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Governor Albert Bryan Jr. is leading a USVI Delegation of representatives from the public and private sectors for a meeting with New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) senior management executives and other meetings to discuss collaborative opportunities between the U.S. Virgin Islands and representatives of the public and private business sectors in New York on Friday, […]

On Monday, March 20, Governor Albert Bryan Jr. sent down to the 35th Legislature his nomination of Ariel K. Smith for the position of Virgin Islands Attorney General. Attorney General Nominee Smith currently serves as the chief of the Civil Division in the Virgin Islands Department of Justice, a position she has held since 2016. In

During a press conference on Tuesday, March 21, Governor Albert Bryan Jr. announced that the Territory has acquired about 69 acres of beachfront and Salt Pond property at the West End of St. Croix that will be included in the Territorial Park System. In 2022, Governor Bryan created the Territorial Park System to ensure that

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — During Monday’s weekly briefing, Government House Communications Director Richard Motta Jr. announced that the Office of Management and Budget is trying to distribute Social Security stipend checks that have incorrect or incomplete address information. Government House is running a list of names of recipients to notify them there is a check

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — On January 18, Governor Albert Bryan Jr. signed into law the Virgin Islands Cannabis Use Act (Act 8680), which allows for the legal use of cannabis for medicinal, sacramental and adult purposes and also regulates the production, distribution, sale and use of cannabis. The law also provides additional economic opportunities for

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — The Government of the Virgin Islands’ (GVI) financial outlook for Fiscal Year 2024 is expected to continue the upward trend of increasing revenues according to the GVI agencies and departments that gave presentations at the 2023 Spring Revenue Estimating Conference held by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The conference

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — At the Government House weekly briefing on Monday, March 13, VITEMA Director Daryl Jaschen said the U.S. Virgin Islands will participate in the annual CARIBE WAVE exercise, which is a regional effort to promote tsunami awareness and readiness through drills and tests of the 44 tsunami sirens across the Territory. The

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — During a Tuesday afternoon ribbon-cutting ceremony, Governor Albert Bryan Jr. congratulated the Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital’s leadership team on completing its state-of-the-art temporary facility called JFL North. “Today we cut the ribbon on a brand new frontier of health care providing in the Virgin Islands. I’m doing my part to

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — Government House Communications Director Richard Motta Jr. announced Monday the expansion of ‘Administrator’s Corner,’ a weekly radio program to update Virgin Islands residents on capital projects and other government-led community initiatives. “The Administrator’s Corner” will air weekly on Wednesdays from 9 to 10 a.m. on 107.9FM DaVybe beginning on March 15th and

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — Governor Albert Bryan Jr. has nominated Acting Attorney General Carol Thomas-Jacobs for a seat on the Virgin Islands Superior Court bench, and he renominated sitting Judge Harold Willocks to another term, also in the V.I. Superior Court. Acting Attorney General Thomas-Jacobs has served for more than 20 years in the Virgin