Marcus Agnew: Will 2021 be our year of opportunity?
14 Jan, 2021 11:46 PM
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By: Marcus Agnew
With the reflective time out we had during Covid lockdown, and with the masses of monies that have been thrown around post lockdown, 2021 looms as an exciting year for the region, and it is going to be fascinating to see what further community sport and health developments emerge this year.
Hastings has done incredibly well out of it, and hopefully Napier will too.
Park Island is a huge opportunity with its location, existing sporting infrastructure; with its ample and beautiful spaces, it lies there inert and ready for action.
Three consecutive years of drought coupled with a sharp recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic will leave a third of the population in Southern Madagascar
autoplay The victory risks triggering new violence between Arabs and Kurds over disputed territories or between Sunnis and Shi’ites over claims to power, egged on by outside powers that have shaped Iraq’s future since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein’s Sunni minority-rule and brought the Iran-backed Shi’ite majority to power. For Iraq, stunned by the blitz on Mosul by ISIS in 2014 and the collapse of its army, victory could thus turn out to be as big a problem as defeat. The federal model devised under the Anglo-American occupation and built on a power-sharing agreement between Sunnis, Shi’ites and Kurds collapsed into ethno-sectarian carnage spawned by the al Qaeda precursors of Islamic State.