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Sunday, May 19, 2024

Senate: Health, Hospitals, Human Services

Frits E. Lawaetz Legislative Conference Room St. Croix

Agenda The committee has scheduled a meeting to receive testimony on the following bills: Bill No. 32- 00064 – An Act amending Title 3, V.I.C., chapter 24, section 431, providing for a registry of the elderly and persons with disabilities living alone Bill No. 32-0100 – An Act amending Title 27, V.I.C., chapter 1, subchapter […]

Senate: Meeting Canceled

Frits E. Lawaetz Legislative Conference Room St. Croix

TODAY'S SESSION CANCELED DUE TO FORCE MAIN BREAK. Agenda The committee will conduct a hearing to consider the following bills: Bill No. 32-0006 — An Act amending Title 17, V.I.C., chapter 5, section 41 to add marine biology as a mandatory course in the Virgin Islands school curriculum. Bill No. 32-0014 - An Act amending […]

Senate: Economic Development, Agriculture

Earle B. Ottley Legislative Hall St. Thomas

Agenda The committee has scheduled testimony on the following bills: Bill No. 32-0093 – An Act amending Title 32, V.I.C., chapter 11, relating to horse racing adding sections 306-313 to provide for anti-doping in the horse racing industry in the Virgin Islands and to amend certain sections of Title 32, V.I.C., chapter 21, Article XVI, […]

Senate: Homeland Security, Justice, Public Safety

Frits E. Lawaetz Legislative Conference Room St. Croix

Agenda The committee has scheduled a meeting to receive updates and initiatives, including hurricane preparedness plans for 2017 from the following departments: Virgin Islands Fire Department Association of Firefighters, Local 2125 V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency Virgin Islands National Guard

Gifft Hill School Graduation Day

Gifft Hill School on Trayser Field, Upper Campus

Gifft Hill School will hold its graduation ceremony for the Class of 2017 today.  Thirteen students will cross the field to receive their diplomas.  

CGL Lecture on Carnival History

Caribbean Genealogy Library Al Cohen’s Plaza at the top of Raphune Hil, St. Thomas

The Caribbean Genealogy Library (CGL) explores the history of Carnival parade traditions with presentation “Old World Influences on Afro-Creole Masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean.” During his presentation, historian Dr. Robert Nicholls will explore the vernacular history of Afro-Creole masquerades in three regions: West Africa, Western Europe and the Eastern Caribbean. Based on patterns he first […]

Historic Step-Street Walkabout

Emancipation Garden St. Thomas

The second annual Charlotte Amalie Historic Step-Street Walkabout, beginning and ending at Emancipation Garden. Participants take a tour of several stairways that serve as pedestrian streets in Charlotte Amalie. They include the 99 Steps as the course follows history from Post Office Square to Blackbeard’s Hill, Bunker Hill, Garden Street, Long Path, High Road, Low […]

Titling Board to Convene

Attorney General Conference Room GERS Building, 2nd Floor, St. Thomas

Pursuant to the Revised Organic Act, a Titling Board must convene to hear the initiative proposed by the Government Retirees for Fairness Inc. (GRUFF). The members of the Titling Board are Supervisor of Elections Caroline F. Fawkes, Attorney General Claude Walker and the 32nd Legislature’s Chief Legal Counsel Yvonne Tharpes. The purpose of the public […]