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‘Don’t take photos you wouldn’t want online’ – Dr Robert A. Mathavious
PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI - Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) Dr Robert A. Mathavious has strongly advised the crop of 2015 graduands of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College against posting things on social media that they are likely to regret later on.
Demonic game ‘Charlie’ a concern for ESHS principal & staff
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Parents and teachers alike are becoming very concerned about the fast growing population of students in the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) allegedly engaging in a cult practice that sees them invoking a ‘demon’ reportedly named ‘Charlie’ via a game popularly known on social media as 'Charlie Charlie'.
Turkey PM Erdogan threatens to ban Facebook and YouTube
BBC NEWS
Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government could ban Facebook and YouTube, arguing that opponents are using social media to attack him.
FACEBOOK - TWITTER: the pros and cons
By Dickson Igwe
The Antigua Observer said it best. ‘’On Sunday morning the sea kicked up to two meters, and the wind speed for the first start was 20 plus knots, when a vicious squall darkened the horizon in the Sir Francis Drake Channel. With wet sails, slippery decks and the big easterly breeze blowing squalls in off the Atlantic,’’ the race began.
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.’’
A social media revolution that cannot be ignored!
by Dickson Igwe
Social media, this July 2012, increasingly influences private, public, and corporate life, and to a greater extent. In Western society, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, LINKEDIN, and others, are the new technological platforms, increasingly surpassing email, online messaging, and direct website access, as most popular, and one stop online applications. These are virtual communities, critically impacting real communities and societies, in real time. Increasingly, social digital platforms are becom
To FACEBOOK or not to FACEBOOK!
By Dickson Igwe
A short preface to a narrative on a multibillion dollar social networking phenomenon is appropriate. And it is a tidbit taken from the leader section in the Economist of March 24, 2012, an article titled ‘’ an I Popping phenomenon.’’