THE CHOICE IS CLEAR
This Saturday, Virgin Islanders will choose who carries our one voice to Washington. It is a choice about our families’ safety, our hospitals, our pensions, our economy, and our failing power grid. Before you cast your vote, I want to speak to you directly, not with slogans but neighbor to neighbor, about our islands’ needs […]
Results, Not Words: What We Owe Officer Charles
Early Sunday morning, in Williams Delight, we lost one of our own. Officer Eustace Charles, a veteran of the Virgin Islands Police Department who wore the uniform with honor, down in the community he served. My heart is with his family, his loved ones, and every VIPD officer who woke up to news that no family should ever receive. I […]
A Territory Cannot Afford a Performance
The Virgin Islands is at a crossroads. On August 1, Democratic voters will choose who carries our voice to Washington for the next two years. And in this campaign, I have heard a theory of the office that I believe is dangerously wrong for our territory: that what the Virgin Islands needs is a delegate […]
The Path Back From HUD’s Suspension
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development suspended the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority from receiving federal disaster recovery funds. Since Hurricanes Irma and Maria, VIHFA has received nearly $1.9 billion in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funding, more than $20,000 for every resident of this Territory. Almost nine years later, less […]