The Charlotte Amalie Chickenhawks remained undefeated as they held off the Bertha C. Boschulte Blazers, 12-9, in junior varsity baseball action at the Michael J. Kirwan ball park.
The Chickenhawks scored five runs in the top of the third inning to take an 8-5 lead. The Blazers answered with one in the bottom half of the inning but subsequently give up another four runs in the top of the fourth. The Blazers tried to mount a comeback but scored only three runs in the bottom of the fourth and the game was called due to the two-hour time limit for junior varsity baseball.
Charlotte Amalie totaled eight hits in the contest. BCB got nine hits but ran themselves out of scoring opportunities with base-running miscues.
The Chickenhawks improved to 2-0 as the Blazers dropped their first game of the season. Sean David was the winning pitcher and Kyle LaMotta absorbed the loss.

The Public Works Department does not have the resources to bring the Bovoni landfill into compliance with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines, department representative Roan Creque told the Senate Planning and Environmental Protection Committee Wednesday.
"There is nothing we can do to come into compliance without a check," Creque said.
EPA Virgin Islands coordinator Jim Casey, Planning and Natural Resources Commissioner Dean Plaskett and Creque spoke at a hearing called to review a consent agreement the territorial government entered into with the EPA to bring the Bovoni landfill into compliance with federal guidelines.
Casey also updated the committee on the EPA's recent announcement that it would move to disapprove the government's landfill program at both Bovoni and Anguilla on St. Croix, thereby giving the federal agency the authority to take over their regulation. Currently, Planning and Natural Resources regulates the landfill program that the Public Works Department operates.
The EPA announced Monday that the V.I. government had not adopted necessary solid waste regulations or allocated sufficient staff and resources for the program. The federal agency will hold public hearings on June 27 and 28 as the next step before possibly taking over regulation of the landfill program.
"Compliance is as bad as it was three years ago," Casey said. Countering Creque's request that the federal agency provide funds for the landfill program, he said, "Funds are not given to any other place for the upkeep of landfills."
The government lacks regulations regarding the venting of methane gas, which has provoked underground fires in the landfills, and the prohibition of hazardous waste, the EPA has said.
Plaskett said earlier this week that his office has prepared a set of regulations that is awaiting approval by the Legislature and Government House.
In a release from committee chair Adlah "Foncie" Donastorg's office later Wednesday, Donastorg said, "Everyone knows I welcome this long-overdue federal intervention. I'm going to ask that the federal government hold specific individuals personally responsible for seeing landfill cleanup efforts through. The buck has been passed again and again. We are talking about a major threat to public health and the environment – this must be made a priority."
In other action, by a 4-0 vote, the committee approved a minor Coastal Zone Management permit for Alex Randall to construct a 375-square-foot, concrete private dock on Water Island, where he resides. Sens. Donald "Ducks" Cole, Norman Jn Baptiste, George Goodwin and Donastorg voted for the permit. Sen. Almando "Rocky" Liburd was absent from the vote.
The committee will reconvene at 10 a.m. Thursday on St. Croix in the Legislature Complex in Frederiksted. The Anguilla landfill will be a focus of the deliberations, with EPA, Public Works and Planning and Natural Resources officials again asked to be present. The committee will also take testimony on the recent oil leak at the St. Croix Alumina plant, which according to the release may have contaminated the Kingshill aquifer.

Lockhart Elementary topped its counterpart Jane E. Tuitt 47-38 Wednesday in the Housing Parks and Recreation/Department of Education 9-12 Basketball League Finals, taking a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series.
Lockhart didn't score until halfway though the six-minute first quarter, but led 12-6 by the end of the first period. Lockhart then led 29-17 by the half.
Kendale Brathwaite scored 12 points to lead Lockhart at the half. Emmanuel Polano led Tuitt with six points in the half. Tuitt came back in the third quarter to cut the lead to four, 34-30. Polano led Tuitt’s come back as he had two massive dunks.
In the fourth quarter, Lockhart increased its lead to nine, 43-34.
Lockhart’s head coach Joann Dickerson said her team came to win.
"I wanted my team to play better defense than they did against Peace Corps, and they did," she said.
Tuitt’s game plan was to keep the ball from Lockhart’s Jan Carlos Felix. Felix was upset with Tuitt’s defense.
"I thought they fouled me too much, but that’s the game," he said. "I didn’t let that take me out of the game. I just played defense on them."
Tuitt’s head coach Lionel "Gabby" Gumbs said his team was "weak and tentative."
"We did not score and played a fast break run-and-gun game with them," Gumbs said. "Tomorrow we will try to slow them down into a half court game."
The top scorers for Lockhart were Brathwaite with 14 points, Felix with 13, Kareem Victorine with 11 and Larry Fitzpatrick, 8.
For Tuitt it was Emmanuel Polano with 10 points, Khalid Carr, 9 and Francisco Greene 8.

After final-hour talks between union officials and government labor negotiators proved fruitless, St. John Vitran workers resigned themselves to layoffs as of Thursday morning.
"It's been great working for Vitran. It's time to move on," driver Paula Smith said. She and nine other St. John public transit workes spent much of Wednesday hoping for a last-minute reprieve. But by mid-afernoon, conversations turned to job opportunities at local hotels.
Operations manager Donna Roberts, the one St. Vitran worker who is still to report for work Thursday, spent most of the day adjusting a new bus schedule and laying down the ground rules for five St. Thomas transferees given their marching orders earlier in the day.
Because public transit service was begun only three years ago on St. John, the island's Vitran employees, being among the last-hired, were among the first to be let go. When officials of the United Steelworkers Union, which represents the St. Thomas and St. John Vitran rank and file, met with the employees on April 20, the St. Thomas workers said they would not come to St. John to replace their union brothers and sisters.
But by Wednesday morning, Roberts said, the five St. Thomas workers now at the bottom of the union's seniority list were given an ultimatum: Report to St. John or face termination.
Steelworkers union president Luis "Tito" Morales has warned his members that anyone terminated as a result of a job action will not be subject to recall if and when the public transit system recovers from its current financial plight.
Hopes for a last-minute reprieve were pinned in part on a meeting Wednesday between Morales and Government House chief labor negotiator Karen Andrews. The union president arranged the talks via a Tuesday evening telephone call to Gov. Charles W. Turnbull.
But by 5 p.m. Wednesday, Morales could only report what Andrews had said publicly at a Monday night Senate committee hearing on St. Thomas: Any pitch for union concessions in exchange for saving jobs would have to be analyzed by administration financial officers before a decision could be made about the future of the affected public transit employees.
Union workers have said they would forgo sick-leave, holiday and overtime pay and would go to a four-day work week in order to avoid the announced layoff of 62 employees — half the Vitran work force.
When the layoffs were announced last month, it was stated that any St. Thomas drivers interested in transferring to St. John would have to take up residence on St. John. It appeared that this would no longer be the case.
Morales said he would ask the administration to compensate St. Thomas workers for any expenses they would incur for staying overnight on St. John to start the day's first run at 5:15 a.m. When Vitran began operations on St. John in 1997, he said, temporary drivers from St. Thomas and St. Croix were paid for overnight stays. Roberts, however, said she does not favor such concessions now, since St. John drivers were not similarly compensated.
The new crew will be subject to the same shift rotation that has been in effect, Roberts said. Details of the new schedule are still being worked out, she said, but there will be limited service on Sundays. Starting immediately Thursday, the last regular departure from the Cruz Bay ferry dock will be at 7:25 p.m. instead of 9:25 p.m. And the last run from Salt Pond to Susannaberg will depart at 8:15 p.m. instead of 10:15 p.m.
Among those sure to be affected by the earlier end to service from the ferry dock are University of the Virgin Islands evening students commuting from the St. Thomas campus on the island's west end, and St. John commuters whose work shifts require them to come home on a ferry later than 7 p.m.

A former supervisor of the Motor Vehicles Bureau on St. John was sentenced to three and a half years of probation Tuesday for her role in a 1998 driver's license scam.
Brenda Hendricks was also fined $2,100 and ordered to serve six months of her sentence under home detention, according to Hugh Mabe, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Hendricks was arrested in the summer of 1998 for selling drivers' licenses to people who has not passed the driver's license examination. She pleaded guilty in September of that year.
Laurie Sewer, who was found guilty of directing customers to Hendricks and of bribery, was also sentenced Tuesday. He received three years and four months on probation and was fined $600. Mabe, who is an assistant U.S. attorney, said Sewer's sentence includes four months of home detention with electorinic monitoring.
Benoit Stuart, also accused of being a middle-man in the illegal licensing operation, recently changed his plea to guilty for his part in the scheme. Mabe said sentencing for Stuart is pending.
Hendricks was terminated from her Motor Vehicles position. Neither Sewer nor Stuart was employed by the bureau.
According to Mabe, Hendricks and Sewer cooperated with investigators and received lesser sentences as part of a plea bargain agreement. He said the sentences handed down by U.S. District Judge Thomas Moore were consistent with federal sentencing guidelines.

The Senate Finance Committee has approved what was described as corrective legislation to modify a portion of the Fiscal Year 2000 Omnibus Bill regarding the collection and processing of the territory's new 911 emergency services tax by the Virgin Islands Telephone Corp.
Beginning with their April bills, telephone customers found the $1 tax added to their statement summaries. The proceeds are earmarked for use by the Health and Police Departments and Fire Services to acquire equipment and supplies necessary to provide and improve emergency services. Vitelco is mandated by law to collect the tax on behalf of the government and to transfer the collected revenues to the government's Emergency Services Special Fund on a specified schedule.
The law provides for the phone company "to deduct certain administrative costs for the implementation, collection and disbursement of the emergency services surcharge" from the revenues it collects. However, Vitelco president Samuel Ebbesen wrote to the governor earlier this year saying the company would absorb the administrative costs.
The bill passed by the Finance Committee and sent to the Rules Committee Tuesday would delete the provision for Vitelco to deduce the administrative costs. Introduced by Senate president Vargrave Richards on behalf of Gov. Charles W. Turnbull, it also would make other changes in the current law:
– A reference to 911 equipment would be changed to "services and equipment." This, Vitelco spokeswoman Katrina White-Comissiong said, was because the law now does not provide for payment of line charges for 911 emergency services."
– The timeline for remittance, which now reads "within 15 days of collection," would be changed to "on a monthly basis in accordance with the billing and collection procedures" of the phone company.
Comissiong said the proposed revisions are "based on our request." When the Omnibus Bill was being put together, "in the consideration of that particular measure Vitelco was never contacted," she said, "and there were some things in it that were never administratively possible to do. This bill is corrective legislation to deal with those situations."

Police on St. Croix announced Wednesday the arrests of three men for the 1997 murder of a woman in her north shore home.
Arrested for the shooting death of Janet Morgan, 49, were Bryan Felix, Remy Augustin and Lesroy Bright. According to St. Croix Deputy Police Chief Novelle Francis, Morgan was shot in the chest as the trio were burglarizing her Estate Belvedere residence just before 1 a.m. on Feb. 24, 1997.
Morgan’s common-law husband, a local veterinarian, Dr. Paul Hess, was shot in the back of the leg during the incident.
The murder culminated a string of crimes committed by the men in February 1997, police said, for which they were also charged Wednesday. Police accused the trio of the Feb. 12, 1997 armed robbery of the Off the Wall bar, not far from Morgan’s home; the armed robbery of Chocolate Barbecue in Estate St. John on Feb. 18, 1997; and the armed robbery of Saibaba Gift Shop in Christiansted on Feb. 21, 1997.
In addition to the three men, Michael King of Walter I.M. Hodge Pavilion was charged in the robbery of Chocolate Barbecue.
The four men were arrested in "Operation Takedown," a joint effort between the VIPD, the FBI, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the VI Housing Police, Francis said.
The operation also resulted in the arrest of Clemento Monsanto of Walter I.M. Hodge Pavilion. Monsanto allegedly robbed the Catherine’s Rest Supermarket on April 22, 2000.
Also arrested Wednesday was Kahleem Truell, on a warrant issued by Territorial Court Judge Patricia Steele for contempt of court.

Department of Tourism officials are hoping the combination of sweltering summer weather on the mainland and enticing advertising of the islands will mean more visitors to the territory in the coming months.
At a meeting of the St. Croix Accommodations Council Tuesday, Acting Tourism Commissioner Rafael Jackson said a "fast-track" ad blitz in the north and southeast is aimed at replicating the success of an ad campaign that ended earlier this month. During that effort, calls to the department’s 1-800 information line tripled compared to the same time last year, Jackson said.
"It indicated that the ads did generate some awareness," he said. "Our objective was to create a positive image for the destination, especially among the travel agents."
The summer campaign – set for June, August and September – will consist of radio and TV ads in 11 markets including Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, the greater Washington, D.C., area, New York-New Jersey, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and a limited effort in San Francisco.
Tourism opted to skip July because of the Independence Day holidays.
Additionally, spot TV ads will be aired on Sunday nights to catch as many viewers as possible, Jackson said.
"We can better reach the audience on Sunday evening when people are returning back home," he said.
A print ad campaign will also be undertaken over the summer, Jackson said, including placements in Oprah Winfrey’s new magazine ‘O’ in September. He said a 60-40 ratio of advertising would go toward funneling more visitors to St. Croix.
Accommodations Council president Peter Locke said the anemic annual 45 percent occupancy rate on St. Croix showed that more money had to be committed to marketing the Big Island. Locke said 80 percent occupancy was the target, although according to Arthur Mayer, manager of the CCormorant Beach Resort, most hotels are viable at 60 percent.
For fiscal year 2000, Jackson said, Tourism had approximately $8 million available to market the territory. He said the number probably wouldn’t get much larger next year considering the government’s financial situation.
"Of course, I’d like to have a $12 million or $15 million budget," said Jackson. "I have to be realistic. The funds aren’t there."
Hoteliers have consistently criticized the Turnbull and Schneider administrations for siphoning off a portion of the approximately $12 million a year collected in hotel occupancy taxes — which are supposed to be used to market the territory — for other uses.
Locke said the Turnbull administration was overlooking the hundreds of millions of dollars generated by the tourism industry each year. He called the yearly $6 million to $7 million advertising budget "a joke" and suggested a $20 million effort would result in more tourists and subsequently more revenue for the government.
"The priority of the administration is to get tourists. What do you have? They are giving you scraps," Locke said to Jackson.

Southern Energy officials were on St. Croix again Tuesday, this time touting the benefits to the island and to businesses owned by women if the V.I. Water and Power Authority becomes a partnership between the company and the government.
The Virgin Islands Women's Business Center hosted company officials, although its director, Yvette deLaubanque, said that should not be read as an endorsement of the proposal, which that would see 80 percent of WAPA acquired by Southern.
On hand to explain how small minority- and women-owned businesses would benefit from the company’s mainland operations were executives from Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern, that supplies electricity in a half-dozen Southern states. Harold Cain, manager of supply and development for Georgia Power, said the company has a program on the mainland that purchases services and supplies from locally owned businesses, such as janitorial, safety and office equipment.
In addition, he said, a mentorship program, similar to one that now exists, would be formed to assist vendors who want to do business with the new WAPA, which would be called V.I. Electric and Water, or VIEW.
"These are some of the things VIEW will be looking for…" Cain said. "These are things we want to mimic in the Virgin Islands."
As part of the proposed partnership deal, Southern is also offering a $1 million line of credit at local banks as security for loans to locally owned businesses.
Dave Dunbar, Southern Energy’s project director, said that while the promise to set up a $1 million economic development program is somewhat self-serving, it would also benefit the entire territory by stimulating new business and generating more tax revenue.
"We want to stimulate business in the territory," Dunbar said. "We won’t make our projections if there isn’t growth."

The Senate Finance Committee unanimously decided Tuesday to set aside a bill submitted by Sen. Adelbert Bryan to dismantle The West Indian Company, transfer ownershop of the Havensight dock from the Public Finance Authority to the Port Authority, and have the Port Authority acquire the Havensight Mall property, now owned by the Government Employees Retirement System and managed by WICO.
The senators voted 6-0 to table the measure indefinitely. The vote was taken while Bryan, who is not a member of the committee, was momentarily off the Legislature floor.
In announcing the results, committee chair Lorraine Berry commented quietly, "If it is not broke, don't fix it."
WICO president Edward Thomas and Public Finance Authority executive Amadeo Francis testified against the measure. GERS chair Corine King sent a letter stating that the GERS board was "diametrically opposed" to selling the lucrative dockside shopping center.
Thomas urged the committee to reject the bill. He said any change in the dock ownership would fly in the face of contractual relationships with cruise industry partners and would violate the terms of a 1993 loan made by Banco Popular to the Public Finance Authority to finance the government's purchase of WICO from longstanding Danish ownership.
A default on the loan would mean the government would have to pay the $14 million balance immediately, he said.
Francis said the dismantling of WICO would raise new concerns in the international business and financial marketplace about the direction of the V.I. government's policies.
Port Authority executive director Gordon Finch had stated in a letter to Senate post auditor Campbell Malone that his board was "interested" in the dock but not in the shopping mall and would not want to deal with taking on WICO employees in any change of ownership, as proposed in the bill.
Six of the seven committee members were present: Berry and Sens. Gregory Bennerson, Roosevelt David, Violet Anne Golden, George Goodwin and David Jones. Sen. Alicia "Chucky" Hansen was absent but excused.