List of books received.
Allen, Nicholas and Eve Patten (editors), That Island Never Found: Essays and Poems for Terence Brown. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 199 pages. EUR 55.00 (hardback). Badin, Donatella, Lady Morgan's Italy: Anglo-Irish Sensibilities and Italian Realities in Post-Restoration Italy. Bethseda: Academica Press, 2007. xii + 287 pages....

Addressing small arms violence in the Caribbean.
Crime and violence perpetrated with readily available firearms are taking a rising toll on the small states of the Caribbean. Project Ploughshares and its partner organization, the Women's Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) based in Trinidad and Tobago, hosted a workshop in Port of Spain in March to explore...

Stock markets: Growth and inflation hold the key.
Byline: Shubha Ganesh It is all about balancing growth and inflation. Like the Finance Minister said recently, "Inflation-control measures like drawing excess money out of the economy and the robust GDP growth cannot go hand-in-hand". The matter, as it stands today, is how much growth should we...

Let them eat corn: our agricultural priorities should be on filling hungry bellies, not fuel tanks.
THE GLOOMY GUS OF ECONOMICS, THE REV. THOMAS Malthus, was the guy who put the dismal into the "dismal science," predicting that the market in homo sapiens would periodically seek equilibrium through famine and widespread mayhem. Malthus didn't foresee that humankind could innovate its way out of the 19th-century...

Rich World Aging More Contentedly Than Poor; Higher incomes related to reduced effects of aging on health satisfaction.
Byline: Angus Deaton, Ph.D. Synopsis: Gallup data from 130 countries indicate that higher incomes provide some protection against the effects of aging on health satisfaction. PRINCETON, NJ -- How is health satisfaction related to age and income? Gallup Poll data from 130 countries indicate that...

Who will save South Africa? The South Africans who are attacking other Africans should ask themselves: "What would Africans whose enormous contributions helped to free South Africa from apartheid, feel, if they could hear that South Africans were now killing fellow Africans?", writes Cameron Duodu.
I first saw the photo on the website of the London Daily Telegraph: the colour picture of a man burning to death, with the yellow flames engulfing his clothes and body. The story beneath was about how South Africans had set upon African immigrants in their country and were...

Fiberoptic cable ready in 2010.
By early 2010, Cuba expects to have in place a shark-proof underwater fiberoptic cable that will connect the island with Venezuela and increase 3,000-fold its current capacity for phone connections abroad. Wilfredo Morales, an engineer with the Cuban-Venezuelan firm Telecomunicaciones Gran Caribe, told the Communist Party daily...

The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building.
THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO NATION-BUILDING James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, and Beth Cole DeGrasse Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2006. 275pp, US$35.00 paper (ISBN 978. 0833039880) There is a certain bitter irony in the title of the RAND Corporation's The Beginner's Guide...

Starved by the system: corporations are making a killing from the world food crisis.
The rising cost of food all over the world has taken households, governments and the media by storm. The price of wheat has gone up by 130 per cent in the last year. Rice doubled in price in Asia in the first three months of 2008 alone, hitting record...

Marine Hugonnier: The Secretary of the Invisible.
Marine Hugonnier: The Secretary of the Invisible Max Wigram Gallery London June 12 to July 31 This exhibition takes its title from a 22-minute film Hugonnier shot on the River Niger. It begins by showing Damoure Zika and Mousa Hamidou discussing cinema as they travel by boat...