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Ministry of Health Staff Wears Purple for International Women’s Day
Government of the Virgin Islands
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The staff of the Ministry of Health and Social Development is featured as they wore purple in recognition of International Women’s Day and stood in solidarity to champion the rights, equality, and empowerment of all women and girls. Through their...
Coast Guard medevacs 2 people following zip-line collision in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
DVIDS - Georgia
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November 3, 2024
A Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen MH-60T Jayhawk aircrew hoists a woman and a man who sustained multiple injuries following a zip-line collision in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The patients were transported to the 'Centro Medico' Hospital in...
Second Phase Of Environmental Cleanup Work Scheduled At Virgin Island National Park's Caneel Bay
National Parks Traveller
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November 2, 2024
Another phase of environmental cleanup at Caneel Bay in Virgin Islands National Park is expected to start next year/NPS file Work is expected to begin next year on the second phase of environmental cleanup work at Caneel Bay in Virgin Islands...
Where to Find Tastes of Africa in the British Virgin Islands
Fodors Travel Guide
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October 31, 2024
In the British Virgin Islands, you’ll discover a rich African history to explore, filled with rhythms, flavors, and traditions. For seven glorious days during the annual spring regatta, I joined the army of boaters coming from far and wide to...
US Virgin Islands police identify shooting victim as Hasani Parris
Loop News
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The US Virgin Islands Police Department has identified the man who was shot and killed on October 30 as Hasani Parris. Parris was 27 years old. In a statement on Wednesday, police said it received an alert from the Shot Spotter Detection System of...
Now's The Time To Prepare For Daylight Saving Time Health Issues
HuffPost
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March 5, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day. It also could harm your health. Darker mornings and more evening light...
Springing forward to daylight saving time affects your health — here's how to prepare
NBC 4 - New York
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March 8, 2025
Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day. It also could harm your health. Darker mornings and more evening light together knock your...
How daylight saving time’s ‘spring forward’ could affect health
The Daily News - Michigan
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CUSTODIAN RAY KEEN gets ready to change the time on the 100-year-old clock atop the Clay County Courthouse in Clay Center, Kansas, in March 2014. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file) WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for...
Is daylight saving time bad for your health? A neurologist explains.
CBS News
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Beth Ann Malow is a professor of neurology and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. As people in the U.S. prepare to turn their clocks ahead one hour in mid-March, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of media stories about the disruptions...
March 5 - How springing forward to daylight saving time could affect your health — and how to prepare
The Post & Mail - Indiana
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day. It also could harm your health. Darker mornings and more evening light...
Settler Colonialism in Light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 1)
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution. Originally published in...
US Virgin Islands Department of Health’s Epidemiology Division establishes Dengue Hotline as cases rise
Pasquines
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October 29, 2024
The United States Virgin Islands Department of Health’s Epidemiology Division has launched a Dengue Hotline to provide residents with information on protecting against and preventing transmission of dengue, as cases continue to rise across the...
Op-Ed: Randall Macedon Embodied the Very Best of the Virgin Islands
St. Thomas Source
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October 29, 2024
Randy Macedon, right, with Olasee Davis at one of the University of the Virgin Islands’ many Christmas parties. The pair met in 1982 at what was then the College of the Virgin Islands. Who thought that I would be giving a tribute to Randall...
Rickey Singh Defended to Death Journalists’ Lifelong Right to Write for Rights!
The Voice
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July 9, 2025
Chronicles of a Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet I came to know of Rickey Singh in the mid-1970s, following his writings when the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), not-yet a decade old, was still grappling with charting a new and...
BVI secures $250K grant to strengthen healthcare resilience
BVI News
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February 28, 2025
in All News / By: BVI News on February 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM / The Ministry of Health and Social Development has received a $250,000 grant from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) through Direct Relief to enhance healthcare services...
How springing forward to daylight saving time could affect your health — and how to prepare
Associated Press
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March 3, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day. It also could harm your health. Darker mornings and more evening light...
How springing forward to daylight saving time could affect your health
WWAY 3 - North Carolina
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March 4, 2025
Alarm Clock (Photo: Pixabay)WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day. It also could harm your health. Darker mornings...
Regional Health Care Workers empowered by Perinatal Conference
Pan American Health Organization
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March 3, 2025
Bridgetown, Barbados – 24 February 2025 (PAHO) - More than seventy health care workers and health managers from Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries (ECC) have benefitted from a conference to enhance the medical care provided to mothers...
How springing forward to daylight saving time could affect your health -- and how to prepare
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day. It also could harm your health. Darker mornings and more evening light...
U.S. Virgin Islands Enacts Fair Chance for Employment Act
National Law Review
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October 26, 2024
On June 24, 2024, the Legislature of the Virgin Islands overrode Governor Albert Bryan Jr.’s veto of the Fair Chance for Employment Act. The act is intended to prohibit the automatic disqualification of applicants based upon a conviction or a...