The government’s decision to increase the minimum wage from $6 to $8.50 per hour at the end of November is an important step in the right direction. But for too …
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July 29, 2024
May 8, 2024
EDITORIAL: Resources, empathy best tools for unauthorised immigration
The recent rise in migrants entering the Virgin Islands without authorisation is part of a heart-wrenching regional crisis that is likely to get worse before it gets better. Since mid-February, …
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October 28, 2020
COMMENTARY — Covid seen to worsen poverty
Thirty years from today, a new world powered by robotics, artificial intelligence and quantum physics will be upon us. In that future, if a person incidentally ventures into a virtual …
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