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Magnus R. Latchman charged over local sex tape
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Police have confirmed that Magnus Rickie Latchman has been charged in relation to an alleged video recording of him engaging in a sexual act with a girl which had flooded Facebook recently.
Turkey PM Erdogan threatens to ban Facebook and YouTube
BBC NEWS
Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government could ban Facebook and YouTube, arguing that opponents are using social media to attack him.
Facebook to buy messaging app WhatsApp for $19bn
BBC NEWS
Facebook has bought messaging app WhatsApp in a deal worth a total of $19bn (£11.4bn) in cash and shares.
It is the social networking giant's biggest acquisition to date.
VG residents claim Oil Nut Bay Resort restricting access to bay
OIL NUT BAY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Several persons have recently been complaining that they are being forced to put up with a number of restrictions when it came to the accessing and usage of the sea area that forms part of Oil Nut Bay, especially when it came to swimming and accessing certain sections by boats.
More parents go online for melee & gossip - Hon. Fahie
CANE GARDEN BAY, Tortola, VI – More parents visit online news sites for ‘melee’ and gossip than those that actually visit for their children’s ‘Power School’ performance, according to First District Representative Hon. Andrew A. Fahie.
FACEBOOK - TWITTER: the pros and cons
By Dickson Igwe
The Antigua Observer said it best. ‘’On Sunday morning the sea kicked up to two meters, and the wind speed for the first start was 20 plus knots, when a vicious squall darkened the horizon in the Sir Francis Drake Channel. With wet sails, slippery decks and the big easterly breeze blowing squalls in off the Atlantic,’’ the race began.
A social media revolution that cannot be ignored!
by Dickson Igwe
Social media, this July 2012, increasingly influences private, public, and corporate life, and to a greater extent. In Western society, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, LINKEDIN, and others, are the new technological platforms, increasingly surpassing email, online messaging, and direct website access, as most popular, and one stop online applications. These are virtual communities, critically impacting real communities and societies, in real time. Increasingly, social digital platforms are becom
What God has put together, Facebook putting asunder – Dr. Fletcher
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With technology moving at such a rapid pace around the world, St. Lucia’s technology minister is calling for small island states to keep abreast with those changes if they are to remain competitive in the era of globalisation and tackled one of the world's biggest phenomenon - Facebook.
To FACEBOOK or not to FACEBOOK!
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.’’