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Donald Trump

December 16, 2020

COMMENTARY — Need seen for ‘big government’

The 2008 financial crisis showed the Milton Friedman economic model of a laissez faire, production-oriented, trickledown, austere and financially driven economy to be a paper tiger. The idea that the …

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by Dickson Igwe
November 18, 2020

CARTOON (Nov. 12, 2020)

by BVI Beacon
Cartoon (November 19, 2020)
November 16, 2020

EDITORIAL: A new day in the US — and the Caribbean

Change has come to the United States, and as usual this means change has come to the rest of the world as well. The election of Joe Biden and Kamala …

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by BVI Beacon
November 13, 2020

Premier congratulates Biden, Harris

Premier Andrew Fahie extended congratulations from the Virgin Islands to United States President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on Saturday, shortly after news outlets called the election in …

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by Dana Kampa
November 4, 2020

VI watches hotly disputed US election

The closely watched United States presidential election proved to be a tight race, as patrons at one watch party in East End noted by cracking jokes about “Dewey wins!,” the …

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by Dana Kampa
October 30, 2020

VI wary as US heads to polls

An old adage proclaims, “When the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold.” As the country heads into a presidential election next Tuesday amid the Covid-19 pandemic, that wisdom …

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by Dana Kampa
April 23, 2020

United States releases Virgin Islands’ medical supplies

A shipment containing critical medical supplies for the fight against Covid-19 was released by United States Customs and Border Protection on Friday, and it arrived in the Virgin Islands on …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
April 22, 2020

COMMENTARY — ‘Horrific leadership’ abroad criticised

The unmitigated global spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is the result of gross incompetence in governance in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom. COVID-19 deaths globally …

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by Dickson Igwe
April 29, 2018

Islands Adrift: Trump politics hinder USVI climate change prep

PUERTO RICO CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM — When you approach St. John from the water now, the United States Virgin Island at first appears untouched by hurricanes Irma and Maria. …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS

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