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The Sub-Saharan African economy is expected to grow 3.7% on average next year despite a worrisome global economic backdrop as falling inflation allows for looser monetary policy, a Reuters poll...

Burnham-On-Sea Book Festival organisers have today (Tuesday) announced the entries shortlisted in their first writing competition.

(Bloomberg) -- Zambian inflation slowed to an almost two-year low in January, giving the central bank room to leave interest rates on hold next month. Consumer prices rose 15.1% from a year earlier, compared with 16.

SA’s long-term economic growth will be hampered by unemployment, lack of quality education and outbreaks of political unrest, says US credit ratings agency

VICTORIA – Saskatchewan judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond has been nominated as B.C.’s new representative for children and youth. The B.C. legislature reconvened Wednesday to confirm the choice of a new independent children’s watchdog, after a lengthy political battle over the B.C. Liberal government’s decision to disband the office of the children’s commissioner and transfer responsibility for child death reviews to the B.C. Coroners Service in 2002. The NDP refused unanimous consent req...

VICTORIA – BC Ferries should buy new ships where ever they can get the best deal. But it’s irresponsible to bar B.C. shipyards from even trying to win construction contracts for new ferries that could be worth $500 million – 25 per cent of BC Ferries’ capital budget for the next decade. I’m not one of those who would argue that it’s worth paying more to build the ships in B.C. But this decision, in the words of Liberal MLA Dan Jarvis, looks “blatantly stupid.” BC Ferries needs t...