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Sveinsson Knut, Canute the Great, King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018 and King of Norway from 1030 until he died in 1035, was perhaps the most successful and effective of the early rulers of England.

What a pleasant surprise! Mexico, whose government routinely supports human rights violators throughout the region, played a key role in thwarting an effort by a group of countries to weaken the region’s most important human rights commission.

Introduction In this week’s column I start with a wrap-up of the discussion on uncertainty and risk as applied to government projects and then go on to offer brief comments on the notion: time is money.

By Roberto Guareschi BUENOS AIRES – Jorge Mario Bergoglio – not an Italian, not a European, but a Latin American from Argentina – has now been chosen as the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

Peter Hakim is president emeritus and senior fellow of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based policy organization tank on Western Hemisphere affairs.

Easter is all around, just look at the lovely flowers in bloom and you can tell it is that time of the year!

Something innovative is happening in chess at the FIDE World Chess Can-didates’ Tour-nament in London.

By Esther Dyson PHUKET – Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo!,

Last week, we confessed our inability to find a correct place to discuss the condition of ‘false pregnancy’.

By Sami Mahroum ABU DHABI – In the 1949 British film The Third Man, the character Harry Lime observes that, during the Borgia family’s rule in Renaissance Italy, the country “had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed.

In the last few days the Government of Cyprus has begun to implement the measures demanded of it by the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 

  A Really Good Friday as Prophesied At my age and stage I have little enthusiasm to vilify, demonise and condemn senior public figures in our Big Beautiful Blight of a society.

Aunty Baba, 90, wakes up every day looking forward to her calm, peaceful, tranquil lifestyle at her Canje, Berbice home.

Context is everything and with the defeat of Janet Jagan in 1999, the political context in Guyana changed into the debilitating, acrimonious and anti-developmental environment we now inhabit. 

By Nick Draper Thousands of absentee slave-owners in Britain, as well as in the Caribbean, received compensation for their ‘property’ in enslaved people when slavery was abolished between 1834 and 1838.

Interviews by Feona Morrison with photos by Arian BrowneAt the Sagicor Visionaries Challenge – Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Competition, held recently at the Umana Yana and won by the Zeeburg Secondary School, we interviewed students who took part in the event and asked them the following questions: 1.

When corruption enters politics, the latter becomes contaminated. Definitions change, and loyalty to the King becomes the norm.

Introduction The list of troubled government projects in Guyana is long and getting longer by the day.

It’s not on the main road, so you can drive by it every day and not know it’s there, as thousands do. 

The younger generation never experienced, and older people tend to forget, how very limited and how very stifled the media was in the last period of President Burnham’s rule.