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Thanks to ‘Quiet Storm’ and others who often come to my defense saving me from wasting premium time on negative bloggers who hate themselves too much to try ...
BVI Beacon Contributor Roger Harris wrote in the November 17, 2011 Edition of the Newspaper, that owing to a number of idiosyncrasies with the November 7, General ...
The Virgin Islands Party (VIP) displaced the incumbent the National Democratic Party (NDP) in the 2007 General Election with a 10-2 drubbing at the polls; an ...
The first of two articles on a dramatically changed Virgin Islands power and political landscape A political hurricane has just ravaged the Virgin Islands leaving a ...
The campaign curtain for the hotly contested 07 November 2011 general election is quickly closing. And Virgin Islanders are blessed with the right, privilege, ...
Backward? or Forward?… For years we have been spouting the Mumu slang ‘Everything Good?’ and I have tried to explain to some that this phrase is more than ...
The general election teed up for November 7, 2011 was projected to be highly competitive and hotly contested. Thus far the campaign is red hot and living up to its ...
This Writer, and Public Officer in her Majesty’s Government, is fully aware of the fine line, maybe even tight rope, he has walked over the years. He is always ...
Thanks for your comments… They are all taken seriously even if and when we disagree. For your information I knew Noel Lloyd and Noel Lloyd knew me so if you are ...
Steven Melendez, in the British Virgin Islands Beacon Newspaper edition of October 20, 2011, an article titled ‘’ Candidates take on crime,’’ wrote that ...
Thanks to those who have stood in support of Articles I wrote and gave no credence to responses that only exhibit the significant folly of some writers… ‘Real ...
This middle aged, British West Indian of African heritage, has always known that old age is an honorable and venerable station and estate in life. After all, he ...
Lo! The paradox unfolds. The gleam of the golden morn of freedom pierces through the night of gloom and oppression. The old paradigms and systems are decaying, ready ...
As the country approaches a monumental and historic General Election, the game of intrigue and power, all part of determining who rules the Virgin Islands for four ...
Without vision the people perish: so said an ancient king, also a great Virgin Islands Statesman. The following narrative adopts that visionary posture by offering ...
Fellow Virgin Islanders, lend me your ears. I’d like us to have a simple conversation. Politics tends to be a lot of smoke and mirrors but I’m here on a mission, ...
The world is shrinking dramatically, and much more so than at any other time in human history. This is due to a type of technology that works at the speed of light ...
The conflict, or constant tug of war between the proponents of ecological and environmental sustainability, and those that see a need for economic progress and ...
Have you ever seen the strength of a woman when her back is against the wall? When all the promises that were made were broken? When every tear that falls from her ...
This lay conservationist was grateful to read in the BVI Beacon of August 25, 2011 William Walker’s rendition to the continuing saga that is the Beef Island Resort ...
The British Virgin Islands election season is upon us. Underneath a blanket of deceptive calm, there is a powerful political volcano about to erupt. A tightly corked ...
Recent rioting and vandalism in Britain was not a sudden explosion of violence and anarchy, as some of the British intelligentsia would have it. No, it was deeper; ...
Britons, who may claim shock at the recent chaos on the streets of that Ancient kingdom and Parliamentary Democracy fall into two groups: the landed aristocracy and ...
What is the current state of our education system? Sadly, the school system in the Virgin Islands, which produced so many of our past and present scholars, is ...
Ever so often we turn our thoughts to personalities we call our Heroes; persons who have had an impact on our world, not just locally, but globally. Among such ...
Since the devastating demise of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and after four years of rule of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) it still remains that the best ...
I paid a visit this past week to the BVI Electricity Corporation’s (BVIEC) cashier’s office to settle my bill and overheard a conversation that made me pause and ...
It is indeed paradoxical, that the first coloured president in US history has presided over the steepest decline in black living standards since the 1960s. When ...
This lay conservationist fully appreciates the rendition and love song to the beautiful geography that is the Virgin Islands. A song frequently sung by one of the ...
This Community Servant attended a seminar on gangs recently that had him thinking. Yes, afterwards, with chin on fist, he took on the posture of thought. Now, as ...
Human beings are overwhelmingly reactive. That is this observer’s opinion, and if you do not agree with him, he begs to differ. When the US was hit on September ...
The passing into law of the right for gays to marry in New York cannot be a surprise. New York is considered one of the more liberal states of the United States, ...
Your layman observer of things mortal and immortal, or eternal and temporal, add religious and secular is in a quandary. He is a reluctant lay preacher, who like ...
Your observer distinctly dislikes economic narrative. Why? Because he finds it restricting, frequently pessimistic, and filled with words such as demand, supply, ...
A prominent business leader in the Virgin Islands community was recently in tears, on the radio, where he expressed his wish to create a volunteer force of citizens ...
A series of articles discusses the Scholar Fareed Zakaria’s discourse on global innovation and power. At no other time in world history has science and technology ...
A movie screened recently in the one cinema in the Virgin Islands, Ups Cineplex, Road Town, was a wonderfully enchanting and sunny animation in 3 Dimension called ...
The last economic recession began in a United States housing market that was built on a foundation of sand, maybe worse, sawdust. When the housing bubble burst it ...
First of three articles on the decline of racism in the USA and West From the time of the Tower of Babel and the beginning of variants of language, when men began to ...
Technology in the 20th and 21st centuries has grown in power and scope, and exponentially so. The computer has transformed society so much so, that it is becoming ...
The recent arrest and incarceration of the Head of the International Monetary Fund and prospective future President of France, Dominic Strauss-Kahn, a Strauss- Kahn ...
Why are we here? I’ve always wished to receive enough wisdom to answer that question. I posed this question to a wide variety of persons and we all came down to ...
Europe and the Mediterranean have been the drivers of world history from the time of Greek Civilization 2000 years Before Christ’s historic appearance, up and ...
The far Eastern nations may be the swiftest growing global economies; Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (collectively known as BRICS) are the new ...
On September 11, 2001, the world changed dramatically. The cause was an attack, cold and coordinated, on the United State’s mainland. Over 3000 people were killed ...
A series of articles on growing American wealth inequalities and reviews of an essay by Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz The idea that the USA is the great land of ...
When we reflect on the history of seemingly ‘random’ violence or other forms of highly offensive, irrational behaviour, we see a common pattern of reaction from ...
The first of two articles on the critical importance of family in effecting positive social change in Virgin Islands community. Today’s wedding of Britain’s and ...
The first of two articles on growing American wealth inequalities. Review of an essay by American economist and professor Joseph E Stiglitz It is often said that it ...
The birth of the modern United States began with the establishment of small puritanical type European communities on a colossal and bountiful Continental geography, ...
Is a society of savers necessarily a bad thing as some of the economic experts would have us believe? Is it not a good thing to wait until you can afford to buy a ...
The following article is an exhortation to love, compassion and forgiveness in the Virgin Islands Christian community, in the midst of increasing friction and ...
The surfeit of the dueling public and the storm of accusations about Barbadians’ poor treatment of visitors that are not tourists or others of European descent, ...
This is an article on global social and economic inequality One great social anomaly that is a threat, and a great risk, to any hope for cohesive and wholesome ...
A marriage of global import will take place at London’s Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011. It will be marked in these Virgin Islands, a tiny geography in the ...
I would like to begin by saying that my prayers go out to the family of the young man that lost his life in the recent accident at Beef Island. I am a big fan of ...
Circa the Virgin Islands, March 2011, and what is the state of the global economy in relation to this tiny jurisdiction and overseas territory of Great Britain, ...
As I sit and write this piece, the struggles of my mind plunges me into a dark abyss. The rhythmic palpation of my heart faints as death seems to be a preferred end; ...
A series of articles on the 2012 US elections for Congress, the Senate and the Presidency On March 19, 2011, global cable networks showed a US President, the first ...
This perennial observer has been reading an article about the beautiful Island of Mauritius, a tropical geography of 1.3 million people lying off the east Coast of ...
Welcome to the BVI’s national boardroom where the only item on the agenda is to change the level of conversation about our country and have an intelligent debate ...
Hearts are aching once again over the death of another young man, gunned down in a cold-blooded shooting attack. To date, it is the latest and most deadly of a ...
The recent gun related death of a precious son, a number of devastating firearm injuries in past days, then a spate of gun crimes in weeks gone by, is a shocking ...
A series of commentaries on upcoming general elections in the Virgin Islands and United States. It is gearing up to be an exciting and exhilarating election year. ...
The final article on the changing social, political, economic and racial complexion of the Americas. Throughout the Americas, the Spanish or Latina culture, ...