Sentences with phrase «virgin island which»

Now the governor is considering sending even more personnel to the U.S. Virgin Islands which were devastated by the latest storm.

The Virgin Islands are divided by territories into the US Virgin Islands which is comprised of three major Islands, St. Thomas, St Croix, and St John and the British Virgin Islands with over 60 small islands housing several luxury resorts on Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Peter Island, Guana Island, Scrub Island and several others.

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This idea was driven home to me a year ago, when one of my publishers came to visit me on Necker Island, which is in the British Virgin Islands.

The Guardian reports that Gunnlaugsson co-owned a British Virgin Islands — registered company called Wintris Inc., which reportedly held shares worth nearly $ 4 million in three Icelandic banks that collapsed during the financial crisis of 2008.

Additionally, shares of Sprint, which through its subsidiaries, provides various wireless and wireline communications products and services to consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers in the US, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, have a Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 44.43.

Maria, which hammered Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, could cost $ 45 billion to $ 95 billion, though that is a preliminary estimate.

The other 50 percent is owned by a company called Dogged Labs Ltd, which is headquartered in the British Virgin Islands and is also owned by Pavel Durov, Rozenberg said.

Bitfinex, which is officially incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, has been fined by regulators in the United States and cut off by U.S. banks, and it has lost millions of dollars of customer money in two separate hacks, leading critics to question whether it even has the money it claims to hold.

Florida Congressman Carlos Curbelo, whose district includes the Keys, which bore the direct hurricane hit, is joined by Virgin Islands Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett.

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.

For clients using ACH, we have been advised that certain financial institutions are temporarily closed which will delay transactions and ACH returns involving those institutions (for instance, FIs in U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico).

If Bitfinex relocates its operations to Switzerland, it would likely form a new AG, which would replace iFinex Inc, its British Virgin Islands (BVI) parent company.

While Related's prospectus did not reveal a dollar figure, the publication said previous reports indicated the company would look to raise roughly $ 113 million through «a Virgin Islands unit called Related Commercial, which controls seven residential and commercial properties in New York, one under development.

The FIAU sent another report to police in November 2016, citing suspected money laundering payments by Keith Schembri's Virgin Islands company to Adrian Hillman, the managing director of Allied Newspapers Ltd, the publisher of the Times of Malta, which Caruana Galizia had reported back in March.

The British Virgin Islands - which were devastated by Irma two weeks ago - will be hit later on Tuesday.

Beam Suntory's operations include the Cruzan Rum distillery in the U.S Virgin Islands, which were in the path of Hurricane Irma.

«We cover the Virgin Islands only, which includes St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John.»

The islands, which lie almost within shouting distance of each other, were originally named by Christopher Columbus when, on his second voyage to the New World, he spotted them and was reminded of the legendary St. Ursula surrounded by her 11,000 virgins, thus the Virgin Iislands, which lie almost within shouting distance of each other, were originally named by Christopher Columbus when, on his second voyage to the New World, he spotted them and was reminded of the legendary St. Ursula surrounded by her 11,000 virgins, thus the Virgin IslandsIslands.

The company also has a presence in the U.S. Virgin Islands through another subsidiary, Banco Popular Virgin Islands, which serves St. Thomas, St. Croix and Tortola.

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.

Under an agreement dated 12 November 1991 between IK Start and Interclub Limited (a Guernsey based Company registered in the British Virgin Islands in which Mr Hauge told us he had a third share of the ownership), the club agreed to pay to Interclub pounds 310,000 «out of the transfer fee of pounds 500,000».

Residents of the United States Virgin Islands said Friday that the island of St. Thomas, which is the center of the chain's cruise ship industry, had suffered significant damage from Hurricane Irma.

The Environmental Protection Agency's Scott Pruitt named Lopez to the post for Region 2, which includes New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in September.

For the record, my question about how the governor traveled to the Virgin Islands and who paid for that trip, which was posed to the press office several hours ago, has still not yet been answered.

If you think how far they have come in the last few weeks and months, I am convinced we will get them all over that bar [of automatic sharing of registers, which British Virgin Islands has not signed up to do].

They include the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the Cayman Islands, which alone host at least half a million shell companies.

Even after two recent «humanitarian» trips to hurricane - ravaged Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, which gave him platforms to sound statesman - like and to repeatedly take the man in the White House to task, Cuomo regardless remains not much in the national political conversation.

New York state Assemblyman Pete Lopez has been tapped to become the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator for Region 2, which includes New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Another major question facing places like Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which took a direct hit from Irma, is how to rebuild in a way that provides greater resilience against future storms.

The Association of Public and Land - Grant Universities (APLU)-- which comprises more than 230 institutions and university systems from every state, the District of Columbia, Mexico, Canada, Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands — has formed a task force on laboratory safety.

Hurricane Irma: $ 50 Billion When: Sept. 6 to 12, 2017 Deaths: 97 The damage: The Florida Keys, U.S. Virgin Islands and parts of the Caribbean were destroyed by Irma, which reached category 5 force by the time it reached St.John and St. Thomas.

The research scientist at Vertex counts several family members and friends in her community in the U.S. Virgin Islands among those with the painful illness, in which misshapen blood cells can't carry oxygen well enough to fuel the body and get caught in the body's organs, causing damage.

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.

Diana has been raised since her virgin birth on the women - only island of Themyscira, which is magically shielded from outsiders.

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is a voluntary, nongovernmental, regional membership association that serves higher education institutions in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and other geographic areas in which the commission conducts accrediting activities.

Nandi Sekou of Virgin Islands Board of Education, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands: Sekou has been a member of the U.S. Virgin Islands Board of Education, which functions as both a local board and state association, for eight years.

Final debate and enactment of resolutions submitted are effected by the Delegate Assembly, which consists of local school board members from the various states and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

9) Puerto Rico / Virgin Islands / National: At an event hosted by the Albert Shanker Institute, which supports public education and the role of unions, lawmakers and AFT President Randi Weingarten backed a bill that would provide $ 3.16 billion in aid for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in fiscal 2018 for education and Head Start.

He has worked closely with districts in Idaho, Maine, Missouri, New York, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to design practical and fair principal evaluation systems, and co-wrote Rethinking Principal Evaluation (2012), which was published by National Association of Elementary School Principals and National Association of Secondary School Principals.

The «quick release» payments to U.S. Virgin Islands are considered as initial installments of funds used to restore essential traffic and limit further highway damage, which can help long - term repair work begin more quickly.

(A) The allotment percentage for any State shall be 100 per centum less that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the United States, except that (A) the allotment percentage shall in no case be more than 75 per centum or less than 33 1/3 per centum, and (B) the allotment percentage for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall be 75 per centum.

The allotment to any State (other than Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) under the first sentence of this subsection for any fiscal year which is less than one - quarter of 1 per centum of the amount appropriated under subsection (b)(1) of section 100, or $ 2,000,000, whichever is greater, shall be increased to that amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the allotments to each of the remaining such States under the first sentence of this subsection, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allotment of any such remaining States from being thereby reduced to less than that amount.

Consecutive extreme hurricanes caused loss of life and hundreds of billions of dollars in damage along our Gulf Coast, Florida and in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — which endured two Category 5 storms in two weeks!

The Advance Auto Parts segment is comprised of its store operations within the Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic, Southeastern and Midwestern regions of the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, which operate under the trade names Advance Auto Parts, Advance Discount Auto Parts and Western Auto.

For all locations in the United States other than Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the maximum guaranty is the greater of 25 percent of (a) $ 417,000 or (b) 125 percent of the area median price for a single - family residence, but in no case will the guaranty exceed 175 percent of the Freddie Mac loan limit for a single - family residence in the county in which the property securing the loan is located.

In Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the maximum guaranty is the greater of 25 percent of (a) $ 625,500 or (b) 125 percent of the area median price for a single - family residence, but in no case will the guaranty exceed 175 percent of the Freddie Mac loan limit for a single - family residence in the county in which the property securing the loan is located.

HomeStyle loans are also subject to the usual conventional mortgage limits, which are $ 417,000 for one - unit, single - family homes in most areas, up to $ 625,500 in high - cost areas in the continental United States and $ 938,250 in parts of Alaska, Guam, Hawaii and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Other highlights include a visit to the Caribbean paradise of Guana Island, which consists of seven white powder - soft sand beaches and acres of tropical forest, mountains and hills and a natural hot tub bath amongst the granite boulders on Virgin Gorda Island.

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