In The Diaspora
Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora Column
Two weeks ago, an international delegation of human rights and feminist organizations representing countries from Latin America, Canada, Spain and the United States, traveled to Honduras on a fact-finding mission during Women’s Human Rights Week, to document the violation of women’s rights in the context of the coup of June 28 that deposed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya.
Interviews by Femi Harris
and photos by Jules GibsonThis week we asked the man/woman in the street their views about television programmes and if they thought that there are adequate educational programmes.
The Business Page
Introduction
After all the fears of economic Armaged-don, the Great Depression Mark II and no recovery until after mid-2010, the economies of the world have bounced back, and for the economists at least, the recession is over.
Latin View
SINGAPORE — Perusing the newsstand in the Hong Kong airport on my way here, I saw something that caught my eye: most of the books were about China and Asia’s allegedly unstoppable rise to the world’s foremost superpower.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australians Lesley and Doug McGrath have for decades battled ocean swells that have eaten away at the backyard of their multi-million dollar Sydney home.
Chess
World chess champion Vishy Anand paid a surprise visit to Botswana three weeks ago as a guest of the Indian technology company NIIT, and the Botswana Chess Federation.
The View From Europe
By David Jessop (Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe)In Europe and North America, governments and regulatory authorities are still debating how best to manage the behaviour of financial institutions that have become so large that should they fail, their operations would pose a systemic risk to the nations in which they are located.
-and, `locking up’ their own
Frankly Speaking
Believe me, these are simple – sometimes simplistic – thoughts on the issues, the implications and the contradictions, inherent in the titles mentioned in the main caption above.
Development Watch
Part 2
By Tarron Khemraj
Introduction
Last week’s column argued that the stage for nationalisation was set by the early 1950s owing to the Marxist-Leninist ideological orientation of the Jagan-led nationalist movement.