Panama: a hot holiday destination?
It tops lists of hot destinations for 2012 and is sold as the ideal introduction to Latin America, but does it live up to the hype? Chickens and scruffy children on bikes cross our path as we stroll along a sandy road past candy-coloured buildings beside a turquoise Caribbean sea. "Hey my friend!" Jim, our guide, stops to slap a Rasta man on the back. "How you been? You got your guitar today ...
The Dictator: are we right to laugh?
Sacha Baron Cohen's film joins Team America and The Producers in depicting despots as one-dimensional buffoons. But why are we obsessed with satirising tyrants – and is it right to find them funny? Ever since His Excellency Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen, self-styled beloved oppressor and chief ophthalmologist of the People's Republic of Wadiya, inadvertently spilled Kim Jong-il's ashes over ...
Rupert Christie hailed for generosity to 'kith and kin'
IT took a man the calibre of Rupert Lloyd Anderson Christie to spawn a one-time commercial airline pilot turned captain and flight instructor for one of the world's leading five-star airlines; an international marketing communications and management consultant; an acclaimed professor of paediatrics; a paediatric and emergency room nurse; and a lawyer turned contractor general of Jamaica who has ...
In the stacks: New nonfiction for adults
New adult nonfiction includes a guide to the best cafes in San Francisco (we have a guide to cafes in New York, too!), "50 Popular Beliefs that People Think are True," and "Girl Hunter," the story of a chef, her ammo, and a lot of game.
Who stopped Robinson? The inhibition of responsibility
Governments have ensured that accountability for harassment is ever more difficult. Read more on the blog... Read more on the blog...