Governor de Jongh is challenging students from across the territory to read more during their summer vacation. Read 5!, the Governor’s Reading Challenge, began in June 2009 and continued throughout the summer. The second year of the program kicked-off on June 4, 2010 and will run until August. 

On November 5, 2009, Governor de Jongh signed into law legislation authorizing a 30-year public-private partnership that continues the diversification and growth of the Virgin Islands’ economy substantially and locks in an expansion of production capacity for Cruzan Rum in the Virgin Islands. 

On June 23, 2008, in a televised address this evening, Governor John P. de Jongh, Jr. announced a landmark 30-year public-private initiative with Diageo, the world’s leading spirits, wine and beer company for the construction and operation of a high capacity distillery on the island of St. Croix.