Category: Op-ed
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Source Manager's Journal: Jobs and the Future of the Virgin Islands
In an ongoing series of columns, Frank Schneiger works to find solutions to the difficult organizational problems that affect government, most businesses…
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Columbine: 10th Anniversary Of A Black Swan
Jack Wilson writes that in God’s world, Black Swans happen — something that can’t happen, but does happen.
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Source Manager's Journal: Non-Profits — Good News and a Warning
In an ongoing series of columns, Frank Schneiger works to find solutions to the difficult organizational problems that affect government, most businesses…
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Recycling: 99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall…
David North questions the math on the number of bottles per annum that need to be recycled on St. John, and he…
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Easter: Myth, Fact And Truth
Jack Wilson writes that the Easter story, like other universal myths, strikes a common human chord that transcends time and crosses cultural…
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Charlotte Amalie Harbor Dredging Project a Win-Win for St. Thomas
The plans to dredge Charlotte Amalie Harbor are environmentally sound and economically necessary, say Edward Thomas and Cassan Pancham.
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Recovery Act Gives SBA Tools to Boost Small Businesses
The district Small Business Administration director says the Obama Administration is determined to employ the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the…
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Transfer of Virgin Islands to the United States is History; What Will the Future Hold?
History professor Malik Sekou says though it is easy to trace the history of the U.S. military since the transfer of the…
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Source Manager's Journal: Sounding the Alarm About Non-Profits
In an ongoing series of columns, Frank Schneiger works to find solutions to the difficult organizational problems that affect government, most businesses…
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St. Patrick: Myth And Legend In Religion
Jack Wilson writes that myths and legends don’t have to be factual or provable to perform their function as supportive adjuncts of…
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St. Patrick: Myth And Legend In Religion
don’t have to be factual or provable to perform their function as supportive adjuncts of the faith.
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The Implications of Sexual Assault Upon Victims: What We Need to Know
We have an epidemic of the rape of children within the Virgin Islands. And while no two cases are ever the same,…
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The Implications of Sexual Assault Upon Victims: What We Need to Know
We have an epidemic of the rape of children within the Virgin Islands. And while no two cases are ever the same,…
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Why Do Men Batter?
Iris Kern explains the general knowledge of why men abuse women and also the specific reasons why it exists in the Virgin…
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Why Do Men Batter?
Iris Kern explains the general knowledge of why men abuse women and also the specific reasons why it exists in the Virgin…
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Why Do Men Batter?
Iris Kern explains the general knowledge of why men abuse women and also the specific reasons why it exists in the Virgin…
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St. Croix and Stanford
Omer ErSelcuk enumerates the positive possibilities of the financial crisis surrounding Allen Stanford, in an effort to help Virgin Islanders, particularly Crucians,…
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Omer ErSelcuk enumerates the positive possibilities of the financial crisis surrounding Allen Stanford, in an effort to help Virgin Islanders, particularly Crucians,…
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St. Croix and Stanford
Omer ErSelcuk enumerates the positive possibilities of the financial crisis surrounding Allen Stanford, in an effort to help Virgin Islanders, particularly Crucians,…
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Ted Haggard Redux
In light of the latest drubbing taken by hapless Ted Haggard and the New Life megachurch over his sexual peccadilloes, Jack Wilson…
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The Greed Has Become Overwhelming
Our latest experience with the meltdown of our financial system and the bailout should be reviewed in light of the reality of…
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Will the Real Ancestral Natives Please Stand Up
For anyone to use the term ancestral native in reference to Europeans and Africans living on any Caribbean island, that term is…
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The Greed Has Become Overwhelming
Our latest experience with the meltdown of our financial system and the bailout should be reviewed in light of the reality of…
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Will the Real Ancestral Natives Please Stand Up
For anyone to use the term ancestral native in reference to Europeans and Africans living on any Caribbean island, that term is…
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The Greed Has Become Overwhelming
Our latest experience with the meltdown of our financial system and the bailout should be reviewed in light of the reality of…
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Will the Real Ancestral Natives Please Stand Up
For anyone to use the term ancestral native in reference to Europeans and Africans living on any Caribbean island, that term is…
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The Deadly Third Day After Christmas
In Christian groups with a liturgical worship tradition the Bible readings at any given service are not selected willy-nilly by the preacher;…
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The Deadly Third Day After Christmas
According to Jack Wilson, in Christian groups with a liturgical worship tradition the Bible readings at any given service are not selected…
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Alexei II – R.I.P.
Jack Wilson remembers the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, and some minor cultural differences between Christians in America and elsewhere.
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The Life of the Pilot, Aircraft Mechanic and Entrepreneur Ken Webster
Col. Caroline F. Adams pays tribute to a friend and coworker, pilot Ken Webster, who died in a plane accident with two…