Autobiography Recounts ‘Long Journey to Paradise’ for Former UNICEF Worker

Autobiography Recounts ‘Long Journey to Paradise’ for Former UNICEF Worker

Jan 15, 2020 | Island News

Former UNICEF worker and writer Horst Cerni who lives in the Virgin Islands shares his adventurous journey in his new autobiography “Journeying to Paradise”. The book is filed with filled with anecdotes about Cerni’s travels around the world, his family, the war and working with people like Marlon Brando, Roger Moore, Victor Borge, Dustin Hoffman, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Pele and Boris Becker.

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STX Bike Path Opens

STX Bike Path Opens

Dec 11, 2019 | Island News

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.

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Excavation Offers Intimate Look at the Lives of Enslaved Africans

Excavation Offers Intimate Look at the Lives of Enslaved Africans

Dec 11, 2019 | Island News

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.

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Hydrogen-powered Drone in USVI

Hydrogen-powered Drone in USVI

Dec 11, 2019 | Island News

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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