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A Christmas Story - Part 2
Dickson C. Igwe
OK: the central message of December and the Christmas season is love.
And love is impossible to define. Love has always been. The reason: love is one of those subjects that has too many meanings. The idea of love is subjective. It is based upon individual beliefs. My idea of love can be much different from my neighbors’.
A Christmas Sermon: December comes but once a year
Dickson C. Igwe
As we approach the end of 2021, the British Virgin Islands can reflect over a difficult few years, beginning with the flooding in 2017, and then Hurricanes Irma and Maria, through to the COVID Pandemic, to today’s Commission of Inquiry into Virgin Islands Governance. The most recent years have been tumultuous for this micro-society.
Reversing a criminal culture - Part two
Dickson C. Igwe
OK. Social Democracy is about curbing the all-pervasive culture of capitalism, from completely colonizing societies. Philanthropy is a great idea, but it is not the panacea for a more equitable society.
The love for easy money - Part 1
Dickson C. Igwe
OK, at the root of the need for a Commission of Inquiry, and all the present woes that threaten this small country, is the simple reality that the Virgin Islands is threatened by an increasingly amoral riptide, that is driving crime, corporate greed, and poor ethics, in the private and public space.
The tyrant's last stand
Dickson C. Igwe
Now, anyone with the barest of observation skills must notice the rising level of angst, anger and frustration, on the Virgin Islands street.
A governance investigation agency is the only hope for VI
Dickson C. Igwe
Swift intervention when the Rubicon has been crossed from legitimate governance into criminal misconduct alone, will save the integrity of the British Virgin Islands.
‘You are far more despised’ than Dr Wheatley- Dickson C. Igwe to 'Cindy'
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Respected Virgin Islands Columnist Mr Dickson C. Igwe has publicly blasted social media critic, Rosemary Cindy Rosan-Jones over negative comments she made about Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr The Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) on her Facebook page.
Cultures that tolerate crime
Dickson C. Igwe
Now, once upon a time this Believer went to Church and heard a sermon. The preacher stated that when it came to tithes and offerings all money was ‘’good.’’
'Them vs us' is never good governance
Dickson C. Igwe
Now, one narrative that runs through the Commission of Inquiry is the subtle quest to divide the Virgin Islands population into various groups, by certain officials.
The road to hell
By Dickson C. Igwe
Once upon a time, there was a land on the continent of Africa sitting on the fertile and geographically diverse west coast of that vast continent. This was a country that practically "had it all."
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