Deborah Elizabeth Stevens and Dale Evan Hamilton were married on Friday 22 October 1999 on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Ms. Stevens, formerly of Blairsville, GA, is Director of Annual Giving at The University of the Virgin Islands.
Mr. Hamilton, a longtime Virgin Islands resident, is owner of Leeward Cay Realty and is 1999 President of the Virgin Islands Territorial Association of Realtors.
The Hamiltons reside on St. Thomas.

We have to wonder at Gov. Charles W. Turnbull's thinking. We also have to wonder whom he's taking advice from.
The firing of acting Tourism Commissioner Michael Bornn was a very untimely and unfortunate move.
While we fully understand that Bornn was something of a loose cannon, and while we appreciate the need of the boss to have some control over his employees, we think that a more creative approach to Bornn's outspokenness might have been more productive.
This territory is in dire straits. Tourism is our only product. We have had three commissioners in the last 12 months and the one who seemed to have the overwhelming confidence of the public is now gone – right at the start of the 1999-2000 winter tourism season.
We hear the frustration and even rage of the community over this action everywhere we turn.
We feel the anxiety over what this means in terms of a sorely needed successful tourist season.
How can we come back from this blow to our image as a destination?
Who is going to replace this dynamic – albeit roguish – leader?
We are aware of the governor's penchant for vacillation. We could hope that he would change his mind on the Bornn issue. But even if he did, we don't think Bornn would come back. And we can't blame him.
When a private business owner fires an employee who refuses to abide by the employer's policy initiatives, that affects the employee, his family and the business owner.
But this is not a private business. This is the public sector and we've heard many, many politicos say you can't run expect the government to run like a business. In this case we must agree.
When you fire someone like Michael Bornn, someone who brought hope and encouragement to a depressed community, it affects the entire territory.
The governor said it himself: Bornn had the support of people who never agree on anything.
It is not Bornn who lost the confidence of the people in this scenario. It is the governor. Unfortunately, it is the people who will pay the price for the governor's ill-conceived move.

For the first time since 1994 Government House ended a fiscal year with a budget surplus.
According to Gov. Charles Turnbull’s Chief of Staff Juel Molloy, the Office of the Governor was $413,455 in the black at the end of FY99, which ended Sept. 30. For FY 99 the Office of the Governor received a $7.2 million appropriation by the Legislature but was actually allotted $6.4 million to operate the office. Final expenditures were just over $6 million.
Alvin Battiste, Government House director of Budget and Financial Management Operations, said the surplus is due to eliminating personal service contracts and a "substantial" reduction in the costs associated with the governor’s personal travel.
Molloy said that when the administration assumed office in January it discovered that former Gov. Roy Schneider overspent the first quarter allotment for Government House by paying lump sum payments to resigning employees. She said that process has been criticized by the Bureau of Audit and Control.
"The governor made clear from the first day in office that he wanted to set an example by having his office live within its means," Molloy said. "And he’s done just that."
She added that for the first time in five years an administration in Government House has completed a fiscal year without having to seek additional resources to cover expenditures that exceeded authorized levels.

Delegate to Congress Donna Christian Christensen joined fellow Democrats, including Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and the entire leadership of House Democratic Caucus, at a press briefing Thursday to support the inclusion of affordable prescription drugs in Medicare coverage for seniors.
The briefing was part of an on-going effort to modernize Medicare to provide older Americans with wider access to affordable medication.
"The seniors in my district are anxious to have this coverage in place. We should be ashamed as a Congress and a nation that we are unwilling to find the funds necessary to relieve our senior citizens from having to make the difficult and untenable choice between the medicine that they need or buying food," Christensen said.
Christensen visited senior centers in the territory in August to discuss President Clintion’s Medicare modernization initiative to provide affordable prescription drug coverage and get feedback from the seniors.
"It is time that we end this squeeze on our seniors meager incomes and provide the remedy that would allow them to live their golden years in peace of mind, security and health by seizing the opportunity when we are experiencing a record budget surplus to fix this problem," Christensen said.

I have been a strong supporter of Gov. Turnbull since he was elected.
I thought he was a forward looking leader. But, his withdrawal of Mr. Bornn's nomination has completely changed my mind about him.
We finally get a local in tourism who will tell us the way things really are and should be and the government won't listen.
Not only won't they listen but they fire him. Mr. Bornn will be hard to replace and I can't see anyone wanting the job unless they want to be a yes man who will line his pocket with everything he can, steal the computers, hire his friends and family and the hell with the people of the Virgin Islands.
After that the Feds will come in and bail us out!
T. Luscz
P.S. Oh, I forgot, the Feds are getting a little sick of hearing from us too!

Gov. Charles Turnbull is scheduled to move out of his rental house in Estate Elizabeth and back into his official residence on Denmark Hill this weekend.
The governor's home, known as Catherineberg, was closed last spring when health-threatening bacteria were found to be flourishing in it.
The Virgin Islands acquired the historic property as part of its purchase of the West Indian Co. from Denmark. It previously was the Danish consulate.
"It's not completely ready," WICO spokesman Calvin Wheatley said Saturday. But the governor "wants to get out of the place" that WICO has been renting for him before Nov. 1.
Turnbull has taken some heat for spending $7,000 a month to rent the lavish northside estate owned by Tana Mullendore. Although the rental is temporary and WICO picks up the bill, critics say it's all government money in the end.
Wheatley, reached at his home, could not say how much the renovations are expected to cost, how much has been spent so far or just what still has to be done.
In early April Edward Thomas, WICO's chief executive, said the WICO board had approved spending up to $350,000 for the renovations to Catherineberg. He said then that WICO had leased the Estate Elizabeth property for six months, which would account for Turnbull's desire to vacate the rental home by Nov. 1.
Perina Jacobs-McBrowne, Government House spokeswoman, said renovations probably will be completed while Turnbull is living at Catherineberg. Given his busy schedule, including a weekend trip to St. Croix for an ecological conference, she said it will be a squeeze for him to make the move by Monday, but that's his intention.

The best known band currently performing scratch band or Quelbe music is Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights. TSK has been a tradition at Christmas time for about twenty years now.
Their distinct sound comes from the flute of Stanley Jacobs and the voice of Eldred "Edgie" Christian.
TSK has recorded three Christmas albums . The first, Jimmy John, contains rousing versions of Jingle Bells and Mamacita and traditional local Christmas songs. Guava Berry and Moma Bake a Johnny Cake. The two masterworks on this album are Pack Me Guts and Jimmy John.
Pack Me Guts uses the melody of Deck the Halls but the words are about overeating at Christmas time. Jimmy John is the 12 Days of Christmas Crucian style, "9 pound of okro, 8 ball a fungi, 7 pan a sardines…"etc.
The second Christmas album is Don't Stop the Serenade. This CD features a hot version of Feliz Navidad, several traditional songs and two songs written by the Great John L – Christmas in St. Croix and Green Christmas. The title song is about an incident several years ago when TSK was riding around in a truck drinking and serenading at Christmas time. They were arrested for disturbing the peace.
The Christmas 3 album contains TSK versions of traditional Christmas songs both instrumental and vocal. The hit on this CD is Piece of Pork – "I wanna piece of pok for me Christmas…"
TSK also has four non Christmas albums. Pumping includes traditional and original vocal tracks, plus instrumentals of what is known as Quadrille figures. Quadrille dancing is roughly similar to square dancing and instructions are called over the music in the dance.
6 Pak uses 6 of the Ten Sleepless Knights and features 6 instrumental Quadrille songs and six vocals. This album is totally acoustic and is meant to represent the songs in a truly traditional way.
TSK Commemorative was released for the 150th Anniversary of Emancipation of the slaves in the Danish West Indies. This album contains mostly original songs, "Reflections of Emancipation, Past, Present and Future."
TSK X Rated (only available on cassette) is more the type of music you would hear when the guys are entertaining themselves. The songs include, Wash you Drawz, Dog and All, Two Decent Young Ladies.
Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights produce some of the most fun music you will ever hear – but warning, you won't be able to sit down.
For a full range of Caribbean music, check out www.parrotfishmusic.com.
Mr. Fish

The best known band currently performing scratch band or Quelbe music is Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights. TSK has been a tradition at Christmas time for about twenty years now.
Their distinct sound comes from the flute of Stanley Jacobs and the voice of Eldred "Edgie" Christian.
TSK has recorded three Christmas albums . The first, Jimmy John, contains rousing versions of Jingle Bells and Mamacita and traditional local Christmas songs. Guava Berry and Moma Bake a Johnny Cake. The two masterworks on this album are Pack Me Guts and Jimmy John.
Pack Me Guts uses the melody of Deck the Halls but the words are about overeating at Christmas time. Jimmy John is the 12 Days of Christmas Crucian style, "9 pound of okro, 8 ball a fungi, 7 pan a sardines…"etc.
The second Christmas album is Don't Stop the Serenade. This CD features a hot version of Feliz Navidad, several traditional songs and two songs written by the Great John L – Christmas in St. Croix and Green Christmas. The title song is about an incident several years ago when TSK was riding around in a truck drinking and serenading at Christmas time. They were arrested for disturbing the peace.
The Christmas 3 album contains TSK versions of traditional Christmas songs both instrumental and vocal. The hit on this CD is Piece of Pork – "I wanna piece of pok for me Christmas…"
TSK also has four non Christmas albums. Pumping includes traditional and original vocal tracks, plus instrumentals of what is known as Quadrille figures. Quadrille dancing is roughly similar to square dancing and instructions are called over the music in the dance.
6 Pak uses 6 of the Ten Sleepless Knights and features 6 instrumental Quadrille songs and six vocals. This album is totally acoustic and is meant to represent the songs in a truly traditional way.
TSK Commemorative was released for the 150th Anniversary of Emancipation of the slaves in the Danish West Indies. This album contains mostly original songs, "Reflections of Emancipation, Past, Present and Future."
TSK X Rated (only available on cassette) is more the type of music you would hear when the guys are entertaining themselves. The songs include, Wash you Drawz, Dog and All, Two Decent Young Ladies.
Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights produce some of the most fun music you will ever hear – but warning, you won't be able to sit down.
For a full range of Caribbean music, check out www.parrotfishmusic.com.
Mr. Fish

Come Monday morning, the first item on the agenda at Family Resource Center will be laying plans to work with other community agencies and perhaps the government to create a safe, well-lighted walkway between Tutu Park Mall and Four Winds Plaza.
The rape of a 14-year-old girl last Thursday evening is the catalyst.
About the same time participants in the sixth annual "Take Back the Night and Shine the Light on Domestic Violence" demonstration were finishing their march in downtown St. Thomas that evening, the teen-ager was stalked, terrorized and raped on a narrow, unlighted path that is a popular shortcut between the two mid-island shopping centers.
"We didn't hear about it until the next morning," said Family Resource Center executive director Michal Rhymer, whose organization sponsors the annual "Take Back the Night" marches on St. Thomas. "As usual, we were very angry. Every time we hear a report like this, especially when it involves a child, it inflames us. We continue to see perpetrators target young teens, and our community must never be relaxed. We always have to be on the lookout for our children."
It's obvious that people, and especially young people, are going to take the shortcut between the two shopping areas, Rhymer said. The problem is that the path is overgrown with bush and unlighted.
"We strongly believe those two malls should be connected, and that there needs to be a lighted, safe and secure path put there," she said.
The area has been the scene of at least two other incidents of violence recently, Rhymer noted. A man was found dead behind Four Winds and a 19-year-old woman's body was found at the nearby Midas Muffler location. "There have been fights involving school kids there, too," she said.
According to the police, the victim reported the incident at about 7:25 p.m. Thursday. She told officers that she and her cousin, a 17-year-old girl, were taking the shortcut when a man about 5' 7" and wearing a black ski mask approached them from behind. The girl said her cousin ran away, and she dropped to the ground to try to hide.
She said the masked man pulled her behind a garbage bin located behind the Insomnia nightclub and raped her. According to a release from the Police Department, the girl "also told the police that at one point, when the man saw the police in the area, he said he had a gun and would kill her if she screamed."
Rhymer said Family Resource Center, which provides counseling, emergency shelter and court advocacy for victims of violent crimes including domestic abuse and sexual assault, will "try to find out who owns that property" where the path lies, and "try to elicit government and civic support" to create a safe walkway.
"We'll be trying to tap the Rotary groups and the Lions to get community involvement," she said.
Rhymer said her advice to young people and their parents is "Please remain alert. We must be vigilant. We do not want to cause a frenzy and panic, but we have a rapist out there, or maybe more than one."

For the first time since 1994 Government House ended a fiscal year with a budget surplus.
According to Gov. Charles Turnbull’s Chief of Staff Juel Molloy, the Office of the Governor was $413,455 in the black at the end of FY99, which ended Sept. 30. For FY 99 the Office of the Governor received a $7.2 million appropriation by the Legislature but was actually allotted $6.4 million to operate the office. Final expenditures were just over $6 million.
Alvin Battiste, Government House director of Budget and Financial Management Operations, said the surplus is due to eliminating personal service contracts and a "substantial" reduction in the costs associated with the governor’s personal travel.
Molloy said that when the administration assumed office in January it discovered that former Gov. Roy Schneider overspent the first quarter allotment for Government House by paying lump sum payments to resigning employees. She said that process has been criticized by the Bureau of Audit and Control.
"The governor made clear from the first day in office that he wanted to set an example by having his office live within its means," Molloy said. "And he’s done just that."
She added that for the first time in five years an administration in Government House has completed a fiscal year without having to seek additional resources to cover expenditures that exceeded authorized levels.