Charlotte Amalie High School
Senior high school students needing to make up a failed class and those wishing to take an elective for half credit are offered courses in the following subjects:
English 9, 10, 11 and 12
U.S. History
Basic Algebra
V.I. History
Geometry
General Science
Caribbean History
Physical Education
Biology
Computer Applications
Reading
Chemistry
Advanced Algebra
Spanish
General Mathematics
Home Economics
Speech
Scholastic Aptitude Test Preparation
Students may take a maximum of two classes, and those making up a required course must obtain a guidance counsellor’s recommendation. Classes are scheduled to meet June 19 to July 24 from 8:15 a.m. to 1:20 p.m. The summer session is $100 per class plus a non-refundable $50 registration fee. Registration will take place at the CAHS Guidance Complex from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on June 14, 16 and 17.
For more information contact CAHS.
Addelita Cancryn Junior High School
Junior high school students needing to make up a failed class and those wishing to take an elective for half credit are offered courses in the following subjects:
English
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
Students may take a maximum of two classes, and those making up a required course must obtain a guidance counsellor’s recommendation. Classes are scheduled to meet from 8:30 a.m. to noon. The summer session is $100 per class plus a non-refundable $50 registration fee. Registration will take place on June 12, 13 and 16.
For more information contact Addelita Cancryn Junior High School.
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MALL MARKING 10TH YEAR WITH MODELING SHOW
June 9, 2003 – Tutu Park Mall will kick off its 10th anniversary celebration with a fashion show on Saturday, beginning at 3 p.m. at Center Court.
"We're featuring all of the latest fashions, and it's great family fun," Monique Creque, mall marketing director, said.
Models from Quintessence of Style on St. Croix will show off casual wear, sportswear, business attire and wedding gowns. Full-figured models will include Miss Big and Beautiful 2003, Kesha Ells, and her first runnerup, April Parker.
Creque said that former Jamz disk jockey KV will serve as master of ceremonies, and Tony T of KBK Sounds will provide music. All the Way, Qwiz, the Infrared dance group and 2003 V.I. Carnival Junior Calypso winner Princess Lyrics (Shamelle Farrington) will provide entertainment. The public is invited, and admission is free.
Creque said the mall actually marked its 10th anniversary on June 3. Culminating the anniversary festivities will be an event on July 19 that also will feature music and entertainment, she said. For more information, call 775-4658 or visit the Tutu Park Mall Web site.
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"We're featuring all of the latest fashions, and it's great family fun," Monique Creque, mall marketing director, said.
Models from Quintessence of Style on St. Croix will show off casual wear, sportswear, business attire and wedding gowns. Full-figured models will include Miss Big and Beautiful 2003, Kesha Ells, and her first runnerup, April Parker.
Creque said that former Jamz disk jockey KV will serve as master of ceremonies, and Tony T of KBK Sounds will provide music. All the Way, Qwiz, the Infrared dance group and 2003 V.I. Carnival Junior Calypso winner Princess Lyrics (Shamelle Farrington) will provide entertainment. The public is invited, and admission is free.
Creque said the mall actually marked its 10th anniversary on June 3. Culminating the anniversary festivities will be an event on July 19 that also will feature music and entertainment, she said. For more information, call 775-4658 or visit the Tutu Park Mall Web site.
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MARLON WILLIAMS WINS 17TH OLYMPIC DAY RUN
June 9, 2003 – More than 50 people took part in the 17th Olympic Day Run on Saturday, and Dr. Marlon Williams, vice president of the V.I. Olympic Committee won the two-mile race around the University of the Virgin Islands St. Croix campus. The event was organized by the Virgin Islands Pace Runners.
Williams and Angel Morales, V.I. Olympic Committee secretary, read a statement from International Olympic Committee Jacque Rogue at the starting line.
Williams took first place in the event with a time of 11 minutes and 28 seconds; Morgan Locke of the Virgin Islands Swimming Federation was second in 12:26; and Troyson Raymond of the V.I. Express Track Club was third in 12:46.
Theresa Harper was the first female to finish the race with a time of 13:24; Sherma Aurelien was second female in 13:50; and Laura Oscar was third in 19:16.
Top Finishers Male:
1. Marlon Williams 11:28; 2.Morgan Locke 12;26; 3.Troyson Raymond 12:46; 4. Bernell Smithen 13:04; 5.Lester Liburd 14:00; 6.Kamal Russell 14:16; 7.Geron Javois 14;27; 8. Angel Morales 14:31; 9. Rayford Mathew 14:37; 10. Eroll Chichester 14:47; 11. Alex Bradbury 14:50; 12. Kent Bradbury 14:50; 13. Julio Felix 15:10; 14. Antonio Gonzales 15:10; 15. Dalma Williams 15:23; 16. Andrew Petersen 16:56; 17. Kareem Murrell 17:00; 18. Eurman Fahie 17:38; 19. Jack Branch 17:45; 20. Stewart Hypolite 17:46; 21. Ray Lutz 17:47; 22. Leslie Farrelly 17:53; 23. Prospero Lewis 18:29; 24. Alphonso Romney 18:38; 25. Luis Encarnacion 19:42; 26. Willy Lewis 20:06; 27. Alfredo Perez 20:27; 28. Wreford Grouby 20:42; 29. 29. Uriah Edwards 30. Benito Torres 22:38; 31.
Casey Bergstrom 23:30; 32. Denis Dickey 23:31; 33. Malcom Fabio 26:18; 34. Mark Fabio 26:02; 35. Stanford Fabio 30:24
Top Finishers Female:
1. Theresa Harper 13:24; 2. Sherma Aurelien 13:50; 3. Jervina Thomas 16:51; 4. Laura Oscar 16:53; 5. ReeshemaDonaldson 17:52; 6. Andrea Russell 17:54; 7. Amanda Weber 17:54; 8. Meosha Eddy 18:55; 9. Jessica Bradbury 19:13; 10. Angela Bradbury 11. Angela Bradbury 19:26; 12. Carolyn Lanclos 20:12; 13. Tasia Eddy 20:47; 14. Valma Berkitt 21:50; 15. Sherry Hotten 25:10; 16. Naydyeyah Acoy 28:46; 17. Saeiba Phillip 30:03; 18. Emanah Acoy 30:05
Youth Male
1. Alex Bradbury 14:50; 2. Karem Murrell 17:00; 3. Uriah Edwards 21:34
Youth Female
1. Jessica Bradbury 19:13; 2. Naydyah Acoy 28:46; 3. Saeiba Phillip 30:03; 4. Emanah Acoy 30:05 .
High School Male
1. Bernell Smithen 13:04; 2. Lester Liburd 14:00; 3. Kamal Russell 14:16
High School Female
1. Laura Oscar 16:53; 2. Andrea Russell 17:54; 3. Amana Weber 17:54
Masters Male
1. Errol Chischester 14:47; 2. Eurman Fahie 17:38; 3. Rey Lutz 17:47
Master Female
1. Angela Bradbury 19:26; 2. Carolyn Landclos 20:12; 3. Sherry Hotten 25:10
Senior Male
1. Angel Morales 14:31; 2. Prospero Lewis 18:29; 3. Benito Torres 22:38
For more information, call 340-777-0258 or logon to virginislandspace.org
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Williams and Angel Morales, V.I. Olympic Committee secretary, read a statement from International Olympic Committee Jacque Rogue at the starting line.
Williams took first place in the event with a time of 11 minutes and 28 seconds; Morgan Locke of the Virgin Islands Swimming Federation was second in 12:26; and Troyson Raymond of the V.I. Express Track Club was third in 12:46.
Theresa Harper was the first female to finish the race with a time of 13:24; Sherma Aurelien was second female in 13:50; and Laura Oscar was third in 19:16.
Top Finishers Male:
1. Marlon Williams 11:28; 2.Morgan Locke 12;26; 3.Troyson Raymond 12:46; 4. Bernell Smithen 13:04; 5.Lester Liburd 14:00; 6.Kamal Russell 14:16; 7.Geron Javois 14;27; 8. Angel Morales 14:31; 9. Rayford Mathew 14:37; 10. Eroll Chichester 14:47; 11. Alex Bradbury 14:50; 12. Kent Bradbury 14:50; 13. Julio Felix 15:10; 14. Antonio Gonzales 15:10; 15. Dalma Williams 15:23; 16. Andrew Petersen 16:56; 17. Kareem Murrell 17:00; 18. Eurman Fahie 17:38; 19. Jack Branch 17:45; 20. Stewart Hypolite 17:46; 21. Ray Lutz 17:47; 22. Leslie Farrelly 17:53; 23. Prospero Lewis 18:29; 24. Alphonso Romney 18:38; 25. Luis Encarnacion 19:42; 26. Willy Lewis 20:06; 27. Alfredo Perez 20:27; 28. Wreford Grouby 20:42; 29. 29. Uriah Edwards 30. Benito Torres 22:38; 31.
Casey Bergstrom 23:30; 32. Denis Dickey 23:31; 33. Malcom Fabio 26:18; 34. Mark Fabio 26:02; 35. Stanford Fabio 30:24
Top Finishers Female:
1. Theresa Harper 13:24; 2. Sherma Aurelien 13:50; 3. Jervina Thomas 16:51; 4. Laura Oscar 16:53; 5. ReeshemaDonaldson 17:52; 6. Andrea Russell 17:54; 7. Amanda Weber 17:54; 8. Meosha Eddy 18:55; 9. Jessica Bradbury 19:13; 10. Angela Bradbury 11. Angela Bradbury 19:26; 12. Carolyn Lanclos 20:12; 13. Tasia Eddy 20:47; 14. Valma Berkitt 21:50; 15. Sherry Hotten 25:10; 16. Naydyeyah Acoy 28:46; 17. Saeiba Phillip 30:03; 18. Emanah Acoy 30:05
Youth Male
1. Alex Bradbury 14:50; 2. Karem Murrell 17:00; 3. Uriah Edwards 21:34
Youth Female
1. Jessica Bradbury 19:13; 2. Naydyah Acoy 28:46; 3. Saeiba Phillip 30:03; 4. Emanah Acoy 30:05 .
High School Male
1. Bernell Smithen 13:04; 2. Lester Liburd 14:00; 3. Kamal Russell 14:16
High School Female
1. Laura Oscar 16:53; 2. Andrea Russell 17:54; 3. Amana Weber 17:54
Masters Male
1. Errol Chischester 14:47; 2. Eurman Fahie 17:38; 3. Rey Lutz 17:47
Master Female
1. Angela Bradbury 19:26; 2. Carolyn Landclos 20:12; 3. Sherry Hotten 25:10
Senior Male
1. Angel Morales 14:31; 2. Prospero Lewis 18:29; 3. Benito Torres 22:38
For more information, call 340-777-0258 or logon to virginislandspace.org
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MAJORITY MEETING WITH TURNBULL DELAYS SENATE
June 9, 2003 – A full Senate session scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday was delayed twice and then postponed altogether as members of the Democratic majority met with Gov. Charles W. Turnbull in a closed-door session at Palms Court Harborview Hotel.
At first, word was that the Legislature would convene at 1 p.m. Then, around noon, that was changed to 2:30 p.m. About 2 p.m. came an announcement that the session had been postponed to 10 a.m. Tuesday. On Tuesday, however, broadcast reports said the Senate session would be further delayed until June 17.
According to a legislative source, the governor called the meeting. A Government House spokesperson professed not to know who had done so.
Tempers have been running high between the Democratic administration and the Democratic-majority Legislature since Turnbull sent his proposed legislation to address the territory's fiscal ills to the Senate in May. His proposals to raise existing business taxes and add new ones, borrow another $235 million, and spend it on projects including an $80 million hotel on St. Croix met with stiff resistence in the Senate. All 15 lawmakers told him they will not take up the borrowing bill unless he rescinds more than $7 million a year in hefty raises he granted exempt government workers by executive order last year.
A press conference held by the governor on Friday, in which he laid responsibility for curing the fiscal morass squarely in the Senate's lap, and his letter to the Senate in response to the pay-raise ultimatum, also on Friday, did nothing to calm the waters. (See "Turnbull defends his fiscal plan, raps Senate" and "Fiscal crisis is governor's fault, Berry charges".)
Members of the Senate minority said they had no idea what was going on Monday morning, as they sat in their offices with no invitation to join their colleagues at the meeting with the governor.
"I don't know what it's about," Sen. Celestino A. White Sr. said. "I feel slighted. I have no idea why we weren't notified." He said he would now give short shrift to the newly unified Senate, which two majority members, Senate Vice President Lorraine Berry and Finance Committee chair Adlah "Foncie Donastorg, have alluded to in recent days. See "Finance axes gross receipts tax increase".)
Minority Caucus leader Raymond "Usie" Richards said that as of 10:30 a.m. Monday he had received no invitation to the meeting. About the same time, a Government House spokesperson said the governor had gone to the hotel for the meeting, while professing not to know who had called the gathering.
No other Senate activity had been scheduled for Tuesday.
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At first, word was that the Legislature would convene at 1 p.m. Then, around noon, that was changed to 2:30 p.m. About 2 p.m. came an announcement that the session had been postponed to 10 a.m. Tuesday. On Tuesday, however, broadcast reports said the Senate session would be further delayed until June 17.
According to a legislative source, the governor called the meeting. A Government House spokesperson professed not to know who had done so.
Tempers have been running high between the Democratic administration and the Democratic-majority Legislature since Turnbull sent his proposed legislation to address the territory's fiscal ills to the Senate in May. His proposals to raise existing business taxes and add new ones, borrow another $235 million, and spend it on projects including an $80 million hotel on St. Croix met with stiff resistence in the Senate. All 15 lawmakers told him they will not take up the borrowing bill unless he rescinds more than $7 million a year in hefty raises he granted exempt government workers by executive order last year.
A press conference held by the governor on Friday, in which he laid responsibility for curing the fiscal morass squarely in the Senate's lap, and his letter to the Senate in response to the pay-raise ultimatum, also on Friday, did nothing to calm the waters. (See "Turnbull defends his fiscal plan, raps Senate" and "Fiscal crisis is governor's fault, Berry charges".)
Members of the Senate minority said they had no idea what was going on Monday morning, as they sat in their offices with no invitation to join their colleagues at the meeting with the governor.
"I don't know what it's about," Sen. Celestino A. White Sr. said. "I feel slighted. I have no idea why we weren't notified." He said he would now give short shrift to the newly unified Senate, which two majority members, Senate Vice President Lorraine Berry and Finance Committee chair Adlah "Foncie Donastorg, have alluded to in recent days. See "Finance axes gross receipts tax increase".)
Minority Caucus leader Raymond "Usie" Richards said that as of 10:30 a.m. Monday he had received no invitation to the meeting. About the same time, a Government House spokesperson said the governor had gone to the hotel for the meeting, while professing not to know who had called the gathering.
No other Senate activity had been scheduled for Tuesday.
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MAJORITY MEETING WITH TURNBULL DELAYS SENATE
June 9, 2003 – A full Senate session scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday was delayed twice and then postponed altogether as members of the Democratic majority met with Gov. Charles W. Turnbull in a closed-door session at Palms Court Harborview Hotel.
At first, word was that the Legislature would convene at 1 p.m. Then, around noon, that was changed to 2:30 p.m. About 2 p.m. came an announcement that the session had been postponed to 10 a.m. Tuesday. On Tuesday, however, broadcast reports said the Senate session would be further delayed until June 17.
According to a legislative source, the governor called the meeting. A Government House spokesperson professed not to know who had done so.
Tempers have been running high between the Democratic administration and the Democratic-majority Legislature since Turnbull sent his proposed legislation to address the territory's fiscal ills to the Senate in May. His proposals to raise existing business taxes and add new ones, borrow another $235 million, and spend it on projects including an $80 million hotel on St. Croix met with stiff resistence in the Senate. All 15 lawmakers told him they will not take up the borrowing bill unless he rescinds more than $7 million a year in hefty raises he granted exempt government workers by executive order last year.
A press conference held by the governor on Friday, in which he laid responsibility for curing the fiscal morass squarely in the Senate's lap, and his letter to the Senate in response to the pay-raise ultimatum, also on Friday, did nothing to calm the waters. (See "Turnbull defends his fiscal plan, raps Senate" and "Fiscal crisis is governor's fault, Berry charges".)
Members of the Senate minority said they had no idea what was going on Monday morning, as they sat in their offices with no invitation to join their colleagues at the meeting with the governor.
"I don't know what it's about," Sen. Celestino A. White Sr. said. "I feel slighted. I have no idea why we weren't notified." He said he would now give short shrift to the newly unified Senate, which two majority members, Senate Vice President Lorraine Berry and Finance Committee chair Adlah "Foncie Donastorg, have alluded to in recent days. See "Finance axes gross receipts tax increase".)
Minority Caucus leader Raymond "Usie" Richards said that as of 10:30 a.m. Monday he had received no invitation to the meeting. About the same time, a Government House spokesperson said the governor had gone to the hotel for the meeting, while professing not to know who had called the gathering.
No other Senate activity had been scheduled for Tuesday.
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At first, word was that the Legislature would convene at 1 p.m. Then, around noon, that was changed to 2:30 p.m. About 2 p.m. came an announcement that the session had been postponed to 10 a.m. Tuesday. On Tuesday, however, broadcast reports said the Senate session would be further delayed until June 17.
According to a legislative source, the governor called the meeting. A Government House spokesperson professed not to know who had done so.
Tempers have been running high between the Democratic administration and the Democratic-majority Legislature since Turnbull sent his proposed legislation to address the territory's fiscal ills to the Senate in May. His proposals to raise existing business taxes and add new ones, borrow another $235 million, and spend it on projects including an $80 million hotel on St. Croix met with stiff resistence in the Senate. All 15 lawmakers told him they will not take up the borrowing bill unless he rescinds more than $7 million a year in hefty raises he granted exempt government workers by executive order last year.
A press conference held by the governor on Friday, in which he laid responsibility for curing the fiscal morass squarely in the Senate's lap, and his letter to the Senate in response to the pay-raise ultimatum, also on Friday, did nothing to calm the waters. (See "Turnbull defends his fiscal plan, raps Senate" and "Fiscal crisis is governor's fault, Berry charges".)
Members of the Senate minority said they had no idea what was going on Monday morning, as they sat in their offices with no invitation to join their colleagues at the meeting with the governor.
"I don't know what it's about," Sen. Celestino A. White Sr. said. "I feel slighted. I have no idea why we weren't notified." He said he would now give short shrift to the newly unified Senate, which two majority members, Senate Vice President Lorraine Berry and Finance Committee chair Adlah "Foncie Donastorg, have alluded to in recent days. See "Finance axes gross receipts tax increase".)
Minority Caucus leader Raymond "Usie" Richards said that as of 10:30 a.m. Monday he had received no invitation to the meeting. About the same time, a Government House spokesperson said the governor had gone to the hotel for the meeting, while professing not to know who had called the gathering.
No other Senate activity had been scheduled for Tuesday.
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MAJORITY MEETING WITH TURNBULL DELAYS SENATE
June 9, 2003 – A full Senate session scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday was delayed twice and then postponed altogether as members of the Democratic majority met with Gov. Charles W. Turnbull in a closed-door session at Palms Court Harborview Hotel.
At first, word was that the Legislature would convene at 1 p.m. Then, around noon, that was changed to 2:30 p.m. About 2 p.m. came an announcement that the session had been postponed to 10 a.m. Tuesday. On Tuesday, however, broadcast reports said the Senate session would be further delayed until June 17.
According to a legislative source, the governor called the meeting. A Government House spokesperson professed not to know who had done so.
Tempers have been running high between the Democratic administration and the Democratic-majority Legislature since Turnbull sent his proposed legislation to address the territory's fiscal ills to the Senate in May. His proposals to raise existing business taxes and add new ones, borrow another $235 million, and spend it on projects including an $80 million hotel on St. Croix met with stiff resistence in the Senate. All 15 lawmakers told him they will not take up the borrowing bill unless he rescinds more than $7 million a year in hefty raises he granted exempt government workers by executive order last year.
A press conference held by the governor on Friday, in which he laid responsibility for curing the fiscal morass squarely in the Senate's lap, and his letter to the Senate in response to the pay-raise ultimatum, also on Friday, did nothing to calm the waters. (See "Turnbull defends his fiscal plan, raps Senate" and "Fiscal crisis is governor's fault, Berry charges".)
Members of the Senate minority said they had no idea what was going on Monday morning, as they sat in their offices with no invitation to join their colleagues at the meeting with the governor.
"I don't know what it's about," Sen. Celestino A. White Sr. said. "I feel slighted. I have no idea why we weren't notified." He said he would now give short shrift to the newly unified Senate, which two majority members, Senate Vice President Lorraine Berry and Finance Committee chair Adlah "Foncie Donastorg, have alluded to in recent days. See "Finance axes gross receipts tax increase".)
Minority Caucus leader Raymond "Usie" Richards said that as of 10:30 a.m. Monday he had received no invitation to the meeting. About the same time, a Government House spokesperson said the governor had gone to the hotel for the meeting, while professing not to know who had called the gathering.
No other Senate activity had been scheduled for Tuesday.
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At first, word was that the Legislature would convene at 1 p.m. Then, around noon, that was changed to 2:30 p.m. About 2 p.m. came an announcement that the session had been postponed to 10 a.m. Tuesday. On Tuesday, however, broadcast reports said the Senate session would be further delayed until June 17.
According to a legislative source, the governor called the meeting. A Government House spokesperson professed not to know who had done so.
Tempers have been running high between the Democratic administration and the Democratic-majority Legislature since Turnbull sent his proposed legislation to address the territory's fiscal ills to the Senate in May. His proposals to raise existing business taxes and add new ones, borrow another $235 million, and spend it on projects including an $80 million hotel on St. Croix met with stiff resistence in the Senate. All 15 lawmakers told him they will not take up the borrowing bill unless he rescinds more than $7 million a year in hefty raises he granted exempt government workers by executive order last year.
A press conference held by the governor on Friday, in which he laid responsibility for curing the fiscal morass squarely in the Senate's lap, and his letter to the Senate in response to the pay-raise ultimatum, also on Friday, did nothing to calm the waters. (See "Turnbull defends his fiscal plan, raps Senate" and "Fiscal crisis is governor's fault, Berry charges".)
Members of the Senate minority said they had no idea what was going on Monday morning, as they sat in their offices with no invitation to join their colleagues at the meeting with the governor.
"I don't know what it's about," Sen. Celestino A. White Sr. said. "I feel slighted. I have no idea why we weren't notified." He said he would now give short shrift to the newly unified Senate, which two majority members, Senate Vice President Lorraine Berry and Finance Committee chair Adlah "Foncie Donastorg, have alluded to in recent days. See "Finance axes gross receipts tax increase".)
Minority Caucus leader Raymond "Usie" Richards said that as of 10:30 a.m. Monday he had received no invitation to the meeting. About the same time, a Government House spokesperson said the governor had gone to the hotel for the meeting, while professing not to know who had called the gathering.
No other Senate activity had been scheduled for Tuesday.
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ICC SEEKS SINT MAARTEN CELLULAR CONCESSIONS
June 8, 2003 – The quote was: "The ones that benefit the most from competition are the consumers." The context was telecommunications, and the person to whom the comment was attributed is Holland L. Redfield II, vice president for corporate affairs of Innovative Communication Corp.
The venue, however, was not the Virgin Islands or its Public Services Commission, where ICC's subsidiary, Innovative Telephone, has fought moves by would-be competitor Choice Communications to provide alternative local phone service.
Redfield was quoted in a front-page news story on Friday in The Daily Herald of Sint Maarten.
Described by the newspaper as "chairman of the U.S.V.I. Bush Leadership Team," he was reported by the newspaper to have been in the Dutch possession along with ICC public relations director Thomas J. Dunn "to discuss the granting of international concessions to the local branch of their company, East Caribbean Cellular."
ICC owns St. Maarten Cable TV as well as East Caribbean Cellular. In the Virgin Islands, its headquarters, the corporation owns Innovative Telephone, both V.I. cable TV companies, Innovative Wireless, Innovative Business Systems, Innovative Long Distance, V.I. PowerNet and the V.I. Daily News.
Redfield and Dunn met with ECC managing director Jerry Sardine before a scheduled meeting with Sarah Wescott-Williams, Sint Maarten's leader of government, the newspaper reported. Redfield told The Daily Herald that ICC was optimistic that Wescott-Williams "will be sensitive to the issue of granting an international concession to ECC."
According to the newspaper, the cellular company has come under criticism for being a foreign-based company with little local interest. However, the paper quoted Redfield as stating: "I don't consider our company foreign. I would say we are a regional company, but our commitment to St. Maarten to date has been unprecedented. … We hire locally and always place emphasis on elevating our local staff to top management positions, while always ensuring that we put back into the community."
ECC's application for an international concession has been on hold for two years, the Herald said, apparently because of a government request to put a hold on telecommunications licenses until a comprehensive local market study has been made.
"However, CellularOne, which submitted its request for a similar concession after ECC, was granted a concession by the Council of Ministers in Curaçao, much to the surprise and dismay of the St. Maarten government," the Herald stated.. "Now it is the intention of ICC to go to Curaçao" to meet with government officials "on the issue of granting ICC its international concession."
The paper quoted Redfield as saying that "the ones that benefit the most from competition are the consumers and St. Maarten … the movement throughout the world is open market, and the key to St. Maarten's economic advancement is in telecommunications because we are in the right era with telecommunications."
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The venue, however, was not the Virgin Islands or its Public Services Commission, where ICC's subsidiary, Innovative Telephone, has fought moves by would-be competitor Choice Communications to provide alternative local phone service.
Redfield was quoted in a front-page news story on Friday in The Daily Herald of Sint Maarten.
Described by the newspaper as "chairman of the U.S.V.I. Bush Leadership Team," he was reported by the newspaper to have been in the Dutch possession along with ICC public relations director Thomas J. Dunn "to discuss the granting of international concessions to the local branch of their company, East Caribbean Cellular."
ICC owns St. Maarten Cable TV as well as East Caribbean Cellular. In the Virgin Islands, its headquarters, the corporation owns Innovative Telephone, both V.I. cable TV companies, Innovative Wireless, Innovative Business Systems, Innovative Long Distance, V.I. PowerNet and the V.I. Daily News.
Redfield and Dunn met with ECC managing director Jerry Sardine before a scheduled meeting with Sarah Wescott-Williams, Sint Maarten's leader of government, the newspaper reported. Redfield told The Daily Herald that ICC was optimistic that Wescott-Williams "will be sensitive to the issue of granting an international concession to ECC."
According to the newspaper, the cellular company has come under criticism for being a foreign-based company with little local interest. However, the paper quoted Redfield as stating: "I don't consider our company foreign. I would say we are a regional company, but our commitment to St. Maarten to date has been unprecedented. … We hire locally and always place emphasis on elevating our local staff to top management positions, while always ensuring that we put back into the community."
ECC's application for an international concession has been on hold for two years, the Herald said, apparently because of a government request to put a hold on telecommunications licenses until a comprehensive local market study has been made.
"However, CellularOne, which submitted its request for a similar concession after ECC, was granted a concession by the Council of Ministers in Curaçao, much to the surprise and dismay of the St. Maarten government," the Herald stated.. "Now it is the intention of ICC to go to Curaçao" to meet with government officials "on the issue of granting ICC its international concession."
The paper quoted Redfield as saying that "the ones that benefit the most from competition are the consumers and St. Maarten … the movement throughout the world is open market, and the key to St. Maarten's economic advancement is in telecommunications because we are in the right era with telecommunications."
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ICC SEEKS SINT MAARTEN CELLULAR CONCESSIONS
June 8, 2003 – The quote was: "The ones that benefit the most from competition are the consumers." The context was telecommunications, and the person to whom the comment was attributed is Holland L. Redfield II, vice president for corporate affairs of Innovative Communication Corp.
The venue, however, was not the Virgin Islands or its Public Services Commission, where ICC's subsidiary, Innovative Telephone, has fought moves by would-be competitor Choice Communications to provide alternative local phone service.
Redfield was quoted in a front-page news story on Friday in The Daily Herald of Sint Maarten.
Described by the newspaper as "chairman of the U.S.V.I. Bush Leadership Team," he was reported by the newspaper to have been in the Dutch possession along with ICC public relations director Thomas J. Dunn "to discuss the granting of international concessions to the local branch of their company, East Caribbean Cellular."
ICC owns St. Maarten Cable TV as well as East Caribbean Cellular. In the Virgin Islands, its headquarters, the corporation owns Innovative Telephone, both V.I. cable TV companies, Innovative Wireless, Innovative Business Systems, Innovative Long Distance, V.I. PowerNet and the V.I. Daily News.
Redfield and Dunn met with ECC managing director Jerry Sardine before a scheduled meeting with Sarah Wescott-Williams, Sint Maarten's leader of government, the newspaper reported. Redfield told The Daily Herald that ICC was optimistic that Wescott-Williams "will be sensitive to the issue of granting an international concession to ECC."
According to the newspaper, the cellular company has come under criticism for being a foreign-based company with little local interest. However, the paper quoted Redfield as stating: "I don't consider our company foreign. I would say we are a regional company, but our commitment to St. Maarten to date has been unprecedented. … We hire locally and always place emphasis on elevating our local staff to top management positions, while always ensuring that we put back into the community."
ECC's application for an international concession has been on hold for two years, the Herald said, apparently because of a government request to put a hold on telecommunications licenses until a comprehensive local market study has been made.
"However, CellularOne, which submitted its request for a similar concession after ECC, was granted a concession by the Council of Ministers in Curaçao, much to the surprise and dismay of the St. Maarten government," the Herald stated.. "Now it is the intention of ICC to go to Curaçao" to meet with government officials "on the issue of granting ICC its international concession."
The paper quoted Redfield as saying that "the ones that benefit the most from competition are the consumers and St. Maarten … the movement throughout the world is open market, and the key to St. Maarten's economic advancement is in telecommunications because we are in the right era with telecommunications."
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The venue, however, was not the Virgin Islands or its Public Services Commission, where ICC's subsidiary, Innovative Telephone, has fought moves by would-be competitor Choice Communications to provide alternative local phone service.
Redfield was quoted in a front-page news story on Friday in The Daily Herald of Sint Maarten.
Described by the newspaper as "chairman of the U.S.V.I. Bush Leadership Team," he was reported by the newspaper to have been in the Dutch possession along with ICC public relations director Thomas J. Dunn "to discuss the granting of international concessions to the local branch of their company, East Caribbean Cellular."
ICC owns St. Maarten Cable TV as well as East Caribbean Cellular. In the Virgin Islands, its headquarters, the corporation owns Innovative Telephone, both V.I. cable TV companies, Innovative Wireless, Innovative Business Systems, Innovative Long Distance, V.I. PowerNet and the V.I. Daily News.
Redfield and Dunn met with ECC managing director Jerry Sardine before a scheduled meeting with Sarah Wescott-Williams, Sint Maarten's leader of government, the newspaper reported. Redfield told The Daily Herald that ICC was optimistic that Wescott-Williams "will be sensitive to the issue of granting an international concession to ECC."
According to the newspaper, the cellular company has come under criticism for being a foreign-based company with little local interest. However, the paper quoted Redfield as stating: "I don't consider our company foreign. I would say we are a regional company, but our commitment to St. Maarten to date has been unprecedented. … We hire locally and always place emphasis on elevating our local staff to top management positions, while always ensuring that we put back into the community."
ECC's application for an international concession has been on hold for two years, the Herald said, apparently because of a government request to put a hold on telecommunications licenses until a comprehensive local market study has been made.
"However, CellularOne, which submitted its request for a similar concession after ECC, was granted a concession by the Council of Ministers in Curaçao, much to the surprise and dismay of the St. Maarten government," the Herald stated.. "Now it is the intention of ICC to go to Curaçao" to meet with government officials "on the issue of granting ICC its international concession."
The paper quoted Redfield as saying that "the ones that benefit the most from competition are the consumers and St. Maarten … the movement throughout the world is open market, and the key to St. Maarten's economic advancement is in telecommunications because we are in the right era with telecommunications."
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ICC SEEKS SINT MAARTEN CELLULAR CONCESSIONS
June 8, 2003 – The quote was: "The ones that benefit the most from competition are the consumers." The context was telecommunications, and the person to whom the comment was attributed is Holland L. Redfield II, vice president for corporate affairs of Innovative Communication Corp.
The venue, however, was not the Virgin Islands or its Public Services Commission, where ICC's subsidiary, Innovative Telephone, has fought moves by would-be competitor Choice Communications to provide alternative local phone service.
Redfield was quoted in a front-page news story on Friday in The Daily Herald of Sint Maarten.
Described by the newspaper as "chairman of the U.S.V.I. Bush Leadership Team," he was reported by the newspaper to have been in the Dutch possession along with ICC public relations director Thomas J. Dunn "to discuss the granting of international concessions to the local branch of their company, East Caribbean Cellular."
ICC owns St. Maarten Cable TV as well as East Caribbean Cellular. In the Virgin Islands, its headquarters, the corporation owns Innovative Telephone, both V.I. cable TV companies, Innovative Wireless, Innovative Business Systems, Innovative Long Distance, V.I. PowerNet and the V.I. Daily News.
Redfield and Dunn met with ECC managing director Jerry Sardine before a scheduled meeting with Sarah Wescott-Williams, Sint Maarten's leader of government, the newspaper reported. Redfield told The Daily Herald that ICC was optimistic that Wescott-Williams "will be sensitive to the issue of granting an international concession to ECC."
According to the newspaper, the cellular company has come under criticism for being a foreign-based company with little local interest. However, the paper quoted Redfield as stating: "I don't consider our company foreign. I would say we are a regional company, but our commitment to St. Maarten to date has been unprecedented. … We hire locally and always place emphasis on elevating our local staff to top management positions, while always ensuring that we put back into the community."
ECC's application for an international concession has been on hold for two years, the Herald said, apparently because of a government request to put a hold on telecommunications licenses until a comprehensive local market study has been made.
"However, CellularOne, which submitted its request for a similar concession after ECC, was granted a concession by the Council of Ministers in Curaçao, much to the surprise and dismay of the St. Maarten government," the Herald stated.. "Now it is the intention of ICC to go to Curaçao" to meet with government officials "on the issue of granting ICC its international concession."
The paper quoted Redfield as saying that "the ones that benefit the most from competition are the consumers and St. Maarten … the movement throughout the world is open market, and the key to St. Maarten's economic advancement is in telecommunications because we are in the right era with telecommunications."
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The venue, however, was not the Virgin Islands or its Public Services Commission, where ICC's subsidiary, Innovative Telephone, has fought moves by would-be competitor Choice Communications to provide alternative local phone service.
Redfield was quoted in a front-page news story on Friday in The Daily Herald of Sint Maarten.
Described by the newspaper as "chairman of the U.S.V.I. Bush Leadership Team," he was reported by the newspaper to have been in the Dutch possession along with ICC public relations director Thomas J. Dunn "to discuss the granting of international concessions to the local branch of their company, East Caribbean Cellular."
ICC owns St. Maarten Cable TV as well as East Caribbean Cellular. In the Virgin Islands, its headquarters, the corporation owns Innovative Telephone, both V.I. cable TV companies, Innovative Wireless, Innovative Business Systems, Innovative Long Distance, V.I. PowerNet and the V.I. Daily News.
Redfield and Dunn met with ECC managing director Jerry Sardine before a scheduled meeting with Sarah Wescott-Williams, Sint Maarten's leader of government, the newspaper reported. Redfield told The Daily Herald that ICC was optimistic that Wescott-Williams "will be sensitive to the issue of granting an international concession to ECC."
According to the newspaper, the cellular company has come under criticism for being a foreign-based company with little local interest. However, the paper quoted Redfield as stating: "I don't consider our company foreign. I would say we are a regional company, but our commitment to St. Maarten to date has been unprecedented. … We hire locally and always place emphasis on elevating our local staff to top management positions, while always ensuring that we put back into the community."
ECC's application for an international concession has been on hold for two years, the Herald said, apparently because of a government request to put a hold on telecommunications licenses until a comprehensive local market study has been made.
"However, CellularOne, which submitted its request for a similar concession after ECC, was granted a concession by the Council of Ministers in Curaçao, much to the surprise and dismay of the St. Maarten government," the Herald stated.. "Now it is the intention of ICC to go to Curaçao" to meet with government officials "on the issue of granting ICC its international concession."
The paper quoted Redfield as saying that "the ones that benefit the most from competition are the consumers and St. Maarten … the movement throughout the world is open market, and the key to St. Maarten's economic advancement is in telecommunications because we are in the right era with telecommunications."
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DR. HEATH TO RECEIVE PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
June 8, 2003 – Dr. Alfred O. Heath will receive the 2nd annual Alexander A. Farrelly Public Service Award, presented by Virgin Islanders for Responsive Government, at a gala dinner on Saturday night at the Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort.
The award recognizes exceptional Virgin Islands leaders and public servants. The first recipient, honored last year, was Gov. Charles W. Turnbull.
For this year's award, James A. O'Bryan Jr., president of Virgin Islanders for Responsive Government, said, "the board of directors looked at the many contributions Dr. Heath has made to the community in medicine and health care, military service, business and community, music and his church, and could find no better-qualified candidate to select for this very noteworthy recognition."
Herbert R. Tillery, deputy mayor of Washington, D.C., will be the keynote speaker for the award dinner.
Loretta Lloyd, an organizer of Saturday's event, said the recipients of the award must possess qualities including courage, dedication, responsibility, commitment and conviction. Heath, a physician, surgeon and activist in many areas of the community, "possesses all of those qualities and more," Lloyd said.
Heath served as health commissioner and also as chief executive officer at what was then St. Thomas Hospital (now Roy L. Schneider Hospital) in the administration of Gov. Alexander A. Farrelly. He was the Democratic Party's candidate for lieutenant governor in 1994, running with former Lt. Gov. Derek Hodge unsuccessfully against the Schneider/Mapp team.
Heath served for 30 years in the V.I. National Guard and received the V.I. Distinguished Service Medal and Legion of Merit Award when he retired in 1999. He served for 19 years on the University of the Virgin Islands board of trustees, including terms as vice chair and chair, and was named trustee emeritus in 1997. He has been a director of the UVI Foundation for 10 years and was named its chair last year.
He is a member of St. Thomas Rotary and the Caribbean Chorale. He is a Eucharistic minister and lector at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, where he sings in the choir. He is also a licensed pilot.
Tickets to the black-tie dinner are $100. They're available at Private Collection, First Choice Boutique and Nisky Pharmacy, or by calling June Adams at 777-3648. Proceeds are to benefit the presenting organization's philanthropic and humanitarian programs.
Virgin Islanders for Responsive Government is a not-for-profit organization formed in 2001 to promote community-based social initiatives, O'Bryan said. He said the group plans to use proceeds from various fund-raises to establish after-school programs for students.
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The award recognizes exceptional Virgin Islands leaders and public servants. The first recipient, honored last year, was Gov. Charles W. Turnbull.
For this year's award, James A. O'Bryan Jr., president of Virgin Islanders for Responsive Government, said, "the board of directors looked at the many contributions Dr. Heath has made to the community in medicine and health care, military service, business and community, music and his church, and could find no better-qualified candidate to select for this very noteworthy recognition."
Herbert R. Tillery, deputy mayor of Washington, D.C., will be the keynote speaker for the award dinner.
Loretta Lloyd, an organizer of Saturday's event, said the recipients of the award must possess qualities including courage, dedication, responsibility, commitment and conviction. Heath, a physician, surgeon and activist in many areas of the community, "possesses all of those qualities and more," Lloyd said.
Heath served as health commissioner and also as chief executive officer at what was then St. Thomas Hospital (now Roy L. Schneider Hospital) in the administration of Gov. Alexander A. Farrelly. He was the Democratic Party's candidate for lieutenant governor in 1994, running with former Lt. Gov. Derek Hodge unsuccessfully against the Schneider/Mapp team.
Heath served for 30 years in the V.I. National Guard and received the V.I. Distinguished Service Medal and Legion of Merit Award when he retired in 1999. He served for 19 years on the University of the Virgin Islands board of trustees, including terms as vice chair and chair, and was named trustee emeritus in 1997. He has been a director of the UVI Foundation for 10 years and was named its chair last year.
He is a member of St. Thomas Rotary and the Caribbean Chorale. He is a Eucharistic minister and lector at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, where he sings in the choir. He is also a licensed pilot.
Tickets to the black-tie dinner are $100. They're available at Private Collection, First Choice Boutique and Nisky Pharmacy, or by calling June Adams at 777-3648. Proceeds are to benefit the presenting organization's philanthropic and humanitarian programs.
Virgin Islanders for Responsive Government is a not-for-profit organization formed in 2001 to promote community-based social initiatives, O'Bryan said. He said the group plans to use proceeds from various fund-raises to establish after-school programs for students.
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