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Attorney Tom Bolt, Chair of The Salvation Army Advisory Board addressed the Rotary Club of St. Thomas at their meeting on Thursday at Bluebeard’s Castle Hotel.  Bolt announced plans to celebrate The Salvation Army’s 90th Anniversary in May with a series of events culminating in a Gala at Marriott Frenchman’s Reef.  Bolt stated that “The Salvation Army has been ‘Doing the Most Good’ on St. Thomas for nearly a century,”   He pointed out, “feeding those in need and providing support for the less fortunate in our commitment to our community.  When all else fails, we have the Salvation Army.”Continue Reading Salvation Army Celebrates 90 Years in Territory

Soap. Shampoo. Toothpaste. A washrag and a toothbrush. Bare necessities that most people don’t think about much – unless they don’t have them.   Tom Bolt, Chair of the The Salvation Army Advisory Board announced Friday that the organization has launched a Care Bag Program and is requesting donations of personal toiletries to help with the outreach project. Continue Reading Salvation Army Launches Care Bag Program

American Counsel Association President Tom Bolt in a statement released Saturday characterized recent remarks by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Charles “Cully” Stimson as “reprehensible and irresponsible”. 

Stimson said in a radio interview last week that companies might want to consider boycotting law firms that represent detainees at the United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba by taking their business to other firms that do not represent suspected terrorists.

The Pentagon on Saturday disavowed Stimson’s remarks. A Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Brian Maka, said Stimson was not speaking for the Bush Administration. Stimson’s comments “do not represent the views of the Department of Defense or the thinking of its leadership,” Maka told The Associated Press on Saturday.Continue Reading ACA President Condemns Defense Secretary’s Comments

A partial happy ending may be salvaged for a 24-year-old Haitian immigrant whose 18-month-old daughter drowned on her secret journey to St. Thomas in January, 2006.  Nadine Charles left the territory to travel to Florida, where her quest for asylum will continue. Charles’ case was transferred to the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Rights group, attorney Ravinder S. Nagi, Chair of the International Practice Group of Tom Bolt & Associates, P.C. said Tuesday.

Charles had her first plane ride last weekend after a one-day delay caused by the mass of travel documents that Customs agents at King Airport had to go through – causing her to miss her original travel date, Nagi said.  "Our efforts were to get her the appropriate representation in Florida, where she has family," Nagi said. Continue Reading Advocacy Group Helping Haitian Mother

Thomas Joseph Dunn, III, age 57, of Estate Elizabeth, St. Thomas passed away Monday evening at his home after a prolonged battle with cancer. Dunn, born in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, was a long time resident of St. Thomas where he resided since 1980. He was known to one and all as “Tom” and upon his death was on leave from Innovative Telephone Company, where he served as Director of Public Relations. 

"I had the fortune to work with Tom early in his St. Thomas career when he had the restaurant, The Green Parrot." said St. Thomas attorney Tom Bolt.  "Later we worked at the Legislature together on a number of pieces of economic development legislation.  Tom was also a member of the Rotary Club of St. Thomas II.  You could say that Tom ‘pushed the envelope’.  He always challenged us to do our very best." Bolt said. 

Continue Reading Community Activist Tom Dunn Dies at 57

The United Way of St. Thomas-St. John held its Day of Caring and Campaign Kickoff on Saturday at Ebeneezer Gardens in Hospital Ground on St. Thomas.  Ebeneezer Gardens is a senior residential care facility operated by Luther Social Services.  Tom Bolt, Managing Attorney of Tom Bolt & Associates and President of Habitat for Humanity, led a group of Habitat volunteers that assisted in painting a mural at the senior facility.

Habitat for Humanity of the Virgin Islands has been designated as the newest United Way agency and has been allocated $50,000 by the United Way.  In making the allocation, United Way designated the funds to retain an Executive Director for Habitat.  At the Day of Caring, Bolt introduced Dianne Wells as Habitat’s new CEO.  She was previously the National Director for Habitat for Humanity of Trinidad and Tobago.  She will began work with Habitat in the Virgin Islands November 1st.Continue Reading United Way Day of Caring and Campaign Kickoff