Day: October 22, 2001

Pat Sidley reports (Business Day, January 25) that a ‘Social security system is a priority’ for the cabinet. So let’s consider how to afford a ‘non-negotiable minimum package’ to benefit ‘millions who live below the poverty line’ or ‘without any means of survival’.

Obviously the ‘package’ will come from taxpayers. And

While one part of the UN battles to preserve various parts of the world, such as Rwanda, East Timor and Kosovo from war, another, the Environment Programme, is trying to preserve us all from pollution. Recent meetings of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn demonstrate the desire