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www.BackgroundNow.com Weblog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
The former director of permits for the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for his role in a $1.4 million bribery and... This is a mere summary. Go to http://www.backgroundnow.com/blog for the real deal.
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Virgin Islands Daily News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
On Nov. 4 we are going to the polls to hire important employees for the U.S. Virgin Islands. We, the voters, are the employers and will be choosing people to take care of the needs of the community for the next two years.
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Law.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Sad news from the U.S. Virgin Islands, where a young lawyer who had recently moved there was found dead yesterday, murdered in an apparent robbery. Gabriel Lerner, 27, was a graduate of Georgetown University Law School who moved to St....
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Environmental Protection Agency (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
(St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands and three other parties responsible for improperly disposing of more than 870,000 tires near the Bovoni Landfill on St. Thomas
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... worthwhile state projects. Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information on Powerball, please visit our website at Contact:Doug OrrMulti-State Lottery Association515-453-1404
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... worthwhile state projects. Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information on Powerball, please visit our website at Contact:Doug OrrMulti-State Lottery Association515-453-1404
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Virgin Islands Daily News (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
ST. THOMAS - Sea lion sightings around Water Island, St. Thomas and St. John on Sunday and Monday have led aquarium staff, trainers and marine enforcement officers to believe that at least one South American sea lion who escaped from Marine World in St. Kitts has reached the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
... federal law and is less than what's collected by 44 other states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.Benefits were last hiked to a maximum of $450 a week in 2002. Generally, the unemployed are eligible for 26 weeks of benefits. However, some of the current jobless have received a 13-week extension, and Congress now is considering granting a second extension.Schwarzenegger...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... Senegal•Two — Australia, Dominican Republic, Great Britain, Netherlands, Turkey, Ukraine, U.S. Virgin Islands•One — Cameroon, Croatia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Germany, Iran, Latvia, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, SwitzerlandHarrington irked: The Golden State Warriors have met with the agent of frontcourt player , unhappy with...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
"We've written history based on the bigger islands," said Bill Keegan, a University of Florida archaeologist whose study is published online in the journal Human Ecology. "Yet not only are we now seeing people earlier on smaller islands, but we're seeing them move into territories where we didn't expect them to at the time that they arrived." Early Ceramic Age settlements have been found in the ...
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University of Florida News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... them to at the time that they arrived.” Early Ceramic Age settlements have been found in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Montserrat, for example, but are absent from all of the larger islands in the Lesser Antilles, Keegan said. And all of the small islands along the windward east coast of St. Lucia have substantial ceramic artifacts — evidence of settlement — despite being less than one kilometer,...