Getting to Know Little Brother – Guyana
It is part of the Caribbean yet it is part of South America. It was a Dutch colony and it was later a British colony. It has only 2 percent arable land yet 80...
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Whether ‘Tis April or November…Just Remember.
“Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out...
A Seat at the Table
The United Nations was formed under charter in 1945 and it’s Security Council took its first session a year later. The United Nations as a whole was formed in response to the inadequacies of...
Getting to Know Little Brother – Lesotho
So for the first time in six years, I am in paid employment. Perhaps now I’ll start to feel like a real struggling writer as opposed to one that had all the time in...
Getting to Know Little Brother – Bhutan འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་
Somewhere to the east of India and the west of…ah…India, yet south of China and north of …that’s right…India; lies the kingdom of Bhutan. It is a small country when compared to its neighbours...
Getting to Know Little Brother – Nauru
When you look at the state of international current affairs it’s easy to start believing there are only a handful of countries on the Earth. When watching a half hour segment of BBC World...
The Year Punk Broke
I’ll get straight to the year in question. It was 1991 and according to the title above quoting a rockumentary film of the same name, this series of European concerts by a group of...
The Death of an Airline
510 Passengers, 27 crew, 600 million worth of hardware and thousands of paying customers. That is what Malaysia Airlines have lost since March. In terms of losses for a single airline there is little...
The Ceiling of the World
Mountaineering has always held great appeal to me. As a New Zealander, I grew up hearing of the feats of the late Sir Edmund Hillary and later those of the great Tyrolean – Reinhold...
Mayday Mayday Mayday
This is not a distress call. I am not in distress. I’ve been told that saying these words falsely over the airwaves is a federal crime in the U.S. and can result in a...
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