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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. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHUPesFBWEf/?igsh=dHVmeW80NjNjZTBm

LaCour Shine Through the Loses

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…

An Honest Conversation

by Trisha Sealy (STT, Nov 22, 2024). The recent attack, in early October, of a Virgin Islands school bus driver by students in the public school system was the top talk of any barbershop or beauty salon last week. The…

STX Students Lack Basic Needs

by Felicia Felix, contributing reporter/photographer (STX, September 22, 2023). CHS and SCEC High School students joined in protest against inhumane, unfit school campus conditions and voice demands to DOE CHS and SCEC High School students joined in protest against inhumane,…

Can a U.S. Virgin Islander Run for President?

By Indeyah Todman (STX-September 23, 2022) “I’m going to be president when I grow up!”, said a curiously confident 5-year-old as she skipped along the Cramer’s Park beach with her grandmother. Her grandmother laughed with amusement at the little girl’s…

VI Grammy Goes to… the Next Generation 

By Caleisha Simon  (STT-November 30, 2022) Four Virgin Islands artists and creators have made history yet again by totaling 11 Grammy Award nominations in 2022. Announced on Nov. 15, 2022, the Grammys blessed the Virgin Islands with nominations for several…

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? A Contemporary Analysis

REPRINTED from 2020 -by Jada Roberts, Dahlia Ferrol, and Sabina Ferrol “Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that…