Day: October 20, 2016
Challenging pillar of U.S. democracy, Trump says he may not accept election result
Rick Wilking/Reuters
By
Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson
Republican candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday would not commit to accepting the outcome of the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election if he loses, challenging a cornerstone of American democracy and sending shockwaves across the political spectrum.
Poetry
The National dialogue in Sudan has died a clinical death
Eraphim Hamid/AFP
By
Mohamed Elgadi
It is unfortunate for Sudan, to a scandalous degree that the national dialogue is no longer, this from a terrorist Khartoum government led by President Omar al-Bashir.
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Epitomizing The Free Thinker: Kiriti Sengupta’s Democratic Spirit
By
Casey Dorman
I once told Kiriti Sengupta, in an email, “You epitomize the free thinker who respects tradition—a combination rarely seen.”
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The ‘De-Banking’ Element
By
Ricardo Swire
Financial institution gurus term the trend “de-risking” or “de-banking.” Over the past five years several major international banks discarded longstanding Caribbean relationships. Barbados, the Bahamas, Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago all had Correspondent Bank Relationships (CBR) terminated. That US dollar transactions underpin commerce is a unanimous worldwide rule.
Aberfan: Sir Karl Jenkins’ choral memorial to disaster
David Hurn
By
Hazel Speed
The heading of this article itself, together with link for full information seems in one way all the due reverence required to remember such a tragedy of lives lost and ongoing sincere sympathy to all the families involved.
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