This is some unfortunate news.  According to this BBC article, the body of the 20-year-old son was found recently and “the cause of death is not likely to be determined for eight weeks while toxicology tests are carried out, coroner John Kades said”. 

More and more VIers are becoming part of the US political landscape as the VI Democrats are at the Democratic National Convention in Denver,  Senator Ottley will be the primary policy analyst for the Virgin Islands at the Department of Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs and Senate President Usie Richards has been honored by the National Black Caucus of […]

I found this hilarious… 

China won one gold medal for every 25 million people in the country. The United States’ per capita rate was one gold for every 8.5 million.  Olympic Fact of the Day: Per capita, China won one gold medal for every […]

Here are a couple more articles on the Edwards isssue.

The Enquirer article.
New figure in Edwards scandal: attorney Lee Rohn (update: denies story)
A blogger’s take.

As always, please read and interpret at your own risk.  The Enquirer is not exactly known for responsible reporting!

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne will be in the USVI today and tomorrow (Aug. 21-22) to fulfill his promise to visit all U.S. territories, for which he has significant oversight responsibility as Secretary of the Interior. He will be joined by Governor John deJongh, Delegate Donna Christiansen and other VI leaders at various events in STX, STT […]

Tabarie Henry makes a memorable Olympic debut finishing second in his heat - behind the world champion.
Laverne Jone’s husband says she choked….Ouch!
Taheshia Harrigan makes history as the first ever BVI quarterfinalist.
Ned Gerard is thankful for his experience.
Thomas Barrows finishes 21st in sailing.

MyMelee.com salutes all of our Olympic athletes!

Usain Bolt of Jamaica has won the Gold in the mens 100m finals this weekend and broke the world record he set in Olympic qualifiers earlier this year with a time of 9.69 seconds (that’s just above 23 mph!).  While he’s fast, his Caribbean style showed through at 60 m when he realized he was clear […]

All this Beijing talk got me thinking.  How many medals has the VI won?

Olympics Medal Winners from the V.I.:
Peter Holmberg, Silver, Yachting, Seoul Olympics 1988…
Sugar Ray Seales, Gold, Boxing,
Paul Hoffman, Silver, Rowing, Munich Olympics 1972
Virgin Islanders competed for the U.S. Tim Duncan, Bronze Medal Basketball Athens Olympics 2004
 
You can find more information about […]

If you want to travel to the BVI, a proposal for ferries traveling between the USVI and BVI has been put forth to rectify previous scheduling problems.
After the murder of two tourists in Antigua, many wonder if Caribbean travel is still safe.  This article says yes it is, but it still isn’t that friendly and that tourists need to […]

 (JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty Images)
 Belarus’ Mahamed Nurudzinau (R) fights against Virgin Islands’ John Jackson during their 2008 Olympic Games Welterweight (69 kg) boxing bout on August 10, 2008 in Beijing.
 Support our Olympic Athletes!