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Shopping local provides personal and national benefits beyond the normal customary exchange between buyers and sellers of goods and services. Buying local helps ...
The beginning of a series of articles reviewing a recent news media debate on whether or not the Virgin Islands will grow its tourism and commerce by becoming a ...
There are few times in the history of any society where opportunity presents itself more than once. In many ways, the BVI has bucked regional economics trends over ...
In observance of Universal Human Rights Day, human rights awareness promoter, Sandra Phillip Hodge of Related by Humanity is organizing a Safety Awareness Scooter ...
“You must be the change you want to see in the world”, said Mahatma Gandhi, the 20th century Indian spiritual and political leader at a time when Indians were ...
Imagine my amazement the other night when I went to book two flights on American Airlines (AA) from Beef Island to San Juan. The price: $755 for one adult and one ...
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 ...
The death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi should not be a cause for rejoicing but rather it should lead us to reflect on our own eventual death and on the moral ...
The role of government (governing) anywhere and at any level is inherently challenging and complex; government has the unenviable task of trying to meet the needs ...
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 ...
Without vision the people perish. Where there is no vision the people perish. These expressions or variations of them are bandied about by many politically engaged ...
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 ...
Before the floods of 2010, I have been jogging in the vicinity of Paraquita Bay; more specifically along the agricultural road. Since the 2010 floods until now there ...
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 ...
I recently read the above captioned article on this online news site regarding the status of children born in and out of wedlock, as it relates to English Common Law ...
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 Virgin Islands (VI) is at a crossroad in its development. Many of its sons and daughters contributed immensely to its present ascent up the growth and ...
Hello, once again to all who are reading this article. It has been some time since I wrote anything and I have been encouraged to continue writing by persons in the ...
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 call on legal fraternities, legally inclined citizens and legislatures, to help me if I may have said anything in this article which might be legally inaccurate. ...
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 ...
Let me throw this question to the reading public,then prepare myself to take blows: WHY DO WE NEED THREE FESTIVALS AT THE SAME TIME ON A SMALL ISLAND LIKE TORTOLA? I ...
In recent decades, the Catholic Church has been a prophetic voice warning that no-fault divorce, contraception, cohabitation and promiscuity would lead to a ...
Amy Winehouse’s public descent into the primitive abyss of promiscuous sex, profanity and drugs is a reflection of a society that, as her last album title ...
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 ...
First, I would like to offer my best wishes to the newly launched political party, the People’s Patriotic Alliance, and its three candidates for the upcoming ...
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 ...
I am blessed to have associated myself with wonderful men and women whom I have met throughout my life who were able to deposit positively into my life’s account. ...
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 ...
Having been somewhat familiar with love of varying types over the years, I thought I might as well try to understand it. I’ve come up with little, lol. It is a ...
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 ...
I recall several years ago, the late Honourable Paul P. Wattley made a passionate and gallant attempt to address the need for organized public transportation, beyond ...
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 ...
“…take heed that no man deceive you” – Matthew 24:4 Good Morning to all our readers. There is some myth going around that Judgment Day is on Saturday, ...
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 ...