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How capital drives social inequality
Dickson C. Igwe
The idea that education and hard work are the great equalizers is wonderfully aspirational. It is however woefully inadequate as a theory.
The rule of capital
Dickson C. Igwe
Capital is resources that drive social and economic growth: finance, machinery, land, technology, labor, skills, and management.
A generous community learns a hard lesson
Dickson C. Igwe
A community coming together to aid one stricken by personal financial crisis is admirable. However, that assistance must come with safeguards for those who contribute their cash. There are caveats when assisting persons in need.
Cain & Abel
Dickson C. Igwe
Fratricide—brother killing brother—appears endemic in black communities in the USA. That sad, narrative has visited the shores of the British Virgin Islands. Our paradise is being lost by hatred and feuding between members of a supposedly close-knit community. It has to stop.
Politics is science, even in the Virgin Islands
Dickson C. Igwe
The Virgin Islands possesses its own unique political ecosystem. These paradise islands are a difficult place to predict political outcomes successfully.
Food security in the Virgin Islands
Dickson C. Igwe
All nations depend on outside countries to fill in crucial links in their supply chains. The preceding is at the core of modern-day globalization. However, when crises such as war and natural disaster strike, there is a sober realization that a level of national self-sufficiency is wise. Food especially is a key driver of national security.
Countries that meet the highest benchmarks
Dickson C. Igwe
The road to El Dorado passes through honest governance and high standards of social behavior by every resident of a society
That the quality of a society is in the behaviors of its people is a valid assertion.
Impunity in Governance
Dickson C. Igwe
The well-worn cliché, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, is an assertion that should guide Julius Caesar, if he or she wants a wholesome, happy, and lengthy tenure in office. Sadly it never really does. When he possesses power, Caesar is unrestrained in his appetites.
UK oversight steadies an unruly vessel
Dickson C. Igwe
Wise residents fully understand that UK oversight of the Virgin Islands is required at this time. Complete culture change towards an honest society is the singular route to self-determination for the territory. Until then, UK oversight is necessary for the Virgin Islands.
Values make a nation
Dickson C. Igwe
A country without an appropriate set of guiding values and principles: invisible rules of conscience and morality that sit in the hearts and souls of its residents, is a vessel with neither compass nor rudder. It will end up on the rocks.
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