Rabelais ‘Beige' A. O'Reilly of #222 Work and Rest died on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at Juan F. Luis Hospital. He was 42.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 12 at Kingshill Memorial Chapel. There will be no viewing.
Interment will take place at Kingshill Cemetery.
He is survived by his sister, Julia Hansen-Hodge; brothers, Wilbur O'Reilly and Howard "Del" O'Reilly; nieces, Arlette, Natalie, Clarice, Michel, Sheryl, Caryn, Kristen and Stephanie; nephew, Gian, Antonio, Angel, and Warren; aunt, Alice Krause; uncle, Gistave Pelton; sisters- in-law; Shirley O'Reilly and Vernaren O'Reilly; and many other relatives and friends.
Funeral arrangements are in the care of James Memorial Funeral Home.
V.I. BAR ELECTS OFFICERS
The Virgin Islands Bar Association Friday elected St. Croix attorney Ronald Russell president and St. Thomas attorney Tom Bolt president-elect. Other officers are Diane Russell, secretary, Tracey Christopher, treasurer, and Amos W. Carty, Jr., delegate to the American Bar Association.
Ellen Donovan, Gerald Groner, Francis Jackson, Kathleen Mackay and Micol Morgan were elected to the board of governors.
Elections were held at the Annual Meeting at the Renaissance Grand Beach Hotel on St. Thomas.
Russell said one of his major objectives as president "will be to focus on changing the way that lawyers and the Bar Association are perceived within the community."
He said he will work with Human Services to establish a legal assistance workshop for the elderly and with the Police and Education Departments for programs for the territory's youth.
St. Thomas attorney Denise Francois received the President's Award from outgoing president Frank Schulterbrandt for her years of service to the organization. St. Croix attorney Joel Holt received the Winston Hodge Memorial Award for his service to the community.
Ellen Donovan, Gerald Groner, Francis Jackson, Kathleen Mackay and Micol Morgan were elected to the board of governors.
Elections were held at the Annual Meeting at the Renaissance Grand Beach Hotel on St. Thomas.
Russell said one of his major objectives as president "will be to focus on changing the way that lawyers and the Bar Association are perceived within the community."
He said he will work with Human Services to establish a legal assistance workshop for the elderly and with the Police and Education Departments for programs for the territory's youth.
St. Thomas attorney Denise Francois received the President's Award from outgoing president Frank Schulterbrandt for her years of service to the organization. St. Croix attorney Joel Holt received the Winston Hodge Memorial Award for his service to the community.
WIC CLINIC MOVED TEMPORARILY
The WIC Clinic at the Knud Hansen Facility will be relocated Monday, Dec. 11 while the roof is being renovated.
The new location is on the first floor of the Knud Hansen Tower, next door to the Medical Assistance Program.
According to a release from Acting Commisssioner of Health, Dr. Lucien A. Moolenaer, the move will be effective until further notice.
Call 776-1770 for more information.
The new location is on the first floor of the Knud Hansen Tower, next door to the Medical Assistance Program.
According to a release from Acting Commisssioner of Health, Dr. Lucien A. Moolenaer, the move will be effective until further notice.
Call 776-1770 for more information.
ST.THOMAS/ST.JOHN CANCER SOCIETY MEETING
The St.Thomas/St. John unit of the American Cancer Society will hold a regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 13, in the Board Room on the 2nd floor of the Roy L. Schneider Hospital.
ST.THOMAS/ST.JOHN CANCER SOCIETY MEETING
The St.Thomas/St.John unit of the American Cancer Society will hold a regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 13, in the Board Room, 2nd floor of the Roy L. Schneider Hospital.
ST.THOMAS/ST.JOHN CANCER SOCIETY MEETING
The St.Thomas/St.John Unit of the American Cancer Society will hold a regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 13, in the Board Room, 2nd floor of Roy L. Schneider Hospital.
WOMEN'S FRIENDLY SOCCER MATCHES THIS WEEKEND
St. Thomas Women's Soccer, under the auspices of the St. Thomas Soccer Association, has announced friendly games on Saturday and Sunday Dec. 9 and 10 at the UVI field. These games will be against a combined girls team of players from the St. John Wolfpack and from the St. Croix Youth Soccer Association.
On Saturday at 2 p.m., the Wolfpack/St. Croix combined team will play against the Strikers. This game will be followed at 4:30 p.m. by a game against the Ivanna Eudora Kean High School (IEKHS) Rays of Life. These games will be on the small field and will be slightly shorter than regulation time.
On Sunday at 2 p.m. (on the full field with regulation game time and number of players) it will be the Wolfpack/St. Croix combined team against a combined team of St. Thomas players from the Strikers, UWS (United We Stand) Queen Upsetters and IEKHS Rays of Life.
On Saturday at 2 p.m., the Wolfpack/St. Croix combined team will play against the Strikers. This game will be followed at 4:30 p.m. by a game against the Ivanna Eudora Kean High School (IEKHS) Rays of Life. These games will be on the small field and will be slightly shorter than regulation time.
On Sunday at 2 p.m. (on the full field with regulation game time and number of players) it will be the Wolfpack/St. Croix combined team against a combined team of St. Thomas players from the Strikers, UWS (United We Stand) Queen Upsetters and IEKHS Rays of Life.
CARNIVAL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS RELEASED
The Virgin Islands Carnival Committee on Friday released its schedule of events for the 2001 Carnival celebration, April 7-28.
The celebration will open at the Lionel Roberts Stadium on the night of April 7 with a Caribbean Music Night and end on April 28 with the traditional fireworks display over Charlotte Amalie Harbor. Between those dates, the regular slate of events are scheduled including the prince and princess and queen talent and selection shows, junior calypso competition, cultural night, Brass-O-Rama, calypso revue, water sports activities, queen's coronation, pre-teen and quelbe tramps, the carnival food and arts and crafts fair, J'ouvert, a carnival exhibit, the V.I. calypso competition and the children's and adults' parades.
The most notable change to the schedule in 2001 is the return of the arts and crafts displays to the food fair. This year the two events were separated with a food fair at the Rothschild Francis "Market" Square and an arts and crafts fair at Emancipation Garden. The public response was not favorable and the events were consolidated into the same day at the same venue, as in the past.
"That's the only change, we really incorporated in 2001," Carnival Committee Chairman Kenneth Blake said Friday.
In 2001, the Carnival Village at the Fort Christian Parking Lot will be named for cultural icon Dorothy Elskoe. The village will be known as "Dotsy's Kalaloo Pot." The 2001 Carnival theme submitted by Juan Christian is "A fantasia of fun for Carnival 2001."
The entire schedule of events can be viewed on the carnival committee Web site.
The celebration will open at the Lionel Roberts Stadium on the night of April 7 with a Caribbean Music Night and end on April 28 with the traditional fireworks display over Charlotte Amalie Harbor. Between those dates, the regular slate of events are scheduled including the prince and princess and queen talent and selection shows, junior calypso competition, cultural night, Brass-O-Rama, calypso revue, water sports activities, queen's coronation, pre-teen and quelbe tramps, the carnival food and arts and crafts fair, J'ouvert, a carnival exhibit, the V.I. calypso competition and the children's and adults' parades.
The most notable change to the schedule in 2001 is the return of the arts and crafts displays to the food fair. This year the two events were separated with a food fair at the Rothschild Francis "Market" Square and an arts and crafts fair at Emancipation Garden. The public response was not favorable and the events were consolidated into the same day at the same venue, as in the past.
"That's the only change, we really incorporated in 2001," Carnival Committee Chairman Kenneth Blake said Friday.
In 2001, the Carnival Village at the Fort Christian Parking Lot will be named for cultural icon Dorothy Elskoe. The village will be known as "Dotsy's Kalaloo Pot." The 2001 Carnival theme submitted by Juan Christian is "A fantasia of fun for Carnival 2001."
The entire schedule of events can be viewed on the carnival committee Web site.
FINANCE TRIMS UVI, COURT BUDGETS
Apologizing repeatedly and citing the fiscal crisis, members of the Finance Committee on Friday cut Fiscal Year 2001 budget appropriations for the Territorial Court and the University of the Virgin Islands. In action not directly related to the budget, the committee also approved a massive overhaul of the territory's Uniform Commercial Code.
In amending the budget figures downward, Sen. Anne Golden predicted, "These cuts will continue until the economy improves."
UVI had requested $29.6 million; Gov. Charles W. Turnbull proposed $23 million for the institution. The Finance Committee reported out a bill to appropriate $22.1 million.
The story was similar for Territorial Court. It requested a budget of $23.9 million; the governor proposed $18.8 million and the committee approved $18.3 million.
In introducing the Revised Uniform Commercial Code—368 pages divided into three separate bills—Finance Chairman Lorraine Berry said work on the revision "has been in progress for more than a decade." It was handled by the V.I. Law Revision Commission and is designed, in part, to facilitate interstate commerce.
"It is time for the Virgin Islands to get on the same page" as other territories and states that enacted similar legislation as early as the 1950s, Berry said.
Sen. Gregory Bennerson suggested the legislation has not received much public attention because it does not give "immediate gratification," but that its effects are far-reaching.
"It says to the public that the Virgin Islands is open and ready to do business," Golden said.
In other budget action, the committee rejected an administration proposal to require motorists to pay an additional $10 annual fee for each registered vehicle to cover the cost of disposing of junked cars.
Berry said fees for vehicle disposal should be charged to their owners, not the public at large.
Golden said the $10 could simply end up in the big pot of the General Fund rather than being segregated for the stated purpose. She noted the bill did not include a plan for administrating the fund. "This is indicative of all the bills that have come before us," she said.
Senators also criticized the governor's proposal to allow the Department of Planning and Natural Resources to spend more than its appropriation in the event of an emergency. Post Auditor Campbell Malone told the committee that the executive branch already has that authority, if the governor declares a state of emergency.
The committee held the bill until Monday when it is expecting DPNR Commissioner Dean Plaskett to appear to discuss his department's appropriation.
The committee approved a bill that will allow the budget director to reduce the appropriations for any department based on personnel savings it realizes because of employees taking advantage of the Voluntary Separation Incentive Act.
Malone told the committee that the savings are already factored into the budget.
The administration is counting on up to $12 million in savings for the early retirements. However, that figure may be inflated. It is based on an estimated 607 employees who are eligible for retirement. Only 256 employees met the deadline to apply to retire under the Act.
According to information from the Government Employees Retirement System, that number includes employees whose eligibility is in question because they fall short of the 30 years of service and must "purchase" up to two years in order to be eligible. The purchase provision in the Act is the subject of a court case.
In amending the budget figures downward, Sen. Anne Golden predicted, "These cuts will continue until the economy improves."
UVI had requested $29.6 million; Gov. Charles W. Turnbull proposed $23 million for the institution. The Finance Committee reported out a bill to appropriate $22.1 million.
The story was similar for Territorial Court. It requested a budget of $23.9 million; the governor proposed $18.8 million and the committee approved $18.3 million.
In introducing the Revised Uniform Commercial Code—368 pages divided into three separate bills—Finance Chairman Lorraine Berry said work on the revision "has been in progress for more than a decade." It was handled by the V.I. Law Revision Commission and is designed, in part, to facilitate interstate commerce.
"It is time for the Virgin Islands to get on the same page" as other territories and states that enacted similar legislation as early as the 1950s, Berry said.
Sen. Gregory Bennerson suggested the legislation has not received much public attention because it does not give "immediate gratification," but that its effects are far-reaching.
"It says to the public that the Virgin Islands is open and ready to do business," Golden said.
In other budget action, the committee rejected an administration proposal to require motorists to pay an additional $10 annual fee for each registered vehicle to cover the cost of disposing of junked cars.
Berry said fees for vehicle disposal should be charged to their owners, not the public at large.
Golden said the $10 could simply end up in the big pot of the General Fund rather than being segregated for the stated purpose. She noted the bill did not include a plan for administrating the fund. "This is indicative of all the bills that have come before us," she said.
Senators also criticized the governor's proposal to allow the Department of Planning and Natural Resources to spend more than its appropriation in the event of an emergency. Post Auditor Campbell Malone told the committee that the executive branch already has that authority, if the governor declares a state of emergency.
The committee held the bill until Monday when it is expecting DPNR Commissioner Dean Plaskett to appear to discuss his department's appropriation.
The committee approved a bill that will allow the budget director to reduce the appropriations for any department based on personnel savings it realizes because of employees taking advantage of the Voluntary Separation Incentive Act.
Malone told the committee that the savings are already factored into the budget.
The administration is counting on up to $12 million in savings for the early retirements. However, that figure may be inflated. It is based on an estimated 607 employees who are eligible for retirement. Only 256 employees met the deadline to apply to retire under the Act.
According to information from the Government Employees Retirement System, that number includes employees whose eligibility is in question because they fall short of the 30 years of service and must "purchase" up to two years in order to be eligible. The purchase provision in the Act is the subject of a court case.
HEROIN CHARGE FOLLOWS CUSTOMS INTERROGATION
A man who passed out during an interview with U.S. Customs agents at St. Croix’s Henry E. Rohlsen Airport Tuesday was carrying more than 20 heroin pellets in his stomach.
Roberto Hernandez-Mota, a Dominican national, arrived on St. Croix on Dec. 5 aboard a Liat Airlines flight from St. Maarten, according to Geneva Alexander, Customs’ director of field operations based in San Juan.
During a routine entry interview with Customs agents, Hernandez-Mota was acting suspicious and was questioned further. During the interrogation, he became ill and passed out. Firefighters and Customs personnel revived him and he was subsequently taken to Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital, said Alexander.
At the hospital, Hernandez-Mota was X-rayed and it was found that he had "foreign objects" in his stomach. The doctor on duty determined that it was necessary to surgically remove the objects, Alexander said. She added that the decision to operate was the physician’s call because of the threat to Hernandez-Mota’s life.
"All the Customs agents would do is transport," she said.
At approximately 1 a.m. Wednesday, the first of 22 1/2 "pellets" were removed from Hernandez-Mota’s stomach. About a half hour later the final pellet was removed and tested positive for heroin.
Alexander said the pellets, likely wrapped in a balloon, contained approximately 231 grams of heroin. Hernandez-Mota was arrested at 6:30 a.m. on Friday and turned over to the U.S. Customs Office of Investigations.
Alexander said it was unknown whether Hernandez-Mota passed out during the interrogation because of a broken pellet or if he was overly stressed.
"Internal carriers" of drugs, Alexander said, are becoming more common not just in the Caribbean but everywhere.
"It’s happening all over. It’s all very dangerous," she said. "Whenever you put something like that in your system it could kill you."
Roberto Hernandez-Mota, a Dominican national, arrived on St. Croix on Dec. 5 aboard a Liat Airlines flight from St. Maarten, according to Geneva Alexander, Customs’ director of field operations based in San Juan.
During a routine entry interview with Customs agents, Hernandez-Mota was acting suspicious and was questioned further. During the interrogation, he became ill and passed out. Firefighters and Customs personnel revived him and he was subsequently taken to Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital, said Alexander.
At the hospital, Hernandez-Mota was X-rayed and it was found that he had "foreign objects" in his stomach. The doctor on duty determined that it was necessary to surgically remove the objects, Alexander said. She added that the decision to operate was the physician’s call because of the threat to Hernandez-Mota’s life.
"All the Customs agents would do is transport," she said.
At approximately 1 a.m. Wednesday, the first of 22 1/2 "pellets" were removed from Hernandez-Mota’s stomach. About a half hour later the final pellet was removed and tested positive for heroin.
Alexander said the pellets, likely wrapped in a balloon, contained approximately 231 grams of heroin. Hernandez-Mota was arrested at 6:30 a.m. on Friday and turned over to the U.S. Customs Office of Investigations.
Alexander said it was unknown whether Hernandez-Mota passed out during the interrogation because of a broken pellet or if he was overly stressed.
"Internal carriers" of drugs, Alexander said, are becoming more common not just in the Caribbean but everywhere.
"It’s happening all over. It’s all very dangerous," she said. "Whenever you put something like that in your system it could kill you."
