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    Re-thinking education

    Re-thinking education

    I hope the young, intelligent and energetic Minister who has been put in charge of education in the country takes a fresh look at what needs to be done.

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    Tax reform 3: The taxes we pay

    Tax reform 3: The taxes we pay

    IntroductionThe mindset of five major groups of stakeholders to the tax reform process (individual taxpayers; the law-making authorities; the public at large as beneficiaries of government spending; the tax administration authorities; corporate and other business taxpayers; as well as organisations like unions, farmers’ organisations, consumer groups and professional associations interested in greater transparency, fairness and efficiency in the tax system) have been briefly described in my two previous columns.

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    Preparation is lacking

    Preparation is lacking

    Several weeks ago, I wrote a column entitled ‘Knowing the fine fine‘ on the point that to understand the why and the how and the where of conditions in a country you have to live there a long time in order to begin to see all the factors, many invisible, that are operating on the particular aspect that’s bugging you – garbage in town; speeding minibuses; shoddy workmanship, etc.

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    Obama shouldn’t ignore the war next door

    Obama shouldn’t ignore the war next door

    In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama talked about the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, but didn’t say a word about a war that is taking place next door, and that is killing more people than the others: the drug-related war in Mexico and Central America.

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    The Romantic and the  Modern in a Hardy poem

    The Romantic and the Modern in a Hardy poem

    The Darking ThrushI leant upon a coppice gateWhen Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter’s dregs made desolateThe weakening eye of dayThe tangled bine-stems scored the skyLike strings of broken lyres,And all mankind that haunted nighHad sought their household fires.

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    Puma

    Puma

    With golden eyes and a tawny, golden colour the Puma (Puma concolor), is a long legged, rangy cat which ranges from North America to the tip of South America and exists at elevations up to 4,500 m, hence the name “mountain lion.

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