Bryan Ousts Finance Commissioner Over Unauthorized Stipends
Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. asked for Finance Commissioner Kirk Callwood's resignation and Callwood complied on Monday, apparently over unauthorized stipends paid to staff. He tapped Assistant Finance Commissioner Clarina Modeste to fill the job in an acting capacity.
Encarnacion Urges Residents to Get Flu Shot, Avoid Non-Essential Travel
With flu season around the corner, the Department of Health has published its influenza vaccine schedule, which Commissioner Justa Encarnacion said Monday could also help residents better fight other viruses.
Chromebooks Arrive – and Survive
A recent burglary at the Juanita Gardine K-8 School did not result in the loss of any of the 1,000 new Chromebooks delivered on Oct. 1 for students’ use this school year.
STJ Poetry Club Celebrates One Year Anniversary
For the last year, a group of poets belonging to the group Rhyme & Lime have come together to share their passion during events at Bajo El Sol Art Gallery in Cruz Bay, St. John. Oct. 31 will mark the group's one-year anniversary.
More Charges Brought in What Police Call STJ ‘Road Rage’ Case
Police have upgraded charges against Rashad Creque, who was arrested on St. John on Oct. 9 after leading authorities on an islandwide chase in what police are calling an apparent act of road rage, then rearrested on Oct. 14.
Sabrina Diaz Begins Six-Month Assignment at V.I. National Park
Sabrina Diaz began a six-month assignment as deputy superintendent of Virgin Islands National Park and Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument beginning on Oct. 11, the park announced Monday.
No Travel Restrictions for Birds Entering the Virgin Islands
While I was in New York City in September, there were a few nights when thousands of birds were expected to fly over on their way south – many of them heading towards the Caribbean. More birds than people it seems, as a number of islands are still not welcoming visitors.
St. Croix Rotary Clubs to Mark Historic Progress on Eradicating Polio World-wide
Rotary members in the four St. Croix Rotary Clubs and the Rotaract Club are taking action on World Polio Day to raise awareness, funds and support to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world today.
UVI Webinar to Instruct Small Businesses on Possible Benefits of Social Media Strategies
UVI/SBDC will host a business webinar entitled “Small Business Conversations from the Frontline: Social Media Concepts and Strategies” on Thursday, Oct. 29.
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VITEMA, Department of Health to Conduct Sheltering Survey
The survey focuses on emergency sheltering options during a pandemic event, such as the current COVID-19 situation. The 10-minute survey, comprised of 55 questions, will be distributed via social media and on the VITEMA website in three languages.
Op-Ed: Who Will Deliver Structural Changes Post-Pandemic?
A timely and comprehensive policy paper produced by the Ramphal Centre has set out the structural changes required to deliver Caribbean post-COVID economic recovery. Welcoming the study, David Jessop, however, questions whether the region still has the unity of purpose to deliver what it recommends.
Amended Shoreline Access Bill Answers Some Questions – But Not All
At a Senate hearing last week, a bill mandating owners of shoreline property provide public access to the shore was forwarded to the Rules and Judiciary Committee despite several looming questions, some of which have now been answered by amendments.
Tributes and Fond Memories Pour in for Austin “Babe” Monsanto
The Virgin Islands community and a host of government and civic leaders are paying tribute to Austin “Babe” Monsanto, who died on Oct. 14 at the age of 94.
Coming Thursday “Honest Thief” and “The New Mutants”
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It is noon on a Sunday and the mimosas and brunch specials are flowing at local restaurants on the boardwalk in Christiansted town. Some may not notice that on this very boardwalk, the nonprofit organization the Collective Collaboration Inc. is trying to change the lives of another person. #visource #usvi #news
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On the same boardwalk where diners enjoy a Sunday brunch, the nonprofit organization the Collective Collaboration Inc. is trying to change the lives of another person.
The V.I. Department of Education has received 1,000 of its expected shipment of 12,000 Chromebooks and is distributing the electronic items to students in both school districts.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Source Staff
📸: Photo Provided by DOE
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #virginislands #school #education #chromebook #virtuallearning #covid_19 #coronavirus #pandemiclearning
Powerlifters who hope to represent the U.S. Virgin Islands in international competition participated in the 2020 Robert Massey Classic Saturday morning at Rock Life Crossfit to record official scores and get ready for the national meet, which will take place in February.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Kyle Murphy
📸: Source Photo
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #virginislands #powerlifting #fitness #bodybuilding #gym #deadlift #squat #weightlifting #workout #strength #motivation #benchpress #bench #powerlifter #strong #fitnessmotivation #training #fit #squats #gymlife
Saturday’s “Reclaiming Our Village” march had two starting points, Crown Bay and Tutu Park, and there was a place near the end where both converged, bringing together more than 100 residents who had taken to the streets in a peaceful protest as deadly gunfire resounded across the territory.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Ananta Pancham
📸: Photo by Ananta Pancham
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #virginislands #demonstration #protest #streetart #paint #activism #activist #humanrights #justice #stoptheviolence #gunviolence #reclaimourvillage #peacefulprotest
The Great V.I. Frog Count is underway, bringing citizen science to the territory’s fingertips in an easy and accessible way.
Herpetologist Renata Platenberg started the V.I. Frog Count in 2015 to enhance frog monitoring in the territory. According to Platenberg, anyone with a smartphone or recording device can participate by simply sending a two-minute audio recording with the recorded site’s GPS coordinates. By listening for the unique calls of frog species, Platenberg is then able to pinpoint exactly which species are where.
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For the full article visit The Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Adrian Brewer
📸: Photo submitted
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #frog #hunt #treefrog #research #enviornment #nature #naturephotography #frogcount #frogs #ribbit #frogspecies #frogseason #greatvifrogcount2020
The Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts opened its first virtual exhibit on Oct. 2 in celebration of Virgin Islands-Puerto Rico Friendship. The Anacaonas de Borinquen exhibit honors Puerto Rican/Boricua women and will run through Jan. 2, 2021. The show, curated by Wilfred Labiosa, is comprised of original artworks, silkscreens and lithographs by Puerto Rican artists.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Elisa McKay
📸: Painting at the Anacaonas de Borinquen exhibit. (Courtesy of CMCArts)
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #friendshipday #friendship #friends #friendshipgoals #happyfriendshipday #friendships #festival #celebration #puertorico #PR #art #boricua #museum #exhibit
Standard Aviation and members of the V.I. government cut the ceremonial ribbon on Wednesday morning that signals the completion of the largest free-span building in the Caribbean.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Kyle Murphy
📸: Image by Kyle Murphy
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #airports #aviation #airport #travel #airplane #boeing #avgeek #airportlife #aviationphotography #aviationlovers #airplanes #aircraft #planespotting #airlines #aviationdaily #plane #airportstyle #aviationgeek #flight #construction
The V.I. Port Authority has money to begin renovation at the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport – work that is currently underway – but is nowhere close to the funding needed for a major reconstruction of St. Croix’s airport.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Diana Dias
📸: Image courtesy of Benton Construction
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #airports #aviation #airport #travel #airplane #boeing #avgeek #airportlife #aviationphotography #aviationlovers #airplanes #aircraft #planespotting #airlines #aviationdaily #plane #airportstyle #aviationgeek #flight #construction
Moe’s Fresh Market, St. Thomas’ locally-owned-and-operated chain of upscale grocery stores, will open its third storefront on Friday, Oct. 9, at The Shops at Yacht Haven Grande, offering a new face to the island’s gourmands, oenophiles, sailors, yachtsmen, charters and provisioners.
The island’s go-to gourmet grocer will fill the neighborhood vacancy left behind by Gourmet Gallery, which never reopened after the 2017 hurricanes. The new storefront sees Moe’s expanding beyond its well-established presence in Red Hook and on Charlotte Amalie’s waterfront.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by James Baylor
📸: Photo provided by Willie Hamed/Moe’s
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #grocerystore #groceryshopping #grocery #supermarket #food #groceries #shopping #grocerylist #fresh #foodie #groceryhaul #deals #market #vegetables #foodshopping #localbusiness #produce #healthyfood
La Vaughn Belle has created art with paper plates, coral stones from the sea, Styrofoam, video and dance, digital mapping as well as the traditional media such as oil paints and charcoal.
This year, Belle’s medium of choice for an oversized installation in a New York City mall was a digital collage on vinyl.
The latest work, titled “For Those of Us Who Live at the Shoreline,” is eight panels of oil paintings on wood – pieces of chaney – and the painted vinyl sections of coastline plants intertwined with human images, all a part of the ecosystem. Belle said the Virgin Islands Council of the Arts provided a grant for the project.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Susan Ellis
📸: Photo by Jakob Dahlin, Brookfield Place, New York
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #painting #art #artist #drawing #artwork #paint #artistsoninstagram #contemporaryart #instaart #artoftheday #wood #chaney #coastline #abstractart #design #paintings #oilpainting #artgallery
Fifteen Nissan Leaf electric cars took part in the second annual St. Thomas Drives Electric road rally on Saturday, sponsored by the Virgin Islands Electric Vehicle Association North to promote reducing the territory’s carbon footprint and raise awareness about electric vehicle technologies.
VIEVAN’s event was supported by Drive Green VI and the Virgin Islands Energy Office. National sponsors included Plug In America, Sierra Club and Electric Auto Association.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by James Baylor
📸: Photo by James Baylor
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A proposal to allow the St. John Animal Care Center to build a new facility in Coral Bay drew a mixed reaction at an online zoning hearing held Friday morning.
Planners at the Department of Planning and Natural Resources called the virtual meeting to discuss a request to rezone a 2.3-acre parcel near Pickles in Coral Bay from R-2 (residential low density) to B-2 (business secondary/neighborhood.)
The plan calls for the construction of a 5,000 square-foot, two-story building with 20 kennels for dogs on the ground floor and 19 kennels for cats on the second floor.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Amy Roberts
📸: Photo provided by the ACC
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #animals #animalcare #cats #dogs #development #animalsanctuary #coralbay #catsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram #meow #construction #kitty #kittensofinstagram #animalhospital #carecenter
After years of being crammed in a space in which the conference room often spilled over into the hallway, the Elections System on St. Croix is moving into a new 10,000-square-foot office just in time for early voting on Oct. 5.
People can still register at the current location in the Sunny Isle Annex until Oct. 3. After that, Elections staff will relocate to the new space in the former Caribbean Cinema theater in Sunny Isle.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Susan Ellis
📸: Photo by Susan Ellis
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #election2020 #voting #electionsystem #newbuild #newlocation #vote #voters
The Virgin Islands–Puerto Rico Friendship Committee is preparing to celebrate Virgin Islands – Puerto Rico Friendship weekend with a number of activities. The celebration will begin Oct. 7 and end on Oct. 12. Virgin Islands-Puerto Rico Friendship Day is a local holiday, which was created in the 1960s in recognition of the unique relationship between the two American territories at a time when Puerto Ricans were the largest immigrant community in the U.S. Virgin Islands, especially on St. Croix.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Source Staff
📸: File Photo
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #friendshipday #friendship #friends #friendshipgoals #happyfriendshipday #friendships #festival #celebration #puertorico #PR
The following stories are part of a series highlighting experiences with racism on the U.S. mainland and elsewhere. Some of the stories have focused on Black men and women who grew up in predominantly Black communities in the Caribbean; some who grew up on the mainland and later made their home in the U.S. Virgin Islands. These stories are about the latter.
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For the full article visit The Source's website.
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✏: Article by Shaun Pennington
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Karrl Foster has no idea why, as a child, he was bused to the Collinwood neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland where he grew up.
Lorna Nichols didn’t have racism on her radar growing up in urban Washington, D.C. She remembers there being about three white kids in her public school.
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #racism #college #blackstudent #student #america #racist #experiences
The future of a small, teardrop-shaped lot across from the Bordeaux Mountain Road on St. John was the subject of a virtual public zoning meeting held Tuesday afternoon by the Department of Planning and Natural Resources.
The property owner is seeking to rezone parcel 8-Y Estate Carolina from R-1 (low-density residential) to B-2 (business-secondary/neighborhood).
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Amy Roberts
📸: Slide from presentation
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #virginislands #dpnr #development #virtual #meeting #zoning #property #shopping #bar #grill #restaurant
Most people know about founding father Alexander Hamilton’s ties to St. Croix before he went north to help create the United States but may not be aware that his mother is still on the island, buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in the 26 acres of Estate Grange.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Susan Ellis
📸: Photos by Susan Ellis
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #alexanderhamilton
#cemetery #graveyard #grave #cemeteryphotography #graveyards #necropolis #gothic #cemeteries #cemeterywandering #project #gravestone #death #photography #cemeterylovers #graveyardphotography #tombstone
In response to your story regarding the Legislature’s ongoing support for corporal punishment in the schools and the Legislature’s macho insistence that its knowledge of pedagogical principles supersedes that of the agencies to which we entrust the educational process, I have a suggestion.
Go down to the Boys and Girls Club on St. Thomas one day after school and watch the dynamic between our public-school children and Ms. Jackie Brown – the regional director of the Club.
The confidence and enthusiasm that those students demonstrate, knowing that their questions, concerns, and frustrations will be greeted with compassion, patience and love from Ms. Brown is heartwarming. Were Ms. Brown to begin slapping children and humiliating them, as the Legislature deems is the correct way to inspire learning in children, there would be very few children attending this remarkable establishment – at least, not willingly.
Children go there for homework help, for a chance to relax and chat with one another, for a chance to pick up a book and read, and for a chance to enjoy the warmth, tenderness and wisdom of someone who knows that, no matter what obstacles a child puts up, there are ways to break down those obstacles that leave a child whole, not physically or emotionally damaged.
Take a moment Senators and visit the Boys and Girls Club. See how entirely possible it is to instruct and guide children without using violence.
The way in which we model conflict resolution to our youth will carry on into their adulthood. Don’t we have enough anger and violence manifesting itself today in the V.I., without dealing physical and emotional blows to the bodies and psyches of the next generation?
How absurd is it to have to state that a teacher cannot use a “deadly weapon” when confronting a child? Seriously?
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📩- Letter to the Editor
✏- Letter by Barbara Birt
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Editor’s note: Barbara Birt is a volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club of St. Thomas
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #virginislands #westindies #lettertotheeditor #corporalpunishment #children #abuse #punishment #corporal #violence #savethechildren #boysandgirls #students #teacher
St. Thomas’ Family Resource Center held its annual waterfront gathering Friday evening as part of the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims, remembering the almost 40 Virgin Islanders who have lost their lives to violence so far this year.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by James Baylor
📸: Photo by James Baylor
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #victim #victims #murders #murder #truecrime #crime #violence #remember #murdervictim #memorial
The Virgin Islands Track and Field Federation (VITFF) reports that V.I. marathon runner Eduardo Garcia is running well as he pursues his goal of running in the Tokyo Olympics. In spite of the challenges brought on by the COVID-19, Garcia trains and competes with Greenville Track Club Elite in South Carolina. He follows the medical and safety protocols carefully and has been able to find a few road races which effectively meet the prevention criteria.
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For full press release visit The Source's website.
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📸: Garcia (R) is on his way to winning Low Country Elite Invitational 5K (Photo from Greenville Track Club-Elite)
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #track #field #trackandfield #athletics #running #run #tracknation #hurdles #athlete #fitness #runner #training #sport #sports #olympics #sprinter #workout #sprint #motivation #runnersofinstagram
Scientists are on a quest to better understand the watershed of St. Thomas by cataloging the species of spineless creatures that dwell in it.
Last month, Drs. Christopher Rogers from the University of Kansas and Edwin Cruz-Rivera of the University of the Virgin Islands published a paper detailing the discovery of a new species of clam shrimp found in the Herman E. Moore Golf Course at UVI.
“The project that led to the discovery of this little shrimp was aimed at establishing baselines relating to groups of animals that you would find in the water with the conditions of that water,” said Cruz-Rivera.
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For the the full article visit the Virgin Islands Source website.
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✏: Article by Adian Brewer
📸: Photos by Adian Brewer & Edwin Cruz-Rivera
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#visource #usvi #STT #STX #STJ #stthomas #stcroix #stjohn #carribean #westindies #discovery #shrimp #newspecies #biology #life #science #nature #lab #research #wildlife #water #watershed #spineless
