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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 4, 2011

  NATO's inevitable war

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate)   AS opposed to the situation in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies first place in the Human Development Index within Africa and has the highest life expectancy rate on the continent. Education and health receive...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 15, 2011

  Obama’s speech in Arizona

Reflections of FideL   (Taken from CubaDebate)     I listened to it yesterday when he spoke at the University of Tucson during a tribute to the six people murdered and the 14 injured in the Arizona massacre, and in particular to the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 16, 2010

  A colossal madhouse

Reflections of Fidel THAT is what the G20 meeting that began yesterday in Seoul, capital of the Republic of Korea, has turned into. "What is the G20?" many readers, inundated with initials, will ask. Yet another monster of the powerful empire and its richest allies, which created...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 13, 2010

  One in seven Americans now living in poverty

By Patrick Martin: Census figures for 2009, to be released Thursday, are expected to show that the poverty rate soared last year to nearly 15 percent. One out of every seven Americans is now living below the official poverty level, the highest proportion since the 1960s. One in five...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 15, 2010

  The politics of race in America

Claude Robinson NEW YORK — The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States was hailed by some as a signal that America was about to begin an era of post-race politics. It doesn't look so now. Indeed, as politicians and pundits go through the dog days of summer in...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 23, 2010

  Bahamas: '10 per cent or more' unemployment to be the 'norm'

By NEIL HARTNELL - Tribune Business Editor: THE Bahamas may be stuck with a "10 per cent or more" unemployment rate that will become the "norm" for two to three years, a well-known retired banker told Tribune Business yesterday, with the Bahamas Telecommunications Company's (BTC)...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 10, 2009

  Bahamas: Tax system 'inadequate' to reduce fiscal deficit

By NEIL HARTNELL - Tribune Business Editor: THE current Bahamian tax system is "not adequate to reduce the fiscal deficit on a long-term basis", a senior accountant told Tribune Business yesterday, urging the Government to broaden its revenue base by introducing a new structure in a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 27, 2009

  Cubans fear hard times ahead, impatient for change

By Marc Frank: HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cubans are bracing for hard times in 2010 as President Raul Castro slashes imports and cuts government spending to get Cuba out of crisis -- and they are growing impatient with the slow pace of economic reform. Hurricanes, the global recession, US...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 20, 2009

  Jamaica: Hoping for a bold Mr Golding

It is good that neither Prime Minister Golding nor Finance Minister Shaw feels it worthwhile to attack Moody's over its downgrade of Jamaica's sovereign debt by two rungs to Caa1. That would be just a case of shooting the messenger, as was the case a fortnight ago when Standard and Poor's (S&P)...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 1, 2009

  Latin America/The Caribbean: Hunger still prevalent

Only Brazil, Chile and Cuba have advanced in the fight against hunger. The population suffering from hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean is on the rise again, said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Oct. 16, World Food Day. Jacques Diouf, the body´s...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 21, 2009

  Bahamas: Government budget cuts loom

By JUAN MCCARTNEY ~ Guardian Senior Reporter ~ juan@nasguard.com: Information obtained by The Nassau Guardian suggests that at the beginning of May the government was planning a 7 percent 'across-the-board' budget cut, which would include personnel cuts. Documentation received by...... [view]

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