Op-ed: A New YHG Hotel Would Be an Investment in the Future
Pash Daswani, speaking for The India Association of the Virgin Islands, gives the reasons for the Legislature to vote for the $10 million government loan to the developer of a Yacht Haven Grande hotel.
Open Forum: Food for Thought on Guns
Yahmeses Rhymer questions the Virgin Islands law that requires gun owners to be licensed.
More Time Is Needed for Early Voting on St. John
The League of Women Voters asks the Election System of the V.I. to approve a request by St. Johnians to expand the period of time for early voting.
Open forum: Chamber of Commerce Endorses GVI Loan for New Hotel on St. Thomas
Sebastiano Paiewonsky-Cassinelli, president of the St. Thomas-St. John Chamber of Commerce, gives the Board of Directors’ reasoning behind its endorsement of the government’s loan to help build a new hotel at Yacht Haven Grande.
Op-ed: Christensen Supports Veto of Certificate of Need Bill
Donna M. Christensen gives her reasons for supporting Gov. Kenneth Mapp’s veto of a bill about non-hospital care facilities that operate as stand-alone facilities.
Op-ed: Senate Should Okay Loan Request for New Hotel
Members of the Port of Charlotte Amalie Cruise Ship Task Force are asking the Senate to pass legislation to loan developers $10 million to help finance the building of a hotel by Yacht Haven Grande. They lay out their reasons for allowing the building of the first new hotel on St. Thomas in 30 years.
Op-Ed: Pie-in-the-Sky Giveaways Serve Politicians, Not the People *Updated*
As election day draws near, Gov. Kenneth Mapp has given out pay raises, promised free college tuition at the University of the Virgin Islands, championed "Christmas bonuses" to retirees about to lose their pensions and made wildly rosy promises about fixing GERS.
Op-Ed: Facing Reality – The Future of Public Education
Public education in the United States, especially in areas – urban and rural – with high levels of poverty is largely seen as being "broken." And, despite claims to the contrary, we have gotten accustomed to it.
Open forum: Community Foundation of V.I. Declares ‘We Lifted Each Other Up’
The president and the chairman of the board of the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI) give an overview of what the organization has been doing and will continue to do since the territory was hit by two hurricanes in 2017.
Open forum: VIBE Commemorates Birthdate of Arthur A. Richards
The Virgin Islands Board of Education reminds the public that Arthur A. Richards, for whom a junior high school on St. Croix was named, is an icon in education.
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ELECTION DAY - for folks taking part in early voting. The lobby and the halls of the Election System filled up as soon as the doors swung open Monday.
Early voting has been popular among ballot casters since it began locally in 2014. The process continues until Oct. 29 on St. Thomas and St. Croix from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
On St. John early voting takes place Oct. 20 to Oct. 23, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
