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The Virgin Islands Daily News is a daily newspaper in the United States Virgin Islands headquartered on the island of Saint Thomas. In 1995 the newspaper became one of the smallest ever to win journalism's most prestigious award, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The newspaper is published every day except Sunday.
WSVI (channel 8) is a television station serving the United States Virgin Islands that is licensed to Christiansted, Saint Croix, and affiliated with Ion. It is owned by Atlas News and Information Services alongside Charlotte Amalie–licensed independent station WZVI (channel 21). The two stations share studios at the Sunny Isle Shopping ...
The Artists Guild of St. Croix [14] has installed several murals and [15] paintings, and sponsors scholarships. Delta Dorsch, who was born in Frederiksted, wrote The Role of the Storyteller in the Preservation of Virgin Islands Culture (1999) and contributed to The Glory Days of Frederiksted (2004) about Frederiksted's culture. [16]
Gas prices on St. Croix were slightly higher than average than in the continental U.S. On January 18, 2012, HOVENSA announced that its refinery would be permanently shut down. This had a major adverse effect on the economy of St. Croix and the entire U.S. Virgin Islands, as the refinery employed 1,200 residents and 950 contractors. [24]
WSTX (970 AM) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands. It airs a radio format of talk shows by day, with Calypso and Quelbe music at night. Many of the talk shows are hosted by community leaders and elected officials, who are on the station once a week. On Sunday, religious shows and urban gospel music ...
TV2 is a cable-only TV channel available on Innovative Cable TV in the United States Virgin Islands. TV2 picked up the CBS network on July 13, 2009, [1] just two weeks after WVXF, the area's previous CBS affiliate, switched from CBS to This TV. TV2's schedule consists entirely of local and syndicated programming.
The St. Croix water crisis was an public health crisis that started in October 2023 after the tap water from the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) was contaminated with lead. [1] [2] On October 30, 2023, US Virgin Islands Governor Albert Bryan declared a state of emergency for the district of St. Croix. [3]