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Digital textbooks will be monitored to ensure student's safety
BAUGHER’S BAY, Tortola, VI - Scores of parents and students from the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) gathered at the New Testament Church of God Worship Centre in Baugher’s Bay on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 to learn about the new digital textbook Virgin Islands Digital Education (VIDE), where all grade 7 and 8 students will have access to a plethora of subject areas.
Extraordinary communication methods after USVI hurricanes
VI CONSORTIUM
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its federal and territorial partners are working hard to restore hurricane-battered communications systems on the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), the agency recently announced.
Learning, education & technological disruption
Dickson Igwe
The world of education and learning is changing too slowly for a swiftly changing world of work, and major social change. Educators must be aware of this development.
Struggling Puerto Rico turns to Tech & Entrepreneurialism
VI CONSORTIUM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- With a debt load of over $70 billion, Puerto Rico has found itself in an unfavourable position. The island no longer controls its finances (on June 30 2016, President Barack Obama signed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), which created a committee — consisting of no elected Puerto Rican officials — to oversee the island’s finances).
VIPD laments inability to track police vehicles following officers’ deaths
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — Officer Lesha Lammy and Kai Javois were shot dead by someone two weeks ago at a beach in Hams Bluff, Frederiksted, US Virgin Islands (USVI).
VI Education system is failing -Rotary Youth Forum hears
WICKHAM'S CAY II, Tortola, VI– The education system in the Virgin Islands (VI) came in for a blasting by a team of panelists who was very candid about the weaknesses and shortfalls of the system and those responsible. The team bashed the systems being used for elevating a person to the position of principal and the absence of technology in the classroom among other things.
Bring it on! – BVIHSA Chairman fearless about Tech challenge
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Chairman of the BVI Health Services Authority (BVIHSA), John I. Cline, minced no words in throwing his full support behind the Authority’s newly introduced Health Information System, CELLMA.
Dangers for small West Indian States
By Dickson Igwe
Sir Ronald Sanders, Caribbean Diplomat and Journalist, made a crucial assertion in a November 16, 2012, Op ED piece, in the social news media, Caribdirect. The story was titled: ‘’CARIBBEAN IN GREATEST CRISIS SINCE INDEPENDENCE.’’
Court should make better use of technology – Chief Justice Pereira
ROAD TOWN Tortola, VI – Her Ladyship the Hon. Madam Chief Justice Janice M. Pereira is advocating for better use of technology within the judicial system.
Under new guidance, DIGICEL Promises more to VI
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - DIGICEL’s new Country Manager/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Declan Cassidy who was recently brought to the Virgin Islands in hopes of revamping the local DIGICEL branch, informed this news site that under his guidance ‘BVI DIGICEL’ promises and will offer more to their customers.
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