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St Croix Will Be Seeing an Increase in Cruise Visitors
Press release August 25, 2022 Officials from the Royal Caribbean Group’s Operations and Development team recently met with Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA) staff to prepare for an increase in cruise visitors to Frederiksted, St...
Raising Cane in St Croix is causing quite the stir….
(details that follow taken from articles by Susan Ellis in the St Croix Source July 31, 2022 and Ernice Gilbert in Business August 9, 2022). Protestors concerned about adverse environmental impact. There’s a new business in Frederiksted...
Sargassum Seaweed in the USVI
Over the past 10 years or so, our coastlines have periodically been plagued by huge, stinky deposits of Sargassum seaweed. The seaweed is so dense it is nearly impossible to remove. It is noxious and causes breathing difficulties. What is c...
MESSAGE FROM KIM & THE TEAM
Summertime… and the living is easy… St Croix slows down for the summer. There are no cruise ships here during summer and generally fewer tourists here. So getting a table at your favorite restaurant, if it’s open, is not difficult in t...
St. Croix Hilltop Castle Sells for $9.5 Million
The Moorish-style structure, set on about 110 acres, was built in the 1980s by the late Bulgaria-born Countess Nadia de Navarro-Farber. After her death in 2014, her husband, Yuri Farber, listed it for $15 million in 2016. The most recent as...
The Nature Conservancy in the Caribbean
The Virgin Islands Coral Innovation Hub on St. Croix recently “officially” launched. Many partners, supporters and community leaders join in on the grand opening celebration in May. This center for science represents an important beacon ...
St. Croix Classes of the 80s Presents “I Love STX” Sign
Virgin Islands Source: I Love St Croix unveiling By Diana Dias June 11, 2022 The St. Croix Classes of the 80s, Inc. is spreading love to the town of Frederiksted and the rest of the island as they presented their “I Love STX” sign ...