Talk:British Virgin Islands

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I know it's good to organize and split up articles, but to have the entire article split up? I think we should all of the linked articles reside in this article. --Lan56 03:35, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Wikipedia:Caribbean Wikipedians' notice board 2 Saturates? 3 Economy 4 Proposed WikiProject 5 Proposed Merger of the US and British Virgin Islands 6 GDP per capita

[edit] Wikipedia:Caribbean Wikipedians' notice board

I would like to announce the establishment of the Wikipedia:Caribbean Wikipedians' notice board. Anyone with an interest in the Caribbean is welcome to join in. Guettarda 1 July 2005 13:37 (UTC)

[edit] Saturates?

1999 census reports

   Black 83.36%
   White 7.28% (includes British, American, Portuguese, & Syrian/Lebanese)
   Mixed 5.38%
   East Indian 3.14%
   Others 0.84% (of which saturates: 0.67%) 

What does saturate mean? Claret 20:39, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

• I assume it's a joke (reference being food labels which say stuff like "10g fat, of which 2g saturates"). I'm removing it. If I'm mistaken and it's not a joke then if reinstated it definitely needs explanation. Matt 16:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Economy

I have deleted "The economy is closely linked to that of the larger U.S. Virgin Islands to the west," because it just isn't really true (it was, perhaps, true in the 70s, but certainly not since the development of the offshore finance industry). If anyone disagarees strongly they can revert. Legis 07:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed WikiProject

There is now a proposed WikiProject for the Caribbean area, including the British Virgin Islands, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Caribbean. Interested parties should add their names there so we can determine if there is enough interest to start such a project in earnest. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Merger of the US and British Virgin Islands

I saw an article in the Island Sun newspaper on the history of the British Virgin Islands [1] and it says that in 1964 "A plebiscite on the question of merger between the US and British Virgin Islands is suggested but not acted upon". Does anybody know any more about this proposed merger and what it would have involved? Would the BVI have become part of the US territory or vice versa? Or would they have become a single territory under joint administration? (I've copied this query at the USVI discussion page)72.27.2.68 06:35, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

The proposal, as I understood it, was that the BVI was to be "offered for sale" to the U.S. in the same way that the Danish had sold the USVI. At the time the BVI was in fairly dire economic straights, and Britain had no real enthusiasm for supporting it (being in a period of extended recession itself). The BVI at the time was in a period of constitutional upheaval, and it was one of the options that got kicked around during some fairly fraught constitutional negotiations, but I don't think it ever got terribly far. Certainly no one ever thought of asking the Americans what they thought about it.

In the final analysis the BVI adopted a new constitution in 1967 (its current one, at time of writing), tourism grew a bit and kept the Territory afloat financially, and then about a decade later the offshore financial industry arrived, and the Territory never looked back. In Vernon Pickering's book, A Concise History of the British Virgin Islands, he says: "...the idea of amalgamation with the United States was simply a radical argument to obtain more autonomy ... popular support for such a move was more a matter of speculation than reality" (Vernon is also editor of the Island Sun). In the event, the gambit worked.

--Legis (talk - contributions) 14:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GDP per capita

According to the CIA World Fact Book, The British Virgin Islands has a GDP/Capita valued at $38,500. That is even higher than Britan, which is rated at $31,400. Interesting don't you think? --nocturnal omnivorous canine 20:40, 1 February 2007 (UTC)