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Brexit & the Woman of Steel!
By Dickson Igwe
Now, the real tragedy of Brexit, in this Old Boy’s opinion, is that it diminishes all UK citizens, subjects, and nationals – and that includes Overseas Territory Citizens of Britain, such as Virgin Islanders. It offers British Citizens a future that is hard to envision, and unpredictable. It reduces the opportunities of present and future generations of playing a full role in the world’s largest economic, cultural, and social bloc: The European Union.
May In! Cameron Out! - as UK Prime Minister
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Theresa Mary May has been appointed the UK's second female Prime Minister in a private audience with the Queen at which she was invited to form a Government.
VI has nothing to lose @ next ‘Constitution negotiations’ with UK- Hon Fraser
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Noting that the time has passed when he is prepared to accept the status quo as being ‘ok’, Opposition Leader and Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3) has stated that the Virgin Islands must state clearly to their leaders what is it they should demand of the United Kingdom at the next round of ‘Constitution negotiations’.
Hon Walwyn tells VIslanders to not sell out lands! Is he being hypocritical?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Arguing that ownership of land is part and parcel of the state and economic control of the economy of the Virgin Islands, Education Minister Hon Myron V. Walwyn said Virgin Islanders need to be vigilant that they do not lose ownership of their lands.
UK’s vote to leave the EU will hurt the VI- Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola VI- After some five years of heavy criticism for not being engaged regionally or internationally, the territory’s second Premier, Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith, took to the airwaves in a radio address on June 30, 2016 and told residents that the United Kingdom’s recent vote to leave the 28 Member European Union (EU) is bad for the Virgin Islands.
Brexit or Trump – It’s all about you – Part 2
By Alred C. Frett
Selling out & making Deals at the expense of our People:
More and more Persons are talking to me about Politics and asking me not to say the things I do because, although they acknowledge them as truth, they want me to go along with what others are saying so I can be elected… Somehow they totally fail to understand that the only interest I have ever had in Politics was to make things better for those we serve so this Nigger is still not for sale.
Britain’s very politically incorrect BREXIT
By Dickson Igwe
US President Barrack H. Obama has had a very bad couple of days. His politically correct agenda has been thrown off course. His dreams of a globalised world order run from Davos, is going up in smoke. He has been reminded that working class white voters especially are “pissed off” with his lax migration policies and his blaming hard working Americans for the Islamic Terror threatening his country. His idea that it is guns and not the hatred of radical Jihadists that is killing US innocents
UK opting to leave EU better for VI in many ways- Hon Julian Fraser RA
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- While many have been expressing shock at the historic vote by the people of the United Kingdom (UK) to leave the European Union (EU), the result comes as little surprise to Opposition Leader in the Virgin Islands House of Assembly, Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3), who believes the VI would be better off with the UK out of the EU.
PM Cameron out! UK out! In vote to leave EU
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In a referendum that the world paid keen attention to on June 23, 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union, with the Leave campaign securing around 51.8 per cent of the vote.
UK & Bermuda referendums today: Same-sex marriage & EU status!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The political and intellectual classes in the territory will have their eyes on two important votes today that could have direct implications on the Virgin Islands (VI).