In response to a 31% devaluation of the Jamaican dollar in six months, Premier, P.J. Patterson, said there is evidence that his economic liberalisation programme is working, and there is no need to change anything. Working for whom?.

Which proves that European politicians do not have a monopoly on the "ostrich principle" - bury your head in the sand and pretend it's not happening.

Apartado, Colombia
At least 35 people were reported killed and 8 injured at a 500-strong political rally called by the Hope, Peace and Freedom Party (EPL), a former guerrilla group. It is said by the authorities that the massacre was the work of another rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia.

Why is it that, whether it is Apartado or Accra, Cape Town or Cairo, Nigeria or Nicaragua, Port of Spain or Port Moresby, when it comes to electoral party politics, "head count" means how many dead in each party?.

And where do poor people who do not even have the resources to feed their children, find the money to pay for these sophisticated, expensive and deadly weapons? Just the bullets alone would cost them an arm and a leg.

Second in length only to the Great Walls of China, these ramparts, 60ft high in parts, located in Southern Nigeria is thought to have been created over a 500 year period by the Edo people of West Africa before they were overrun by the Benin Empire in the 15th century. (More on this to come in future editions of GAP News)