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In our household, it’s Christmas wish list time. Letters to the North Pole have been posted. I won’t even comment on my son’s (arm-length) checklist save to say that a real-life elf and the latest Apple product are just two of the many items. Hmmm … ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
“I’m not voting.”
“I have never voted.”
“All politicians are the same.”
Statements made frequently. At first listen, I wonder why anyone would even have this rationale? Then I remember that many in my generation had this very same attitude at one po...
DATE: Dec 16, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
In a Letter to the Editor dated December 11, 2015, Eva Hodgson argues that party politics has been detrimental to the black community: “With the introduction of party politics, all of that changed. The black community as a community no longer mattere...
DATE: Dec 16, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bryant Trew
Tomorrow we will get the Federal Reserve’s decision on whether or not they will raise the Fed Funds rate. The market has been stewing over a rate rise for what seems like an eternity. I think they will move and the market seems to agree, with the Fed...
DATE: Dec 15, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
For the week ending December 11, 2015
Intra-day moves in equities markets last week could be characterised as “see-saw” each day, but ending the week decidedly negative. For the five days to December 11, the S&P Global 1200 Index was down 3.42 per ce...
DATE: Dec 15, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Robert Pires
This week the US Federal Reserve looks like it might finally do what is has not done for nine years — raise interest rates. The last time the Fed ticked its benchmark rate higher was in late 2006. In mid-2007, however, America’s central bank did an a...
DATE: Dec 15, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
Heart failure
With more than five million Americans affected and more than 400,000 new cases diagnosed every year, heart failure (HF) remains the number ONE medical cause of hospitalisation in the adult population above the age of 50 years. In addit...
DATE: Dec 15, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Joe Yammine, MD
Dear Dr Nekia,
Having been in a long-term relationship, I found out that my partner has invited the opposite sex into our relationship by meeting them, talking, and then somehow exchanging telephone numbers (their words). They have been speaking to e...
DATE: Dec 14, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nekia Walker
Introducing Bitcoin, the new, newest thing in the global medium of exchange. We know our current mediums as variously, cash in hand, stock values on a piece of paper, gold bars in a vault, sterling silver on our wrists, real property immovable on the...
DATE: Dec 12, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
If asked what season it is, there are some wags who would answer “Monsoon” rather than “Holiday or Festive”. Certainly the conditions this past week have been just that, rainy, blowy and not really conducive to much of anything that requires going ou...
DATE: Dec 12, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
