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22% of VI population 'considered poor'- Mitsy J. Ellis-Simpson
LONG BUSH, Tortola, VI- Independent Territorial At Large Candidate Mitsy J. Ellis-Simpson has launched her electoral campaign, with the aim of bridging the gap between the poor and the wealthy, improving education and healthcare systems and ensuring that the [British] Virgin Islands (VI) has a social security system that works for the most vulnerable and marginalised, including single parents, elderly and youths.
The dangers of short term thinking- Part A
Dickson Igwe
Post the Disasters of September 2017, the Virgin Islands requires long term thinking. The country must establish a long term economic planning model. In other words, a long term vision for these islands must be written in granite.
The Deflation Beast
Dickson Igwe
Austerity is an option in long term economic planning. However, history has given austerity a “bad rap.” Austerity ideas present solutions for a long term economic plan for the [British] Virgin Islands.
Black people – ‘What the hell do you have to lose?’
By Alred C. Frett
What the Hell do you have to lose?
A serious question was asked of Slave Descendants by Mr Donald J. Trump, a potential President of the United States of America who also described Blacks as living in poverty with inferior Education, a lack of Jobs and likelihood of being shot in their own neighbourhoods… In response, too many of us became annoyed with Mr Trump rather than seeing whether and why these things he said were true.
The vulnerable African American male
By Dickson Igwe
The following story is a narrative on African American society. It is the last of a series on criminality and deviance in the black inner city area of the USA. The story describes the research sociologists’ use of the low income US Black Neighbourhood and Inner City, as a model of study on crime and deviance in black community.
Three years of NDP; the poor now in garbage looking for a meal!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It appears that with the middle class wiped out, according to Virgin Islands Party Chairman Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3), poverty in the Virgin Islands is on the rise.
“We Can Use Tourism to Reduce Poverty”
Caribbean Journal
That was one of the question discussed last week at the Small Island Developing States conference in the Bahamas, where Bahamian Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe called for a “paradigm economic shift” in the way regional countries view the link between tourism and poverty.
Prisons of Steel for our Youth & Castles of Sand for our people
By Alred C. Frett
When those who fail them are those who jail them:
Sporadic resignation and election of Popes along with reports of Social and Financial meltdown across the World should be enough to enlighten even the most retarded, yet there appears to be those amongst us as wicked as Old Testament Leaders and hell bent on forcing our Youth into Mental Slavery… Such Hypocrites preach and command, ‘do as I say but not as I do’.
Is VI’S National Health Insurance more problem than solution??
By Alred C. Frett
And they too shall fall from their High Pinnacles of Power:
Even as we depart Black History Month there is evidence that we are finally learning to let go of regressive practices of the past… There still remains a long way to go but indicators suggest that while this may be a rough year for us it is likely to be a much rougher year for the Wicked and Corrupt as they fall from their High Seats of Power whether by Will, Force, Sickness or Death.
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