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June 12th, 2015
‘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.

June 1st, 2015
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'.

March 7th, 2014
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.

April 6th, 2013
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.

November 24th, 2012
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.’’

July 21st, 2012
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

April 21st, 2012
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.’’

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