Daily Features

They fear us because we are not afraid: Honduran women resist the coup

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.

What the people say about…Television

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.

Asia treading near overconfidence

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.

Errol Tiwari

World champion visits Botswana

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.

Wayne Brown

Lest we forget

In Our Time Seventy years ago last week, the armies of Hitler swept into Poland, in the opening act of what would soon be World War II.

David Jessop

Venezuela is now the single most important economic actor in the eastern Caribbean

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.

My race, religion – and politics

-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.

The Gardens of Georgetown

History This Week By Arlene Munro In the city of Georgetown there are beautiful, scenic gardens that delight the eyes of citizens and tourists alike.

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