Labor Day in the U.S. Virgin Islands as a Pathway to Community Development
September 8, 2025 – Justin Moorhead
Labor Day 2025 found me thinking again of the role of workers and their current status in societies created primarily through their labor. The framing probably resulted from the information I assimilated over the past three years in crafting for the Foundation for Development Planning, Inc its Caribbean Just Transition Initiative in 2024 and its…
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West Indians, Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter
August 4, 2020 – Justin Moorhead
Black Lives Matter resonates because both West Indian and American Blacks have together fought for social and legal justice and experienced the same identity negation.
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Applying the Concept of Resilience in the United States Virgin Islands
September 15, 2019 – Lloyd Gardner
Resilience is often discussed in relation to hardening of structures affected by natural and man-made events. The health or state of the affected entity (person, institution, structure, system, or community) also contributes to post-event regenerative capacity
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Future proofing a small community for success
November 3, 2018 – Gregory Bair
Making a community a good one in the moment is certainly hard, especially for smaller communities lacking the raw resources of large metropolitan areas. It takes determination, a shared plan, and persistence. However, a good community isn’t a temporary one; rather, good communities can and do last for generations. As such, it is important for…
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SBA Disaster Lending is not the Disaster Assistance Expected
August 23, 2018 – Justin Moorhead
Following Maria and Irma I submitted economic assistance applications to SBA’s Disaster Assistance Processing and Disbursement Center in Fort Worth. The experience has been frustrating and eleven- months later still ongoing. There has been little effort made by the SBA staff to go beyond voicing their appreciation of the application’s challenges to translating that concern…
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