The Crucian Coalition Movement will have a Jump Up at the Christian "Shan" Hendricks Vegetable Market in Christiansted.
There will be food, drinks, and live music by St. Croix's hottest band, Jacob's Seed.

July 5, 2002 – The Crucian Coalition Movement will be at the Christian "Shan" Hendricks Vegetable Market at 10 p.m. on Friday, July 12, in Christiansted for Jump Up.
There will be eats, drinks, and music by St. Croix's hottest band, Jacob's Seed.

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The Charlotte Amalie High School Class of 1994 will have an emergency meeting at Palms Court Harborview Community Room.
For more information call Shenica richardson at 775-5552.

July 6, 2002 – French Heritage Week starts Sunday morning at Hull Bay Hideaway and continues with an assortment of events throughout the week, culminating in dual Bastille Day celebrations July 14 at Hull Bay and in Frenchtown.
Games of horseshoes, darts and dominoes officially get things going at 10 a.m. Sunday at Hull Bay and will continue throughout the day, with the Sea Breeze band playing from 5 to 9 p.m. Food and drinks will be on sale. The event is sponsored by Sen. Lorraine Berry, the French Heritage Week Committee and the Northside Civic Organization, with proceeds to benefit the French Heritage Scholarship Fund. There is no admission charge.
Berry said the St. Thomas-St. John Board of Elections will hold voter registration from 2 to 4 p.m. Those planning to sign up to bring identification – either original U.S. birth certificate or
U.S. passport, or else both U.S. naturalization certificate and Social Security Card.
Other activities include:
Wednesday — The honorary French consul for the Virgin Islands, Odile de Lyrot, will host a Friends of French Culture reception from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Emerald Beach Resort. Admission is $5, with a cash bar.
Friday — two events:
A captains' meeting at 7 p.m. at Hull Bay Hideaway for the Bastille Day fishing tournament.
A pre-Bastille Day dance from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Bryan's Bar. Music is by Sea Breeze. Admission is $10 with a cash bar.
Saturday — A joint legislative and executive branch observance of French Heritage Week from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palms Court Harborview Hotel. The event is by invitation only.
Sunday — a busy day of activites at two venues:
Hull Bay — the Bastille Day Fishing Tournament from 5 a.m. to noon, sponsored by the Northside Fishing Club. Family fun day from 1 to 5 p.m. at the beach with games sponsored by the Northside Civic Organization and Community Health Van screening services available. Music from 5 to 8 p.m. by Lashing Dog and Obsession bands. Fishing tournament trophy awards ceremony at 8 p.m. Free admission.
Frenchtown — traditional Bastille Day festivities including music, food and drink, speeches and more, starting at 5 p.m. in the Joseph Aubain Ballpark parking lot. (See "Next up for celebration: France's national day".)
Berry said she will have to do some fancy footwork this year, with activities on Bastille Day itself, July 14, taking place both on the North Side and in Frenchtown. The fishing tournament and related Hull Bay activities usually take place on the weekend before the 14th, but this year the 14th is on the weekend. Berry is a scheduled speaker in Frenchtown and a presenter of the fishing trophy awards an hour later at Hull Bay.

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July 6, 2002 – After five weeks of unreturned telephone messages and unanswered letters, Sen. Emmett Hansen II was not surprised to learn on Saturday that Gov. Charles W. Turnbull had vetoed his Infrastructure Maintenance Act of 2001. But that doesn't mean he is not concerned.
The St. Croix legislator termed the veto "amazing that, given what's going on on this island now." He was referring the crime situation which Carnival Cruise Lines cited as its reason for canceling Frederiksted port calls by two of its largest ships. Norwegian Cruise Line and Holland America subsequently canceled their calls without publicly citing specific reasons.
Hansen said he didn't see how the governor could veto a measure providing what he says is a "lockbox" sure method of providing reliable street lighting, road repair and potable water line repair.
Over the last five weeks, Hansen said, he left about "100 phone messages" at Government House. "When they're so intellectually desolate that they sat there for five weeks, and I got no response to my calls or letters, it became painfully obvious to me that it was going to be vetoed," he said. "Not because it was without merit — it was vetoed for political purposes."
The bill calls for annual funding projected at $9 million in property taxes annually — 15 percent of the total. "And the truth is, the money will come back," Hansen said, "because they'll have to hire more road and potable water repair crews, and more to install and maintain more street lights."
Hansen said he is appalled at what he sees as Turnbull's lack of understanding of basic public finances "If you take money from the people and don't give them something back, that's what's called theft," he said. The people who pay property taxes "have never gotten anything back in terms of basic services — roads, water and street lights," he said.
After months of meetings, lots of study and a bit of lobbying, Hansen succeeded on June 21 in getting his bill to fund the territory's street lighting, road repair and potable water services passed by the 24th Legislature.
Under the bill, sponsored by Hansen and Sen. Celestino A. White, 15 percent of all property taxes collected in the territory for each fiscal year would be deposited into separate District Road Funds for St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John and Water Island.
Legislation enacted last year transferred responsibility for street lighting to the Water and Power Authority from the Public Works Department. The Legislature appropriated $2.8 million to WAPA to cover start-up costs for the work. Gov. Charles W. Turnbull vetoed the appropriation, but the Senate overrode his veto earlier this year.
However, Carol Burke, WAPA board chair, said last month that the utility has yet to receive "one dime" for the street lighting, while it's costing the authority $700,000 a month to maintain emergency repair service. "We are caught between the legislative and administrative branches of government. As a result of that legislation, we have lost money," she said.
WAPA announced last month that it would petition the Public Services Commission for a surcharge of $1.80 per month on customers' bills in order to fund the street lighting program. WAPA's former executive director, Joseph R. Thomas Jr., took that same proposal to the Legislature last year, where it was turned down. Hansen said as far as he knows, Glen Rothgeb, WAPA acting executive director, hasn't yet submitted the petition to the PSC.
Turnbull said in a Government House release distributed Saturday that he vetoed the measure because "it amounts to respending of monies that the Legislature has already spent, perhaps more than once."
Hansen's response was, "I don't think he knows what he is talking about, and you may quote me. It makes no sense to me. We are supposed to have dedicated funding to dedicated liabilities. It's got to be more than lip service and task forces."
Turnbull said the measure would remove "critically needed funds from the General Fund." He said in his letter to Senate President Almando "Rocky" Liburd that "the creation of accounts for items that are now the responsibility of WAPA is a contradiction of the concept of an 'independent agency.'" He added that WAPA does not maintain accounts within the Finance Department and should not rely on the General Fund for its expenses. "It is within the purview of WAPA to raise its own revenues to carry out its duties and responsibilities," the governor said.
He said that a "more prudent" course of action would have been to "address the deficit in the current Road Fund, rather than create a new set of accounts for funds that are already committed elsewhere."
Hansen alluded to the governor's action in March when he, in effect, canceled an agreement between the Port Authority — another semi-autonomous government agency — and two major cruise lines for the construction of dock and retail facilities at Crown Bay. "You can't just pull out a rule when it suits you," Hansen said. "Yet, he still felt he could void that agreement and take $4 million from VIPA for another government department." The governor recently announced that $4 million from VIPA would be used for the Education Department.
"And what about the 700 people who are being laid off from Hovensa?" Hansen said. "These workers have requisite skills and could be used for the infrastructure work." He said he has not seen any proposals to address how these "700 heads of households" who have been laid off will be compensated. Some 600 of the layoffs this month were scheduled with completion of the new coker facility at the refinery. About a hundred others are permanent employees being furloughed in what Hovensa officials described as a cost-cutting move.
As far as WAPA's petition for the monthly $1.80 consumer surcharge, Hansen said, "You can't say on the one hand that we can't help WAPA provide those services, and then force people to absorb the $1.80 surcharge," he said. "What this says to me is that the Turnbull administration has a problem understanding money."
Hansen said he feels confident there are enough votes in the Senate to override the governor's veto. The bill passed the Rules Committee unanimously and passed the full Senate on a 13-1 vote. He said Sen. Alicia "Chucky" Hansen was absent for the floor vote, but as she voted for it in Rules, "I anticipate her support for the override."

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July 6, 2002 – After five weeks of unreturned telephone messages and unanswered letters, Sen. Emmett Hansen II was not surprised to learn on Saturday that Gov. Charles W. Turnbull had vetoed his Infrastructure Maintenance Act of 2001. But that doesn't mean he is not concerned.
The St. Croix legislator termed the veto "amazing that, given what's going on on this island now." He was referring the crime situation which Carnival Cruise Lines cited as its reason for canceling Frederiksted port calls by two of its largest ships. Norwegian Cruise Line and Holland America subsequently canceled their calls without publicly citing specific reasons.
Hansen said he didn't see how the governor could veto a measure providing what he says is a "lockbox" sure method of providing reliable street lighting, road repair and potable water line repair.
Over the last five weeks, Hansen said, he left about "100 phone messages" at Government House. "When they're so intellectually desolate that they sat there for five weeks, and I got no response to my calls or letters, it became painfully obvious to me that it was going to be vetoed," he said. "Not because it was without merit — it was vetoed for political purposes."
The bill calls for annual funding projected at $9 million in property taxes annually — 15 percent of the total. "And the truth is, the money will come back," Hansen said, "because they'll have to hire more road and potable water repair crews, and more to install and maintain more street lights."
Hansen said he is appalled at what he sees as Turnbull's lack of understanding of basic public finances "If you take money from the people and don't give them something back, that's what's called theft," he said. The people who pay property taxes "have never gotten anything back in terms of basic services — roads, water and street lights," he said.
After months of meetings, lots of study and a bit of lobbying, Hansen succeeded on June 21 in getting his bill to fund the territory's street lighting, road repair and potable water services passed by the 24th Legislature.
Under the bill, sponsored by Hansen and Sen. Celestino A. White, 15 percent of all property taxes collected in the territory for each fiscal year would be deposited into separate District Road Funds for St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John and Water Island.
Legislation enacted last year transferred responsibility for street lighting to the Water and Power Authority from the Public Works Department. The Legislature appropriated $2.8 million to WAPA to cover start-up costs for the work. Gov. Charles W. Turnbull vetoed the appropriation, but the Senate overrode his veto earlier this year.
However, Carol Burke, WAPA board chair, said last month that the utility has yet to receive "one dime" for the street lighting, while it's costing the authority $700,000 a month to maintain emergency repair service. "We are caught between the legislative and administrative branches of government. As a result of that legislation, we have lost money," she said.
WAPA announced last month that it would petition the Public Services Commission for a surcharge of $1.80 per month on customers' bills in order to fund the street lighting program. WAPA's former executive director, Joseph R. Thomas Jr., took that same proposal to the Legislature last year, where it was turned down. Hansen said as far as he knows, Glen Rothgeb, WAPA acting executive director, hasn't yet submitted the petition to the PSC.
Turnbull said in a Government House release distributed Saturday that he vetoed the measure because "it amounts to respending of monies that the Legislature has already spent, perhaps more than once."
Hansen's response was, "I don't think he knows what he is talking about, and you may quote me. It makes no sense to me. We are supposed to have dedicated funding to dedicated liabilities. It's got to be more than lip service and task forces."
Turnbull said the measure would remove "critically needed funds from the General Fund." He said in his letter to Senate President Almando "Rocky" Liburd that "the creation of accounts for items that are now the responsibility of WAPA is a contradiction of the concept of an 'independent agency.'" He added that WAPA does not maintain accounts within the Finance Department and should not rely on the General Fund for its expenses. "It is within the purview of WAPA to raise its own revenues to carry out its duties and responsibilities," the governor said.
He said that a "more prudent" course of action would have been to "address the deficit in the current Road Fund, rather than create a new set of accounts for funds that are already committed elsewhere."
Hansen alluded to the governor's action in March when he, in effect, canceled an agreement between the Port Authority — another semi-autonomous government agency — and two major cruise lines for the construction of dock and retail facilities at Crown Bay. "You can't just pull out a rule when it suits you," Hansen said. "Yet, he still felt he could void that agreement and take $4 million from VIPA for another government department." The governor recently announced that $4 million from VIPA would be used for the Education Department.
"And what about the 700 people who are being laid off from Hovensa?" Hansen said. "These workers have requisite skills and could be used for the infrastructure work." He said he has not seen any proposals to address how these "700 heads of households" who have been laid off will be compensated. Some 600 of the layoffs this month were scheduled with completion of the new coker facility at the refinery. About a hundred others are permanent employees being furloughed in what Hovensa officials described as a cost-cutting move.
As far as WAPA's petition for the monthly $1.80 consumer surcharge, Hansen said, "You can't say on the one hand that we can't help WAPA provide those services, and then force people to absorb the $1.80 surcharge," he said. "What this says to me is that the Turnbull administration has a problem understanding money."
Hansen said he feels confident there are enough votes in the Senate to override the governor's veto. The bill passed the Rules Committee unanimously and passed the full Senate on a 13-1 vote. He said Sen. Alicia "Chucky" Hansen was absent for the floor vote, but as she voted for it in Rules, "I anticipate her support for the override."

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July 6, 2002 – After five weeks of unreturned telephone messages and unanswered letters, Sen. Emmett Hansen II was not surprised to learn on Saturday that Gov. Charles W. Turnbull had vetoed his Infrastructure Maintenance Act of 2001. But that doesn't mean he is not concerned.
The St. Croix legislator termed the veto "amazing that, given what's going on on this island now." He was referring the crime situation which Carnival Cruise Lines cited as its reason for canceling Frederiksted port calls by two of its largest ships. Norwegian Cruise Line and Holland America subsequently canceled their calls without publicly citing specific reasons.
Hansen said he didn't see how the governor could veto a measure providing what he says is a "lockbox" sure method of providing reliable street lighting, road repair and potable water line repair.
Over the last five weeks, Hansen said, he left about "100 phone messages" at Government House. "When they're so intellectually desolate that they sat there for five weeks, and I got no response to my calls or letters, it became painfully obvious to me that it was going to be vetoed," he said. "Not because it was without merit — it was vetoed for political purposes."
The bill calls for annual funding projected at $9 million in property taxes annually — 15 percent of the total. "And the truth is, the money will come back," Hansen said, "because they'll have to hire more road and potable water repair crews, and more to install and maintain more street lights."
Hansen said he is appalled at what he sees as Turnbull's lack of understanding of basic public finances "If you take money from the people and don't give them something back, that's what's called theft," he said. The people who pay property taxes "have never gotten anything back in terms of basic services — roads, water and street lights," he said.
After months of meetings, lots of study and a bit of lobbying, Hansen succeeded on June 21 in getting his bill to fund the territory's street lighting, road repair and potable water services passed by the 24th Legislature.
Under the bill, sponsored by Hansen and Sen. Celestino A. White, 15 percent of all property taxes collected in the territory for each fiscal year would be deposited into separate District Road Funds for St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John and Water Island.
Legislation enacted last year transferred responsibility for street lighting to the Water and Power Authority from the Public Works Department. The Legislature appropriated $2.8 million to WAPA to cover start-up costs for the work. Gov. Charles W. Turnbull vetoed the appropriation, but the Senate overrode his veto earlier this year.
However, Carol Burke, WAPA board chair, said last month that the utility has yet to receive "one dime" for the street lighting, while it's costing the authority $700,000 a month to maintain emergency repair service. "We are caught between the legislative and administrative branches of government. As a result of that legislation, we have lost money," she said.
WAPA announced last month that it would petition the Public Services Commission for a surcharge of $1.80 per month on customers' bills in order to fund the street lighting program. WAPA's former executive director, Joseph R. Thomas Jr., took that same proposal to the Legislature last year, where it was turned down. Hansen said as far as he knows, Glen Rothgeb, WAPA acting executive director, hasn't yet submitted the petition to the PSC.
Turnbull said in a Government House release distributed Saturday that he vetoed the measure because "it amounts to respending of monies that the Legislature has already spent, perhaps more than once."
Hansen's response was, "I don't think he knows what he is talking about, and you may quote me. It makes no sense to me. We are supposed to have dedicated funding to dedicated liabilities. It's got to be more than lip service and task forces."
Turnbull said the measure would remove "critically needed funds from the General Fund." He said in his letter to Senate President Almando "Rocky" Liburd that "the creation of accounts for items that are now the responsibility of WAPA is a contradiction of the concept of an 'independent agency.'" He added that WAPA does not maintain accounts within the Finance Department and should not rely on the General Fund for its expenses. "It is within the purview of WAPA to raise its own revenues to carry out its duties and responsibilities," the governor said.
He said that a "more prudent" course of action would have been to "address the deficit in the current Road Fund, rather than create a new set of accounts for funds that are already committed elsewhere."
Hansen alluded to the governor's action in March when he, in effect, canceled an agreement between the Port Authority — another semi-autonomous government agency — and two major cruise lines for the construction of dock and retail facilities at Crown Bay. "You can't just pull out a rule when it suits you," Hansen said. "Yet, he still felt he could void that agreement and take $4 million from VIPA for another government department." The governor recently announced that $4 million from VIPA would be used for the Education Department.
"And what about the 700 people who are being laid off from Hovensa?" Hansen said. "These workers have requisite skills and could be used for the infrastructure work." He said he has not seen any proposals to address how these "700 heads of households" who have been laid off will be compensated. Some 600 of the layoffs this month were scheduled with completion of the new coker facility at the refinery. About a hundred others are permanent employees being furloughed in what Hovensa officials described as a cost-cutting move.
As far as WAPA's petition for the monthly $1.80 consumer surcharge, Hansen said, "You can't say on the one hand that we can't help WAPA provide those services, and then force people to absorb the $1.80 surcharge," he said. "What this says to me is that the Turnbull administration has a problem understanding money."
Hansen said he feels confident there are enough votes in the Senate to override the governor's veto. The bill passed the Rules Committee unanimously and passed the full Senate on a 13-1 vote. He said Sen. Alicia "Chucky" Hansen was absent for the floor vote, but as she voted for it in Rules, "I anticipate her support for the override."

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July 6, 2002 – A 35-year-old St. Croix motorist lost control of his small utility vehicle and was killed in a crash at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the Mon Bijou area.
According to Deputy Police Chief Angel Santos, witnesses said the driver of the Suzuki Vitara was traveling through the Frangipani community at a high rate of speed when he lost control of the vehicle upon hitting a dip in the road in the area known as Almond Gut. The vehicle jack-knifed off the road and crashed into a tree, Santos said.
Emergency Medical Services personnel from Juan F. Luis Hospital removed the victim from the vehicle. Santos said he was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
The driver "was unfamiliar" with the roads in the area, Santos said. In general, motorists "need to be more cautious of the conditions of roads in various neighborhoods," he said, and to drive defensively.
Although a family member has identified the victim, Santos said, police are awaiting formal notification of kin before releasing the victim's name.

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Dear Source,
Yet again, the powers that be are practicing their "reactive" craft when it comes to dealing with the business of tourism. Is anyone paying attention to the deafening roar that crime is driving the lifeblood of the Virgin Islands away?? Article after article, letter after letter, the accounts of visitors being subjected to the actions of the thugs that are allowed to roam freely around the islands – the message is the same: visitors love the place, but are afraid to come.
I hope the candidates for the next election are paying close attention. Especially in the post 9-11 world, people want and need to feel safe when they take a vacation with their family to escape the worries and pressures of their everyday lives. If we cannot provide visitors with a real sense of safety, we might as well close the airport and put for sale signs on all the vacation properties and call it a day. And it needs to be done immediately, not after more cruise ships refuse to come. We need to be pro-active when it comes to this huge source of income for our islands which, like it or not, provides a better quality of life for everyone. I pray someone is listening …
Sue Seibel
Chicago, Ill. / St. Croix

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Dear Source,
Yet again, the powers that be are practicing their "reactive" craft when it comes to dealing with the business of tourism. Is anyone paying attention to the deafening roar that crime is driving the lifeblood of the Virgin Islands away?? Article after article, letter after letter, the accounts of visitors being subjected to the actions of the thugs that are allowed to roam freely around the islands – the message is the same: visitors love the place, but are afraid to come.
I hope the candidates for the next election are paying close attention. Especially in the post 9-11 world, people want and need to feel safe when they take a vacation with their family to escape the worries and pressures of their everyday lives. If we cannot provide visitors with a real sense of safety, we might as well close the airport and put for sale signs on all the vacation properties and call it a day. And it needs to be done immediately, not after more cruise ships refuse to come. We need to be pro-active when it comes to this huge source of income for our islands which, like it or not, provides a better quality of life for everyone. I pray someone is listening …
Sue Seibel
Chicago, Ill. / St. Croix

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