The Fred Hotel, majority-owned by two businessmen, has been put up for sale for the asking price of $6.8 million, according to a property listing. The Fred has a 4.5/5 rating on Trip Advisor. The listing has a boutique, eco-friendly beachfront Caribbean resort, coming ready with a turnkey operation that includes a restaurant, bars and spa, and 11 newly constructed rooms complimenting the historic renovation, for a total of 23 guest rooms. It was not clear why the owners were selling, but it is believed that at least one of the two men had left the island after one was kidnapped at gunpoint and driven to multiple ATMs to withdraw cash. He was later released by the kidnappers.
During Tuesday’s budget hearing, senators were told the current concessions at Magens Bay Park, which offers standard American cuisine and was previously void of Caribbean cuisine, have been leased by a single family for more than 30 years.
The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is offering a $10,000 reward for information on Thursday’s murders of 14-year old Aaron Ashby and his cousin, 29-year old Rique Ashby. The two were working with A-9 trucking, emptying a debris bin in the shuttered Tutu Hi Rise housing community on Thursday, July 9, when they were shot and killed. They were the 14th and 15th homicide victims on St. Thomas this year, the 26th and 27th in the territory.