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2024 value & supply chain
Dickson C. Igwe
Follow the capital trail through the behaviour of the capital mix and its value supply chains. It is important to assess how much of the Capital Mix – wealth-generating assets in the Virgin Islands- with its associated supply and value chains, is in public hands or government, and how much is in the private sector, including non-profit organizations.
Delta Petroleum unable to supply required diesel for electricity generation- BVIEC
LONG BUSH, Tortola, VI- The BVI Electricity Corporation has said it has had to swiftly taken steps to procure the necessary No. 2 diesel fuel for the continued production of electricity at the Henry Wilfred Smith Power Station in Pockwood Pond, since its contracted supplier Delta Petroleum (Caribbean) Limited has said it will be unable to fulfill its contractual obligations.
Capitalism and Environmental Destruction
By Dickson C. Igwe
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate and Economist, has asserted that the dominant economic model of the latter Twentieth Century- mainly Supply-Side Free Market Economics- is obsolete in today's swiftly changing global environment. Trickle Down has had its day.