Corrupt officials and organizations across Europe may soon be placed under the critical eye of international tourism thanks to a new series of alternative tour groups. Kyle Robertson There is no denying that the past few years have been trying times for countries around the world. Massive amounts of speculation […]
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Ray Bradbury: fleeting on screen, eternal in literature
Born in 1920, he was a science fiction writer, a productive writer and author of five hundred tales, some thirty novels, numerous poems, plays and scripts for television and film. Rodolfo Santovenia* His journey through film was sporadic and of relative success. He began with “Sea Monster”, by Eugene Lourie, […]
The arms trade: unaffected by the financial crisis
The repercussions of the international financial crisis, increasingly widespread in an ever more globalised world economy, have yet to affect the booming multi-billion dollar arms industry which, in contrast, continues to expand. Mario Esquivel In a climate where the realities of poverty – hunger, instability and non-payment of spiralling unpaid […]
The Jamaica of Bob Marley
It underlined the pivotal position of music in Jamaica when the former Prime Minister, Percival Patterson, was himself called upon to collect a prize awarded in 2012 by the Association of the Reggae Industry to The Skatalites, a mythical band which he used to manage. Miguel Lozano The group, […]