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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]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 5, 2009

  Guyana government to bear cost if efforts to recover Bahamas investments fail, says president

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: President Bharrat Jagdeo says the Guyana government may phase an allocation of US$34 million over a ten-year period to be borne by the treasury should the monies invested by CLICO Guyana in CLICO Bahamas not be recovered, further bolstering the guarantee he made to...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 26, 2009

  BEWARE OBAMA’S TROJAN HORSE

By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann: Now that Obama is the president, fasten your seat belts. During his first year in office, and particularly during his first hundred days, we are about to witness the most prodigious output of legislation since 1981-2 (under Reagan), 1964-5 (under Johnson),...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 13, 2008

  Obama, expectations, realities and ‘those’ Muslims

By MUHAMMED ÇETİN: All around the world people rejoiced when Barack Obama was elected US president. Some perceive his election as a victory against "aggressive and unilateral neocon interests across the world." However, there are exaggerated expectations about the course of action...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 31, 2008

  Economic illiteracy

Reflections of Fidel: IN Zulia, Chavez made reference to “comrade Sarkozy,” and did so with a certain irony but he meant no offense. On the contrary, he was rather recognizing the sincerity of the president when he spoke in Beijing in his capacity as chairman of the European Community....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 17, 2008

  Is The Bahamian Government creating a welfare state of The Bahamas?

Letter: Bahamas Government creating a welfare state? Dear Sir: Over the past few weeks, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has obviously been feeling helpless with the many requests that he confronts for help from people grappling with the unkind effects of what is becoming a world wide...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 6, 2008

  Rescuing the rescue plan

By ASIM ERDİLEK: What a turbulent and dramatic week it was for the US and the global economies, with sudden political uncertainty about the fate of the bailout plan on top of the worsening financial crisis! The rescue plan had to be rescued itself with political scrambling and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008

  Bailout Blues

By Joseph E. Stiglitz: It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the United States’ financial system – indeed, global finance – is in a mess. And now, with the US House of Representatives having rejected the Bush administration’s proposed $700 billion bailout plan, it is also...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 29, 2008

  US debates bailout as crisis worsens

BY: ASIM ERDİLEK: The US Treasury’s sweeping bailout plan hastily presented to the US Congress last Monday to end the global financial crisis has unleashed a furious debate, stalling congressional approval of the plan. This welcome debate, after Congress commendably refused to...... [view]

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