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!
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.
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.
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.’’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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