admin | July 20, 2010
We have been slating teachers for years. Many of us believe that the schools, especially inner city ones are staffed by a bunch of incompetents that fail to discipline the hordes that descend on the building for some 9 months of the years. We slate them for failing to engage our children with the result that a large majority of our kids cannot read and write as well as we remember we used to when we left school.
admin | July 18, 2010
Single parent charity Gingerbread recently published a nationwide league table of child maintenance debt showing a child maintenance ‘debt mountain’ of £3,761 million owed to children by non-resident parents, mostly fathers, across the country. Gingerbread’s Chief Executive Fiona Weir urged the ‘Child Support Agency has to do its job too in collecting debts and enforcing payment’ .
admin | July 13, 2010
“Set me free so that I may do to others what you did to me.” With South Africa celebrating the successful hosting of the World Cup below the surface of the celebrations lurks an ugly and scary scenario.
admin | July 6, 2010
A “big budget” pornographic film was shot in a London hospital when it hired out one of its wards to a film company. The movie generated “substantial income” for the hospital, Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt said BBC News – ‘Big budget’ porn film shot in London hospital. Can we expect more of this when the [...]
admin | July 2, 2010
“MPs in Kenya have voted to boost their own salaries, making them among the world’s best paid politicians.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/10476388.stm.
admin | July 1, 2010
Nairobi has made it into the list of the worlds most expensive cities for expatriates, according to a new survey. The continued slide in the Nairobis ranking, experts warn, could make the East Africas hub less attractive to international workers.The cost of living index compiled by Mercer, an international human resource consultancy, has ranked the [...]
admin | June 19, 2010
British and Belgian companies have been buying diamonds from the Chiadzwa fields while their governments claim the gems are “bloody” and Zimbabwe should not be given Kimberley Process Certification to export them.
admin | June 17, 2010
“To be blunt, it is the job of the convener to ensure his committee is running smoothly and efficiently – not to ogle members of the audience.” Brian Taylor,Political editor, BBC Scotland BBC News – Frank McAveety quits over ‘attractive girl’ remark. Seriously? What is the matter with this world? You now lose your job because [...]
admin | June 15, 2010
“Allowing people to take time out to watch football during working hours is simply too costly, untimely, and unfair,” so says Willem Smit, a researcher at the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.
admin | June 8, 2010
Exactly who are these people? Who are these analysts, forecasters and experts that come up with this kind of talk that dominates our news stories?
