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Haiti's completion of a series of economic reforms prescribed by the IMF has won it over a billion dollars in grant money. That progress is likely to pay dividends to The Bahamas by stemming the flow of economic asylum seekers. Under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative — approved by the boards of the International Development Association (IDA) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — Haiti was granted US$1.2 billion of debt relief for reaching the completion point. Haiti is now the 26th country to attain the goal and effectively pocket that money instead of paying it back to international creditors. To reach that completion point, Haiti carried out a number of reforms despite a challenging environment marked by major natural disasters, a food and fuel crisis, difficult political conditions, and... [read full story]
MONTREAL, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A brief intervention may help even those called "hard core drunk drivers," Canadian and U.S. researchers said. Thomas Brown of McGill University in Montreal and U.S. colleagues found a psychosocial...
Bariyapur (AFP) Nov 24, 2009 - Up to a million Hindu devotees gathered Tuesday in a tiny village in Nepal to witness the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals in a mass sacrifice that has drawn widespread criticism.
A police investigator gathers evidences next to dead bodies of victims of massacre after gunmen shot at least 22 people in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province on November 24, 2009. The death toll from an attack on a group of...
Coincidence or not, as the busiest holiday travel weekend of the year approaches, the West Virginia Courtesy Patrol is asking the Manchin administration and the Legislature to restore to 24/7 the roadside assistance it provides...
