Going around in circles
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has once again placed on the table for public consideration and discussion a National Energy Policy including the possible re-introduction of a value-added tax on gas.
Transitions, and Portia's victory
WHEN PARLIAMENT opens in April for the new parliamentary year, the country's three top leaders will be new. Governor-General Professor Kenneth Hall, the first non-ex-politician at King's House, will be presenting...- Martin Henry
Hail the Prime Womister
I NORMALLY avoid speaking about politics like how politicians avoid speaking the truth when it really counts, but just as Carl Wint would have had something to say on the retirement of Edward Seaga,he would have commented on Portia..-Melville Cooke
Latin America marches leftward
WHEN IT elected the indigenous activist and anti-globalisation icon Evo Morales as its president, Bolivia became the latest Latin American country to turn left. In the 1990s, conventional wisdom held that democratisation... - John Rapley
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