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James was born in Saint Croix on March 18, 1953, [1] to parents G. Luz A. James and Asta Maria Klyvert-James. He was the family's first son and second child. He attended St. Mary's Catholic school and the Christiansted Junior High in St. Croix Virgin Islands, before enrolling at the now defunct St. Emma's Military Academy in Powhatan, Virginia.
Charles Wesley Turnbull was born on February 6, 1935, in the island of St. Thomas to John Wesley Turnbull and Ruth Ann Eliza Skelton of Tortola. [2] [3] Prior to being elected governor in 1998, he was a professor at the University of the Virgin Islands, Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of the territorial Department of Education, principal and assistant principal of Charlotte Amalie High ...
The Virgin Islands Daily News is a daily newspaper in the United States Virgin Islands headquartered on the island of Saint Thomas. In 1995 the newspaper became one of the smallest ever to win journalism's most prestigious award, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The newspaper is published every day except Sunday.
People from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, also known as St. Thomians Pages in category "People from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total.
John Percy de Jongh Jr. (born November 13, 1957) is an American businessman and politician who served as the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 2007 to 2015. He has been active in Virgin Islands politics and the business community since returning to St. Thomas after graduating from college in 1981.
Born in Tortola in 1942, Lucien was raised in St. Thomas. His parents were Eric "Rico" Lucien Harrigan and Eloise Turnbull Harrigan. His father was a musician whose main instrument was a three-coursed Latin guitar-like chordophone known as a Tres. [1] As a teenager, he played bass in his father's band. During the 1960s he moved to New York City ...
Ron De Lugo (1930–2020), St. Croix politician and former candidate for governor; Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927), orator, political activist; William H. Hastie (1904–1976), jurist, lawyer, Governor of the Virgin Islands; Ulises Heureaux (1845–1899), former President of the Dominican Republic (mother born in Saint Thomas) [1]
Camille Pissarro, A Creek in St. Thomas (Virgin Islands), 1856, National Gallery of Art. Pissarro was born on St. Thomas. The first British invasion and occupation of the island occurred in 1801. The islands were returned to Denmark in 1802, under the terms of the Treaty of Amiens. Fire destroyed hundreds of homes in Charlotte Amalie in 1804.