During their award acceptance speeches Saturday evening, honorees of the community service awards told their fellow St. Thomas-St. John Chamber of Commerce members that they must keep working together to not only improve the local business climate but to also make the territory a better place to live for all.

According to statistics, the University of the Virgin Islands campuses are safer than their counterparts in the states, the UVI Board of Trustees learned at its meeting Saturday.

The sounds of Virgin Islands’ culture filled the Downtown Charlotte Amalie streets as jazz, quelbe, reggae and a variety of Caribbean-inspired jazz renditions had many at Saturday’s Jazz in the Park dancing the night away.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke to more than 300 on St. Croix Wednesday night and speaks on St. Thomas on Thursday.