Debt-ridden budget season under way
AMID ANOTHER week of misgivings about the war in Iraq, the Budget season was launched last week with traditional ceremonial. It marked the start of a new parliamentary session which had its own misgivings about the state of the nation and the...
Where lies educational responsibility?
I WAS relieved to learn that the Government has fulfilled its promise to award our more than 20,000 Government-paid teachers the increased salaries that they so richly deserve. Teachers are essential for the progress of any society; we cannot survive...
News from the Iraqi front
IN HIS book of essays (which a former friend has borrowed from me for over 30 years), Mark Twain interprets the story of Ezekiel and the priests of Baal, boasting as to whose was the greater God. Twain says that when Ezekiel asked the people to pour...
Future of the United Nations Security Council
MOST OF the commentators I have heard speak on the effects of the recent Iraqi debate on the United Nations Security Council would agree with President George W Bush that the Council has lost its relevance. I for one disagree entirely.
Public Affairs - The Budget: Not tough enough
THE MINISTER of Finance has finally presented the expenditure side of the 2003-2004 Budget. Now that all the nonsense about "alternative economic models" has been shown to be just that nonsense we can look at the issues squarely...
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