Category: Op-ed
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HOSPITAL AUTONOMY? WHAT'S TO LOSE?
Kirk Grybowski questions what we have to lose by granting autonomy to the territory's hospitals. After all, Grybowski says, it has worked…
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PLAN NOW FOR DISABILITY, LACK OF AGILITY
What if you became disabled and everything around you in your home became suddenly inaccessible? Catherine L. Mills says now is the…
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LAW MAKES CRIMINALS OF BUSINESS PEOPLE
The law linking business licenses to tax-clearance letters has had unintended consequences and needs to be repealed, says former V.I. official Gaylord…
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'JUST SAY NO TO PROSSER'
"The true test of the Turnbull/James team is here, writes attorney Lee J. Rohn. "Whether they will be like most other politicians…
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UVI–RENEWING THE DREAM
Former UVI professor Dr. Joseph Lisowski says we must not lose sight of the dream of having a premier university in the…
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THANK YOU, GOV. TURNBULL
"We must be able to reward highly productive employees in their productive positions, and withhold wage increases from employees documented as failing…
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THANK YOU, GOV. TURNBULL
"We must use selective termination to rid our government of freeloaders," writes Kirk Grybowski. "We must move beyond the mentality that dictates…
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IS MY MIND JUST GETTING NARROWER?
Do the same things that bug Catherine L. Mills bug you too? Things like people who talk in movie theaters, and people…
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APRIL FOOL'S DAY HEADLINE CHILLING
Local businessman and civic leader Vinnie Mohanani wonders what is really for sale in the proposed Prosser-V.I. deal.
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DECADE MAKES
Frank J. Jordan notes a large touch of irony in a V.I. Independent editorial on the Daily News role in illuminating the…
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COMMUNICATIONS IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
Terence Thomas lays out why our telecommunications are what they are and where we need to go to. He also discusses our…
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AT LAST!
After one disappointment and then another — missing HIM first in Tortola and then right in her own backyard — Molly Morris…
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BUT I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ON ST. CROIX
The Daily News claims it was not fed the news of its owner Jeffrey Prosser's deal with the V.I. Government. Frank Jordan…
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WE'RE PLAYING THE WRONG NUMBERS GAME
Reducing the number of V.I. senators is a step in the wrong direction, and distracts us from the real problems inherent in…
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PERFORMANCE MATTERS MOST, NOT SIZE
"It would be safe to wager that the majority of Virgin Islanders do not give a hoot about the mere size of…
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FIX THE SYSTEMS OR NOTHING WILL CHANGE
Yes, we need to increase our revenues, but we also need to spend what we do have much more wisely, says Catherine…
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ON TOUR WITH THE DANES
"Once again it is most interesting to see our island through the eyes of a stranger," writes Kirk Grybowski, one of the…
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THE SAME OLD STUFF? YES, BUT
Some say the Legislature's recent economic summit was just more of the same. Frank Jordan says yes — but there it doesn't…
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'WHAT A LOVELY ISLAND WE HAVE'
"No one ever said it is easy to party," writes Kirk Grybowski, one of the hosts for 61 Danes now visiting the…
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
In his keynote speech at the recent Economic Summit, economist Richard W. Moore offered a perspective on where this territory has been,…
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AUSTRALIA, HERE I COME
"I am sitting here dripping in emu oil while contemplating last Sunday's disgrace at the Jogger Jam," writes Molly Morris. That leads…
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TORTURED CAT, TORTURED KIDS
There is an epidemic of sexual abuse of children in the Virgin Islands, yet one cat death has perhaps engendered more public…
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A TALE OF TWO NEWSPAPERS
Frank J. Jordan counts and recounts the blessings and foibles of St. Thomas's two daily newspapers — not counting the Source, which…
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THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (EXCEPT HERE)
Never mind Y2K being a problem for the Virgin Islands. Frank Jordan thinks it may be a perfect marketing device for us.…
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AMRAM AND ELVIS
"I thought of Elvis as I looked around at the virtually sold-out audience at Tillett's and wondered why I saw so few…
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TEN MINUTES OF GLORY
To have loved and lost is one thing, but to have a bright shiny trophy in your hand one minute and gone…
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LESSONS FROM GUAM
Recent editorials in the St. Thomas Source and the Daily News about the dirty condition of St. Thomas on the eve of…
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MEDIA WATCH
There's a saying that "Doctors bury their mistakes; journalists publish them for everyone to see," writes Jean Etsinger. Want some recent home-grown…
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ISSUES TO CONSIDER AT THE SUMMIT
Participants in the upcoming Economic Summer just need to look at one item — the government's enormous accounts receivables/collections — to figure…
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AND ALL THAT JAZZ
"I want to go back to a small space, the tinkle of glass where whiskey is poured, a shuffling of bar stools,…