Comment & analysis

After one year of consultations, planning sessions, and international conferences, representatives of the International Community (Development Partners) and High level delegation led by President Hassan Sh.

Recently in the month of October 2013 the West African state, The Gambia, withdrew from the British Commonwealth. The latter is the 54-member grouping including Britain and most of its former colonies.

As we walked out of Beachcomba Hotel the other day, reception warned us, ‘be careful of muggers as you walk toward White Sands Hotel at this hour.’ We looked at our clocks. It was only 8pm and the distance between the two hotels was hardly a five-minute walk.

During my brief tenure in the Kenyan government I clashed with senior colleagues who insisted that ‘eating’ from security contracts in particular was okay because the money was essential to pay for democracy that we all know is messy and expensive.

Capitalism in the US is exposing itself with renewed force as it invigorates self-contradictions and faces fracases with appearance of farce, and it fails to resolve these. One of the matured capitalist economies, and the Lord of the World, is presenting the show.

In August, media reports indicated that over 50 girls from Nginyang girls’ boarding school in western Kenya had camped at school, reluctant to go back to their homes for fear of being subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

On September 9, 2013, the United Nations published its second World Happiness Report, but the top ten happiest nations in the world did not include the United States of America. A week later Forbes magazine published a list of the richest 400 Americans.

‘Does al Shabab Pose a Threat on American Soil?’ So read a headline in the New York Times’ blog, Room for Debate. Despite its name, Room for Debate rarely shows any true differences of opinion on whatever issue of the day is considered significant to the Times’ editors.

Whatever the result of the current governmental stalemate, one thing is certain: The ongoing crisis of workers in general and the African American working class and poor in particular will continue unabated.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)has handed down a landmark decision in finding in favour of Ms Shanique Myrie in the case brought against Barbados for being denied entry, verbally and physically abused, and deported back to Jamaica, on March 14-15 2011.