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THE report of the Forest Trust of British Honduras to the end of December 1934 (Belsize: Govt. Printer, 1 1935) shows some progress in forestry work after the severe experiences following the 1931 financial crisis. From the Colonial Development Fund grants were made towards forest development in the Colony. The chief of these grants was to provide the staff to undertake a forest resources survey of the country, provided that the local Government contributed towards the cost and that the officer seconded for the work was replaced on the executive staff by an additional officer. The step so take...

BBC News By Tabitha Morgan image copyrightThe Cyprus Review image captionIt took just over three years for Mehmet Aziz to complete his task in Cyprus They called him The Great Liberator. His name was Mehmet Aziz and he was behind one of Cyprus's most important achievements of the last century. And yet no-one apart from a handful of Cypriots has heard of him. Aziz was a Turkish Cypriot health official who ensured that Cyprus became the first malarial country in the world to completely eradicate the disease. Known to his compatriots as "the fly man", he had studied under Nobel-prize winning m...

Forgotten hero who eradicated his island's malaria © The Cyprus Review It took just over three years for Mehmet Aziz to complete his task in Cyprus They called him The Great Liberator. His name was Mehmet Aziz and he was behind one of Cyprus's most important achievements of the last century. And yet no-one apart from a handful of Cypriots has heard of him. Aziz was a Turkish Cypriot health official who ensured that Cyprus became the first malarial country in the world to completely eradicate the disease. Known to his compatriots as "the fly man", he had studied under Nobel-prize winning ...