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Emancipation and Self-determination in the U.S Virgin Islands: A Sojourn of our Past Struggles with…

Staff Consortium | April 29, 2023

Where does the term emancipation originate? Emancipation comes from the Latinate term emancipare- to emancipate or mancipium- slave. Translated literally, emancipium and mancipium mean to free the enslaved. Emancipation for scores of us in the U.S Virgin Islands and the rest of the Caribbean, symbolizes freedom from the shackles and bondage of African enslavement. Who does not want to be free to live his or her life as freely as he or she possibly can? While the same might be true, there are critical aspects of our cultural and political states of being that disallow us from enjoying the high levels of freedom of which we envision or dream. Here in the U.S Virgin Islands our Emancipation from the Danish Empire and Danish Rule occurred in the 1800s. Our territory was fully under Danish Rule since the 1670s. For example, Fort Christian and…

Days Cash on Hand: The Crucial Metric Behind the Virgin…

Staff Consortium | April 11, 2023

Earlier this year, the Government of the Virgin Islands (GVI) reported that it had ten to fifteen days…

Mrs. Jo Sandra Jones-James, A River of Blessings

Staff Consortium | March 31, 2023

People of African descent have a unique struggle that flows on the global stage, like a river that twists…

Happy 90th Birthday to Dr. Jose F. Poblete: A Lifetime…

Staff Consortium | March 29, 2023

Pictured above, lifelong friends: Lifelong friends  | Mrs. Emelda Dizon, Mrs. Dinorah Singh, former…

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The History of Brain Drain in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Staff Consortium | September 11, 2022

Frank Crosswaith was born in 1872 in Frederiksted. He immigrated to the United States in his teens. He attended the Rand School of Social Science. In 1925, he founded an organization called the “Tra...

Raising Cane: A Lost Opportunity

Staff Consortium | August 12, 2022

As a practicing attorney on St. Croix for thirty-one years, I am compelled to correct the misinformation that was tossed about at the Town Hall Meeting held on Monday, August 10, 2022. My knowledge o...

How NOT to Spend Seventeen Million Dollars

Staff Consortium | July 19, 2022

The V.I. Consortium recently reported that the Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority had miraculously “discovered” a surplus of $17 million in gross receipts tax revenues in the coffers of the P...

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