Local News
UVI Kicks off Week of Celebration with the Pinning of Nurses
It’s a week of celebration for the University of the Virgin Islands as they kicked it off Monday and Tuesday evening with the Nurse Pinning Ceremony for the Albert A. Sheen Campus and the Orville E. Kean Campus.
St. Croix Animal Welfare Center Hopes to Raise $50,000 With Pledge-a-Thon
On May 24, the St. Croix Animal Welfare Center is going live from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. across the internet and over the radio. The St. Croix Animal Welfare Center has been operating under critical animal capacity for over a year.
GOVERNMENT AND POLICE NEWS
Three Plead Guilty in Cocaine Smuggling Operation
Eleuterio Gomez Murillo, 53, of Colombia, and Randall Vasquez, 47, and Mainor Salazar Montero, 34, both of Costa Rica, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller to possession with intent to distribute cocaine onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced Tuesday.