her practice of “theater for social change.” (David Kirkland photo)
Photo #2- Menna meets with students at a girls’ school in Punjab, India. (Pamee Perdue photo)
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Using genetic testing, researchers have discovered a major clue to the origin of the green iguana that is so prevalent in the Virgin Islands.
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✏: Article by Bernetia Akin
📸: The iguanas on St. Thomas and St. Croix may be ‘home-grown’ pests, rather than a result of the pet trade, a new genetic study says. (Source file photo)
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Members of the American Legion Post 131 pay tribute to Virgin Islanders who served in the U.S. Armed Forces. The Memorial Day ceremony was held in Coral Bay Monday at the Moravian Church Cemetery. The tomb of each military vet was decorated with a small American flag and the names of those who died in service or as military vets were read. The event was sponsored by the Office of Veteran’s Affairs and the American Legion District No. 10.
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📸: Photos by Judi Shimel
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“Dorsch After Dark” on Tuesday will mark its third month as a pop-up exhibit with music and art at the Dorsch Center in downtown Frederiksted.
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✏: Article by Elisa McKay
📸: Singer Deri Tucker. (Submitted photo)
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Chris Pardo, architect and hospitality designer, was recognized in Dwell Magazine for his rebirth of the Waves at Cane Bay and his 30-year love affair with St. Croix.
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✏: Article by Susan Ellis
📸: The mirror in the bathroom of the refurbished Waves hotel reflects the new look of the room. (Photo provided by Chris Pardo)
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The V.I. Legislature hosted the annual African Liberation Day Ceremony, “Forward Ever to World-Wide Pan-African Unity,” in honor of the territory’s citizens who descended from African ancestors.
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✏: Article by Iyanla Irby
📸: Sen. Genevieve Whittaker delivers remarks on freedom and African Liberation Day. (Photo by DaraMonifah Cooper)
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The University of the Virgin Islands Marine Advisory Service Coordinator Howard Forbes Jr. has been awarded the National Summer Learning Association’s Innovation Fellowship for Leaders of Color and will use the award to support the Youth Ocean Explorers summer program at UVI.
The NSLA is a national, nonprofit organization that invests in summer learning to transform neighborhoods and communities, one child at a time. The organization has been operating for more than 25 years and, in the news release announcing the award, says it plans to fill its next 25 years with even greater possibilities.
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✏: Article by Adisha Penn
📸: A Youth Ocean Explorers student takes note of his observations of marine life. (Photo by Howard Forbes Jr.)
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The Virgin Islands can create a more sustainable and healthier community by adopting practices being followed in other island communities around the world, according to a webinar hosted Wednesday by the Caribbean Green Technology Center.
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✏: Article by Adisha Penn
📸: John Harder of Zero Waste Kaua’i encourages composting recycled food scraps. (Webinar screenshot)
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The St. Croix Colonial Council debated Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal for a public corporation to reorganize the island’s economy for months in early 1934, a debate that routinely spilled out into national news.
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For the full article visit The Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by David Bond
📸: Photos by Jack Delano from the Library of Congress archive
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Author’s Note: St. Croix, once more, stands at a crossroads. The present situation appears unworkable, the path forward uncertain. It is not, however, the first time St. Croix has stood at such a precipice. This historical six-part series explores three moments in the past century – VI Corp, Harvey Aluminum, and Hess Oil – where frustration with the given situation boiled over into radical change. Breaking with the past, a better future for St. Croix was declared, a new foundation laid. These decreed Crucian futures sometimes aligned with the people and sometimes overrode the people. Today, Limetree comes into view at just such a crossroads, and once more the future of St. Croix is up for grabs.
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For the full article visit The Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by David Bond
📸: Photos by Jack Delano from the Library of Congress archive
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