V.I. Health Department announces 2 more COVID related deaths Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021 COVID-19 Governor, Luis Hospital give contradicting statements about COVID-19 contamination Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. said during a press conference Monday that cross-contamination at Luis Hospital caused non-COVID patients to be infected with the virus, but a hospital attorney said that has not been confirmed. Meantime, the Health Department announced two additional COVID-related deaths, bringing the total to 39, since the pandemic began. Click here to read more now. News Celebrity Edge only cruise ship in port today The V.I. Port Authority on Monday said that only one cruise ship will be at the Crown Bay port today, and it will be Celebrity Edge, not the mammoth Oasis of the Seas. The port’s cruise ship schedule initially noted that Celebrity Edge, with 2,918 passengers, and the Oasis of the Seas, with 5,048 passengers, would be in port. Click here to read more now. Sports McMaster finishes 4th in 400 hurdles final Kyron McMaster (far right) came close to doing what no other British Virgin Islands athlete had ever done — earn an Olympic medal. Instead, the Tortola native came just a few fractions of a second short Tuesday afternoon (late Monday night in the BVI and U.S. Virgin Islands) in the 2020 Tokyo Games. Click here to read more now. Island Life Joseph Gomez teacher wins Disney vacation Joseph Gomez Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Roselyn Samuel-Hodge and her daughter Janelle recently traveled to Orlando, Fla., during an all-expenses paid trip for two to Disney World, courtesy of local radio and television personality Rashidi Clenance, owner of ViVid Streaming, NBA Hall of Famer Tim Duncan, Neighborhood Pharmacy, Seaborne Airlines, and the Virgin Islands Education Department. Click here to read more now. Visit today's E-edition ‌ ‌ The Virgin Islands Daily News | 9155 Estate Thomas, St. Thomas, 00802 U.S. Virgin Islands Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected]