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Witnessess testifying at a hearing Friday touted the success of the “Student-Athlete Combine in a Bubble” program before the the Senate Committee on Youth, Sports, Parks and Recreation, but the lawmakers expressed concern about several aspects of the project. #visource #usvi #news
Senators Express Concerns with 'Combine In A Bubble' Sport Initiative
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Witnesses testifying at a hearing Friday touted the success of the “Student-Athlete Combine in a Bubble” program before the a Senate panel, but the lawmakers expressed concern about several aspect...
When a magician is ready to astonish an audience with a trick, he traditionally uses a phrase like “Presto!” or “Abracadabra!”
When magician Lisa Menna travels to a village in India or Ethiopia however, she’ll skip the usual cliches.
Instead, she’ll ask her audience to chant, “Kindness to women brings good things,” or “If you want good luck, don’t hit women.’” At those magic words, a ball suddenly appears in a child’s hand, or colorful handkerchiefs emerge out of nowhere.
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✏: Article by Amy Roberts
📸: Photo #1- Menna shows a trick to a group of men in New Guinea as she was refining her practice of “theater for social change.” (David Kirkland photo)
Photo #2- Menna meets with students at a girls’ school in Punjab, India. (Pamee Perdue photo)
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Using genetic testing, researchers have discovered a major clue to the origin of the green iguana that is so prevalent in the Virgin Islands.
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✏: Article by Bernetia Akin
📸: The iguanas on St. Thomas and St. Croix may be ‘home-grown’ pests, rather than a result of the pet trade, a new genetic study says. (Source file photo)
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Members of the American Legion Post 131 pay tribute to Virgin Islanders who served in the U.S. Armed Forces. The Memorial Day ceremony was held in Coral Bay Monday at the Moravian Church Cemetery. The tomb of each military vet was decorated with a small American flag and the names of those who died in service or as military vets were read. The event was sponsored by the Office of Veteran’s Affairs and the American Legion District No. 10.
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📸: Photos by Judi Shimel
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“Dorsch After Dark” on Tuesday will mark its third month as a pop-up exhibit with music and art at the Dorsch Center in downtown Frederiksted.
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✏: Article by Elisa McKay
📸: Singer Deri Tucker. (Submitted photo)
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Chris Pardo, architect and hospitality designer, was recognized in Dwell Magazine for his rebirth of the Waves at Cane Bay and his 30-year love affair with St. Croix.
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✏: Article by Susan Ellis
📸: The mirror in the bathroom of the refurbished Waves hotel reflects the new look of the room. (Photo provided by Chris Pardo)
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The V.I. Legislature hosted the annual African Liberation Day Ceremony, “Forward Ever to World-Wide Pan-African Unity,” in honor of the territory’s citizens who descended from African ancestors.
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✏: Article by Iyanla Irby
📸: Sen. Genevieve Whittaker delivers remarks on freedom and African Liberation Day. (Photo by DaraMonifah Cooper)
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The University of the Virgin Islands Marine Advisory Service Coordinator Howard Forbes Jr. has been awarded the National Summer Learning Association’s Innovation Fellowship for Leaders of Color and will use the award to support the Youth Ocean Explorers summer program at UVI.
The NSLA is a national, nonprofit organization that invests in summer learning to transform neighborhoods and communities, one child at a time. The organization has been operating for more than 25 years and, in the news release announcing the award, says it plans to fill its next 25 years with even greater possibilities.
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✏: Article by Adisha Penn
📸: A Youth Ocean Explorers student takes note of his observations of marine life. (Photo by Howard Forbes Jr.)
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The Virgin Islands can create a more sustainable and healthier community by adopting practices being followed in other island communities around the world, according to a webinar hosted Wednesday by the Caribbean Green Technology Center.
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✏: Article by Adisha Penn
📸: John Harder of Zero Waste Kaua’i encourages composting recycled food scraps. (Webinar screenshot)
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The St. Croix Colonial Council debated Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal for a public corporation to reorganize the island’s economy for months in early 1934, a debate that routinely spilled out into national news.
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✏: Article by David Bond
📸: Photos by Jack Delano from the Library of Congress archive
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Author’s Note: St. Croix, once more, stands at a crossroads. The present situation appears unworkable, the path forward uncertain. It is not, however, the first time St. Croix has stood at such a precipice. This historical six-part series explores three moments in the past century – VI Corp, Harvey Aluminum, and Hess Oil – where frustration with the given situation boiled over into radical change. Breaking with the past, a better future for St. Croix was declared, a new foundation laid. These decreed Crucian futures sometimes aligned with the people and sometimes overrode the people. Today, Limetree comes into view at just such a crossroads, and once more the future of St. Croix is up for grabs.
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✏: Article by David Bond
📸: Photos by Jack Delano from the Library of Congress archive
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A dish with humble beginnings, rooted in the resourcefulness of the enslaved ancestors of Virgin Islanders, has received star billing in the food pages of the New York Times.
“In the Virgin Islands, Fungi Tells a Story,” features Julius Jackson, a former Olympic boxer turned chef and educator, and Michael and Judy Watson of the Petite Pump Room on St. Thomas, where fungi is a staple side dish on the menu.
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✏: Article by Sian Cobb
📸: Photo by Teddi Davis
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Napkins, food wrappers, Styrofoam, aerosol cans and coffee waste were among the top waste items listed by viewers of a University of the Virgin Islands Caribbean Green Technology Center presentation on sustainable living Wednesday afternoon. The Green Technology Center, the Department of Planning and Natural Resources, Waste Management Authority and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are co-hosting a series of webinars to educate community members about solid waste and sustainable materials management.
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✏: Article by Adisha Penn
📸: These formerly unkempt waste sites have now been cleaned up. (Webinar screenshot)
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Armani Harvey, a fourth-grader at Pearl B. Larsen PreK-8 School, has been named the U.S. Virgin Islands winner in the 13th annual Doodle for Google competition, a contest open to students from kindergarten through high school across the United States.
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📸: Armani Harvey’s drawing, based on the theme, “I am strong because …” was the winner for the U.S. Virgin Islands and will compete for a spot in the finals. (Photo submitted by the V.I. Department of Education)
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While some agencies are focused on restoring and regrowing coral on land-based nurseries, others are taking the battle directly beneath the sea. Among them is Frank Cummings, a leader of the St. John Strike Team and the president of the Caribbean Oceanic Restoration and Education Foundation, commonly known as C.O.R.E.
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✏: Article by Amy Roberts
📸: Divers apply antibiotics to infected coral. (Frank Cummings photo)
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A lifetime of images and printing, a gift to the Caribbean Genealogy Library from the owners of St. Thomas Graphics, provides a wealth of information on the life and people of St. Thomas.
That trove of material was the subject of a presentation on Saturday introducing to the public the digitization and online availability of the St. Thomas Graphics Collection, provided by St. Thomas Graphics in 2007.
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✏: Article by Adisha Penn
📸: Judy and Richard Pitzl were the owners of St. Thomas Graphics. (Screenshot of CGL presentation)
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The Buccaneer Hotel is a 4.5-star resort, but it featured nothing but five-star dishes and drinks Friday night on the second day of Taste of St. Croix, a mini-version of the 20-year-old popular food festival.
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✏: Article by Susan Ellis
📸: Photo by Susan Ellis
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On what would have been one of the biggest nights of V.I. Carnival, Children’s Parade Day, Tourism officials presented “1 Night, 1 Fete,” an event they said could mark a new paradigm for public events during the pandemic.
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✏: Article by James Gardner
📸: Photo by James Gardner
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Visiting birders Lisa and Randy Freeman expected to see some unusual birds while in St. Thomas, but never imagined they’d stumble upon a lone, lanky Caribbean flamingo. While birding at a local salt pond with St. Thomas Audubon founder Mario Francis and local birder Don Spencer, the group discovered the bird gracefully wading in the waters.
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✏: Article by Lisa and Randy Freeman
📸: A flamingo from Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands wades in a salt pond at Compass Point on St. Thomas. (Photo courtesy of Randy Freeman, Los Angeles, CA, 2021. All rights reserved.)
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The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority plans to offset 60 to 80 percent of generation through renewable energy resources within the next three to five years, bringing the utility in compliance with a law that mandates at least 60 percent of conventional generation be offset by renewables by 2025.
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✏: Article by Bethaney Lee
📸: Spanish Town solar farm on St. Croix (Source photo by Bill Kossler)
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Young Virgin Islands actor Kaden Hughes is guest-starring in the CBS drama series “Bull” this Monday, May 3 at 10 p.m. Hughes has wanted to be an actor since the third grade, he said, and he works towards achieving that goal every chance he gets.
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✏: Article by Adisha Penn
📸: Kaden Hughes stands outside the filming door for the CBS drama series “Bull.” (Photo by Karen Nelson-Hughes)
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