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Value & Supply Chain
Dickson C. Igwe
OK. The scope, type, and value of capital assets sitting in the Virgin Islands require observation, assessment, and evaluation. Why? Detailed assessment of the wealth-generating assets of the Virgin Islands – the capital mix- is beneficial for economic and social planning. It is also important information for organizations and businesses, both local and international. The innovative management of capital is key to the Virgin Islands' prosperity.
Jack the Capitalist
Dickson C. Igew
A $500 million yacht moors off a remote Caribbean island. A helicopter takes off from its deck. A massive private jet sits silently on the tarmac of a private airport nearby; surrounded by smaller planes. A billionaire is ‘chilling’ off his private island with his friends and associates.
Debt generates wealth
Dickson C. Igwe
Capital ownership has driven increasing social and wealth inequality practically everywhere. Social inequality is a global phenomenon driven by the power of capital, and the owners of capital. Capital- human and physical assets that generate wealth- tends to increase the wealth and power of those who control capital. Today, wealthy capitalists own the most powerful corporations and practically run the world.
Some in VI 'believe all the wealth only belongs to them'– Hon Smith
DUFF'S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly Honourable Neville A. Smith (AL) has criticised what he deemed as the culture where some sections of society endeavour to prevent children of the working class from becoming wealthy.
‘I do not believe I’m a racist in any shape or form’- CoP Matthews
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Outgoing Commissioner of Police, Mr Michael B. Matthews has broken his silence regarding comments he made over the unexplained wealth of some Virgin Islanders, which he connected to nefarious activities like the drugs trade and money laundering.
Uncover the mental setbacks
By Jacqueline Wheatley
Around the world, the human race acknowledges their history, through speeches, celebrations and activism. Such words as racism, freedom and culture are kept alive for generations to follow. Do we practice the change that is set before us? Or do we complicate the actions of justice?
COVID-19 & your poor neighbour
By Dickson C. Igwe
The pandemic is driving poverty and wealth inequality. Thirty years from today in the 2050s, a new world powered by robotics, artificial intelligence, and quantum physics will be upon us.
Debt & the super wealthy
By Dickson C. Igwe
Debt is a super tool of modern economics transferring wealth from the 90% to the 1%.
Now most consumers own debt. In fact, it would not be an over assertion stating that half the population of democratic western countries are submerged in debt.
House of Assembly to meet on October 13, 2016
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI:- The Virgin Islands’ Parliament, known as the House of Assembly (HoA), will meet again on Thursday October 13, 2016, according to a senior National Democratic Party (NDP) source.
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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