On November 13-14, 2019 Governor Albert Bryan Jr. will host his first Governor’s Workforce Development Summit, which will be an annual event in the Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands is in a phase of recovery and rebuilding. In 2017 the Territory experienced two Category 5 hurricanes that changed the physical landscape, as well as the […]
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Governor Albert Bryan Jr. along with Office of Disaster Director Adrienne Williams-Octalien and Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority Executive Director Daryl Griffith met with FEMA Acting Administrator Peter Gaynor and other key FEMA officials Wednesday for an update on FEMA’s approval of industry standards for rebuilding the territory’s schools and the Juan F. Luis Hospital
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U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS—Governor Albert Bryan Jr. issued a proclamation declaring Friday, November 1 as “David Hamilton Jackson (Liberty) Day” and designating the month of November as “David Hamilton Jackson Month.” D. Hamilton Jackson was born on St. Croix in 1884 and throughout his life he was a labor leader, politician, educator, lawyer, newspaper editor, judge,
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US VIRGIN ISLANDS — The expansion of Medicaid and funding for the ongoing recovery effort was the focus of Governor Bryan’s first day of meetings on Capitol Hill Tuesday, as the Governor and key members of his senior staff met with Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett and officials from the Departments of Housing
Listen to Governor Albert Bryan Jr recap Day 1 — Tuesday, Oct. 29th — of his visit to Washington, D.C. Governor Bryan met with US lawmakers and government officials to discuss federal issues impacting the US Virgin Islands including the Medicaid fiscal cliff and the disaster recovery effort. Governor Bryan Recaps Day 1 of Washington
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Governor Albert Bryan Jr., on Tuesday, began a slate of weeklong meetings with lawmakers and government officials to discuss federal issues impacting the US Virgin Islands and to push forward his agenda of stabilizing the economy, keeping the disaster recovery effort on track and building a vibrant economy beyond the recovery. On Tuesday, Governor Bryan
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS—The Virgin Islands Energy Office (VIEO) was chosen as a recipient of $625,000 in Fiscal Year 2019 funding under the Energizing Insular Communities (EIC) grant program. The EIC program is funded and administered through the U.S. Department of Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs. The VIEO will utilize the grant to develop a Solar
ST. THOMAS, U.S.VIRGIN ISLANDS— Governor Albert Bryan Jr., on Friday, submitted two major pieces of proposed legislation to dramatically overhaul emergency medical services in the Territory by merging two critical response apparatuses to increase available resources and manpower, and by creating a system that is more efficient and responsive to the emergency needs of residents
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Governor Albert Bryan Jr. has scheduled a series of meetings with various agencies and entities while he is in Washington, D.C. this week. Beginning Tuesday, October 29 through Thursday, October 31, Governor Bryan and some of his senior policy advisors and Cabinet members will attend 21 meetings, starting with a meeting with Delegate to
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CHRISTIANSTED—Governor Albert Bryan Jr. will be out of the Territory, beginning Friday, October 25, for a series of meetings with various agencies and entities in Washington, D.C. The trip is rescheduled from the Governor’s trip to Washington in September, when he returned to the Territory in advance of Tropical Storm Karen. During his absence Lt.
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