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Corona, regionalisation & self sufficient markets
Dickson C. Igwe
Globalization is over as we know it. The new world will be driven by insular governance, regional integration, and bilateral agreements.
The Trickle Down 'fallacy'
Dickson Igwe
The rise of populism and global instability states that trickledown economics is a “sham.” Trickledown economics has become a type of global pyramid scheme. Trickledown has led to widespread disillusionment, and an increasingly dangerous New World. The doomsday clock has moved ever closer to midnight as a result.
President Donald J. Trump the Populist
By Dickson Igwe
Donald J. Trump confirmed his populist credentials in his fiery inaugural speech of January 20, 2017. Trumps “America First diatribe” had as it theme a cliché: “charity begins at home.”
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?
Globalisation on the ropes
Dickson Igwe
The key reason Donald J. Trump “trumped” the polls, the political experts, and the liberal media, on November 8, 2016, had to do with a dynamic that no one expected would be so powerful.
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 End of History as we know it!
By Dickson Igwe
The 21st Century started with the Age of Austerity and globalisation, then came the Great Financial Recession, followed by the Great Revolution, and now the world may be waking up to a Great Global Disorder. History is going back to where it began.
On exotic yachting destinations, and Virgin Islands shopping
By Dickson Igwe
Now, your wannabe Admiral Horatio Nelson was recently invited to be ‘honorary co skipper’ for the day on board a yacht owned by a delightful, brilliant, and extremely well traveled Canadian couple. Paul and Joanne Strome own a yacht moored at Nanny Cay, and for a sum that would pay the annual mortgage of many a home, they berth their vessel in the British Virgin Islands.
On international airports, cruise ship villages, and state of the art ferry terminals
By Dickson Igwe
The beginning of this medley cum commercial story is an admonition to Virgin Island’s leaders not to ignore the improvement needs of the West End Ferry Dock. That facility is as critical to Virgin Islands commerce and tourism, as is the Terrance B Lettsome International Airport.
UPDATE: Igwe fires back at alleged ‘anti-globalisation’ detractor
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Commentator Dickson Igwe has fired back at a detractor, reiterating his position that globalisation clearly needed to be embraced by VIslanders in order for the Virgin Islands (VI) to move forward.
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