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Learning, education & technological disruption
Dickson Igwe
The world of education and learning is changing too slowly for a swiftly changing world of work, and major social change. Educators must be aware of this development.
Struggling Puerto Rico turns to Tech & Entrepreneurialism
VI CONSORTIUM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- With a debt load of over $70 billion, Puerto Rico has found itself in an unfavourable position. The island no longer controls its finances (on June 30 2016, President Barack Obama signed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), which created a committee — consisting of no elected Puerto Rican officials — to oversee the island’s finances).
VIPD laments inability to track police vehicles following officers’ deaths
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — Officer Lesha Lammy and Kai Javois were shot dead by someone two weeks ago at a beach in Hams Bluff, Frederiksted, US Virgin Islands (USVI).
VI Education system is failing -Rotary Youth Forum hears
WICKHAM'S CAY II, Tortola, VI– The education system in the Virgin Islands (VI) came in for a blasting by a team of panelists who was very candid about the weaknesses and shortfalls of the system and those responsible. The team bashed the systems being used for elevating a person to the position of principal and the absence of technology in the classroom among other things.
Bring it on! – BVIHSA Chairman fearless about Tech challenge
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Chairman of the BVI Health Services Authority (BVIHSA), John I. Cline, minced no words in throwing his full support behind the Authority’s newly introduced Health Information System, CELLMA.
Dangers for small West Indian States
By Dickson Igwe
Sir Ronald Sanders, Caribbean Diplomat and Journalist, made a crucial assertion in a November 16, 2012, Op ED piece, in the social news media, Caribdirect. The story was titled: ‘’CARIBBEAN IN GREATEST CRISIS SINCE INDEPENDENCE.’’
Court should make better use of technology – Chief Justice Pereira
ROAD TOWN Tortola, VI – Her Ladyship the Hon. Madam Chief Justice Janice M. Pereira is advocating for better use of technology within the judicial system.
Under new guidance, DIGICEL Promises more to VI
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - DIGICEL’s new Country Manager/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Declan Cassidy who was recently brought to the Virgin Islands in hopes of revamping the local DIGICEL branch, informed this news site that under his guidance ‘BVI DIGICEL’ promises and will offer more to their customers.
Border Management System being underutilised
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Yet another questionable revelation has emerged from the 2011 annual report of the Immigration Department. The report, which was laid before the House of Assembly on July 24, 2012, revealed this time that the enTRex Border Management System (eBMS) is being completely underutilised by immigration officers, in large part due to varying deficiencies in the system.
Virgin Islands News Online launches mobile version of site
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Today, Thursday January 26, 2012, the now number one news site in the VI, Virgin Islands News Online, launched its mobile site. This means that its over seven thousand readers per day have another option of getting unto the website.
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