THERE has been overwhelming response to last week’s column. Unfortunately, I’m unable to share your views since I promised to come back with part two of the Muppet Show at Football House. I will abide by that.

I must have been 16 when I heard Rastaman Chant from the Wailers’ 1973 Island Records debut album Catch A Fire for the first time.

The political spokesperson often stands out as the link between political institutions and the public. I use the term “political spokesperson” to refer to those individuals or persons who are formally designated as speaking on behalf of their organisations or institutions.

Incredible! That was my first reaction upon reading of the arrest and imprisonment of a priest distributing red cards at a youth rally last week.

ALL over the world, for activists and those for various reasons opposed to governments, arrest, trial, and jail have greatly affected directions.

The Peoples’ Republic of China was justifiably proud (and even a little boastful) to be the country to first emerge from recession (in fact it is a moot point whether it ever entered that depressed condition). A big stimulus package boosting domestic demand, amply backed by foreign reserves well in excess of two trillion US dollars, seems to have done the job and returned the Chinese economy to a growth rate approximating the 8 percent that observers say is the minimum consistent with social and political stability (though I do wonder how such a threshold is calculated other than by thumb sucking).