The flood of positive cases of COVID-19 recorded at the Alorica Business Process Outscoring (BPO) facility over the last week has resulted in a dramatic reduction in the average age of persons confirmed with the deadly virus in Jamaica. Up to April 15, when there were 143 cases, the mean age of persons with the … Continued
VI Consortium The Virgin Islands Consortium is building on its successful and historic online-only entertainment effort for the USVI, the wider Caribbean and people all over the world. Following the first “Quarantine Jam”, which was held on April 11 and reached more than 600,000 people, the media house on Saturday announced “Quarantine Jouvert”, which the … Continued
VI Consortium ST. CROIX — Naturi Naughton, the Power star who grew up in East Orange, New Jersey, but whose father was born and raised in Frederiksted, St. Croix, has not been a distant memory to the U.S. Virgin Islands. On the contrary, the actress and former 3LW singer — who is also working on … Continued
VI Consortium ST. CROIX — After confirming a second coronavirus-related death in the U.S. Virgin Islands this morning, with details of the case being provided during Governor Albert Bryan’s press briefing during the afternoon, the Department of Health on Friday night confirmed a third death in the territory, with the latest being a 77-year-old man … Continued
VI Consortium Buccaneer Hotel has laid off 179 of its employees, which is almost the entire workforce. Limetree Bay contractors continue to make redundant hundreds — including 222 from construction company Elite. On St. Thomas, the layoffs are even more pronounced, representing more than half of the over 4,000 unemployment applications that have been filed … Continued
VI Consortium A second person infected with the COVID-19 disease has died in the territory, the V.I. Department of Health and the Territorial Emergency Management Agency announced Friday morning. Details about the deceased were not immediately released by public health officials. This story will be updated throughout the day, as information becomes available. The total … Continued
V.I. CONSORTIUM (STT) — A gunbattle in Bovoni, St. Thomas this afternoon left two men injured and one dead, V.I.P.D. Public Information Officer Toby Derima has announced. The incident was the second death in St. Thomas in less than 24 hours, and the fifth in just over a week. Mr. Derima said that today at … Continued
The V.I. Port Authority during a board meeting on Wednesday granted approval for the port’s executive director to seek a line of credit of $25 million in an effort to continue port operations after VIPA experienced a precipitous drop in revenue from its cruise ship operations. Cruse ship revenue dried up in March following the … Continued
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor announced over the weekend that the U.S. territory will remain on lockdown until May 3 to curb coronavirus cases, marking one of the strictest measures taken in a U.S jurisdiction. Gov. Wanda Vázquez said non-essential businesses will remain closed and that people have to remain indoors … Continued
As we head into mid-April, many of the states in the U.S. have surging numbers of new cases of COVID-19, with more hospitalizations, more ICU admissions, more ventilated patients, and more deaths. We see the maps daily, with curves based on each state and the nation as a whole, trying to find a glimmer of … Continued
