The USVI Tourism Commissioner Joseph Boschulte announced St Croix will soon have three daily flights from the Miami market. In midst of a tourism revival, St Croix will have an additional daily American Airlines flight coming from Miami starting next summer.
Read more at the Caribbean Journal.
The first section of the St. Croix Bike Path opened Wednesday at the crest of the Christiansted Bypass by the AARP national president and others involved with the project.
The V.I. Trail Alliance, a nonprofit organization, received a $22,500 AARP challenge grant – the first awarded in the territory by AARP – to design and implement the one-mile bikeway. The path begins at the Gallows Bay stoplight and goes west to the turn to Bassin Triangle.
Read article on St. Croix Source here.
An archaeologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and nineteen middle and high school students from the Caribbean Center for Boys & Girls of the Virgin Islands in Christiansted take a close look at Estate Little Princess on St. Croix. The excavation findings in the little house reveals artifacts that offer an intimate look into some of the most enigmatic lives in modern history: those of the enslaved Africans who once lived here.
Enslaved Africans lived and worked on Estate Little Princess starting from the plantation’s founding in 1749 until slavery was abolished on St. Croix in 1848. At the plantation’s peak in 1772, documents record 141 enslaved people living there.
Read full Science article here.
In a first for the U.S. unmanned aerial systems (UAS) industry, Skyfire Consulting, Doosan Mobility Innovation Inc., the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Department of Health and other partners teamed up recently to successfully complete an open-ocean drone test flight between two islands in under two hours.
Driven by the goal of improving timely delivery medical services in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Doosan hydrogen fuel cell-powered DS30 drone carried 40 simulation vials and health supplies for 43 miles, from a testing facility on St. Croix to a hospital on St. Thomas.
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Dedicated volunteers has been serving Thanksgiving dinners from the St. Mary’s Catholic School cafeteria for almost 30 years. This Thanksgiving almost 700 dinners were delivered from the cafeteria, and another 180 dinners were served to people with no place to go for a holiday meal and who showed up at the school.
Read full St Croix Source article here.
Women in the Virgin Islands are striving to accomplish great things in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) field. They’re also helping to inspire the next wave of scientist who will help answer and solve the Virgin Island’s toughest problems.
Read full article on State of the Territory News here.