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The Minister of Education, Diallo Rabain, has continued to promote the role that testing can play in getting our local schools to return in-person learning. He stated: “The saliva screening programme is an additional safety measure to keep our school...

The pandemic crisis is catalysing deep and lasting changes for us all. At the centre of this are our healthcare services, which won’t go back to how they were when the pandemic does finally settle. Some of these changes are already clear, others less...

The Covid situation is too serious to joke about or offer light suggestions. I think a real sense of panic is emerging in the community as the numbers increase. When there is a slight disturbance at times during performances to distract the audience,...

Climate change is having a breakout performance this year. Throughout the US, the slow-motion calamity long described in scientific studies and news articles has been visible to the naked eye or felt on tingling flesh — here too wet, there too dry, e...

How many times have you heard the plight of a senior who often has to make a choice between paying insurance and obtaining another necessity such as food or paying for a utility bill? Health insurance costs are set to increase on November 1 this year...

“As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore!” Three days after the tragic events of 9/11, on September 14, 2001, representative Barbara Lee stood alone, facing 420 of her colleagues in the United States Congress. Lee was the only memb...

Democracy, as we know it today, began its bumpy evolution about 400 years ago. Although that is a long time, practising democracy has remained quite difficult. Some of the reasons for that are there is no universal agreement on a clear definition, an...

Leaders must be held accountable for their actions if the rule of law is to prevail. For the military, accountability derives from civilian control over our armed forces. This is the governing principle of civil-military relations; it is central to o...

Much of the world today is pondering whether the days of glowing tourism, with thousands travelling by air and sea to experience various cultures, and to enjoy meeting people from other lands will ever return. The reason for concern for tourism offi...

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has called an election that will happen in a couple of weeks, oddly in the middle of a fourth wave in the pandemic. Covid-19 is having an effect on the lives of people worldwide and contributing to their sense o...