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I applaud the premier for wanting to revitalise the applications of those who have been waiting years for residency and belongership. I suppose this isn’t spurred on by the United …
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Somebody please tell me this is a joke? Over the years we have seen sensible investors such as the Rockefellers, Dr. Henry Jarecki and Sir Richard Branson. But many carpetbaggers …
So we are to get a third reincarnation of the “litter wardens.” What happened to the previous two times they were appointed? Were they paid? Are they still being paid? …
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It is nice to know that the Water and Sewerage Department building will soon be restored. I wonder if the WSD director and the new minister of transportation, works and …
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To hear that the festival finances are already $300,000 in the red is not really a surprise. Vendors and suppliers have continually complained that they don’t get paid. Successive governments …
Talk show host Claude Skelton-Cline knows perfectly well why the British government imposed the Recovery and Development Agency on us. Just one reason. Successive governments here have shown themselves to …
First, members of the Virgin Islands’ ruling party resigned because they did not like their newly elected leader. Now, in the United Kingdom seven members of the opposition Labour Party …
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Well done, Virgin Islands! We ran a successful election with only a little noise, and no serious incidents. The electorate has spoken — whether wisely or not, we shall see …
Where the Virgin Islands leads, the United Kingdom will follow. First, members of the VI’s ruling party resigned because they did not like their newly elected leader. Now, in the …
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I would just like to point out to the Afrikan Studies Klub, and indeed the Beacon editorial writer, that the club cannot possible pay tribute to ancestors who lost their …
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It’s February. February. Are they here yet? Where are they? Who? Why, the 450 medical students who were to arrive this month to begin, or continue, their studies. Perhaps the …
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For those who don’t have time to attend, watch or read the various parties’ election campaigning, here is a short list of promised items. You will note that there are …
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On Monday fishermen were seen taking five turtles from Little Harbour, Peter Island. It may be open season, but that is pretty disgusting, especially as they may have been taking …
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The election campaign is hotting up and we are promised a Shangri La paradise by all candidates. Quite why we haven’t got it already with the billions of dollars of …
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In all the recent turmoil concerning the Elmore Stoutt High School wall, I can’t help thinking that most readers and listeners will have been gobsmacked, as I was, at the …
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I wonder why the representative for the Third District, and his presumably one-man new party, has resurrected his plans for the Sea Cows Bay Harbour project, circa 1999, on Facebook. …
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After all the political shenanigans of last week, it is noted that no sooner had the governor’s feet left the tarmac last Thursday for London than government called a Cabinet …
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Fourteen months after the hurricanes, when are the government, the minister of communications and works, and the postmaster general going to get something done about the appalling state of our …
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Thank goodness that by the time you read this, the United States Virgin Islands runoff election will be over. Why did we have to be bombarded all hours of the …
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My goodness me! What a lot of vitriolic, biased, racist comments we see online these days. If the following is really how people feel, we are in trouble. The latest …
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Yes, it’s good to be back: driving in from the airport after dark, blinded by all the full beam headlights coming towards me and overtaken by scooter riders with no …
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Over 46 years in the Virgin Islands, I have come to realise that we don’t like paying our bills, whether as individuals, corporations or government. I know people are hurting …
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Where is our money? You know, the stuff we pay our taxes with, for the government to spend on our behalf? Did it all get blown out of the banks …
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It was interesting to note that in the Standing Finance Committee it is being suggested that people who do not have to contribute to the National Health Insurance fund, but …
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