Sentences with phrase «as the virgin islands»

Some 60 % of the island is designated as the Virgin Islands National Park, and this protection extends to encompass much of the surrounding waters, coral reef, and shoreline.

The rush is really just beginning, and today's prices will seem like a bargain in ten years when prices rival those of Hawaii and exotic locales such as The Virgin Islands.

As the Virgin Islands celebrate the 100th anniversary of Transfer Day, let's hope it won't take another 100 years for renewable energy.

He is going on inactive status at the end of the month, as the Virgin Islands Daily News reports today, but not before the V.I. honors him this weekend with Judge Stanley S. Brotman Day.

Not exact matches

Today, Sea Tow's bright yellow boats are an iconic sight on both U.S. coasts, as well as in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Europe.

A few hours earlier, Maria passed west of St. Croix, home to about half of the U.S. Virgin Islands» 103,000 residents, as a rare Category 5 storm the top of the five - step Saffir - Simpson scale.

Legislation before the House of Commons requires British Overseas Territories such as the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands to set up public «beneficial ownership» registers.

September 2017 — Present / Virgin Islands On September 6, Hurricane Irma slammed into the US Virgin Islands as a category 5 hurricane.The islands suffered severe wind and flood damage, reducing many areas to Islands On September 6, Hurricane Irma slammed into the US Virgin Islands as a category 5 hurricane.The islands suffered severe wind and flood damage, reducing many areas to Islands as a category 5 hurricane.The islands suffered severe wind and flood damage, reducing many areas to islands suffered severe wind and flood damage, reducing many areas to rubble.

Unite BVI Foundation is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands as a company limited by guarantee, with company number 1919768, and registered as a BVI non-profit organization with number 100187.

In the US Virgin Islands, which are exempt from the law, US - made goods are about half as expensive, while the cost of living in Puerto Rico is 13 percent higher than on the American mainland.

Since founding Hanover Legal he has competed in numerous marathons including New York City, Cape Cod, Salt Lake City, Alaska, Dublin (Ireland) and Tiberias (Israel), as well as triathlons including, at the Olympic distance, New York City, Sag Harbor («Mighty Hamptons»), Westchester, Maryland, Ceasaria and Gan Shmuel (Israel); at the half - Ironman distance, California (Oceanside), New Jersey («Devilman»), New Hampshire («Mooseman»), St. Croix (U.S. Virgin Islands), Pucon (Chile).

PricewaterhouseCoopers, UBS and other Western banks and accounting firms play a key role as middlemen in helping Chinese clients set up trusts and companies in the British Virgin Islands, Samoa and other offshore centers usually associated with hidden wealth, the records show.

U.S. Virgin Islands: no longer accepting applications as of 01/08/18.

There are donor - advised fund charitable sponsors in every state across the U.S., as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

As of right now, that includes much of eastern Texas, all of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and much of Florida.

Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have been declared disaster areas as well following Hurricane Irma.

In the U.S. Virgin Islands Americares team has completed an assessment of health needs as aid deliveries continue.

The resources will be delivered to community health centers and clinics throughout Florida, in close coordination with the Florida Association of Community Health Centers, as well as to hospitals in Anguilla, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, U.S. Virgin Islands, and British Virgin Islands.

We have just experienced a night of howling wind and rain as Hurricane Irma edges ever closer towards us on Necker and the British Virgin Islands.

The call for prayer comes as the second major category five storm to hit the Caribbean this month - Hurricane Maria - has battered the island of Dominica and is likely to hit Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands in the next day or so.

Even though the economic picture in the Virgin Islands isn't in great shape, Bellows International is on pace for an average 2 percent growth per year on an annualized basis thanks to its status as the leading distributor.

The Virgin Islands have a concoction known as «Asher,» which is a corruption of «Limes Ashore» It combines limes with habaneros, cloves, allspice, salt, vinegar, and garlic.

Founded in 2007 by Major Dan Rooney, an F - 16 fighter pilot in the Oklahoma Air National Guard who served three tours of duty in Iraq, Folds of Honor is proud to have awarded more than 13,000 scholarships in all 50 states, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, including more than 2,800 in 2016 alone.

As of September 30, 2011, there were 1,532 IHOPs in 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin IslandAs of September 30, 2011, there were 1,532 IHOPs in 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islandas well as in Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islandas in Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

General Manager and Sommelier Joshua King has been in the service industry for over 15 years in Chicago (Sable Kitchen & Bar, The Purple Pig) as well as the Caribbean and US Virgin Islands.

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo is another name mentioned in the reports as having allegedly moved money to a tax haven in the British Virgin Islands.

In the U.S. territories other than Puerto Rico, only one to three hospitals exist; because CDC does not share hospital identifiable information publicly, data from American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands are presented in aggregate as «island territories.»

President Donald Trump declared emergencies in Florida and two Caribbean US territories — Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, as Hurricane Irma bore down on them.

He had previously traveled to the Virgin Islands as part of a similar trip.

Cuomo's trip to Puerto Rico comes after he's previously visited the island, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands, in the aftermath of a damaging storm that knocked out power for most of its residents.

You might note that the median incomes of major territories such as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are considerably lower than US incomes, so it's likely that they wouldn't be paying all that much income tax anyway.

(c) In addition to its National Guard, if any, a State, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, or the Virgin Islands may, as provided by its laws, organize and maintain defense forces.

The governor said in the short term, the people of the Virgin Islands need water and food, as well as roads cleared and power restored.

(c) False information in registering or voting; penalties Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $ 10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both: Provided, however, That this provision shall be applicable only to general, special, or primary elections held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting or electing any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the United States Senate, Member of the United States House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, or Resident Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Protesters dressed in top hats and a mask of Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron protest against British owned - tax havens during the Global Anti-corruption Summit in London Protesters dressed in top hats and a mask of Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron protest against British owned - tax havens during the Global Anti-corruption Summit in London Photograph: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Cameron last month announced that the overseas territories and Crown dependencies — such as the British Virgin Islands and Jersey — had agreed to provide UK tax and law enforcement agencies with full access to company ownership details.

Cuomo, who is frequently floated as a potential Democratic presidential contender in 2020, traveled to the U.S. Virgin Islands at the invitation of the territory Gov. Kenneth Mapp, a former NYPD officer.

Both Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have been devastated by recent hurricanes, likely making those areas a top priority for him as he takes the new post.

Lawmakers approved storm - related money for such things as farm repairs, affordable housing in Monroe County and to help students displaced from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Cuomo — who has been mentioned as a possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidate — traveled to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and to the US Virgin Islands after it was hit by Hurricane Irma.

Hodge also described a report in the Guardian that offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla had allegedly been used to circumvent US sanctions against North Korea as disturbing.

When a delegation from Washington, D.C., came to scope out the Virgin Islands as a possible site for a new, still more advanced habitat, it was as if the candy store had come straight to the kid.

While the overall distribution of white sharks is very broad, ranging from Newfoundland to the British Virgin Islands and from the Grand Banks to the Gulf of Mexico as far west as the Texas coast, 90 percent of the animals recorded in this study were found along the East Coast roughly between the Florida Keys and northern Caribbean Sea to Nova Scotia, Canada.

As of Sunday, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency had supplied Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands with 1.5 million meals, 1.1 million litres of water and 12,000 emergency roofing kits.

As a result, the Florida reefs recovered within two weeks, much faster than their counterparts in other areas of the Caribbean that did not experience the benefit of hurricane - induced cooling, such as those in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the researchers report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USAs a result, the Florida reefs recovered within two weeks, much faster than their counterparts in other areas of the Caribbean that did not experience the benefit of hurricane - induced cooling, such as those in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the researchers report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USas those in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the researchers report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

As of 5 a.m. today, the storm was bearing down on the Leeward Islands and is expected to engulf the northern Virgin Islands later today.

12 January 2018 — Three months after two hurricanes hit Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the Puerto Rico Seismic Network (PRSN) has rebounded from a complete failure of Puerto Rico's power and communication systems, with half of the island's seismic stations operational as of mid-December 2017.

Added to that are potential costs from Hurricane Maria, which is affecting Florida as evacuees from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have moved to the state.

The term «national» designates a native resident of a commonwealth or territory of the United States, such as American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands.

Reefs where people do a lot of swimming, such as along Maui's West Coast, the popular coves in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Miami Beach in Florida are especially at risk, explains research scientist and director of the Haereticus Environmental Lab, Craig A. Downs.

Currently, 20 states plus the District of Columbia and the United States Territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands provide for the licensure or registration of Naturopathic Doctors as general practice family physicians.