/PRNewswire/ The UVI Research and Technology Park ("RTPark") announced on Thursday the launch of the Virgin Islands Catalyst Fund ("Fund") designed to.
Two Category 5 hurricanes hit the U.S. Virgin Islands. Then came COVID. And now, the refinery on St. Croix, one of the largest non-tourism-related employers in the islands, has gone bankrupt. The executive director of the island university's research and technology park writes that the way forward from here is to embrace new technology jobs, not try to rebuild what was already there.