The Virgin Islands Daily News

6 days ago | virginislandsdailynews.com | Chris Hewitt

By CHRIS HEWITTThe Minnesota Star TribuneJon Hickey is enrolled in the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Anishinaabe Indians and follows tribal politics fairly closely. And yet he has this question: How authentic of an Indian is he? “That debate is a sort of sport among Indians, I find,” said Hickey, 44, whose novel “Big Chief” is out now. “I think a lot of people who are enrolled or have some sort of connection to a nation, a tribe, feel varying degrees of: Are you Indian enough?

6 days ago | virginislandsdailynews.com | Andrea Rodriguez |Andrea Rodríguez

HAVANA — For Sonia Pérez, stepping into Havana’s Doña Alicia restaurant felt like entering a movie. Even as Cuba struggles with power outages and technological scarcity, this eatery has leaped into the 21st century with digital menus, Alexa-enabled assistance, touchless bathrooms and even a food-delivering robot. “I thought I was in a cartoon movie!” said the 64-year-old government employee, marvelling at the contrast with the technological realities outside.

6 days ago | virginislandsdailynews.com | Patricia Mazzei |Neil Vigdor

Two people were killed and six wounded at Florida State University on Thursday, when a student — identified as the son of a sheriff’s deputy — opened fire near the student union building, investigators said. The two people killed in the attack on the campus in Tallahassee were not students, according to law enforcement officials who spoke at an afternoon news conference.

1 week ago | virginislandsdailynews.com | Bill Kiser

Horse racing will resume in the U.S. Virgin Islands early next month, after a four-month shutdown of the Clinton E. Phipps Sr. Race Track to complete recommended improvements of the St. Thomas race track. The annual St. Thomas Carnival Races, which marked the reopening of Phipps Race Track last year after a seven-year shutdown, will be held Friday, May 2, it was revealed during Wednesday’s meeting of the St. Thomas Horse Racing Commission.

1 week ago | virginislandsdailynews.com | Amelia Nierenberg |Christina Anderson

Who would spend hours a day watching moose trudge through northern Sweden on their annual spring migration? Lots of people, it turns out. In fact, “The Great Moose Migration,” an annual Swedish livestream that began Tuesday, may soon dethrone the opening credits of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” as humanity’s greatest artistic tribute to the Swedish moose. Perhaps the power transfer is already over. “I didn’t really think it would hit,” said Arne Nilsson, 54, speaking of when it started in 2019.