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Virgin Islands Customer service; and a very poor retail banking model
By Dickson Igwe
Eternal bank queues, and a small number of customer unfriendly bank tellers and staff are a metaphor for a poor Virgin Islands customer service model. The need for good customer service is a bread and butter matter for the Virgin Islands. The British Virgin Islands is a non manufacturing, importing country that is totally customer service dependent. Poor customer service is not an option. Poor customer service is a totally unnecessary deadweight, dragging down commerce and industry.
Corruption: the Nigerian model of living in hell
By Dickson Igwe
This is the first of a series of stories warning of the destructive consequences of corruption to Virgin Islands prosperity and development. Corruption is a diabolical monster, robbing present and future generations. The Nigerian corruption model is stated in this first article. The story warns leaders contemplating corruption of corruption’s disastrous consequences. It uses the Nigerian model of corrupt governance.
FIDEL of the Virgin Islands: a new people’s revolution?
By Dickson Igwe
This Political Observer frequently receives a nugget from an excellent source after he has penned his weekend column. He then finds himself having to fit that bit of crucial and late news, into his already constructed weekly yarn.
Half an Opposition
By Dickson Igwe
This writer of things social and political was warned by a top level bureaucrat the other day. The bureaucrat happens to be a close friend he might add.
Air British Virgin Islands: Flying with limited flight data
By Dickson Igwe
In an online news piece of November 8, 2013, on BVINEWS, a news story that also appeared on Virgin Islands News Online, the story in BVI news titled, “ECONOMY MAY WORSEN”,’ Honourable Julian Fraser stated that, “a major overhaul of the Development Planning Unit is a must, for until our leader has ready access to reliably accurate statistics, nothing substantial can be expected.”
Transparency: the panacea of good government
By Dickson Igwe
A story titled ‘CALL TO END CORRUPTION WORLDWIDE’, penned by Bailey Penn, appeared after the following narrative on transparency was written. This ‘Life Watcher’ considers it fortuitous indeed that the Op Ed piece appeared in the BVI Beacon of October 31, 2013. The piece could not have appeared at a better time. It provides the perfect introduction for a story extolling the virtues of transparency in Virgin Islands politics.
Robert Mugabe, King Kong & Cookie Monsta!
By Dickson Igwe
Mele means gossip in the story. Laugh is spelled laff, say is spelled seh, no is spelled na, want is spelled wan, them is spelled dem, of is spelled a or ah, water is spelled wata, and weh means that is. This is an attempt to mimic the old village vernacular of these Leeward Islands.
Politics and the Virgin Islands Public service
By Dickson Igwe
Should the Virgin Islands public service be placed under the direction of the political establishment? Or should the Public Service remain under the Crown with the Governor as Head of the Public Service? That is a matter worthy of assessment by the reader, considering various assertions made by past and present politicians on the subject over the years, mostly in support of bringing the public service under political control.
It’s the cool & genteel physician, versus the tough & savvy architect, for now
By Dickson Igwe
This first part of a political commentary, cum satire, states that a lot is happening behind the scenes, in Virgin Islands politics, especially in the opposition camp. However, this first narrative holds that the ultimate political showdown at the end of 2015 will remain a fist fight between the son of Road Town’s genteel aristocracy and the guerilla fighter of the lush countryside.
Virgin Islands migration: the goose & the gander
By Dickson Igwe
An Op Ed of July 18, 2013 in a national Virgin islands weekly was a story headed, "WHERE ARE WE GOING.’’ It was a continuation from a first story, the second part of a two part narrative, the first titled: "TERRITORY’S ECONOMIC HISTORY RECOUNTED.’’ This second story was a lamentation on how the Virgin Islands, "has ended up with a household where her own people are outnumbered.’’ This was a very valid concern by the Virgin Islander.
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