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Safety first
Dickson Igwe
In late November 2016, the Virgin Islands Commissioner of Police, an exceptionally competent professional in this Old Boy’s opinion, alluded to the links between national safety and the economy. The Commissioner further stated that despite issues of the failure of members of a very small interconnected community, reluctant to report the criminal activity of relatives, the Virgin Islands remained a very safe territory.
Virgin Islands Party 3
Dickson Igwe
The Grand Old Party appears to have finally settled into a mould ready for governance. The next [British] Virgin Islands General Election is in two years. That is a very long way off. The transition from Honourable Ralph Telford O’Neal OBE to Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1), a leader more “liked” by members of the Virgin Islands Party, and the wider country, has certainly not gone smoothly.
Political Correctness gets a bloody nose
Dickson Igwe
The advent of Donald J. Trump is a middle finger to globalisation and political correctness. It is also a return to the politics of social class, racial division, and anti migration. Is progressivism a going against the grain of what people really are? Is nationalism a natural feature of human kind? Are human beings not parochial and xenophobic by nature? Can these so called “negative traits” be reversed by better education, exposure to a global culture, and media influence?
King Culture
Dickson Igwe
A country’s culture is “a very big deal indeed.” In fact, culture comes out of a country’s history, geography, and demography. Consequently, culture is a form of living history. Culture is the software of community. It enables the effective functioning of society. Culture paints upon the national tapestry the values and norms, and the rules and customs of yesteryear. It blends these “precious offerings” into modernity. Culture enriches and empowers.
Age of Trump
Dickson Igwe
Donald J. Trump is the new king of these majestic Americas. Trump is the new leader of the western world, also known as the Free World. However, the billionaire’s toxic brand of populist and nationalist politics is very dangerous.
Jack Global & Donald the Trump
By Dickson Igwe
On October 24, 2016, or thereabouts, a mover and shaker in Virgin Islands politics stated the following: “experienced and capable people in the Virgin Islands are not coming forward to participate in the electoral process when the country needs them most.” The implication was that politics was no longer an attraction to “qualified candidates” in the Virgin Islands.
Social class & its terrible impacts
Dickson Igwe
The recent vote in the UK to leave the European Union exposed a society split along lines of social class, region, age and culture. Today, Britain is more class divided than at any time in its recent history. Are there lessons in Britain’s social class based culture for the British Caribbean and the British Virgin Islands? The following story states that there may be.
The immoral society & underdevelopment
Dickson Igwe
The values and norms of citizens, residents, and migrants, are the mark of a country’s morality in every social and economic parameter, not the raw measure of the country’s natural and economic resources.
Values, norms & underdevelopment
Dickson Igwe
True social and economic prosperity lies in the values and morals of a society, not in its financial and natural resources. Governments that believe that their countries’ histories, cultures, traditions, values, ethics, and norms, do not impact national prosperity, are simply delusional.
Leisure, life & death
Dickson Igwe
This Old Boy has been thinking deeply of recent. He has been grappling with the meaning of this thing called life. What is the point of it all? We are here today and gone tomorrow. Yet, here we are living like we will exist forever. It is like we have all been conned into a robotic way of life driven by materialism.
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