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Politics, public servants and transparency in the Virgin Islands! [Part 1]
By Dickson Igwe
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - This Observer of all things social, economic and political was amazed just the other day. He actually thought he was dreaming. As he traversed a little city in these Spectacular and Romantic Leeward’s called Road Town, Capital of the Virgin Islands, he received a sudden and shocking epiphany.
King Ralph of the Virgin Islands
By Dickson Igwe
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Ralph Telford O’Neal is one of the most formidable statesmen to have graced these West Indies for a generation. Described as the toughest politician to have ruled these Virgin Islands in nearly half a century, Honorable O’Neal is a man whose finger has been on the pulse of Virgin Islands politics for decades. The First Premier of this Country is a household name in these Antilles, and will remain so long after most of us are dead and gone.
Terrance B Lettsome International: potential gateway to the world
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- John Morrison, in the November 3 Edition of the BVI Beacon Newspaper, threw cold water on the idea of Beef Island’s Terrance B Lettsome International Airport one day being able to land the largest type jets as an option for improving and enlarging the territory’s tourism, and thereby commercial infrastructure.
The mighty Virgin Islands voter!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - BVI Beacon Contributor Roger Harris wrote in the November 17, 2011 Edition of the Newspaper, that owing to a number of idiosyncrasies with the November 7, General Election, such as ‘incentives’ offered to voters in some areas, add residents from the USA who are dual citizens coming over to vote ‘’in a district not too far from West End,’’ that ‘’ if these rumours are true, it shows that we have a very unsophisticated and gullible electorate.’’
Politics for the small man!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - This Writer, and Public Officer in her Majesty’s Government, is fully aware of the fine line, maybe even tight rope, he has walked over the years.
Paradise lost: gun death in the United States Virgin Islands
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Steven Melendez, in the British Virgin Islands Beacon Newspaper edition of October 20, 2011, in an article titled ‘’ Candidates take on crime, wrote that murders, robberies and burglaries that are on the steady increase will destroy the confidence potential investors have in our country.
Happy old age
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - This middle aged, British West Indian of African heritage, has always known that old age is an honorable and venerable station and estate in life. After all, he spent ten years on an African Continent, and in a Nigerian society that venerated and held the old in great honor, even awe. A paradigm of ageing in which one actually looked forward to old age as a type of reward for the suffering, perplexity, and harassment of youth, and where at age 70 one could expect a life of ease and
November 7, and the game of power
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - As the country approaches a monumental and historic General Election, the game of intrigue and power, all part of determining who rules the Virgin Islands for four years is well under way.
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