An approach to creating new pathways to generate economic activity by the Mottley administration has been to discover new and deepen existing relationships with African countries. It is axiomatic that an island built on slave labour should prefer to nurture a wholesome relationship with the Mother Country. Despite the political noise created when Prime Minister Mottley toured African countries early in her tenure, it seems a no-brainer if one considers that commercial trade with traditional markets has increasingly been adversely affected by the geopolitics of the More Developed Countries (MDCs).
Unfortunately in the last 20 years, to pick the period of worse social and economic decline, Barbados has experienced a falloff in thought leadership among key stakeholders – government; public sector, private sector, non governmental organizations; trade unions. The easy path to exploit a service/tourism based economy popularized by the Owen Arthur AND vigorously pursued by his succes
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Indonesia’s parliament on Thursday approved a new special autonomy law for Papua that boosts central government funding for the troubled region, but the main separatist group there said it was drafted without addressing the Papuan people’s political and human rights.
Jakarta granted special autonomy for Papua in 2001 to mollify desires for independence, but Indonesian security forces have been accused of human rights abuses during anti-insurgency operations in the far-eastern region.
The new legislation, which follows the expiration of the 2001 special autonomy law and extends that status by two decades, will spur development in Papua, Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian said in parliament, about the region that comprises Papua and West Papua provinces.
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‘For the same duration of breastfeeding, the more developed the country, the lower the period of temporary sterility following childbirth,’ the study reports. Wavebreak/Istock.com pic via AFP
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BERLIN, July 16 ― Breastfeeding has an effect on mothers fertility, something that in turn appears to be affected by the living conditions of the mother and her newborn, a recent study shows.
The period of infertility following childbirth is lengthened when the mother is breastfeeding. While it lasts just a few weeks for a woman who does not breastfeed, it can last over several months ― even more than a year ― for a woman who breastfeeds her child. The duration of this contraceptive effect from breastfeeding is not the same in all women, and could depend on the mother s living standards, according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Resea