A United States Senate Committee has approved the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 (S. 3041), which provides an additional 26 weeks of disaster-related unemployment assistance for the U.S. Virgin Islands, for a total of 52 weeks of assistance following the disaster declarations for Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Wednesday’s action by the Committee on Homeland […]

The comprehensive upgrade of the Territory’s roads, hardening of the electrical system, dredging Virgin Islands harbors to accommodate increasingly large cruise ships and developing and repairing housing were among the important projects addressed at a Tuesday meeting with U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Deputy Secretary Pam Patenaude. The HUD team was on St. Croix

Governor Kenneth E. Mapp has directed the Virgin Islands Finance Department to release more than $30 million to pay AECOM for performing work on the Emergency Home Repair VI program, which is repairing thousands of damaged homes across the Territory. Of the total amount released, a check for $13.5 million will be issued to AECOM Tuesday with

Governor Kenneth E. Mapp has nominated Dr. Laura Palminteri, DVM, Henry E. Schjang, Ian Samuel and Ronald A. Phillips to the Virgin Islands Horse Racing Commission. Once confirmed by the Legislature, Schjang and Phillips will join the board in the St. Croix district, while Palminteri and Samuel will represent the St. Thomas/St. John district. “It

Governor Kenneth E. Mapp joined Governors from across the country for a video teleconference Wednesday as Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator William “Brock” Long and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kirstjen Nielsen met with President Donald Trump and his Cabinet at FEMA Headquarters for the 2018 Annual Hurricane Briefing. FEMA Administrator Long and DHS Secretary Nielsen updated the President on

Official portraits of the Honorable Dr. Roy Lester Schneider and the Honorable Charles Wesley Turnbull, Ph.D., the fifth and sixth Governors of the United States Virgin Islands, respectively, were unveiled to the public Monday during a ceremony at Government House, St. Croix. These portraits painted by local artist Shansi Miller are part of a larger