April 3: Detective Vivianne Newton is appointed Deputy Chief of Police for St. John.
April 3: U.S. District Court Judge Curtis Gomez rules that the V.I. government must pay the Government Employeesâ Retirement System $63,143,506 â including more than $3 million in interest alone â for nearly two decades worth of unpaid employer contributions.
April 4: The territory records its first death related to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
April 5: St. Croix native Tim Duncan is named for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
April 6: Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. expands his order closing beach bars and restaurants to include the beaches as well.
Jan. 1: Emogen âBlaknessâ Creese is crowned Crucian Christmas Festival Calypso Monarch.
Jan. 7: Dr. Luis Amaro is named interim CEO of Schneider Hospital after the recent retirement of Dr. Bernard Wheatley.
Jan. 9: Attorney Amos Carty Jr., one of the three former Schneider Hospital executives convicted of embezzling about $3 million, files a notice of appeal to the V.I. Supreme Court.
Jan. 9: The V.I. Public Services Commission increases the V.I. Water and Power Authorityâs utility base rate and offsets the increase with a corresponding drop in the fuel surcharge, also known as the LEAC.
Jan. 13: Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. characterizes the territory as âon the mendâ in his state of the territory address.