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Oh that much longed-for, or sought-after condition, or status. My old Oxford provides fourteen definitions for the noun (and verb) that is power!

We start the year 2012 with the hung Parliament hanging over our heads, as the political parties bicker and quarrel in acrimony and strife over the Speaker’s chair.

On Old Year’s Night some of the church-going citizens of Georgetown were reportedly heard praying urgently that on the stroke of midnight a brisk breeze would descend on the capital and that all of the garbage in the city would be caught up…..like

We enter a new year with a new President though it has to be said that that is where the newness stops.

“The literature suggests that among the non-school factors of school achievement like socioeconomic background, parent’s educational attainment, family structure, ethnicity and parental involvement, it is the latter which is the most strongly connected to attainment.”

The November 28 elections came and went without too much fuss or fanfare.

Hot Momma’s Advice: Use love and logic to bring in consistency along with the New Year!!!

Michael Witter is a Jamaican economist and committed regionalist, who teaches at the Mona, Jamaica Campus of the University of the West Indies.

Rajmatti ‘Sita’ Ramjattan is a woman who has supported her husband’s political endeavours for the entire twenty-two-years of their marriage, and it is something she has not regretted.

Introduction One year ago (November 2010), the 42nd Annual Regional Monetary Studies Conference hosted by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago paid tribute to my research in the field of money and finance.

Introduction This column has not had a good record when it comes to predicting the future, even into the next year.

The perception seems to be that sugar is dead in most Caricom countries and dying in the rest.

Santa came early to Silver Hill on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway this year.

Every year brings about changes, but 2012 is likely to be an especially eventful one in the Americas: there will be elections in the United States, Mexico and Venezuela, as well as other news events that could change the political map in the region.

Located some 8 miles up the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, the sparsely populated community of Kuru Kuru is struggling as residents plead with the authorities to develop the area.

Sunday Stabroek caught up with several personalities in society and asked them to share their New Year wishes with us.

We regret that John Warrington, who has been contributing ‘A Gardener’s Diary’ for many years, has indicated that he will not be able to continue with the column.

By Ma Jian LONDON – No sooner had I finished reading an article that eulogized Václav Havel, the playwright turned dissident turned peaceful revolutionary turned president who had just died, than two subsequent news stories set Havel’s extraordinary career in context: the death of Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s pornography-addicted and nuclear-armed supreme leader, and the peaceful protests against land expropriation by the villagers of Wukan in Guandong province, southern China.

Continued Well, we have returned to ‘science’ after the holiday season.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.