Professor the Honourable Manley West, one of the famous pair of ganja men of science, passed on last Tuesday.

If you walk into the highest Nepali village in the world, on the way to Mount Everest, a set of men will talk to you in join-up (cursive), say some things in an accent that sounds somewhat like the Indian tongue and you might recognise only two words:...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller made us all very proud when TIME Magazine announced that she was nominated, along with Usain Bolt, among the world's 100 most influential persons.

Disenchanted with austerity measures and high unemployment, French voters went to the polls last Sunday in round one of a presidential ballot that could render Nicolas Sarkozy the first president in more than 30 years to lose a re-election bid.At a time...