News for January 2010
By Oscar Ramjeet
People like power, and when they hold office they do not like to give it up, even if they are no longer wanted.
This has been the trend for ages, and it seems as …
President Obama is expected to make important fiscal announcements in his State of the Nation speech
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The announcement comes a day after the White House …
By Christina Esquivel, COHA Research Associate
As the days go by, it has become almost impossible to exaggerate the untold devastation left in the wake of the massive earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, January 12, …
In an exclusive interview with SETimes, Kosovo Justice Minister Nekibe Kelmendi details problems faced by the fledgling country’s beleaguered court system.
By Linda Karadaku for Southeast European Times in Pristina — 28/01/10
Kosovo Justice Minister Nekibe …
STRASBOURG, France — The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution Tuesday (January 26th) on the functioning of democratic institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The document expresses concern for the …
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) on Wednesday paid the government of Haiti US $7,753,579 following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake which struck close to Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing damage of catastrophic proportions.
This …
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Jamaica’s request for a 27-month Standby Arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will go to the Executive Board of the Fund February third.
Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley …
By Andrew M Harris and Laurel Brubaker Calkins
HOUSTON, USA (Bloomberg) — Allen Stanford can use his companies’ Lloyd’s of London directors and officers insurance policies to pay lawyers to defend him against charges he defrauded investors …
Photo: Aubrey Graham/IRIN
Children at one of North Kivu’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps (file photo): UNHCR is worried that more people may be displaced by ongoing government offensives and assaults by armed militia
NAIROBI, …
SKOPJE, Macedonia — Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki will meet with Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas on the sidelines of an international conference on Afghanistan in London on Thursday (January 28th), according to local media. …
The two Koreas fired at each other off waters near the inter-Korean sea border Wednesday morning, Seoul officials confirmed, amid rising tensions after the reclusive North declared the disputed area in the Yellow Sea as …
CAIRO (Agencies)
Israeli threats against the Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah are threats against Lebanon itself, the country’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri during a visit to Cairo on Thursday.
“We take Israeli threats seriously,” Hariri said after …
TEHRAN (Agencies)
Iran executed two people on Thursday over widespread street unrest that erupted after the Islamic Republic’s disputed presidential election in June, an Iranian news agency reported.
The two were among 11 people sentenced to death …
By Sharon Austin
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) — There is a perception that Barbadian society "is becoming increasingly more aggressive".
Word of this has come from Minister of Youth, Esther Byer Suckoo, who bemoaned that both adults and …
Photo: IRIN
“Military people share all the misunderstandings of wider society”
JOHANNESBURG, 26 January 2010 (PlusNews) – The announcement in late 2009 that the government had approved a new HIV/AIDS policy in the South African National …
Nearly 250,000 government servants will be on duty for todayâs 6th Presidential Election to be conducted for the first time islandwide, including the Northern and Eastern Provinces, after the conclusion of war on terrorism ended …
