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May 19th, 2012
Virgin Islands tourism and the 21st Century savings oriented traveler

By Dickson Igwe

An anonymous poster on BVI News Online of May 13, 2012, using the pseudonym ‘’TRELLISMAN,’’ in response to this ‘’airport expansion and runway extension preacher’s,’’ story, stated, and probably quite correctly, that perhaps he, Trellisman, was not a visionary!

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May 12th, 2012
Virgin Islands travel and tourism: a hostage to United States air carriers no more!

Anyone doubting the British Virgin Islands Government’s determination to boldly move this tiny nation forward, especially with regard to the most critical issue of international airlift and travel had better think again.

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May 5th, 2012
The new FACEBOOK and TWITTER organization model

By DICKSON IGWE

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April 28th, 2012
Gordon Gecko bites the dust!

By Dickson Igwe

The following story is part of a series of articles on the changing face of global capitalism. Gordon Gecko’s demise marks the end of decades of a credit driven, casino culture in the West. His end is also the beginning of an era of austerity, and an avant garde Western culture of thrift.

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April 21st, 2012
To FACEBOOK or not to FACEBOOK!

By Dickson Igwe

A short preface to a narrative on a multibillion dollar social networking phenomenon is appropriate. And it is a tidbit taken from the leader section in the Economist of March 24, 2012, an article titled ‘’ an I Popping phenomenon.’’

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April 14th, 2012
The Liberalization of Virgin Islands electrical power: taming an 800 pound Gorilla!

The British Virgin Islands Electricity Corporation, in the near future, may have to be privatized, and simultaneously broken up into a number of smaller energy type businesses owned by BV Islanders, and Citizens, if this tiny country is to proceed towards a renewable, and cheaper and cleaner, energy future.

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April 7th, 2012
Green and renewable: the new buzz words for British Virgin Islands

A ‘Source’ for this Village Square Thinker, on the afternoon of April 3, 2012, at the Road Town Public Library, told of a major yacht and marina owner on the island who was ecstatic at the prospect of long distance commercial type flights landing at Terrance B Lettsome International Airport, Beef Island.

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March 31st, 2012
The St. Thomas factor in Virgin Islands travel and tourism

The owners of Last Resort, a romantic restaurant nestled luxuriantly on Bellamy Cay at Trellis Bay in the British Virgin Islands, are skeptical of Government’s ‘’good intentions’’ as regards the proposed and now imminent runway extension for Beef Island’s Terrance B Lettsome International Airport.

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March 24th, 2012
A Virgin Islands ‘GANGSTA’ Wannabe

By Dickson Igwe

Second article in a three article series, and word of caution for the British Virgin Islands, about a state of denial that fails to see the threat from overspill of a violent and deadly antisocial subculture prevalent in the neighbouring United States Virgin Islands.

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March 17th, 2012
‘GANGSTA’ – alive, well, and thriving in the British Virgin Islands

By Dickson Igwe

St. Thomas and St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands, neighbouring islands of these British West Indian Virgin Islands, are two enchanting isles that have long been plagued by gangland type criminality and violence. The gang culture, rooted in many parts of St. Thomas and St. Croix, claims scores of lives annually: from stabbings to shootings, with many innocents caught in the hellish crossfire.

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