This is some unfortunate news. According to this BBC article, the body of the 20-year-old son was found recently and “the cause of death is not likely to be determined for eight weeks while toxicology tests are carried out, coroner John Kades said”.
More and more VIers are becoming part of the US political landscape as the VI Democrats are at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Senator Ottley will be the primary policy analyst for the Virgin Islands at the Department of Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs and Senate President Usie Richards has been honored by the National Black Caucus of State Legislators. With all this interconnection between politics in the VI and the US, will we see more economic and social development of the territory? Only time will tell. Meanwhile as Home Depot promotes a new executive vice president of U.S. Stores (including those in PR and the VI) we have yet to see the St. Croix Home Depot appear. We heard it’s cause they’re short on building materials.
I found this hilarious…
Olympic Fact of the Day: Per capita,
China won one gold medal for every 25 million people in the country. The United States' per capita rate was one gold for every 8.5 million. Olympic Fact of the Day: Per capita, China won one gold medal for every 25 million people in the country. The United States' per capita rate was one gold for every 8.5 million.
The island nation of Jamaica, which won a staggering six golds in Beijing, had a per capita rate of one gold for every 450,000 residents. Had China won at that rate, the country would have earned 2,889 golds.
Here are a couple more articles on the Edwards isssue.
As always, please read and interpret at your own risk. The Enquirer is not exactly known for responsible reporting!
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne will be in the USVI today and tomorrow (Aug. 21-22) to fulfill his promise to visit all U.S. territories, for which he has significant oversight responsibility as Secretary of the Interior. He will be joined by Governor John deJongh, Delegate Donna Christiansen and other VI leaders at various events in STX, STT and STJ.
The International Herald Tribune seems to report all the negative news about the VI as their latest AP release reported a Palestinian immigrant was found shot dead on St. Croix on Monday.
US Housing and Urban Development has awarded $1,373,406 to the V.I. Community AIDS Resource & Education (VICARE) to help AIDS patients find a stable home, and receive the necessary services to manage their illnesses.
And in the latest melee, one of our users has posted that John Edwards baby momma was in STX and this NY Daily News article also says ”Rielle fled to St. Croix on eve of cheating flap.”
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