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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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Tight Lines
Leaders in all areas of public life have a responsibility to those they serve to maintain credibility by conducting their duties in a manner that leaves no doubt that concerns of the people are paramount, and that at no time will they stray from that...
DATE: Dec 12, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Inquiring minds want to know, Mr Editor, what it is they can do in the wake of the most recent reports of the Auditor-General. Of course, they want action and many have lost confidence that anything meaningful will happen.
Well, I have an idea: step ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
Actual Blackberry Messenger conversation from November 2012
DR: What’s up, fowl?
TCF: D Sky.
DR: I need you to help me with some canvassing tomorrow.
TCF: Where?
DR: Knapton Hill.
TCF: Knapton Hill? You do know that hill is very, very steep, right?
D...
DATE: Dec 11, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
I have a diary entry today that says “clean like a mad woman”. Somehow my mum’s visit has crept up on me and I only have one small cleaning window before she arrives.
If only I had to clean one small window everything would be fine. Instead I need t...
DATE: Dec 11, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Inspiration can come from the strangest of places. Even the “White Elephant” stall at a fundraiser last weekend. A wintry scene in Victorian London caught my eye. It’s years since I’ve done one so thought it’d be a nice seasonal tradition to rekindle...
DATE: Dec 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
