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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.
A Virgin Islands tale Robin Hood
By Dickson Igwe
WELL SIR! The story is on the highways and byways: JUICY GOSSIP rising out of WHOREHOUSES, and OUTHOUSES; STRIP JOINTS and RUM SHOPS, not to forget METE at the SUNDAY MORNING WELL.
Tales of the Virgin Islands
By Dickson Igwe
Now your Wannabe Admiral Horatio Nelson is dumbstruck. The anger of a cross section of the Virgin Islands public appears to have reached boiling point: it has gone NUCLEAR. And it is a very palpable epiphany indeed. Many a Virgin Islander today ambles about seething, filled with wrath; the smoke of Hades visibly coming out, from nostrils, ears, and other places unmentionable. Why?
Missing dads and neglectful mothers
By Dickson Igwe
There is a social malaise in the Virgin Islands that can be termed THE PARENTING DEFICIT. It is one overt and highly visible feature of adult irresponsibility. And it appears to be the progeny of a new and potentially destructive material order.
On exotic yachting destinations, and Virgin Islands shopping
By Dickson Igwe
Now, your wannabe Admiral Horatio Nelson was recently invited to be ‘honorary co skipper’ for the day on board a yacht owned by a delightful, brilliant, and extremely well traveled Canadian couple. Paul and Joanne Strome own a yacht moored at Nanny Cay, and for a sum that would pay the annual mortgage of many a home, they berth their vessel in the British Virgin Islands.
On international airports, cruise ship villages, and state of the art ferry terminals
By Dickson Igwe
The beginning of this medley cum commercial story is an admonition to Virgin Island’s leaders not to ignore the improvement needs of the West End Ferry Dock. That facility is as critical to Virgin Islands commerce and tourism, as is the Terrance B Lettsome International Airport.
It is time to slay the Death Beast called Gun Madness in the USA
By Dickson Igwe
Christmas was spoiled for many this December 2012. And for this lover of December, the news that innocent children continue to die at the hands of evil men has made this a month to reflect.
The Virgin Islands Parental Deficit: a social diatribe
By Dickson Igwe
Poor parenting, and the lack of a positive male role model and father figure, for thousands of Virgin Islands children and youth, is creating enormous social and educational trauma in this small country. Neglectful parents and missing fathers are at the root of the emergence of a new VIRGIN ISLANDS UNDERCLASS.
UPDATE: Igwe fires back at alleged ‘anti-globalisation’ detractor
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Commentator Dickson Igwe has fired back at a detractor, reiterating his position that globalisation clearly needed to be embraced by VIslanders in order for the Virgin Islands (VI) to move forward.
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