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Is globalisation a covert re-colonisation process? Cromwell Smith questions
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Talk Show host Cromwell Smith aka Edju En Ka believes that the Virgin Islands has to take another hard look at the issue of globalisation.
Labour Minister’s HOA statement ‘inconsistent’ – Sowande Uhuru
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru took issue with some of the statements made recently by the Minister of Labour and Natural Resources, Hon. Dr Kedrick Pickering in the House of Assembly.
Sowande Uhuru: Lack of unity in the VI prohibits possible endeavours
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Co-Host of the weekly talk show, Umoja, Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru, in examining the type of ‘Unity’ displayed in the Arabic community that exists in the Virgin Islands, noted that Virgin Islanders and Belongers fail to do certain things, because they lack that type of unity.
Air for sale! - Umoja
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Umoja’s hosts, Cromwell Smith and Natalio Wheatley, while on their local talk show, spoke about the sustainability of the Virgin Islands (VI) and added that the rate at which the people of the VI are going, or in this case, treating their environment, can lead to the very worst, as bad as selling the air that we breathe.
Opportunities should be reserved for us -Umoja
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The hosts of the Umoja radio show believe that the immigration process has not been managed as effectively as it could be; this is according to co-host Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru.
Public needs to know: Has VI lost control of its treasury?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Following the signing of the Protocols for Effective Financial Management between the Government of the Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom on April 23 2012, concerns continue to be raised regarding the objectivity of the document with some citing that it seems worse than sending the Territory’s budget to the UK for approval and represents a loss of control of the Territory's treasury.
VI communities lost in time - Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - As time rolls on and the world evolves, new technologies are created, new machinery is introduced, changing everything of the past and making it better, faster and more appealing to the human eye. Just like objects, people change as time goes on, some for the better, while others for the worst.
VI History curriculum needs improvement - Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Many people around the Caribbean including students and teachers alike, when speaking on the topic of ‘Black History’ or History in general, often refer only to the fact that the Tainos and Kalinagos were once inhabitants here, along with details about producing Sugar Cane and having an ancestral background unforgettably linked to slavery.
Virgin Islanders: Discriminated & Neglected in their homeland?
By CARMELITA JAMIESON
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With the unemployment rate among young Virgin Islanders a startling reality, many Virgin Islanders are of the strong view that there is consistent discrimination of them which is a major setback to securing jobs with the lack of enforcement of the Labour Code where Virgin Islanders should be the preferred employees and lack of initiative on Government’s part to offer adequate training to help qualify those who are not, to fill vacant posts.
Too many young men are turning to criminality – talk show host
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – One talk show host is very worried that the young men in the Virgin Islands society is turning more and more to criminality, which could lead to a downward spiral in the community.
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