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Labour realities in the Virgin Islands
By Dickson Igwe
An online story of May 5, 2013, in the Virgin Islands, described the assertions of a local politician and cabinet minister who lamented at the many career challenges faced by Virgin Islanders who have qualified abroad and returned home.
Divide and rule in the Virgin Islands
By Dickson Igwe
A series of stories looks at the Virgin Islands political scene as midterm approaches: What is the political pulse of the country approximately two and a half years before another general election season begins? This narrative looks at the increasingly divisive tone in Virgin Islands politics. It also states that the politics of demographics applies as much to the Virgin Islands’ political model, as it does to the USA’s. Politics in the Virgin Islands may have gone tribal.
Virgin Islands politics and voter memory
By Dickson Igwe
A series of stories looks at the Virgin Islands political scene as midterm approaches: What is the political pulse of the country approximately two and a half years before another general election season begins? This narrative asks why the Government, despite pursuing policies of economic growth, something critical for Virgin Islands prosperity, and the future of Virgin Islands youth, appears to be increasingly unpopular with a specific demographic. In the following story, the Virgin Island
Guest worker status in the Virgin Islands
By Dickson Igwe
The Immigration Department must ensure that residents deemed guests do not cut the umbilical cord with their home countries. Guests will be required to return to their home countries after specific intervals, and finally at the end of their guest term. The narrative begins at the New Life Baptist Church in the British Virgin Islands.
British Virgin Islands political blues
By Dickson Igwe
Freedom and democracy are alive and well in the Virgin Islands. That fact is clearly evidenced by an electorate that is quick to pull the trigger on any government it feels is not meeting the mark. To date, both political parties have tasted the anger and swift justice of the Virgin Islands voter.
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.
TEXAS in the age of OBAMA
By Dickson Igwe
The US state of Texas would at first appear an unlikely place to begin a story on the dramatically changing global economic and social, power demographic.
Virgin Islanders versus non Virgin Islanders
By Dickson Igwe
Any intelligent observer of Virgin Islands media will certainly notice a new pontificating by well known media personalities. A growing lamentation, and a cry, that the country is changing from under the feet of the indigenous Virgin Islander: that the Virgin Islander is a threatened minority, an ENDANGERED SPECIES in their own country so to speak
Establishing a culture of vocational excellence
By Dickson Igwe
A popular Virgin Islands Senator stated recently in an online news story, that Virgin Islands society is still imbued with the false and limiting notion that success only comes with a "JACKET and TIE.’’ Ironically, this is a mentality that appears to have affected, even better stated, INFECTED, most so called, "developing economies and countries,’’ especially India, many an African nation, and the West Indies.
The Age of Obama
By Dickson Igwe
Time Magazine named US President Barack Obama 2012 person of the year. This wasn’t surprising to this Observer of life in all its various forms. The epochal Presidency, add a second term, of the First African American President is truly a signature event of world history. Historians will one day see the Obama Presidency as the beginning of a new age in world history.
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