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Local Arabs want speedy resolution in Syria
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – As the dynamics surrounding the Syrian crisis in the Middle East have continued to shift over the past few days and with the observance of the 9/11 attacks today, September 11, 2013 concerned residents of Arab descent shared with Virgin Islands News Online how they felt and were affected by the current situation near their homeland.
UPDATE: Terror at Boston Marathon leaves 3 dead, 144 wounded as witnesses describe horror
(CNN) -- Investigators are pleading for help in hunting down whoever triggered a pair of bombings that left a gruesome scene at the Boston Marathon.
TEXAS in the age of OBAMA
By Dickson Igwe
The US state of Texas would at first appear an unlikely place to begin a story on the dramatically changing global economic and social, power demographic.
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.
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.
Demography hands the White House to Barack Obama
By Dickson Igwe
A slow economy and poor labor market was not a critical liability for a US President with favourable demographics on his side. In a divided and polarized USA, it was more crucial to win the battle of demography, than the battle of the economy.
UPDATE: President Obama wins election! Four more years in White House
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Virgin Islands News Online, after speaking with pollsters in Washington DC and in New York City, and our USA correspondence, is now able to confirm that President Barack H. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, both Democrats, will serve another four years as President and Vice-President of the United States of America.
Barack Obama: plucking defeat from the jaws of victory
By Dickson Igwe
US Vice President, Joe ‘SIXPACK’ Biden’s feisty debate with Vice Presidential Contender Congressman Paul Ryan on the evening of October 11, 2012, may have just saved the US President, Barack Obama’s, political fortunes. At the very least, it should have re-energized the Democratic Party Base after the President’s very poor performance in the first Presidential Debate of the November 2012, US Presidential Election Contest.
Mitt Romney: The Big Business President
By Dickson Igwe
President Barack Obama is believed to understand the needs of America’s middle class; much more so than a multi millionaire venture capitalist named Mitt Romney. The President’s values are seen to be more approximate with those of people on middle incomes, living from paycheck to paycheck, and he is presently enjoying a huge lead in this category; 20 points, according to the latest polls.
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