Author: Mark Lee
Treasure Beach, Jamaica Home to an IIPT Peace Park
Jason Henzel, owner of Jakes Village and founder of BREDS Foundation (a non-profit charity) fulfilled his promise to Lou DAmore, Founder and President, International Institute Continue reading
Consequences of Financial Crisis on Low Income Countries Can be Dramatic
P. Changal Reddy, Secretary General of the Consortium of Indian Farmers Associations presents Dominique Strauss-Kahn with a shawl on behalf of the farming community. Civil Continue reading
Crime Retards Economy in Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad – World Economic Forum
Crime and theft were cited as the most problematic factors for doing business in Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago in the 2008-2009 Global Competitiveness Continue reading
Financial Crisis – Fund Touts $650 Billion Global Injection
New International Monetary Fund (IMF) proposals to address the global financial crisis, that includes an estimated $650 billion dollar capital injection, sound strikingly like the Continue reading
Iraq “harder, longer and more difficult” than first imagined – Rice
U.S. Secretary of State Condolleeza Rice says the journey in Iraq being “harder, longer and more difficult” than she had imagined. She was speaking during an Continue reading
Cancer and HIV Researchers Win 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Harald zur Hausen “for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer” and to Continue reading
Financial Crisis – IMF: “Most Dangerous Shock Since the 1930s”
Should you be worried? “What will be the impact of the current financial crisis on economic activity?” That’s the question raised by in the International Continue reading
Financial Crisis – The $700 billion Bailout Just a Start
Philippe Gijsels, global market analyst with Europe’s Fortis group. Markets worldwide are fluctuating causing mixed reports among global economists about when financial turbulence will end. Continue reading
Iran Insists On Nuclear Program To Meet Electricity Needs
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says his country plans to use nuclear power plants to produce 20,000 megawatts of electricity. Mottaki spoke during a symposium Continue reading
Financial Crisis – Check-mate USA
The real, critically perplexing issue for the US government and its bailout (or rescue) is not the bailout as such (although it is a major, Continue reading