Posts Tagged ‘government’

IFC to help Maldives with waste-management

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, will work with the government of Maldives to modernize the country’s solid-waste-management system to improve public health, limit environmental pollution, and help protect fragile coral

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Remembering Beslan

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Exactly 5 years ago on the 1st of September 2004, I watched, shell shocked and in horror as images of the terrible events taking place in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia unfolded. A group of armed terrorists surrounded

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Breaking the monopolies 2

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

In an earlier post, I wrote in support of the government's decision to break the fish oligopoly in this country. The reason being that, such legislations are only in the interest of selected parties at the expense of the general

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Breaking the monopolies 2

Predator mediated co-existance

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Predators are required to maintain a balance in any ecosystem if not certain dominant species would out-compete all other smaller ones to a point where they are excluded from the community.

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A small government will benefit the poor – President Nasheed

Friday, August 28th, 2009

In his radio address of this week, President Nasheed has said if the government can set aside about Rf 2 billion from the Rf 5 billion wage bill, that will help to significantly improve the quality of life for

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Learn to AIM while you PEE!

Friday, August 28th, 2009

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"We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Draconyx Claw posted a photo: =Gene McSweene

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"We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We