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Politics is science, even in the Virgin Islands
Dickson C. Igwe
The Virgin Islands possesses its own unique political ecosystem. These paradise islands are a difficult place to predict political outcomes successfully.
Food security in the Virgin Islands
Dickson C. Igwe
All nations depend on outside countries to fill in crucial links in their supply chains. The preceding is at the core of modern-day globalization. However, when crises such as war and natural disaster strike, there is a sober realization that a level of national self-sufficiency is wise. Food especially is a key driver of national security.
Countries that meet the highest benchmarks
Dickson C. Igwe
The road to El Dorado passes through honest governance and high standards of social behavior by every resident of a society
That the quality of a society is in the behaviors of its people is a valid assertion.
Impunity in Governance
Dickson C. Igwe
The well-worn cliché, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, is an assertion that should guide Julius Caesar, if he or she wants a wholesome, happy, and lengthy tenure in office. Sadly it never really does. When he possesses power, Caesar is unrestrained in his appetites.
UK oversight steadies an unruly vessel
Dickson C. Igwe
Wise residents fully understand that UK oversight of the Virgin Islands is required at this time. Complete culture change towards an honest society is the singular route to self-determination for the territory. Until then, UK oversight is necessary for the Virgin Islands.
Values make a nation
Dickson C. Igwe
A country without an appropriate set of guiding values and principles: invisible rules of conscience and morality that sit in the hearts and souls of its residents, is a vessel with neither compass nor rudder. It will end up on the rocks.
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.
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