🌱 Boston Named Best Overall Player, Transfer Day + Missing STT Teen

Hello and welcome to the Friday edition of the U.S. Virgin Islands Daily. Let's start off with the headlines:

• Aliyah Boston was awarded the Naismith Women's National Player of the Year, establishing her as the country's best overall player. She also received the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year and the Athletic's women's basketball player of the year. Read more in the VI Consortium.
• Officials want to better enforce the territory's ban on toxic sunscreen. Two and a half years after the ban took effect in the USVI, experts say many visitors still use sunscreen containing oxybenzone, octocrylene, and octinoxate. Lack of awareness is a major hurdle. Full story in the Daily News.
• The VIPD are asking the community to help find a missing St. Thomas teen. Kidany Camacho, age 15, lives in the Oswald Harris Court in Charlotte Amalie East but often hangs out at the Kirwan Terrace Housing Community in Charlotte Amalie West. He weighs 150 pounds, is 6 feet tall and has a light complexion, according to the police report, via the VI Consortium.
• "Transfer Day Is a Significant Day in Virgin Islands History," via The Source

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Today's Weather: A shower; breezy in the a.m.. High: 83 Low: 76.

Today's Events:

• US Virgin Islands: April is Esophageal Cancer Awareness Month (9:00 a.m.)
• Food, Music, Drinks at E's Garden Teahouse and Things, St. Thomas (4:30 p.m.)
• Slow Burn Yoga on the lawn at Yacht Haven Grande (5:30 p.m.)
• The Eddie Russell Band at Six Nine Restaurant & Bar, St. Croix (7 p.m.)

Social Buzz:

• There appears to be some condition/disease spreading rapidly among long-spine sea urchins (Diadema antillarum) in the USVI and elsewhere in the Caribbean... (Friends of Virgin Islands National Park)
• Vendor applications for J’ouvert and outside of the Village will be available starting on April 1, for pickup at the St. Thomas Tourism Office (behind of the USO building). The deadline for pickup is April 7, 2022. (USVI Festivals)
• Don't misssss this post on What's Going on St.Croix?: "Thank Mr Coles of St Croix Snakes for coming so quickly when I called to capture this Boa in Little La Grange."
• A reminder that sunscreens containing oxybenzone, octinoxate and octocrylene are banned in the Virgin Islands. These chemicals are known to be harmful to coral reefs and marine life. Please use mineral sunscreens containing non-nano zinc oxide or non-nano titanium oxide as the active ingredient in our waters. (Friends of Virgin Islands National Park)
• St. Thomas-St. John-St. Croix Missing Person Minor hangs out in Kerwin Terrance Housing Community. If seen notify immediately notify the police at 774-2211, 715-5540, 715-5540 or call 911. (Virgin Islands Police Department)

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