Category: Op-ed
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Source Manager’s Journal: What Would King Make of 2014?
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was at his peak. He led a civil rights movement that shattered the legal structures…
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Virtue of the Week: Diligence
Diligence helps you to get things done with excellence and enthusiasm. Diligence leads to success.
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Love – Don’t Hate
Khnuma Simmonds-Esannason writes that criminalizing violence and hate speech against the LGBTQ community is an important step in the direction of achieving…
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Reparations Reloaded
Shelley Moorhead says that reparations are an idea whose time has come, and it is a contest that the U.S. Virgin Islands…
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Virtue of the Week: Perseverance
When you stick to your goals no matter what the obstacles are, you are practicing perseverance.
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Virtue of the Week: Honor
Honor is living by the virtues, showing great respect for yourself, other people, and the rules you live by. When you are…
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Virtue of the Week: Joyfulness
Joyfulness is an inner sense of peace and happiness. You appreciate the gifts each day brings. Joy can carry us through the…
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Virtue of the Week: Patience
Patience is quiet hope and trust that things will turn out right. You picture the end in the beginning and persevere to…
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Source Manager’s Journal: Countdown
There are places where it is not possible to see a way out or to think of approaches that could provide a…
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How Do We Move the Territory Forward Economically?
Bernard Dyer believes that in order to achieve economic success, Virgin Islanders must use innovative thinking and strategies that can give it…
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Virtue of the Week: Tolerance
Being tolerant is accepting differences. You don’t expect others to think, look, speak or act just like you. You are free of…
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Virtue of the Week: Understanding
Understanding is the power to think and learn and also to care.An understanding mind gives you insights and wonderful ideas. An understanding…
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Not Only on Thanksgiving: Just for Today
I offer the thought below adapted from the AlAnon program as a way to live, not just for Thanksgiving, but for every…
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Caribbean Tourism – The Numbers Game
Anton E. Edmunds covers a lot of ground about the tourism industry in the Caribbean, how it is measured and its future.…
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Source Manager’s Journal: PRESIDENT KENNEDY
There is no Kennedy to inspire us in the way that he did. But at the community level, people can still make…
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Speak the Language of Consensus Building
The New Horizon Women’s Democratic Club of St. Croix encourages those in government and the media to engage in the politics of…
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This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Although it is rapidly going bankrupt, GERS will make a bonus payment to V.I. government pensioners. That is a nice little check…
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Power Generation with Propane is a ‘Win-Win’
Because propane is one of the cleanest burning fossil fuels, air quality on our islands will improve as a result of the…
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Caveat Lector
Gwen-Marie Moolenaar asks voters to be astute about whom they elect to the Board of Elections and other public offices, and to…
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This Is Our Parish
This is a statement from the Downtown Congregations of Charlotte Amalie working with Downtown Revitalization Inc. [DRI] to help create an attainable…
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Support Your Local Senior Center
Judith Freeman-Shimel asks that people support their local senior centers where seniors can get connected to programs and services geared to them.
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Source Manager's Journal: A Tale of Two Countries
Frank Schneiger sees some parallels between Italy’s woes and those of the V.I., and it’s not just a foundering economy.
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St. Thomas-St. John Chamber of Commerce Is in Disbelief at Senate Action
The St. Thomas-St. John Chamber of Commerce strongly disagrees with a recent amendment passed by the V.I. Legislature which gives benefits to…
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Source Manager’s Journal: The Four Freedoms
How does the territory do in preserving President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms? Freedom of speech and expression; freedom to worship God in your…
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Virtue of the Week: Responsibility
Being responsible means others can trust you to do things with excellence. You accept accountability for your actions. Responsibility is the ability…
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The Normalization of Mass Shootings
For the inured, it isn’t even jarring anymore to hear, “but your erectile dysfunction, that could be a problem of blood flow.”…
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VIPA Commends All Emergency Responders Who Helped VIFD Extinguish Gas Station Fire
Virgin Islands Port Authority Executive Director Carlton Dowe highly commends the Airport Rescue Fire Fighters, the law enforcement officers, other emergency responders,…
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Hansen Remarks a Disgrace
Khnuma Simmonds-Esannason is angry about the recent comments made by a senator about domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Virtue of the Week: Love
Love is a special feeling that fills your heart. You show love in a smile, a kind word, a thoughtful act or…
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Callendar Decries Senators' Behavior
Caswil Callendar speaks out about the bad behavior of some senators in the V.I. Legislature.