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Globalization, foreign investment, and Virgin Islands development!
BY Dickson Igwe
A snapshot of the thoughts on globalization of a veteran economist; Alan Greenspan was chairman of the US Federal Reserve for two decades, before his retirement in 2006.
Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Columnist, on August 9, 2012, in an Op Ed piece, ‘’AVERAGE IS OVER,’’ alluded to the fact that today’s world is, ‘’ seamlessly connected.’’ In other words, businesses look for the best places to get work done, and the most cost effective venues wherever they are.
A Virgin Islands direct foreign investment conundrum
It is rare this Observer of Life in all its narratives, ironies, and forms, gets flummoxed. But it appears no sooner a proposition about getting the national economy moving via a major development project is proposed; then scores of skeptics pop out of the woodwork.
Private enterprise: the driver of Virgin Islands development
By Dickson Igwe
One thing is clearly evident in the ongoing national development discussion and debate in the British Virgin Islands. And that is this! Any move towards establishing an effective, efficient, and profitable national enterprise model and culture for the country, must include the private sector as the most crucial component.
Virgin Islands Airways, and a song of NEW YORK
By DICKSON IGWE
This Pilgrim has been attempting the incredible. In recent months he has tried to play the visionary. And maybe this is a good thing. Sometimes it pays to look through a prism of imagination and dreams into a very uncertain future. And the thought of these sunny Islands in the South Atlantic possessing a national cum international air carrier of world class has some thinking this ‘Igwe guy,’ must have a screw loose, or is simply nuts!
GUNS, GANGSTAS, AND ‘DANGEROUS STEREOTYPES’
By DICKSON IGWE
It would be a serious mistake not to begin this story on criminality with a very important preamble. And that preamble tells of a Conference on Criminality held in the British Virgin Islands at the Hamilton Lavitty Stoutt Community College, on Friday June 8, 2012: a seminar that was clearly a stunning success.
The end of privacy, and the advent of BIG BROTHER
By Dickson Igwe
In a story in the Economist Magazine of April 7, 2012: ‘’ spies, lies, and the internet,’’ the British Government was described as possessing, ‘’ some big ideas about electronic surveillance and an appetite for what critics are calling secret justice, “the global news media alluded to, ‘’ proposed measures giving the authorities access in real time to more data on public communications, including not only mobile phones and email, but also skype, facebook, and online games.’’
PARADISE AIRWAYS, departing Terrance B Lettsome International, for San Juan, Havana, Miami, New York
by Dickson Igwe
Virgin Islands News Online, on May 21, 2012, reported, that "with the extension of the runway at the Terrance B Lettsome International Airport inevitable, a national airline is seen as an important investment for the territory at this time; that a national air carrier will be complementary to the planned airport expansion and, runway extension.’’
Virgin Islands tourism and the 21st Century savings oriented traveler
By Dickson Igwe
An anonymous poster on BVI News Online of May 13, 2012, using the pseudonym ‘’TRELLISMAN,’’ in response to this ‘’airport expansion and runway extension preacher’s,’’ story, stated, and probably quite correctly, that perhaps he, Trellisman, was not a visionary!
Virgin Islands travel and tourism: a hostage to United States air carriers no more!
Anyone doubting the British Virgin Islands Government’s determination to boldly move this tiny nation forward, especially with regard to the most critical issue of international airlift and travel had better think again.
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