Governor Kenneth E. Mapp’s Hurricane Recovery and Resilience Task Force is hosting several community meetings in order to inform and engage the public on its efforts. Space is still available for those interested in participating in the first of the meetings, the Housing Information Session, scheduled for Thursday, April 12, 2018, from 5:00 to 7:00 […]

U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth E. Mapp, right, speaks at Wednesday’s joint press conference with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. In a joint press conference in Washington, DC with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth E. Mapp announced today that the Territory

Lieutenant Governor Osbert E. Potter, who also serves as the territory’s Commissioner of Insurance, reminds Virgin Islands residents to be prepared for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, which is June 1 to November 30, 2018.  AccuWeather predicts an above-normal season, with 12 to 15 named storms, including 6 to 8 major hurricanes. “Know what is

The Virgin Islands Office of Veterans Affairs and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will be hosting town hall meetings in the Territory to recruit physicians to join the network of physicians used by the VA. Officials from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will be on site to explain how the newly

The Virgin Islands Office of Veterans Affairs in collaboration with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs will host a Veterans Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, April 12, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Benny and Martha Benjamin Conference Room at the Virgin Islands Cardiac Center on St.

Governor Mapp lobbied for U.S. Territories’ inclusion in federal program The United States Department of Treasury announced Wednesday that it has approved Governor Kenneth E. Mapp’s nomination of 14 neighborhoods on St. Thomas and St. Croix as Qualified Opportunity Zones eligible for U.S. tax breaks under the massive tax bill passed by Congress last December.  Governor Mapp has said the

Funding will leverage public and private investments to keep lead and other contaminants out of drinking water and upgrade aging water infrastructure The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of funding that could provide as much as $5.5 billion in loans, which could leverage over $11 billion in water infrastructure projects through the Water

Marvin L. Pickering, EA, PHR, Director of the Virgin Islands Bureau of Internal Revenue, is reminding all income taxpayers that Tax Day, which is normally on April 15, has been extended to June 29, 2018. The extended tax date also applies to calendar-year corporations. This means that taxpayers will have until June 29 to file