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leamed teamwork. We had some
problems at first, but then we
got more comfortable wolting,
together, working as a team:-'
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ge�mg up OD: ·nm.e aauy, genmg tnelr mealS
. prep'a(Od, and cleaning up. The hot;,humid
weather "in West Virginia was also a chatJenge,
as was the-size of the new site for the - jamboree, .
according to Brooks,
The new reserve is so large, the group sometimes
1.(1, ·BQy·'Scouis.arrive· Friday at ROhlsen AlrRort on St ' Croix after spending 10 days at the National
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to an activity, he· said. .. ,.
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group included'scouts from St. Thomas, St, :
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Croix and Washington, D,C" who did not necesteamwork,"
Norkaitis said, "We had some sarily kn.ow each other, one of the challenges
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HI � 'it.�as a .. v«:ry productive jamboree: It problems at first, but then we got more com- was getting them to work together, Brooks said,
bfstorms ... and some
was a wonderful �xperience," he said. "It was . a
historical ex�ence."
fortable working together, working as a team." Making the scouts from different areas into a
The 25 scouts from the territory included: cohesive group that worked well together was
��vities, i.ti�ludlng
the group had 'schedit
Norkaitis said it was historical because it was
the first national jamboree at the new reserve.
boys from II. to 17 years ol� from both- isl"!ld • .. on� of the major challenges, according to
districts. They joined up with 10 SCOUIs from Brooks.
� a "great trip" that For years, lbe national jamboree liad been held the District of Columbia for the ja_m_bore.;,�" "In doing that, they made friends for life," he
at Fort AP. Hill in Vrrginia.
Brooks said. The VlIgin Islands District is part ",id,')'AlI in all, our scouts. came back with a
how ,to deal with disapand
a patrol leader, said
The group also learned to work together, he
said.
"It was really cool because we all learned
of tl>e National Capitol Area Council
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in D.C,;' - sense of accomplisinnent, asenSe of-friendShip,
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and a.sense of being able.to safely do wha1ever
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which are specifically required; 'and
successfully complete a commumty:-
related service project, the p� release
said.
. Matthew Edwards recently earned the Maitbew's project involved a major
highest advancement award the Boy cleanup at Buck Island Reef National
Scouts of America offer, becoming an
Eagle'Scout
Monument
"I worked with the National Park
"We]e delighted, We are very Service and I coordinated and then'.
, prQud 9rhin! ', said Dale Edwards, helped them carry out a coastline/trail
, ¥atthew's failler, on Friday as he and cleanup on Buck Island," Matthew
Matthew's mother, Lori Edwards, said, The cleanup occWTed as Buck
waited for other so�. to return from Island Reef National Montunent was
the National Scout' Jamboree, "He ..
worked very hard for it"
celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Matthew, who has a brother who is .
Oilly 4 percent of all 'Boy Scouts already an Eagle Scout and two other
beCome Eagle Sc'outs, according to a
�iess release about Matthew·attaining
brothers who are working toward
attaining the Eagle rank, said he has
1h� I Eagle rank . ,- - been involved in �uting since he was
. To become an Eagle Scout, a candi- little, and he assumed he would become
�,bas.to earn 21 merit badges, II of . 'im Eagle Scout - although he lost
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and earn the rank of Eagle, he said,
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Struggling Havensight merchants see r�nt-abatement
as last chance for them to resuscitate their businesses
By AMANDA NORRIS
Daily News Staff
ST. THOMAS - For mercbants
at Havensight mail, it's summer
time, but the living is anything but
easy.
After being granted six months
offrec rent by the mall's owner, tbe
Governnient Employees Retirement
System, mauy said this has been
the worst off-season they -have
experienced.
They cited a perfect storm of
prolonged road construction in
front of the man, fewer cruise ships
docking in St. Thomas Harbor,
competition from Crown Bay mercbants
and skyrocketing utility
costS".
Whcn tbe GERS board voted to
relieve.the tenants of rent obligations
from July 1 to Dec. 31, tbey.
did so because tenants had accumulated
a delinquency of more than
$2 million and reported tbat tbey
could no longer sustain the cost of
doing business. The board discussed
tbe closure of Dockside
Booksbop, wbich'has announced
tbat it will close witbin tbe next
two weeks aftcI 35 years in
business.
GER·S. Administrator Austin
Nibbs presented tbe board with two
options: forego rent for six months
altogether witb tbe stipulation that
tenants pay all arrearages by April
1 or give tenants a 25 percent
reduction in rent over the next 24
months. Tbe board decided tbe six
month abatement, which would
cost GERS a little more tban $3
million, would be tbe most feasible
way to give tenants a chance to pay'
the $2 million in back rent owed.
"I don't like this rent abatement,
but if we want'to continue· to have
tenants, we are· going to have to
belp them," Nibbs said.
At the meeting, some board
members were under the impression
that another Havensight business,
-an office supply store called
The Draugbting Shaft, was also
scheduled to clqse, but. according
to· Th� Draughtiog Sbaft owner,
Terry Robinson, that was never the
case.
Nevertheless, Robinson said, he
bas had discussions witb GERS
board members and attended meetings
to inform them of the adverse
conditions that had caused him to
fall bebind in his rent.
Robinsoo said his business, unlike
ID3I1Y of the boutiques and stores that
cater primarily to tourists, had been
unduly hit by prolonged construction.
with orange bamcades diverting
traffic into and out of the . mall's parking
lots.'
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Dockside Bookshop in Havensight Mall is scheduled to close within the next .
two weeks after 35 years in business.
"Many of our customers are locals
. and residents, and many have called
and said they just don't want.to come
in because they don't want to deal
with, it," Robinson said of the construction.
Robinson i's among a number of
long-time Havensight merchants who
say they have been in business for
decades but never had to weather
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anything quite like tbe last six
months .
"I remember in the 80s the slow
season was only three months. now
it is a full six. months," Ram Mirpuri,
president of tbe Havensigbt
Merchants Association said.
Mirpuri's son, Minoj Mirpuri, owns
. Bliss Jewelers.
Ram Mirpuri said he hoped tbe
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Havensight Mall merchants say because of the ongoing Long' Bay road
project, rising \1.1. Water and Power Authority bills and other issues that they
, have had their worst off-season ever. The Government Employees R_etirement
System, the mall's owner, has granted the merchants six months of free rent
to help them repay $2 million in . ov.9"fdue rent.
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We were almost closing down. ,,(here was no way we
could survive_ We are extremely grateful for 'the
abatement. It will be a big help.
six-month abatement would be the
"springboard" Havensight merchants
need to recover. If not, about
30 percent of the association's.membership
bad reported that they would
go under this year or the next, he
said.
'The mall has been burting since
Crown Bay opened. We lost about
500,000 passengers because of that,"
Mirpuri said. He added tbat the larger
Carnival cruise ships, the Oasis of
the Seas and tbe Allure of the Seas,
dock at Crown Bay, where the harbor
can support them.
Projections are that. with !TIOre
cruise sbips scbeduled tbrough
2014, businesses on tbe brin,k of closure
might be able to use the abatement
to get througb to a breakthrough
season in the winter of
.2014, Mirpuri said.
. Other mercbants said their WAPA
bills had tripled or quadrupled since
they opened, leaving them to wono
der if an abatement would be enough
to counter the rising rates.
"WAPA is killing us," Sonny
Panjabi, owner·of the Casa Branca
jewelry store, said. Utility bills total
$3,000 during the busy season, and
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jewelry store owner
$2,000 during the slow season, when
hours of operation are cut back, he
said. ' .
"We were almost closing down.
There was no way we could swvive.
We are extremely grateful for the
abatement. It will be a big help," be
said.
Since the recession hit, travelers
"seem to spend all their money on
the trip itself, and they come with
less disposable income/' according
to Jerry Woodhouse, president of St.
John's Bay Rum, a fragrance company
that supplies otber Havensigbt
stores and has offices be·hind the
mall.
Woodhouse also said that in the
last decade hotels, whicb used to provide
transportation to shopping districts,
have shifted to providing as
many amenities as possible to guests
and have limited the excursions to
beaches ratber than sbopping
districts.
"They want to grab as much revenue
as possible per customer while
tbey are staying at tbe bote 1,"
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V.I. government agencies defend budget requests
By AMANDA NORRIS
Daily News Staff
ST. THOMAS - Last week, the
Senale Finance Committee heard testimony
on.fiscal year'2014 budgets
from the Bureau of Molor Vehicles,
the Public Services Commission and
the V.1. Economi<: Development
Authority.
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
cal 2013 budgel, the bureau elimi- .
nated two General Fund positions:
an executive assistant and motor
vehicle inspector, according to
BroWJ!e's testimony.
The fiscal 2014 operating budget
contains' money for 52 positions,
and to further meet fiscal obligations,
the bureau ·intends to -leave
unfilled two more General Fund
. positions, according to Browne's
testimony.
Bureau of Motor Vehicles Director A critical hiring plan leaves room
Jerris Browne defended a General for five vacant positions to be filled,
Funq appropriation of $ I ,642,010 as however, Browne testified.
sufficient to· meet the bureau's The bureau's accomplishments
needs. The request is a 5 percent for fiscal 2013 include: completing
decrease, or $86,422, less than the a REAL ID card Concept design
2013 appropriation. which allow for forensic analysis
Eighty-eight percent will go and provides specialized identificatoward
personnel services and fringe lions to government employees;
benefits, and the budget will be sup- integratting- facial recognition softpiemented
by a projected income of ware, providing 24 hour access to
$1 million from the bureau's revolv- the BMY database for law enforceing
funds and another $643,854 . ment,·installing additional security
from the personalized license plate . cameras and completing two grant
fund, for a total operating budget of packages for Division of Higheay
$3,285,864. .Safety awards totalling $730,000 to
To meet fiscal constraints imposed be used to fund the motorcycle safeby
the governor's 5 percent cuts to ty education program and to accommost
departments to balance the fis-, modate online vehicle registration.
Public Services Commission
P'ublic Services Commis.sion
Executive Director Keithley Joseph
testified that it is the commission's
mission's goal to move from being a
"government organization that is reactive
to a proactive public policy making
agency with results-based
management."
The Public Services Commission is
primarily funded through assessments
levied on the utilities it regolates.
Joseph testified that the fiscal 2014
budget request from the V.I. government
for the 'commission would be
$1,6io,740. This represents an
increase of $57,373, or 3.54 percent,
from its fiscal 2013 revenu ... ssessment
of $1,563,367. Pursuant to
VIrgin Islands Code establishing the
commission and stipulatiog that it be
100 percent funded by fees levied to
the utilities it regulates, the commission's
budget request reflects what it
needs to maintain operations while it
collects outstanding assess'ment from
communications, water and electric,
and public transportation companies,
Joseph said.
The commission's uncollected revenues
from fiscal 2013 are $384,630,
according to Joseph's testimony.
It·is anticipated that in fiscal 2014,
the commission will collect a total of
$1,620,739 from the V.1. Water and
Power Authority; VITELCO,
Innovative Cable, Varlack Ventures,
Transportation Services and the v.1.
Waste Management Authority, according
to testimony.
A to1al of$I,081,H3 will go toward
"personal services and fringes,"
according to testimony.
V.I. Economic
Development Authority
V.l. Economic Development
Authority Chief Executive Officer
Percival Clouden requested a General
Fund appropriation of $5,043,274.
This amount represents an increase
of $325,574, or 6.9 percent over the
fiscal 2013 appropriation.
According to Clouden, !lie additional.money·is
needed to match federal
funds for a small business incubator
program, to institute a more
aggre . ssive marketiog strategy for the
E c'o n om i c .of D e ve lop men t
Commission's tax incentive program
and to enhance computer data analys.is
programs for the Economic
Development Commission and'the
lending divisions, according to
Clouden's testimony.
DUring fiscal 2013, the authority
received $2 milliolil in grants from
the United States Department of
Commerce Economic Development
Administration to assist small and
mid-size businesses in the territory.
The authority also relocated its offices
on St. Thomas, realizing a 20 percent
savings rental costs, 48 percent
in utilities and 15 percent in other
related expenses, Clouden said.
Also during fiscal 2013, the
authority realized a 4 percent increase
in collections and saw a 37 percent
decrease in the number.of delinquent
borrowers due to enhanced litigation
efforts, Clouden said.
To date, the authority has approved
$692,606 in new 2013 loans and collected
$842,224 in outstanding
accounts, The number of delinquent
borrowers standa at 242, for a to1al of
$7,470,534, according to Clouden's
testimony.
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HOVENSA cuts price
for regular by 4_ cents
VIRGIN ISLANDS Monday. July 29. 2013
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ST. CROIX -After two weeks
of significant increases in wholesale
. gasoline prices in the territory, some.
of the prices slipped slightlY'downward
today as HOVEN SA adjusted
its rack rates.
, The changes lowered the rack
Independent gas'
station operators iri
the tenitory now are '
paying $3.45 per gallon,
for regular gasoline
rates - the price of fuel purchased . . The rack rates influeDce retail
wholesale at the HOVENSA truck- gasollDe prjc,�� in th� territory
loading statioD OD St. Croix - for because iDdependeDt gas statioD
regular gasoline by 4 cents per gal- operators can buy lheir gasoline at
, 10D and foi premium gasoline by a the loading station, theD resell it to
ptnny per gallon, while diesel fuel their customers. The new rates are
inereased by 4 ceots per gallOD. effective through Sunday.
UDder today's adjustmeDts, indo- On'the retail side, average retail
peodeDt gas statioD operators in the gasoliDe prices iD the V.S. OD
territory now are paying $3.45 per Thursday were also slightly down
galloD for regular gasoline, $3,79 from a week ago, according to the
per gallon for premium gasoline, American Automobile Association.
and $3.57 per gallOD for diesel fuel The'average retail gasoline price
'wheD they buy their fuel'wholesale-' in the V.S. on Thursday was $3.648"
at HOVENSA. Those prices include per galloD for regular, $3.976 per
the 14-cen!s-per-gaUoD tax that the gaUon for prernium, and $3. 883 per
refiDery collects for the gallOD for diesel· fuel, according to·
government AAA. '
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Daily News PhQlOS by JASON'BRQNIS
Shoppers browse vendors' tables
during the first Virgin Fresh Value
Added Market Day qn Saturday at
the Rudolph Shulterbrandt
, Agriculture Complex on SI. Croix.
The event showcased' vendors
who use locally grown-food .to
produce processed or packaged
items. !fems for, '�ale 'included
jams. jellies •. hOi S�UC9;' dressings.
seasonings. fruit juices, smoothies
and mead wine.
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are displayed. ,
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·/ST. CROIX - The VI. HumaD
Services Department on .Friday
released a notice of intent·to.amend
the VI. Medicaid State Plan CODcerning
the reimbursement of enrolled
physicians ..
The statement indicates that
Medicaid.reimbursement·in the tenitory
may be mcreasing.
For services provided in the territory,
''upon approval by the CeDters
for Medicare and Medicaid Services
with a target effective date of Aug. 1,
2013, physicians in private practice
enrolled ·as VI. Medicaid PrograJ)l
eirrolled providers will be eligible to
receive reimbursement from the U.S.
VIrgin IslandS Medicaid program for
both inpatient and outpatient services"
at 100 percent of the V.I.
Medicare allowable rate, the release
sfutes.
"All such services must be authorized
from the department or its
agents," the release said.
For physician services provided
outside the territory, the V.I.
Medicaid Program will reimburse
physicialls enrolled in the VI.
Medicaid Program for both inpatieDt
and outpatient services at the
Medicare rate in the state where the
service was rendered, according to·
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household appliances, tires
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CORE president John
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Authorities targeting unregistered sex offenders
By JENNY KMIE
Daily News Staff
ST. THOMAS - Although a
sweep for unregistered sex offenders
netted nine unregistered offenders in
rccent 'wceks, an unknown number
still remain at large in the territory.
The Virgin Islands Department of
Justice paIred with local police and
U.S. marshals to sweep the islands
for unregistered sex offenders last
week, primarily targeting ones that
have been convicted within the
Virgin Islands. AU but two local
unregistered offenders .last week
were arrested and charged with fail,
ing to register.
Local police and U.S. Marshals
initially arrested five unregistered
offenders on St. Croix and three. on
St. Thomas in just seven days, and
then arrested another at th¢ very end
of last week on St. Thomas - bringing
the total to nine. .
The department, however, has little
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way of knowing how many unregis'
tered offenders ate b�ere from. other
jurisdictions. Within lhe telTitory,
offenders are .required to' register
anoually, thougli offenders sometimes'
come to the islands without noti1Ying
their jurisdiction of their move.
"They are suppos�ḍ to notify
someone," said Virgin Islands
Attorney General Vincent Frazer.
"We go out and look for them, but ·
someorfe has to notify us:."
The sweep last week was the sec-
Name Date of death Service . Arrangements
St, Thomas
Ova lda Millin Andre ................... :.July 18, 2013 ............... .. . Pending ....... , ............................... Davis
Cyril Belleau ..................................................................... Pending .................. ............. .... , ... Oavis
Robert Evans Sr . ............... : ........ June 15, 2013 . ..... ... .. ...... Pending ............................... ........ John Thomas
Robert E. Francis ................... ..... July 18, 2013 . ..... ............ Aug. 10 ........ ......... .. . : .................. Davis
Sylvanie Gilber t ........... .......... ..... July 3, 2013 ........... .... ..... Pendin g ................ ..... ...... : ........... Turnbull's
Jean A. Hatchett ........ ... ............ July 25, 2013 .... ... .... ..... . Pendin g ....... ............... , ........ ........ John Tho mas
Samuel A. Henry ........................ July 15, 2013 ... .......... .. , .. Pending ... : ........ ......... .................. Tu rnbu ll's
Berna rd O. Lake .: ....................... July 18, 2013 ....... ........... Pendin g ............. ........ .................. Davis ·
Daniel LaPlace ........................... July 13, 2013 ....... .... .. .. ... PendiQ g .......................... ....... ....... John Thomas
Winthrop Gregory Lewis ......... , .... July 24, 2013 . ...... ........... Pendin g ..... : ........................... : ..... Davis
Elizabeth Marshall ...................... July 20, 2013 ..... ...... ... .... Pendin g .. : .............. ... : ............. , ... . TU rnbull's
Lillian Agatha Matthew ................ July 20, 2013 ...... ......... ... Pendin g .......... ............................. Turnbull'S
Lucia L. FranciS Mulraine ... : ...... .. July 23, 2013 . .. ... ... ...... ... Pending .. ..... , ............................... Davis
Cornelius Powell Sr . .................... July 22, 2013 ...... .... ......... Pending .: .... .... ... ............ ...... ........ Turnbull's
Francis Howard Pratt .... .. ............. July 17, 2013 ... ... .... ... : .... Pending ........ ... ......................... , .. John Thomas
Craig Lester Schneider . ... ... .. .. ,.:.July 22, 2013 .............. .... Today ... ... ... ........... ................ ....... Golden Gate
Elma Van terpool .......... : .: ........... July 20, 2013 . ..... .... . :, .... : Pending .. : .. ................ .................. Tu rnbull's
Today
No meetings.
. .
Tuesday
The Culture, Historic Preservation,
Youth and Recreation Committee will·
Conipassionate
and .Professional
Senate Agenda.
meet at 10 a.m. in Ottley Legislative
Hall on Sf. Thomas to hear bills on:
• Making the queen conch shen the
official shen of the Virgin Islands.
• Authorizing the Department of'
. Sports; Parks and Rec(elltion to devel·
•
op a master plan for creating a public ·
park and recrea�ional area at Altona
Lagoon on Sf. Croix.
• Redefining the use ofth" Enid M.
Baa Library and Archives Bililding.
• Naming the archives division of
the Charles Wesley. Turobull Regional
Library the "June Lindquist Archives
Division."
• Conducting a feasibility student to
establish a festival and cultural park . .
on
St Thomas.
Wednesday
No meetings.
Thursday
The Student Public Health Foruro
will be held from 10:30 a.m.· to noon
in Ottley L,egislative Hall on St.
Thomas.
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ond "Operation Island Sweep" in the
territory, Frazer said.
·CurreQ,tly, 55 sex offenders are
registereq between St. Thomas and
St. John, and 42 sex offenders' are
registered on St. Croix.
Sex offenders are obligated to reg·
ister in whatever community they
reside in under federal law and territorial
law, so as to make communities
aware of where offenders live.
The department encouraged community
members to visit usvi.{lSOpw.
The police blotter is the v.1.
Terretorial Emergency Management
Agency's list of incidents and the
time they :were reported to police.
Police Reports
St. Croix
Incidents in the police blotter over
the weekend included:
Assault - 6:39 p.m. Friday,
Strawberry; 3:01 p.m. Saturday,
Queen Street, Chrisiiansted; 3:23
p.m. 'Sa�urday,- Prince' Streetm '
Frederiksted; 12:0� a,m. Sunday, La
Reine;.2:38 p.m. Sund�y, Mars Hill;
6: 17 p.m. Sunday, no loc�tion
given.
Burglary -3:43 p.m. Sunday,
Hanoah's Rest.
FIghtIng - 9:0 I p.m. Friday; .
Harbour View Housing COmIDunity;
5:57 p.m. Saturday, Union arid Mt.
Washington; 7:55 p.m. Saturday,
MarS Hill; 1l:31 a.m. Sunday, Peters
Rest; II :57 a.m. Sunday, Welcome;
4:37 p.m. Sunday, Plessen; 6: 18 p.m.
Sunday, Frederiksted.
Larceny - 9:47 a.m. Saturday,
Lower Love; 2: 19 p.m. Saturday,
Christiansted; 6: 19 p.m. Sunday,
Diamond· Ruby.
OutsIde fire - 8:34 p.m .. Friday,
. La Grange; 9: 15 a.m. Sunday, Marys
Fancy;' 4:2.0 p.m. Sunday, New
Street, Frederiksted.
Reckless E1Idangerment ' -
6:42 a.m. Sunday, MutuiU Homes.
. Robbery -5: 14 p.m. Sunday,
. Yellow Cedar. . ,
Weapons - 8:09 p.m. Friday, La
Grange; 10:46.p.m. Friday, Mutual
Homes Housing Community; ·11:34
p.m. Friday, Profit; 4:39 p.m.
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The department also asked that
anyone knowing the whereabouts of
an unregistered sex offender to contact
it at 774-5666 on St. Thomas
or 773-0295 on St. Croix and provide
information to one of the Sex
Offender Registry ·coordinators.
- Contact reporter Jenny Ka ne
at 714-9/02 or email
jkane@dailynews.vi.
. Saturday Harbourview . HQ�sing
Community; 5:40 p.m. Prince Street,
Frederiksted; 9: 16 p.m. Saturday,
Bellvue; 4:26 a.m. Sunday, Castle
Coakley; 6:14 a.m. Sunday,
Mountain; 5:57 a.m. Sunday, Luis
Hospital.
St. Thomas
Incidents in the police blotter over
the weekend included: , .
Assault - 10:10 p.m.,Friday,
Hull Bay; '-0:21 p.m. Friday,
Bordeaux; 1:40 P .m. Saturday� no
location given.
. . Burglary - 6:38 p.m. Friday,
Nadir; 7:06 p.m. Friday, Frenchtown;
9: 16 a.m. Saturday, Charlotte Amalie;
4:29 p.m. Saturday, Altona.
Indecency - 4:06 p.m. Saturday,
Red Hook .
Larceny - 1:-r8 p.m. Saturday,
Frenchman's Bay; 1:32 p.m. Soiberg;
3:58 p.m. Saturday, Altona; 11:42
a.m. Sunday, no location given.
Robbery - 9:58 a.m. Sunday, no
. location given.
Runaway - 8:32 a.m. Sunday,
Lucinda Millin Home.
VehIcle fire - 9:52 p.m. Friday,
Black Point Hill; 2:39 p.m. Sunday,
Estate Frydendahl.
Watercraft In dIstress - 7:15
p.m. Sunday, Magens Bay Beach.
St. John
Incidents in the police blotter over
the weekend included:
Runaway - 5:04 p.m. Sunday,
Westin Resort.
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OPINIONS Monday, July 29, 2013
The Virgin· Islands Daily News
�• FOWlded AUG_ 1, 1930. by f. �tonjo Jarvis and Ariel Melchior Sr. 8}
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EDITORIAL BOARD'
Jason Robbins. Publisher
GerryYandel, Exerutive Editor Onneka Challenger, Circulation Director
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J.lowe Davis, Editor At. Large �n Downey, .Advertising Director'
Ken E. Ryan. Prod� Oirect:of Hedy Szabo, Business Manager
What a city owes its reside·nts
Though it is the biggest city in
U.S. history to file for bankruptcy,
Detroit is only one' of 26 urban
municipalities that qave gone into
bankruptcy or state rec�ivership for
fiscal insolvency since 2008. Detroit
should draw attention and debate to
a challenging issue underlying all
these public insolvencies: What
level of public services will we protect
and guarantee for U.S. cities?
The Bankruptcy Court will have
to fa ce that question. It will have to
determine whether Detroit can cut '
into current services any more than
it already has. Unless. the state or
federal government steps in with
funds for operating costs, the bahkruptcy
will function as a zero-sum
game, with residents fighting creditors
for a share of city revenue.
Creditors have contracts to monetize
what they are seeking, but how
should the court detennine the public
spending that residents need
today 'and tomorrow?
Politicians and judges who manage
local fiscal crises speak of
maintaining basic services and
e'nsuring residents' minimal health
and safety, but these concepts are
sbort on specifics. While our laws
provide an entitlement to a public
education, and we have long struggled
to interpret what constitutes a
legally adequate ed�cation, there is
little to nothing that would tell us
what other services the local public
sector must provide.
. As a matter of law, ther,e is no
such thing as a crime rate that is too
high or an ambulance response time
that is too long. Should tbere be?
For now, it is left: to politics and
mora/ judgment to determine whether
it is acceptable that less than one
in three streetlights are operational
in Detroit O( that th� city has 80,000
abandoned and blighted structures
that it cannot afford to demolish. In
Detroit, as in many other struggling
cities, dramatic police layoffs mean
that the average wait time after a
911 call for a police officer is 58 .
minutes, and a resident can rarely
summon an officer at all jf the
. reported crime is not in progress and
violent.
As for other public functions that
a high-poverty city (especially one
with..severe winters) might hope to
have - such as reliable bus service,
playground equipment, indoor
basketball F0urts, after-school programs,
active libraries and community
centers for the elderly - these
Michelle Wilde Anderson
services are decades into deep cuts '
and widespread closures. Indeed,
having curtailed everything beyond .
emergency services, it would be
tempting to refer to a government
like Detroit's as a night-watchman
state - the libertarian ideaJ of a
government focused only on publ'ic
. safety,
That is, we'd be tempted 'to use
such a term for Detroit, and cities
like it, were it not such a cruel irony:
Detroit had'more than 15,200 violent
crimes and, 500 acts of arson in
2012. The night watchmen are
understaffed and underpaid.
According to a 2012 study by economists
Aaron' Chalfin and Justin
McCrary, public spending in Detroit
on each police officer (including all .
wages, benefits and retirement costs)
is less than 'two-thirds what it is just
45 miles away in the prosperolls
university town of Ann Arbor.
As a political and moral matter, as
much as a legal one, Detroit represents
an opportunity to take a stand·
for urban habitability. What belongs
on our list of minimum standards for
a city? Detroit invites us to have a
public conversation about what services
and public spaces we expect
from city governments for human
dignity and for humans to flourish,
We have a chance to say that no one
should have to wait hopelessly for
an ambulance, that a violent crime
in a neighborhood every few hours
. is intolerable.
Paying for such commitments
should not just be the burden of
creditors, Many of the city's creditors
are rank-and-file public employees
and reHrees who have counted
on a public pension and are not eligible
for Social Security. Detroit's
bankruptcy plan could send them
into poverty in their old age.
Basic services and safety in our
cities are the responsibility pf
states, the fe deral government, the
private sector and voters. It is all of
them - alt of us - who have a
role to play in the stabilization that
Detroit ·is seeking. through bankruptcy.
All of us have a responsibility
to help them give basic ·health
and safety real meaning, and to
make this bankruptcy a safety net,
not a punisliinent.
- Michelle Wilde Anderson is .an
assistant professor of law ..at UC
Berkeley School of Law.
Mrs. Anthqny We iner is Hillary 2.1
I sat there watching the television
screen as Anthony Weiner squirmed
.
the weight of the offenSive conducl.
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Chnstme M. Flowers It's a cross between an "1 can't believe
before the microphones for the second
time in two years, and realized that one say rafting?) Vince Foster?
he did this to me" and a "boys will be
boys, God bless their randy little
this was a deja vu moment.
. (personal tragedy, nothing more.) And hearts." Then, you gaze sadly ·at the
At first 1 thought it was because the then came the stream of women: perpetrator as he stares into the camera
former congressman and aspiring Gennifer (no relation,) Paula (a genumayoral
and apologizes for the second,
candidate was, once again, ine victim) and, of course, "A little bit third or 13th time fo r being a pervert
apologizing for tweeting and cheating of Monica."
with his privates. Then, you allow him
without really meeting. And then I Anyone who thought that Hillary to draw a line in the sand where he
took one look at Weiner's wife and was going to let the Bimbo Bombs says he might be sorry but he won't
realized that this had absolutely noth- destroy her carefully constructed plans go gentle into that good campaign and
ing to do with the fe llow.
clearly didn't know just who they is continuing to seek the mayoral
Huma Abedin might have creamy were dealing with. Our first lady stood prize.
olive skin, beautiful brown eyes and by her philandering man and rode the And then you spring into action.
long dark hair; but you don't need to cre�t of a sympathetic wave into the You straighten your shoulders, raise
put her in a pantsuit and slap a head- Senate. Mrs. Wynette Goes To you» pointed chin, allow a few wisps
band on her tresses to realize that we Washington, so to speak.
of that luxuriant velvet hair to fall
are now in the presence of Hillary . And who did she take with her on across your delicately drawn cheek
Ctinton, version 2.1.
We all remembet the pre-Sen"!te,
that long and fruitful journey, ever
.
upward, ever more successfully? Why
and assume a stoic posc. You love·
him, you say. You believe in him, you
pre-State Department Hillary who none other than Mrs. Weiner, the loveinspired
say. Yoti fo rgive him, you say. You
both awe and revulsion' for ly, inscrutable Hulna.
idiot, we say.
her asiault on the East Wing. Never Hillary once said �at she had one But you do not hear us speaking,
before had we been treated to a first daughter, but thal,if she had another it because you do not care what the peanut
lady who so. blatantly and brazenly would be her beloved personal
gallery thinks. This is not about
sought equal status with the guy we'd assistant.
the crowds massed to watch this public
actually elected.
HumaAbedin has·been by her men-
shaming. This is' Dot even about
Eleanor Roosevelt, her idol, had tor's side for almost two decades, and . your husband who, truth be told, is
exercised a considerable amount of it is Flscmable to think that she spent probably sleeping in the garage these
weight behind the scenes. But it a large part of that time taking notes days, which is why he has both the
wasn't until Franklin died that she about how to thrive and survive in the time and the inclination to tweet.
really came into her owo. Not so Mrs, political jungle. 'fh:erefore, it is not This is about something far more
Clinton, or, ·rather, Mrs. Rodham surprising that she (I) chose to marry inipprtant to you, perhaps almost as
Clinton.
an animal indigenous to that environ- important as the future ·of the child
It was painfully obvious to anyone ment i.e., a cheetah, and (2) figured you and the Tweeter have in common.
paying attention that Bill's wife was out how to make sure that she could ., This is about your political surVival.
hell bent on giving us that two-for-one withstand whatever wounds he manbargain
Hurna Abedin learned at the feet of
that the couple had promised aged to iqflict on their shared a master, someone who might very
during the campaign. Say what you ambitions.
well parlay her experience as scorned
will about her, Hillary was a force to Anthony's wife has taken a page wife ·into an office in the West Wing.
be reckoned with. And praised. And from her pseudo-mama's dog-eared Huma is a bit more modest, of course.
loathed. Even her most strident ene- book and has perfected the art of dammies
Seems she'd be content to redecorate
didn't underestimate·her survival age control.
Gracie Mansion.
instincts.
FirSt, you assume a posture of dig- - Christine M Flowers is a lawyer
HealtJi care? (If at first you don't nified disappointnient, wherein your and columnist for the Philadelphia
succeed ... .) Whitewater? (Did any- _ ' whole body seems to just "sigh" under Daily News.
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Time to hard-delete Carlos Danger
Republican national chairman Reince C. Priebus
could take a lesson from history in his efforts to William Hershey & John e. Green
herd his fellow elephants into a big tent. Nobody
did a better jol> of coaxing feuding Republicans to strongest and most effective anti-Communist organizacooperate
than Ray C. Bliss, the Akron, Ohio, tion in the United States. I question your motives."
inswance man who chaired the national committee Bliss wasn't bothered by the criticism. "I don't
from 1965 to 1969. His success is worth have the fixation I have all the answers," he told
remembering.
reporters, "everything is compion1ise.'�
When Briss became chairman .ill 1965, the . His second step was leading Republicans to com-
Repubiicans. were in much wor�e shape than in mon ground. "
. 2013: President Lyndon Johnson had won a land- The means was the RepublicaIi Coordinating
slide r.e-election OVt'1r Ar'izona Sen. Barry ·Committee. Its members were a cross-section of
Goldwater, and the Democrats held large majorities the party: Eisenhower and four former presidential
in both houses of Congress and the statehouses. candidates - Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Alfred
The party waS deeply divided between "moder- Landon and Thomas Dewey - as well as goverates,�'
su;ch as New York Goy. Nelson Rockefeller� nors, members of Congress, state l�gisll;ltors.and
and "conservatives," like Goldwater. The latter party leaders. '.
appeared to bless strident voices when he famously Eisenhower was a key to the committee's work.
proclaimed, ':Let ine remind you that extremism in "He backed me up in the early'days of my chairdefense
of liberty is no vice. And let me remind
you also that moderation.in pursuit of justice is no
manship," Bliss reported,
,
"He had the respect of all
factions."
virtue." .
The method was face-to-face dialogue.
Although best known as a "nuts-and-bolts" party "You don't say anything nastY, at least not pubmechanic,
Bliss used a two-step approach to ticiy, about somebody you're going to dinner with
address these ideological rifts.
toillght," Bliss said.
The fust step was to challenge voices that made
Republicans look extreme to voters. On Nov. 5, 1965,
he issued an even,handed eritique of "radicals" on the
The cOnll]llttee eventually produced 48 policy
proposals, offering an alternative to piesident
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Johnson's "Great Society" program.
left and right,.singling out a staunchly anti-communist . In the end, Bliss got the results he want¢: t!l${lOP ,
firebrand Robert Welch: ,
''One of my major concerns in the matter of extremmade
a huge comeback in the )966 eleetions; and in '
1968, it won back the White House.'
ism of the radical right.is that honest, patriotic and'con- Of course, 2013 is nor! 965, Miti Romney is no
scientious conservatives may be misjndged because of Barty Goldwater, nor is the party division identical . .
irresponsible radicals such as Robert Welch, who has . And the GOP may lack an Eisenhower to rally around
accused President Eisenhower of being a 'dedicated, . 'Still, Chairman Priebus could ta)<e a lesson from
coilscious agent of the Communist conspiracy. '"
Chairman Bliss' success in herding the elephants into a
"We've got to get this (party) in the middle of the. big tent. . " . ..-,'
road," Blis� explained; "Eisenhower and his people , . . - William Hershey is a fo rmer, Knigh(-R,idder
have taken.enough." . . . . . :. Washington correspondent and Columbus bureau chief
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Bliss "sneaky" and further:
. "You recently asktld all Repnhlicans to get 0)11 of the
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When you puzzle over why the elegant
Huma Abedin ·is propping up·the Maureen Dowd
eel-like Anthony Weiner, you must
remember one thing: Huma was raised wrong with you?"
in Saudi Arabia, where women are Hwna gained renown, movie star suittreated
worse by men than anywhere ors and a Vogue spread as the stylish
else on the planet.
Muslim Garbo silently and efficiently
Comparatively speaking, the pol parting the waves for fIi\lary. She had to
from Queens probably seems like a be resilient to work her �ay up from
prince. Even though he's a punk. After intern to consigliere �n 'tough
he got caught sexting and flashing Hillaryworld, and she saw firsthand how
women onfine in 20 II, he pronused to the Cliotons beat �ack foes.
''never, ever" do that to his family again They love Huma, but the Clintons,
and slouched away from Congress .. He now showcasing pbilanthropy and public
cyber-ereeped other young women in a·
pervy bout of tweet du seigneur as his .
service PrePara!Ory to Hillary's 2016 run,
are not happy aoout getting dragged into
wire traveled the world with Hillary thdewd spectacle that is a low-budget
Clinton while she was secretary of movie version oftbeir·masterpiece.
· state. . . . The former president is distancing
Yei, while married to the claSsy, gor- · himse� one associate said, noting; "He's
geous mother of. his infant son .. aild· not getting anywhere near that grenade."
planning a redemptive lim for mayor, . Huma's friends are "sIapping-my-fore
he told a Facebook friend and phonesex
partner he had never met-that he
head astounded :' as one put it, that
'
Weiner would get in the race knowing
· loved her. Then he told her to "'hard, '. the online land mines that .would rock
delete" all their corre�PQndence - if Huma's world, again and torpedo the
that is what you call it. " campaign. • .
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,- Aside from his zany Zorro-!ike nom Weiner wooed Huma assiduously,
· de porn, �Ios DangtI;, Weinet has been
c3lled many thijigs. HiS1digitai girlfriend
showing up at the Westchester airpQrt
in the wee hours to pick ,her up when
and fellow extreme exlnbitionist, Sydney she carne back from trips with Hillary.
.Leathers (whose name sounds like a nom "They were two hyperdrive young
de porn), said thaiWeiner described bim- �' �iiis thai just clicked," said a friend.
se!fto her accurately as "an argurnenta- . "She liked his Borscht Belt humor."
tive, perpetually horny middle-aged Her circle understaods that "you love
man."
who you love," as one put it, marveling
.
But Weiner's GOya-esqtie grotesquetie
earns hidi another me: the ''Rosemary's
at Weiner's .... ma<\onna:"'hore" com­
.plex played 'out online. But that doesn't
· Baby" of the Clihtons.. 'mean'that you ask peo.pḷe to vote for
Bill and Hillary Clinton transformed
the way we look.at·sex·scandals. 'They
·
plowed th!ough the· ridipule, retused to
slink away in·shi!in. like Gary Hart, said
someone·who's dreadfully . flawed (or .
. majo�.offige;Jiist bec�use Y9u roile
him. . · . \ i .� . ." .: . .. "
. "'I;'hey are� w:<iirjed thai liWna's deciit'f3S
old news, and argued !hal if Hillary sion:tu vouch fQr her litisBaild is .start- ,
" I �X9!i!n't obj"\'l, Why shoUi!l yoters? : , ing,Jo,: �urt hei, ti!e one pet S?n lhey all
, .) .Poppy Bl!Sh thoughtAI\>en� would assumed'woUld'never be'ensnared m
.. " ,. rej ect Bill'Clioton in 1992 because ofhis anything weirq ·Qr.bad. ''The hard stink
: lascivious ways, \ he Il"'ined that vot- of this one isi�mg to gei. on every",ne ...
ers are more concerned'with how their
involved," said"one friena;· ... , . . ,
" own lives will be changed than they are Another a� "As soo� as she stood
wItIi politicianS' dUplicitoUS private lives. up to 'say thoscl.Words she changed her-
Americans. keep moving the marlcer of self from a sophisticated, mysterious
acceptable behavior, partly as a reflection guiding intelligence and beauty next to
of the coarsening of society and partly as
a public acknowledgment that many pols
Hillary Clioton to the wife of a tarnished
Anthony Weiner."
with complicated personal lives have
been good pnhlic servants.
They fear Huma leanied the wrong
lesson from Hillary , given that Bill was a
Now; detiniiig deviancy downward, roguish genius'while Weiner's aJ'Ceepy
Senor and Senora Danger are
. using the
�
Clioton playbook.
_
The diffetence is, there's nothing in
Weiner's public life that is redeeming. In
loser.
''Bill Clinton was the greatest political
and policy mind of a generation," said
one. "Anthony is behaving similarly
12 years in Congress, he managed to get
only one minor bill passed, on behalf of a
without the chops or resume."
As often as Bill apologized, he didn't
donor, and he do�sn:t work well with' prpmise he would "never, ever" do it
people. He knows how to be loud on again, as Weiner did
cab)e and wave his Zorro sword in our
fuces.
''What people won't forgive is lying in
the apology," said the Clinton pal. "It has
Some sex scandals, like Mark to be sincere, and it sure as hell has to be
Sanford's, fall into the reabo of flawed accurate."
human nature, and some, like Weiner's, • - Maureen Dowd is a New Yo rk
fall into the reaIm of "Seriously, what is TImes cO/W1Inist.
SHA�EYOUR VIEWS: Send letters to the Editor and Opinion .column proposals to Daily News Opinions, 9155 EstateThomas, S1. Thomas, VI 00802 or lettl!rs@dailynews.vi.

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SAN'FRANCISCO - Emifat�s Team New Zealand
beat Italy's Luna ,Rossa by 3 minutes ,
21 seconds- 'in
their final meeting of the round-robins iri,.tIie America's '
Cup challenger trials Sunday on,San,F.rancisbo Bay, '
As the points I�ader in the rountl-robins;.fue'Kiwis'
had the choice of advancing straight to the Louis Vuitton .
Cup final or picking their opponent for the se!lliflDals,
Skip pe r Dean lIarker said that while the r:rew Zea!an . ��
considered gettmg in more racmg tnne, they've deCided.
to advance straight to the finals in order to continue
development of their 72-foot catamaran.
That leaves Luna Rossa to 'face Artemis Racmg of'
Sweden in the semifinals starting Aug. 6, Artemis' only
recently launched, its.new boat and hasn't sailed in the
round-robins, The syndicate has been slowed by the
fatal capsize of its first boat on May 9, ' "
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winner advancing to face' Oracle Team USA in the 34th
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opening race that Italy boycotted due to a rUles spat, • '
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dominant that the Italians twice' were, officially ruled a
DNF - did not finish - because'they crossed the finish
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