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Bryan's Nominees for WAPA and CZM Committee Impress at Judiciary Hearing
Two Virgin Islanders recently nominated for service by Governor Albert Bryan earned the favor of members of the Committee on Rules and Judiciary on Thursday.
The first, Maurice Muia, has been nominated to serve on the board of directors of the Water and Power Authority. An electrical engineer by profession, Mr. Muia told lawmakers that “WAPA is the sole reason” why he chose that career field. “My educational choices, career opportunities that I seized and areas of public and personal service have prepared me for today,” he affirmed.
Mr. Muia currently resides on the mainland but says he regularly immerses himself in current affairs at home. He is well aware of the challenges threatening the USVI’s economic success, with “high electricity and potable water rates” among those factors. The cost of electricity in the territory, he noted, was “three times the national average”, requiring a concerted effort to reduce the rate per kilowatt hour to 14-16 cents.
