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  • Steel Pan and Scorching Sun: ‘Love City Pan Dragons’ Electrify Coral Bay Car Show

    Steel Pan and Scorching Sun: ‘Love City Pan Dragons’ Electrify Coral Bay Car Show

    Staff (St. John, USVI, Sept. 2025). The Coral Bay Car Show roared to life with gleaming chrome, the scent of local barbecue, and the unmistakable pulse of steel pan music echoing through the hills. Under a relentless Caribbean sun that had umbrellas popping and fans whirring, the Love City Pan Dragons delivered a high-energy performance…

  • 2025 UVI leadership Awards

    UVI staff Congratulations to the following comm majors/minors for outstanding achievements this academic year: Felicia Felix– Outstanding Performance on Comunication Shugga D. Rosenbloom Excellence in InternaltionalJournalism Coverage; Communication Ambassador for Human/Civil Rights Jadynn Sibilly- Theatre Award and Kwaniqua Monsanto- Miss Sophomore, UVI Queen’s Court

  • Our President Dr. Safiya George is on FIRE🔥

    Our President Dr. Safiya George is on FIRE🔥

    On behalf of the students, faculty, and staff at UVI, this video is dedicated to our newly inaugurated President, Dr. Safiya George. CONGRATULATIONS🎊 #uvi#drsafiyageorge#uvibuccaneers#girlonfire🔥#inaugurationday

  • What’s a Birthday without Ice Cream? 🍦

    What’s a Birthday without Ice Cream? 🍦

    University of Virgin Islands host an Ice cream social to celebrate UVI’s 63rd birthday. Students come together to enjoy a sweet treat from a local Ice cream truck known as “On Thin Ice” and music.

  • SAY HER NAME: LACOUR

    SAY HER NAME: LACOUR

    LACOUR is on FIRE as she literally jumps over Wiley basketball rival during the Lady Bucs first win of the season. UVI Lady Buc’s First win of the season MA- LAY-AH: Say Her Name! Maliah Lacour is on Fire! The senior guard scored a season-high 27 points in a dominant performance on her senior night….

  • UPCLOSE and PERSONAL-UVI adds “Cool” new leadership

    UPCLOSE and PERSONAL-UVI adds “Cool” new leadership

    UVI Student Journalists Secure Exclusive Interview With University President by Maliah LaCour ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands, Jan 2025— On a bright and bustling fall afternoon in 2024, three young reporters hurried into the administration building on the Orville E. Sheen campus at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI). Members of the UVI Association…

  • LaCour Shines Through the Losses

    LaCour Shines Through the Losses

    Staff (St. Thomas. January 2025) Maliah LaCour’s performance against the Lady Knights women’s basketball team from Southern University in New Orleans earlier this month was exceptional. Her display of Caribbean sports prowess at the Elridge Blake Sports and Fitness Center in St. Thomas was a sight to behold despite the team’s disappointing loss of 93-63. …