Jeanette Smith Barry, principal of Charlotte Amalie High School, issued a reporting schedule on Wednesday for faculty and students to follow.
"All students attending Charlotte Amalie High School are to report for a full day of classes on Thursday, September 21, 2000 beginning at 8:10 a.m," Barry advised.
School paraprofessionals will meet at the high school on Thursday, Sept. 14 for orientation.
Teachers are to report to the school for orientation sessions at 8 a.m. on Monday, September 18.
Faculty and staff will prepare classrooms on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 19 and 20.
Smith reminded students that there will be no orientation and schedule distribution programs during the week of Sept. 18. Students and parents must attend sessions held this week, or not be admitted to classes when school begins.
All students who need IDs must have their pictures taken by Friday, Sept 15.
IDs must be worn as part of the dress code.

The House of Representatives’ approval of a bill that will allow the V.I. Legislature to determine how many members it should have is a step in the right direction. But it is only one step.
If the U.S. Senate passes the bill, as it is expected to do, the next move needs to be a change in the way we elect senators – by calling for numbered seats.
It is sorely obvious in the current Senate race that without numbered seats, candidates will continue to run in a popularity contest instead of a desperately needed issue-based race, where the winners can be held accountable to their positions..
The Source has offered its open forum section, at no cost, to any and all candidates who wish to address specific issues.
Sadly and tellingly, only one candidate has used the forum to address clear-cut concerns.
Until candidates are forced to face off against one another and clearly state what they stand for, we will continue to be forced to live with a sinfully highly paid, ambiguous, do-little Legislature. And that will be true no matter how many senators we have.

The U.S. House of Representatives’ approval of a bill that will allow the V.I. Legislature to determine how many members it should have is a step in the right direction. But it is only one step.
If the U.S. Senate passes the bill, as it is expected to do, the next move needs to be a change in the way we elect V.I. senators—by calling for numbered seats.
It is sorely obvious in the current Senate race that without numbered seats, candidates will continue to run in a popularity contest instead of a desperately needed issue-based race, where the winners can be held accountable to their positions.
The Source has offered its open forum section, at no cost, to any and all candidates who wish to address specific issues.
Sadly and tellingly, only one candidate has used the forum to address clear-cut concerns.
Until candidates are forced to face off against one another and clearly state what they stand for, we will continue to be forced to live with a sinfully high-paid, ambiguous, do-little Legislature.
And that will be true no matter how many senators we have.

Legislation to repeal the Foreign Sales Corporation tax regime passed the House Wednesday with enough votes to ensure it will become law before the end of the month.
The vote was 315 to 109, or more than two-thirds of the 435-member body. A two-thirds vote puts it on the fast track in the Senate. The administration backs the bill, and President Clinton is expected to sign it into law quickly once he receives it from Congress.
The U.S. is trying to meet an Oct. 1 deadline imposed by the World Trade Organization, which ruled last year that the FSC constitutes an unfair trade subsidy to U.S. exporters.
The bill replaces the FSC with another tax scheme, the Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act. Like the FSC program, it is designed to encourage U.S. foreign trade. But unlike the FSC, it does not require U.S. companies to set up subsidiaries off-shore.
With the demise of the FSC, the Virgin Islands government stands to lose an estimated $10 million annually. The territory has been the primary location for FSCs since the program began in 1985. Last year the local government collected $6.9 million in franchise taxes from FSCs plus an uncalculated amount of revenues in the form of business licenses, gross receipts taxes and income taxes generated by management companies servicing FSCs, and from indirect contributions such as banking revenues.
Delegate Donna Christian-Christensen announced several weeks ago that the Clinton administration has assured the Virgin Islands it will be compensated in some way for the lost revenues.
Brian Modeste, legislative aide to Christensen, said Wednesday that passage of the Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act "is not a win for the Virgin Islands at first glance." But he did have some words of encouragement. Besides the promise of compensation, the Virgin Islands may still be in a position to garner a small amount of income from U.S. corporations under the new program.
Among the eligibility requirements for Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act treatment will be the performance of certain economic activities outside the U.S. such as advertising or sales promotion. Off-shore management companies now typically perform such services for their FSC clients. Modeste noted that there will likely be some carry over, although the level of work is not expected to come close to what now exists with the FSCs.
The congressional action to establish the EIE program comes despite its rejection by the European Union. The EU, which brought the FSC issue to the World Trade Organization, already has said it will file a similar complaint against the new program once it is in place.
Under the legislation, no companies may choose FSC status after Sept. 30, 2000, and all FSCs must close out by Dec. 31, 2001.

The Senate Committee on Planning and Environmental Protection Wednesday voted to subpoena two Education Department employees to testify on water contamination at the Joseph Sibilly Elementary School.
For the second year in a row, it was learned just before school opening that water at the school was contaminated. Sunday night, Education Commissioner Ruby Simmonds said that Caribbean Safe Water Labs advised the water should not be consumed until additional samples are tested.
The subpoenaed employees are Julie Mae Monsanto, an Education staffer who took samples of water from the school's cistern earlier this year, and Jomo McLean, former head of Education's maintenance division.
In a letter committee Chairman Adlah "Foncie" Donastorg wrote to Simmonds Monday, he said, "my colleagues and I have exercised extraordinary patience in this matter, but none of us could suppress our outrage when we learned that the water at Sibilly School was once again contaminated with toxic chemicals."
The Source reported in August 1999 that water at Sibilly School and the James Monroe Annex was contaminated by volatile organic chemicals. Education Department officials had known of the contamination for months but failed to notify parents even after being ordered to do so by the V.I. Planning and Natural Resources Department.
After months of questions and hearings, the source of the contamination has never been pinned down.
Donastorg has scheduled a public hearing of the committee on the contamination for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26. The evening hour will make it easier for parents as well as the general public to attend, he said.
Simmonds, in her Sunday announcement, also said water at Charlotte Amalie High School and at the department's Curriculum Center in Tutu is contaminated.

The Senate Planning and Environmental Protection Committee on Wednesday approved one Coastal Zone Management renewal permit and sent another one back to the Department of Planning and Natural Resources.
The legal scope of the permit for LaVida Marina was debated by legislative legal counsel Yvonne Tharpes and Julita DeLeon, CZM counsel. The committee elected to return the permit to DPNR for further investigation. Committee Chairman Adlah "Foncie" Donastorg directed DPNR officials to have the permit back before the committee within two weeks.
The second occupancy permit was approved for MOFVI Ltd., the new owners of American Yacht Harbor, after much debate over legalities. The senators asked for an Environmental Assessment Report which DPNR didn't have at the hearing.
Sen. Rocky "Almando" Liburd said senators were thought of as "not investor-friendly," and suggested the permit be expedited. He said that DPNR should still deliver the report, but it could be done after approval.
Liburd and Sens. George Goodwin, Norman Jn Baptiste and Donald "Ducks" Cole approved the permit. Donastorg cast the only dissenting vote.

The Senate Committee on Planning and Environmental Protection voted Wednesday to subpoena two Education Department employees to testify on water contamination at the Joseph Sibilly Elementary School.
For the second year in a row, it was learned just before school opening that water at Sibilly was contaminated. Sunday night, Education Commissioner Ruby Simmonds said that Caribbean Safe Water Labs advised the water should not be consumed until additional samples are tested.
The subpoenaed employees are Julie Mae Monsanto, an Education staffer who took samples of water from the school's cistern earlier this year, and Jomo McLean, former head of Education's maintenance division.
In a letter that committee Chairman Adlah "Foncie" Donastorg wrote to Simmonds on Monday, he said, "My colleagues and I have exercised extraordinary patience in this matter, but none of us could suppress our outrage when we learned that the water at Sibilly School was once again contaminated with toxic chemicals."
The Source reported in August 1999 that water at Sibilly School and the James Monroe Annex was contaminated by volatile organic chemicals. Education Department officials had known of the contamination for months but failed to notify parents even after being ordered to do so by the V.I. Planning and Natural Resources Department.
Despite months of questions and hearings, the source of the contamination has never been pinned down.
Donastorg has scheduled a public hearing on the contamination for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26. The evening hour will make it easier for parents as well as the general public to attend, he said.
Simmonds, in her Sunday announcement, also said water at Charlotte Amalie High School and at the department's Curriculum Center in Tutu is contaminated.

About this time each year for about as far back as any arts writer on St. Thomas can remember, a press release has gone out reminding us that coming up in a month and a bit is the next in a long line of annual musical events known as the October Sunday Festival.
Even in 1995, although the announcement of a scaled-down version came later, in the aftermath of Hurricane Marilyn.
But not this year.
"After 23 highly successful October Sundays, the committee has decided that we can no longer hold the event as the major party/fund-raiser which it has become," founders Fred and Polly Watts state in a release sent out this week.
In a way, the event – which developed into an annual effort to raise money specifically for the purpose of giving it away – built up to its own demise for essentially economic and human resource reasons.
According to a longtime festival committee volunteer, beer sales had been declining over the last five or six years, with the refocusing of the fest. "We went from arm-wrestling and beer-chugging contests to an event where families would bring their children and lots of different groups could raise money for their causes," this person said. While community participation increased, it became more difficult to find a beer sponsor.
"Advertisers understandably want to see a return for their money spent," the individual said, adding that a beverage sponsor is crucial, not only for product access but because "they have an event license that includes insurance. If you don't have that, you have to come up with $2,500 or $3,000 for insurance for the day, and that just about makes it prohibitive." Also, a beverage sponsor will provide advertising, "and without that, there's another major cost."
Meantime, for the last couple of years, Fred Watts said, he and his wife, Polly, "personally had been trying to scale back" and see the leadership go to somebody else. "It turned out that that just really was not possible," he said Wednesday night.
Last year, for the first time, someone else chaired the committee – Richard Counts. But he was unable to do so again this year.
There won't be, but there will
So, given these factors, this year there won't be the October Sunday Festival the community has come to know.
However, there will be a 24th annual October Sunday celebration. It will just be different. More specifically, it will be, Watts says, "a gathering of music-minded friends, like it began." In fact, that's the unofficial theme: "Like It Began."
In their release, the Wattses, referring to those still around from the early days as "the St. Thomas Survivors," state: "We plan to retain the last Sunday in October as a special day of music and fun… a party for all those who have worked with us and played music with us over the years." It will be, as usual, on the last Sunday of the month, that being the 29th this year, and will take place at Magens Bay beach in Shed No. 1, from noon to 6 p.m.
The organizers will supply ice, snacks and a small sound system. Those planning to join in are invited to bring their own food and drink and enjoy an afternoon of "acoustic traditional music and good friends." Watts says he hasn't reached out to other musicians yet, but he's pretty sure such regulars as Smoky Pratt and John Brittain (Blue Shoes) and Nicky "Mighty Whitey" Russell will be there. "Traditional" means "anybody's tradition," he said, asking that musicians interested in taking part call him at 775-2814 or 774-0673. The event will be open to the public at no cost other than admission to Magens Bay.
It all started with a sing-along
October Sunday – which never could escape the misnomer "Octoberfest," despite determined efforts – had its beginnings, of all places, on Virgin Gorda. It was 1977, and the Wattses and some friends were on a St. Thomas Dive Club excursion. At a beach campfire gathering on the British Virgin island, they got a sing-along going, Fred and Polly contributing American folk music, drawn from English, Scottish and Irish traditions.
"On the way back to St. Thomas," the unofficial history of the event circulated to the media in 1997 states, "Jimmy Loveland, who had just taken over Sib's Restaurant, suggested that it would be fun to do an evening of music in the parking lot of the restaurant. The last Sunday of October was chosen. . ." and the rest, as they say, is history.
Fest No. 1, a three-hour version, attracted some 200 friends and music lovers. Nicky Russell passed a sign-up sheet around looking for more people who wanted to play traditional country music, and he got a lot of positive feedback.
For 11 years October Sunday grew ever bigger in the annual get-togethers in the dirt lot across from Sib's. In 1988, the decision was made to look for a bigger venue, and the move was made to the Crown Bay landfill – where a new partnership began with Barnacle Bill's owners Bill and Judy Grogan.
The following year, after Hurricane Hugo hit in mid-September, the festival became an official fund-raiser for many "who were left needy by the vicious winds." Of that year's proceeds, $3,000 went to Lutheran Social Services, which was providing bridge loans to people waiting for insurance settlements, and another $1,000 went to the St. Thomas Humane Society.
In 1990, participating groups raised more than $15,000 for their causes and the festival committee brought in $4,000, which it donated to the Sibilly School steelband program. That year's festival added, for the first time, a second musical attraction, removed from the performance stage. Called the "College of Musical Knowledge," it was created to show audiences, especially young ones, how such instruments as the banjo, autoharp, mandolin, fiddle and human voice work.
Extra added attractions
In the '90s, the October Sunday musical menu was expanded to encompass everything from bluegrass and blues to reggae and rock. The committee brought in a dulcimer band and a square-dance caller in 1991 and Louisiana Cajun bands for 1998 and 1999. The festival was opened up to as many not-for-profit organizations as there was room for. Each, for a booth fee, set up its own fund-raising activity – games for kids, bake sales, face-painting, the first Christmas cards of the season, raffles, rummage sales and more.
The festival moved to its third permanent home in 1994, the parking green at the Reichhold Center for the Arts.
In 1995, five weeks after Marilyn struck, with power connections few and far between, the committee decided to convene in Emancipation Garden in hopes that the current would be reconnected there by the Sunday date – and to use a generator for the sound system if it wasn't (and it wasn't). Even so, the festival raised $3,800, all donated to the American Red Cross.
Two years after that, for the 21st fest, the committee honored its "founding fathers" – Watts, Loveland and Grogan.
Last year, the festival opted for a fourth venue – the Joseph Aubain Ball Park in Frenchtown. Even though Hurricane José ruffled everybody's feathers just four days before, the show went on, with the airport reopening just in time for the guest band, Charivari, to fly in from Louisiana.
The 1997 history concluded with words that apply just as well today: "For the musicians who began it, the organizations who have benefitted from it, and the audience which has supported it, it's been a long, winding and glorious road."
Bill Grogan added Wednesday night, "It had a good run. Like all good runs, it comes to an end, and you go out smiling." From the founder and owner-to-the-end of Barnacle Bill's, them's words to live by.
But let Fred Watts have the last ones: "I've got a feeling there will be someb
ody soon that will take up where we left off. We'll make sure the corporation with the tax exemption is maintained. There will always be a group of friends interested in sitting down and entertaining one another as we did."

Sentencing of a defendant who pleaded guilty to embezzling $1.7 million from Little Switzerland was postponed Wednesday until next week, after a co-defendant submitted a mysterious document to the court without her attorney's knowledge.
But before Territorial Court Judge Brenda Hollar set a new date for sentencing Lorrain Quetel, government prosecutors for the first time suggested the embezzled money left a trail leading to an attempt by her co-defendant, Lydia Magras, to purchase a Contant nightclub in 1996.
In May, Magras entered a plea of no contest to compounding the crime of embezzlement, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison. The other defendant in the case, Quetel, pleaded guilty to embezzlement in a plea-bargain agreement shortly after charges were filed in 1998 and was to be sentenced Wednesday.
The postponement came after prosecutors presented their step-by-step analysis of how the monies were embezzled from the chain of general merchandise stores, where Quetel held a key position in the accounting department, and deposited into the accounts of the now-defunct Bon Voyage Travel.
Assistant Attorney General Douglas Sprotte said the "government has been able to track a substantial amount of the money" and described Magras and Quetel as partners in Bon Voyage, based on their individual 1995 tax returns.
An inspector general's report, he said, reflected receivables of $2.5 million, deposits of $2.1 million, expenditures of $2.4 million and an operating deficit of $370,845.69.
"This business was losing money badly," Sprotte said.
Sprotte said a Justice Department investigation suggested the funneling of funds through the travel agency was expressly for the purpose of purchasing Club Z, the Contant nightclub for which a public offering was made on June 12, 1996. With the assistance of Justice Department investigator Nicholas Peru, Sprotte began a methodical transaction-by-transaction history of the government's case against both women:
– In June 1996, JOPPA Inc. made a public offering to sell Club Z, a nightclub located in Estate Contant on St. Thomas.
– On Aug.12, 1996, Magras negotiated a contract to purchase Club Z with $50,000 as a downpayment followed by a $550,000 payment at closing and a $1 million mortgage to finance the remaining balance.
– On Aug. 13, 1996, the first check from Little Switzerland totaling $25,000 was deposited into Bon Voyage Travel accounts.
– On Aug. 20, 1996, Magras formed a corporation, Premium Properties, along with Glenn Freeman and Desmond Percell. Lorrain Quetel, Sprotte noted, was not a member of this corporation.
– On Aug. 22, 1996, another check from Little Switzerland for $50,000 was deposited into the accounts of Bon Voyage Travel.
– On Aug. 23, 1996, Magras wrote a $50,000 check from Bon Voyage Travel as downpayment on the Club Z nightclub and its associated real estate.
– Over the next seven months, Magras paid $281,664 towards the nightclub's purchase.
– The deal closed on March 12, 1997, with monthly payments expected to begin on June 1, 1997.
– The last check from Little Switzerland was deposited into Bon Voyage Travel's account on April 18, 1997.
"In essence, no payments were made on the club after the closing because the money dried up," Sprotte said.
He also told the court that Quetel wrote off $395,000 of the embezzled funds to her personal accounts while $1.3 million was deposited into the accounts of Bon Voyage Travel. Of the monies deposited to Bon Voyage Travel, Quetel wrote $145,000 back to herself and it is possible that $50,000 written in the form of a check bounced, he said.
Sprotte told the court that Peru's investigation determined that $370,845.69 was spent on the travel agency's business expenses. And he said thousands upon thousands of the embezzled funds went to Magras's friends and relatives and to Magras's automobile purchases, mortgages and credit-card expenses.
"When we look at this case in totality, we establish that it was motivated by the purchase of Club Z, to subsidize the operations of Bon Voyage Travel and for Lydia Magras to live an extravagant and exorbitant lifestyle," Sprotte said.
On the other hand, Sprotte admitted that "Ms. Quetel's motive is a mystery to us."
The prosecutor described her as a cooperating witness. "She pleaded guilty from the start — she has assisted the government greatly in its investigation," he told Hollar. He said the court should take that into account when imposing sentence.
Her own attorney, Frederick Watts, called the 40-year-old Quetel a wife and mother who has been disgraced in the last two years. He described her growing up in the V.I. French community, her education and her employment at Little Switzerland, where she climbed the ranks in the Accounting Divsion to a position where "perhaps she learned too much about the company's accounting methods."
She used her knowledge to engage a credit card scheme that saw her issuing credits against charges made on her credit cards after purchasing big-ticket merchandise. Watts detailed how she used pre-signed checks on a dormant, multimillion-dollar checking account to siphon money out of the company and into Bon Voyage Travel.
"While she was doling out thousands of dollars to aid a failing business, her partner was spending money like a drunken sailor," Watts said.
He said once the criminal activity came to light, Quetel immediately confessed and began returning jewelry and other items bought with the funds and offering restitution.
"My client has confessed to the government and to Little Switzerland that she embezzled the money," Watts said, "but we cannot say that she retained any of the money for personal gain."
Quetel sat with hands clasped at the defense table throughout the presentations by the government and her attorney, and her family occupied four benches in the courtroom.
Watts concluded by asking Hollar to suspend the prison sentence and instead place Quetel on supervised probation with the condition that "if she stumbles, the supervised probation would be revoked." He told the court that his client has been steadily employed since she was fired from Little Switzerland.
"She wants to earn money to make full restitution," Watts said. "I can assure that at the present time, she cannot do that. The family has no money buried in the backyard," Watts said.
On Quetel's behalf, Watts offered restitution of $100 per month for 10 years. Hollar frowned on that offer, describing it as "not even a good-faith offer, given what was embezzled."
Watts sought a continuance of the sentencing hearing while Sprotte asked to cross-examine the document submitted by Magras, and at one point asked that Magras be summoned to explain its contents. Watts' motion for continuance was denied.
One of Magras's attorney, Steve Russell, addressed the court admitting that he had no prior knowledge of the document being filed. "If in fact the court calls my client for the purposes of cross-examination," Russell said, "she could plead the Fifth Amendment" against self-incrimination.
Russell also told Hollar his client has refused to take the witness stand to discuss any aspect of the case before her sentencing, which is now set for 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Watts implored the court to strike the document from his client's pre-sentence report. "It's unreliable," he told Hollar. "It's an attempt by Ms. Magras, an accomplice, to shift the load to my client, Ms. Quetel,"
Hollar said she had it included because it is a document she reviewed prior to the sentencing hearing. According to court testimony, in the document Magras attempted to distance herself from the financial transactions of Little Switzerland and her travel agency, Bon Voyage Travel.
Watts repeatedly asked the court for additional time to "det
ermine the falsity of the document filed by Ms. Magras," calling it a "fantasy of Ms. Magras to avoid responsibility for what has been done."
Sprotte also asked the document be thoroughly investigated by the court prior to Quetel's sentencing. "Before the court is a statement bearing one side of the story," he said. "To fairly sentence Lorrain Quetel, we must examine this document and put the whole truth of this case on the record."
Hollar said she will impose sentence on Quetel in a hearing at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday — one day after Magras is to be sentenced before Territorial Court Judge Ishmael Meyers.

Mary Bartolucci is one of more than two dozen V.I. residents who are volunteering to produce "Bringing Peace to Paradise," a daylong family-oriented festival on Sunday, Oct. 8, featuring some of the Virgin Islands' best-loved rock, reggae, jazz and calypso bands.
"The Virgin Islands is a small and caring community and I know we can make an impact," says Bartolucci. "As someone who has embraced the Virgin Islands as my home — where the appeal in many ways was that it felt so peaceful here – I'm troubled by the increasing violence we see and want to contribute to finding a solution."
Proceeds from "Bringing Peace to Paradise," which will also include gospel choirs, dance troupes, and mocko jumbies, will benefit the Stop the Violence Project, which is committed to eliminating violent crime in the Virgin Islands.
Stop the Violence Project was spurred by two devastating shootings recently on St. Thomas. 19-year-old Geoff Kennedy, a resident of Tortola who was visiting Charlotte Amalie to take his General Equivalency Diploma test, was shot in the back while trying to flee an armed assailant. Kennedy is now paralyzed from the waist down.
The second tragedy occurred almost a month later when 19-yearold Jason Carroll, a St. Thomas native, was shot and killed in midday in the heart of Charlotte Amalie.
Celia Carroll, Jason's mother and president of Mothers Against Guns, is one of the volunteers for "Bringing Peace to Paradise." The festival is just the beginning, she says, of raising awareness about violence on the islands and unifying the community. "What can we do," she says, "to make this community better for all of us? It's time that all united as a community and as human beings."
"Bringing Peace to Paradise" is being organized under the auspices of the People Moving Forward Foundation—a not-for-profit humanitarian organization—and will also feature gourmet picnic fare provided by restaurants from St. Thomas and St. John, and a children's arena with painted hand puppets, face-painting, a gigantic game of "Twister" and more. In addition, regional artisans will be on hand creating and selling handicrafts.
The main attraction of "Bringing Peace to Paradise," however, will be its musical performances. Taking place continuously on two stages, musical acts will include Deep Unda Kova, Innervisions, Barry and the Wizegize, the Freddie Rabuse Trio and the Love City Pan Dragons. In addition, there will be a half-dozen gospel choir performances from churches from both islands.
"Bringing Peace to Paradise" will take place from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Coral Bay Ball Field in Coral Bay, St. John. Tickets are $10 for adults. Children under 12 are free. Tickets can be purchased in advance on St. Thomas at Modern Music (Nisky Center and Havensight) and on St. John at Connections in Cruz Bay and Coral Bay. Tickets will be available at the gate as well.