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Nickera Smith & the issue of national safety
By Dickson Igwe
Nickera Smith’s disappearance and murder are a lesson for these [British] Virgin Islands not to take safety and security for granted. There is a price to pay for national safety and it is called VIGILANCE. There is also a price to pay for a lack of vigilance and it is called INCREASED INSECURITY and CRIME. The fight against crime is not only a police effort. It is a community effort. It takes both law enforcement, and a vigilant, active, and informed citizenry to defeat crime.
Bitter lessons from Nigeria- Part 1
By Dickson Igwe
Nigeria’s present state is a lesson to all nations and societies. Values, morality and integrity, are at the core of social and economic progress and development, not personal wealth and power
Virgin Islands funny tale: “Hail Country Bumpkin!’’
By Dickson Igwe
Country Bumpkin is in deep meditation. He lies still on a hammock on his verandah in his mountain top home overlooking Ballast Bay. It is a majestic day in paradise.
The Revolution has begun!
Dickson Igwe
Social revolutions are never easily detected when they start. It is nearly impossible to know when they begin. Revolutions develop over time. Revolutions have a cause. Cause leads to effect. And it is only when a critical mass of popular resentment is reached within a society that it becomes obvious that trouble is ahead. Then comes the eruption: the French, Bolshevik, and Cuban Revolutions remain classic examples of violent revolution.
Trump’s World!
By Dickson Igwe
A President Donald Trump will engineer a social and economic Darwinism that will rest on balance of power global geopolitics. This will be a complex military choreography. The main dancers in the performance will be the US, China, Germany, and Russia. The four are the world’s most powerful countries in terms of geopolitics.
Lessons from San Juan
By Dickson Igwe
Puerto Ricans are a smart, fun loving, and culturally colourful people. They are the quintessential Spanish Americans. Sociable folk, with a love for flavour filled food, music, night life, friends, and family. Puerto Rico is very much a part of the Caribbean, as it is a USA Commonwealth.
The mind of TERROR part 1
By Dickson Igwe
The quote, “vigilance is the price of liberty,” is attributed to the Pioneer American Statesman Thomas Jefferson. Today, as the west fights a determined and elusive monster, called terrorism, that quote is as relevant as ever.
Lessons from Ben Gurion
By Dickson Igwe
The October 31, 2015, Russian Airbus A 321 that exploded over the Sinai in Egypt, killing all 224 passengers on board, is a wakeup call for all air travelers. It will also plunge Egypt’s tourism economy, an economic beast that amounts to $24 billion per annum, down a black hole.
Hillary, likeability, and trust
By Dickson Igwe
Favourable Demographics, voter likeability, and voter trust, are three crucial factors for political success in the Western democracy model of the 21st Century.
Housing & the wolf @ the door
By Dickson Igwe
Affordable, decent housing is a scarce resource. The economics of housing makes numerous assertions. One is that affordable and accessible housing is good for economic growth because it promotes greater social equality by strengthening the middle class: that is the argument of the Keynesians and the Stimulus Advocates.
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