Two days of culinary demos and educational activities took place in the U.S. Virgin Islands late last month, during the annual “Ultimate Flavors of the Islands” event at the Frenchman’s Reef and Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort in St. Thomas and sponsored by Banco Popular.
Donna Christiansen, the U.S. Virgin Islands’ non-voting delegate to Congress, is aggressively defending her territory’s right to use rum excise-tax rebates to lure companies such as Diageo to its shores.
Puerto Rico isn’t a country, so unlike most of its English-speaking Caribbean neighbors, it doesn’t have an embassy in Washington. And it’s not a state either, so it can’t send to Congress the eight lawmakers — two senators and six representatives — its population of 3.7 million would warrant under statehood.
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