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September 09, 2005
Recent St. John Unrest
For those of you who have yet to hear we recently located to Florence, Italy (http://www.florence-journal.com/) after four and a half years in the Virgin Islands. Running Virgin-Islands-On-Line is still my number one business priority, and even though we are not "on the ground" we know that we will keep up via the web and by returning as often as we can (just like we did for the first 6 years of the site). The recent news out of St. John though has been a test of what kind of news you can get from the web and the feel you can get for a story that is unfolding thousands of miles away.
Anyway, after reading the Source and the Daily News, I finally got a couple of first hand opinions about the whole thing from some people there that have put the situation into more perspective for me (mainly, that it is a "mess" and that there are a lot of rumors and innuendos flying around). For everyone's sake it would be best that cooler heads prevail, and that this episode blows over. St. John is special to a lot of us for a lot of reasons. I never personally felt any "racial tensions" there as the press is so ready to label the recent goings on. Let's hope that the police and the FBI can make heads or tails of this situation and that a result that satisfies everyone comes about, without any more hate or violence.
Posted by afinta at September 9, 2005 07:15 PM
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