When I gave up living on St. Croix (US Virgin Islands) in 2013, electricity was over 50 cents per kwh, generators were on their last breath, high voltage electrical lines were hanging 5 ft off the ground everywhere.
Today, the most recent report I could find (June 2022) has “some” good news and some awful news. The “good” news is that they hired Andy Smith to run the utility, the bad news is that the COST of a kwh today in St. Croix is .57 per kwh. The amount they collect is .41. For some perspective, my rate in Central Texas is .08 cents.
Add to the foregoing that in 2022, St. Croix had a 92.1 homicide rate. The highest in the world at that time.
Yes. And they have very, very strict gun control laws.