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Good choices make a strong nation
Dickson C. Igwe
This Old Boy has a perverse delight in reading the lamentations of residents of specific societies. It is not schaden-freude. It is a simple acknowledgment that we all reap what we sow individually, socially, and corporately.
Honesty is always the best policy
Dickson C. Igwe
Now, there has been a lot of asserting by the media and others on the virtues or the lack of virtue thereof, of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office holding a legal instrument that will suspend the Virgin Islands Constitution if there is any willful defiance of adopting fully the recommendations of the Virgin Islands Commission of Inquiry.
A productive Virgin Islands
Dickson C. Igwe
Productivity is the increase in economic growth resulting from deliberate social and economic policy. Productivity in the British Virgin Islands means driving the economy towards an increase in economic growth that further leads to a better quality of life for all residents.
Inflation in the Virgin Islands
Dickson C. Igwe
Price controls and reducing taxes will not alleviate the inflation burden in the Virgin Islands. Only charity and handouts to the needy will help contain suffering.
Lowering benchmarks is not the answer
Dickson C. Igwe
Listening to specific politicians and commentators reveals this country still has a steep hill to climb to develop socially and technologically.
Lawful societies promote the greater good
Dickson C. Igwe
The culture of 'wrong and strong' is a Virgin Islands folly. It will be the undoing of the Virgin Islands. There is aversion by a significant sub set to the new reality of correctly imposed Indirect Rule from the UK.
The Virgin Islands is under the microscope
Dickson C. Igwe
The Virgin Islands owing to the highly publicized Commission of Inquiry, and now the arrest of the Former Premier on drug trafficking allegations will be under the global microscope for many years.
Corruption & Social Behavior
Dickson C. Igwe
A certain politician in the Virgin Islands enjoys pontificating on how we got here to this sad place on national and social media. The great man is clearly intelligent and thoughtful.
The VI CoI Report
Dickson C. Igwe
The arrest of the British Virgin Islands Premier in Miami Florida on drug-related charges on April 28 2022 is a dramatic development in the Commission of Inquiry saga that has kept the country on edge for many months.
The much awaited CoI report is here
Dickson C. Igwe
The document is not yet public. However, this may be a time of great change for the British Virgin Islands. Will the COI report be an agent of change, or a damp squib?
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