Ads St. Thomas — The Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency (VITEMA) seems to be hard at work solving one of the most challenging parts of its disaster response strategy — disseminating accurate information to the public. The agency began testing out WhatsApp as a medium for delivering timely updates to residents. Many Virgin Islanders … Read more
Ads St. Thomas — Were the torrential rains we saw yesterday on all three islands normal? The rain was normal, the flooding wasn’t. Most of us remember last year after hurricanes Irma and Maria struck the territory, the following weeks of recovery were met with heavy rains. On some days, even hampering the operations of … Read more
Ads Senate Democrats may be laying the groundwork for future investigations into the Trump administration in response to mounting reports that the federal government failed to respond adequately to two category 5 storms that battered the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico one year ago. Nearly 3,000 people died as a result of hurricane Maria … Read more
Ads St. Thomas — “The potential for government failure and the resulting humanitarian crisis on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is high,” reads the recently unclassified J-2 assessment obtained by the House Oversight Committee. The previously classified military assessment written five days after hurricane Maria struck the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico … Read more
Ads Washington — On Thursday morning, President Trump tweeted that, “3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long … Read more
Ads St. Thomas — Two Ukrainian cargo planes charterned by FEMA landed in Guam earlier this week to bring disaster supplies. The crafts that rarely take flight, brought supplies for Guamanians — who are U.S. citizens — right before a powerful typhoon made landfall this week. The arrival of the world’s largest plane — the … Read more