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Abstract. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the ethnic Japanese (wajin) population of Hokkaido ballooned from roughly sixty thousand residents, prim

SEPTEMBER 14 1957: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) was opened by the Countess of Perth and Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, the Earl of Perth at 5.30pm.  The 140-bed hospital was estimated to cost $2.587m and three quarters of the cost was met by UK through a grant from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund

After connecting with the masses, the Jamaica Progressive League went even further in attempting to direct the changes that were to bring about constitutional change in Jamaica by aligning the...

In a new book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Elkins shows how Britain exported and institutionalized racially motivated violence, and covered it up as the country lost its grip on imperial rule.

YOUR paper’s investigative reports into the Double Six tragedy last year included an interview with Nancy, the widow of Datuk Peter Mojuntin in which she said she had a dream of his impending death in a crash a week before the incident

Emmanuel Charles Cadet March 8, 2021 Early  Years Charles Cadet was born in Castries, Saint Lucia on December 16, 1924. His father, Gerald Cadet, was an offspring of one of Saint Lucia’s early advocates of political advancement, who served on the Castries Town Board (now the Castries City Council) for several decades in the early part of the twentieth century. Emmanuel D. Cadet was also a member of the Castries Vestry of the Roman Catholic Church. The Cadet Pavilion at Victoria Park (now Min...

By Nomazulu Thata                                                                       We need to ask ourselves critical questions; is foreign aid good for Africa? What purpose is it intended for? Is aid helping the people it is intended to assist in alleviating hunger and poverty in African communities? When did foreign aid to Africa start? Why is there still abject poverty of unimaginable levels existing in our societies ...