Ardenne High School continues to live up to its stellar reputation. Considered as the Island’s best secondary school with one of the highest academic standards in the Caribbean, Ardenne High School proudly represented Jamaica for the third time at the recently concluded 5 day international Model United Nations conferences in New York. To show appreciation for their participation, Ardenne High School alumni in New York spearheaded by Dave Rodney and Anthony Turner (co-founders of Images Newsletter – a leading source for Caribbean news, sports and entertainment) held a welcome reception for the 8 member delegation at Finn Partners – a global communications group’s office in midtown Manhattan.
Hifikepunye Pohamba, the former President of Namibia, tonight accepted the 2014 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership at a special ceremony in Accra, Ghana.
The Ibrahim Prize recognises and celebrates excellence in African leadership. It is an annual US$5 million award paid over 10 years and US$200,000 annually for life thereafter.
In the years ahead, Africa will rely increasingly upon renewable energy solutions to power the Internet and technology sector’s ceaseless appetite for electricity. The rapid growth of the cloud and rise of the “Internet of Things” has reworked both the way we conduct business and lead our everyday lives. In order to compete in a carbon-constrained future, Internet companies must lead the way towards greening both our online and offline worlds.
After the new Tanzanian President Dr John Magufuli has been sworn in, the main question now remains what next? This is concerning his style of leadership, the modus operand in general.
Although he has a wide experience after having served as legislator and cabinet minister, Dr Magufuli has quite different leadership tenets in comparison to his four predecessors.
The Founding Father Julius Nyerere was a social scientist having learned a combination of subjects like economics, philosophy and biology. He was a good orator and persuasive before injecting his agenda, although he never gave up easily in whatever he believed in.
Agony and despair are written all over 42-year-old Tsitsi Mhandu’s face as she narrates the tale of her life when she spent two years in prison after being found in possession of stolen goods.
“It is almost five years since I was released from prison but the memories of my horrible stay in the cells still linger in my mind,” Mhandu recalled.
