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The 35th Virgin Islands Legislature was a meeting of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands. It convened in Charlotte Amalie on January 9, 2023 until December 19, 2024, during the first two years of Governor Albert Bryan ’s second term.
As one of the four power marketing administrations within the U.S. Department of Energy, the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)'s role is to market wholesale hydropower generated at 57 hydroelectric federal dams operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, United States Army Corps of Engineers and the International Boundary and Water Commission.
He fired Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George, who had vigorously prosecuted Epstein-related cases, in December 2022. In July 2023, "George testified under oath that Bryan had personally lobbied her in 2019 to issue a special waiver to the territory’s sex offender law so that Epstein could travel freely, without special notifications ...
The St. Croix water crisis was an public health crisis that started in October 2023 after the tap water from the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) was contaminated with lead. [1] [2] On October 30, 2023, US Virgin Islands Governor Albert Bryan declared a state of emergency for the district of St. Croix. [3]
The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954 [5] is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands, which were acquired by the United States through the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916. It replaced the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1936 [6] and earlier temporary provisions. [7] [8]
WAPA Media Group is an American mass media and entertainment corporation that is a division of Hemisphere Media Group with headquarters in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. WAPA Media Group is mainly involved in television and radio production.
The Virgin Islands were the highest oil consumers per capita in the world in 2007. [100] The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority [101] also uses imported energy to operate its desalination facilities to provide fresh water.
In 2017, the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, led by Hon. Commissioner of WAPA, Dr Lola Akande, held their annual WAPA Connect Conference with the theme "Fostering Domestic Harmony Through Multi Perspective Analysis & Graphic Display/Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century.