If a loss of public moneys should occur and, at the time of that loss, a Minister or official has caused or contributed to that loss through misconduct or through deliberate or serious disregard of reasonable standards of care, that Minister or official shall be personally liable to the Government for the amount of the loss.
By Andres Oppenheimer When I told a friend from Latin America recently that I had just seen a new movie called Slumdog Millionaire, he looked at me as if I were living in the Stone Age − he had seen it a long time ago, on a pirated DVD.
Recession proof! The grimness of the global economic environment is so intense that those who shout “make-believe” economics will sooner, rather than later as the saying goes: “have to eat their words.”
(Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) The global order is changing.
The world is bankrupt. The Great Regulator in the Sky for some good reason has put His people everywhere into receivership and the impact will be more devastating and more universal than the Flood.
The end of February saw the heaviest snowfalls in England for 18years, and there is more to come.
Continued Cataracts If the lens of the eye loses its transparency, for whatever reason, one can speak of a cataract.
A weekly column by Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc By Dr Balwant Singh Jr Perhaps the principal reason male menopause has never been in the public spotlight is because men who experience the characteristic decline in virility during middle age are reluctant or even unwilling to acknowledge the condition.
The Obama era Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.
On February 14, Parliament Office published an invitation to the public for written and oral submissions on the ‘Impact of Global Food Price Increases.’
Black history? Common suffering! Having been away from the homeland for a month, I might have missed activities to observe – or celebrate – Black History Month (of African Heritage) this February 2009.
This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.
This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.
For Punishment or Pleasure: A synopsis of the life of the enslaved Africans in Guyana under the Dutch Part 1 By Lloyd Kandasammy The enslavement of Africans is without a doubt, one of the worst atrocities to have been committed in the name of Catholicism, wealth and greed by European powers who pillaged the African continent, with the help of some African kingdoms to meet the demands for labour in the ‘New World’.
Child Citizenship Act of 2000 Installment Seventy-Seven The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 allows certain foreign-born, biological and adopted children of U.S.
The Caribbean, the Developing World and the Global CrisisBy Don RobothamDon Robotham is a Jamaican anthropologist who teaches in New York and works on West Africa and the Caribbean.
By Sara Bharrat with photos by Jules Gibson Sonia Nedd, Self-employed: ‘I am very disappointed in the budget because they were supposed to give the people back pay and they haven’t.
Stanford 20/20 smoke and mirrors and an update on Clico Introduction The columns of Business Page have reported on far more financial scandals that it would have liked.
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