Commentary

Virtue of the Week focuses on building peaceful and caring communities through understanding and fostering the practice of virtues. The Source supports the Virtues Project and will publish one virtue developed by the project each week.

GERS weighs in on the plan to dredge the Charlotte Amalie harbor, which will allow larger ships to port at the West Indies Company (WICO) dock.

The truly weird statement from presumed co-buyers of the Limetree Bay Refinery — that they did not in fact buy it — has U.S. Virgin Islands readers and news reporters stumped.

In case you are unfamiliar with the term, the concept of "environmental justice" refers to "a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms associated with resource extraction, hazardous waste, and other land uses."

Over the past decade the USVI Soccer Association has been using the game of soccer to unify and educate our community through youth developmental programs.

Rodney Santiago-Kidd writes that “one of the major impediments to understanding the reality of LGBTQIA2S+ health is a lack of data collection.”

As president of the India Association, I write in support of the dredging of the Port of Charlotte Amalie harbor, a vital infrastructure project that will generate immediate investment returns for the Virgin Islands. 

Virtue of the Week focuses on building peaceful and caring communities through understanding and fostering the practice of virtues. The Source supports the Virtues Project and will publish one virtue developed by the project each week.

I am writing a letter to the people of the Virgin Islands to request the preservation and protection of our culture with the creation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Maroon Territorial Park in the Northwest Quarter of St. Croix.

Rodney Santiago-Kidd writes that this is the first year that Frederiksted Health Care Inc. will be honoring this event as a board-approved company holiday and expains why this day is so important.