There is a “real threat” that food and electricity bills in the Virgin Islands will spike because of the tariff war unleashed by United States President Donald Trump, Premier Natalio …
April 10, 2025
April 3, 2025
Shipper warns about Trump moves
The many Virgin Islands businesses that use Tropical Shipping could be hit hard by United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs and other policies, the company has warned. In testimony before …
March 21, 2025
VI braces after US stocks plunge
The Virgin Islands will likely feel blowback from recent turmoil on Wall Street sparked by United States President Donald Trump’s trade wars, experts have warned. Ahead of a threatened wave …
March 3, 2025
Trump tariffs could hit VI wallets
Wide-ranging new tariffs set to take effect next week by order of United States President Donald Trump could drive up prices in the Virgin Islands, but the measures are unlikely …
November 19, 2024
EDITORIAL: Virgin Islands should expect the worst from Trump presidency
It has been said that when the United States sneezes, the whole world catches a cold. We fear much worse than a proverbial cold for the Virgin Islands and the …
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November 7, 2024
Virgin Islands divided over Trump win
After a divisive campaign season tainted by mudslinging and racism allegations, Donald Trump won back the United States presidency at 6:34 a.m. Wednesday, handily defeating Vice President Kamala Harris and …
February 19, 2024
EDITORIAL: Fake Trump video brings real lessons
Recently, a fake video circulated that appeared to show Donald Trump calling for former premier Andrew Fahie to be pardoned after he was found guilty of drug-conspiracy charges this month …
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February 11, 2024
DEBUNKED: Fake video appears to show Trump calling for Fahie pardon
A fake video circulating in the territory on Sunday appears to show United States presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for former Virgin Islands premier Andrew Fahie to be pardoned following …
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December 16, 2020
COMMENTARY — Need seen for ‘big government’
The 2008 financial crisis showed the Milton Friedman economic model of a laissez faire, production-oriented, trickledown, austere and financially driven economy to be a paper tiger. The idea that the …
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November 18, 2020
November 16, 2020
EDITORIAL: A new day in the US — and the Caribbean
Change has come to the United States, and as usual this means change has come to the rest of the world as well. The election of Joe Biden and Kamala …
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November 13, 2020
Premier congratulates Biden, Harris
Premier Andrew Fahie extended congratulations from the Virgin Islands to United States President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on Saturday, shortly after news outlets called the election in …
November 4, 2020
VI watches hotly disputed US election
The closely watched United States presidential election proved to be a tight race, as patrons at one watch party in East End noted by cracking jokes about “Dewey wins!,” the …
October 30, 2020
VI wary as US heads to polls
An old adage proclaims, “When the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold.” As the country heads into a presidential election next Tuesday amid the Covid-19 pandemic, that wisdom …
April 23, 2020
United States releases Virgin Islands’ medical supplies
A shipment containing critical medical supplies for the fight against Covid-19 was released by United States Customs and Border Protection on Friday, and it arrived in the Virgin Islands on …
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April 22, 2020
COMMENTARY — ‘Horrific leadership’ abroad criticised
The unmitigated global spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is the result of gross incompetence in governance in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom. COVID-19 deaths globally …
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April 29, 2018
Islands Adrift: Trump politics hinder USVI climate change prep
PUERTO RICO CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM — When you approach St. John from the water now, the United States Virgin Island at first appears untouched by hurricanes Irma and Maria. …
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