Pirates strike US-flagged ship again Nov 19, 2009
The tanker, whose owner is based in the Virgin Islands, had been sailing to the Kenyan port of Mombasa, but changed course after the hijacking. More than 10 ships and 200 hostages are currently being held by pirates operating in waters off Somalia. (BBC News -- Americas)
Rawlings the Holier Than Thou Exposed Oct 4, 2009
Their silent operative Tsatsu Tsikata registers a company in the U. S. Virgin Islands with branch offices in Houston and London and positions it as the exclusive lifter of Ghanas oil. All these major league corruption cases or evidence thereof in less than six months in office unfortunately only amounts to the pregnancy because the baby is still yet to be born. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Obituaries in the news Sep 15, 2009
5:10 a.m. Tuesday, September 15, 2009. The Associated Press. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
AP News in Brief Aug 26, 2009
Powerball is played in 30 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Jackson, a lifelong Columbia resident, shared few details about himself or his plans for the money. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
In Hot Water: World Ocean Temps Set Record Aug 21, 2009
Bleaching has started to crop up in the Florida Keys, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Typically, bleaching occurs after weeks or months of prolonged high water temperatures. (CBS News)
Florida Braces for Tropical Storms Aug 17, 2009
Ana triggered a tropical storm watch for Puerto Rico, and watches remained in effect for the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius. That means tropical storm conditions are possible within the next 36 hours. (CBS News -- US)
Claudette Threatens Florida Panhandle Aug 17, 2009
Watches were posted for Puerto Rico, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Antigua, St. Maarten and several other islands in the area. Ana was forecast to bring 2 to 4 inches of rain. (CBS News)
Senate Democrats scrub August vote for healthcare plan Jul 24, 2009
We felt it was important that more than one voice be heard, said Donna Christensen, the congressional delegate for the US Virgin Islands. When we hear phrases like squeezing more savings out of the system. (Boston Globe)
Top Dem Defies Obama Health Care Deadline Jul 24, 2009
"We felt it was important that more than one voice be heard," said Donna Christensen, the congressional delegate for the U.S. Virgin Islands who is leading the caucus' health care efforts. "When we hear phrases like 'squeezing more savings out of the system' ... we're concerned that what may be taken out will be provisions that are critical to our communities.". (CBS News)
Tarver has right skills, lawyers say Jul 12, 2009
There are 93 U.S. attorneys, including those stationed in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. They have three statutory responsibilities under U.S. law. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Ouch! The nominee's pre-game injury Jul 11, 2009
Like Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and that inside-the-beltway island known as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico gets only one nonvoting member in the House of Representatives and zilch in the Senate. Its residents can vote in U.S. presidential primaries, but not the general election. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Liberia: TRC's Economic Criminals Jul 7, 2009
Investcom LLC is a subsidiary of Investcom Holdings S.A. and Investcom Global, two corporations owned by Lebanese nationals and incorporated in Luxembourg and the British Virgin Islands, respectively. The government of Liberia informed Investcom that no GSM license was available and that the company should purchase 60% of PLC Limited to enter the telecommunications market in Liberia. (allAfrica.com)
China Business Jul 5, 2009
How big a say may be determined by an Australian court in a legal battle involving refiner OMH and whose reach takes in Singapore, the British Virgin Islands and Ukraine. - John Helmer (Jun 1,'09). (Asia Times Online)
Bailout of U.S. Banks Gives British Rum Maker Diageo $2.7 Billion Benefit Jun 29, 2009
June 26 (Bloomberg) -- In June 2008, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John deJongh Jr. agreed to give London-based billions of dollars in tax incentives to move its production of Captain Morgan rum from one U.S. island -- Puerto Rico -- to another, namely St. Croix ... The Virgin Islands can do what they want to with their source of revenue, Sullivan says ... What happened is we sent taxpayer money to effectively build a distillery in the Virgin Islands that will benefit Diageo, one of the... (Bloomberg)
YTB Elects Three New Board Members Jun 19, 2009
June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- YTB International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: YTBLA) ("YTB" or the "Company"), a provider of Internet-based travel booking services for travel agencies and home-based independent representatives in the United States, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Canada, today announced the election of Thomas B. Baker, Jr., Jack H. Humes, Jr., and Patricia S. Williams to the Company's Board of Directors on Monday, June 15, 2009 ... YTB provides... (PR Newswire)
'Everyone should havea chief of staff and a set of personal assistants'... May 9, 2009
Work-Life Balance a Challenge, Says Michelle Obama, But Having White House Staff Helps. First lady Michelle Obama greets Jeanette Rivera Boria, project leader of Ethicon, a Johnson on company, and David Lissy, CEO of the Bright Horizon Family Solution, at a meeting with representatives from Corporate Voices for Working Families in Washington. (The Drudge Report)
State House Roundup: Beep-beep, cha-ching, snip-snip Apr 19, 2009
If we had a crystal ball, we d all be living on an island somewhere, and be rich, Murphy told one reporter who asked about revenues, which are in evidently short supply, given that the document came in $800 million lighter than last year, worth nearly the entire revenue stream of the Virgin Islands, which include St. Croix. Factoring in growth in MassHealth, to almost $9 billion, that s leveraging the pain into the remaining two-thirds of the budget. (Hamilton Wenham Chronicle, MA)
Budget could bring tax rises as A... Apr 6, 2009
He will also tell British Overseas Territories, such as Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Turks & Caicos Islands, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla, to implement their pledges to commit themselves to new international standards. Some appear on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development s grey list of jurisdictions that have so far not made good their promises. (New York Post -- Business)
Stanford fears hit banks in Antigua, Caracas Feb 19, 2009
He owns a home in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and operates businesses from Houston to Miami and Switzerland to Antigua, where the government knighted him in 2006 in recognition of his economic influence and charity work ... James Sullivan, the U.S. marshal for the Virgin Islands, said agents are monitoring his extensive holdings in St. Croix, including a boat he sometimes he docks there, but could not say whether he is in the territory. (MSNBC -- Business)
U.S. Fraud Probe Hits Latin American Banks Feb 19, 2009
But, with a sprawling financial empire, that includes six airplanes, offices around the world and homes in Antigua and the Virgin Islands, officials are worried Stanford may try to hide ... He owns a home in St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and operates his businesses from Houston and Antigua, where his companies and charity have had such a prominent role that the islands' government knighted him in 2006 ... James Sullivan, the U.S. marshal for the Virgin Islands, said agents are... (CBS News -- World)
Colorado delegation should support Omnibus Lands bill Feb 11, 2009
S22 expands protection of tribal and Federal public lands in many ways in at least 32 states from the West through New England and the Virgin Islands. It expands the means to do more conservation on BLM lands that have often been seen as only being low cost banks for energy and mining concessions. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)
American woman becomes first on record to complete Atlantic swim Feb 7, 2009
Figge, who had originally planned to make landfall in the Bahamas, now plans to finish by swimming from Trinidad to the British Virgin Islands. She first dreamed of swimming across the Atlantic Ocean as a little girl. (BBC News -- Americas)
