Friday April 9, 2021, 6:58 PM
The Very Rev Tim Barker praised the intellectual curiosity and overall remarkable contribution that Prince Philip made to everyday life. Credit: ITV Channel TV
The Very Rev Tim Barker praised the intellectual curiosity and overall remarkable contribution that Prince Philip made to everyday life. On behalf of the Deanery of Guernsey and its churches in Alderney, Guernsey, Herm and
Sark, I express my sorrow at the death of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. I offer my prayers for Her Majesty The Queen and the members of the Royal Family on the
sad news we heard earlier this afternoon and in their bereavement.
Thursday April 8, 2021, 5:51 AM
Today s (8 April 2021) small service will take place at the White Rock memorial next to North Beach and is being led by the Dean of Guernsey. Credit: ITV Channel TV
People in Guernsey are coming together today (8 April) to remember those who lost their lives in the Holocaust.
Holocaust Memorial Day is normally observed on 27 January in Guernsey. It marks the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp at Auschwitz in 1945.
However this year s commemoration had to be postponed due to the island going into lockdown a week before.
Today s (8 April 2021) small service will take place at the White Rock memorial next to North Beach at midday. It will be led by the Dean of Guernsey, the Very Reverend Tim Barker, and organisers say it is open to all who wish to attend.
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Common migration routes from East Africa to Europe. Route information adapted from the International Organization for Migration, August 2015, by Colin Kinniburgh. Countries party to the Khartoum process are shaded in orange (note: not all shown on this map). â
At the 1936 International Conference of Business Cycle Institutes, sponsored by the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research, Vienna. Ludwig von Mises is seated in the center with mustache and cigarette. Gottfried Haberler also pictured, at right. (Source) â
In 1896, William Jennings Bryan, a Democrat from Nebraska, ran for president on a fusion ticket with the Populist Party. This cartoonist from a Republican magazine thought the âPopocraticâ ticket was too ideologically mismatched to win. Bryan did lose, but his campaign, the first of three he waged for the White House, transformed the Democrats into an anti-corporate, p
When I was in high school, my economics class read
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs. The book is a passionate appeal to help those living in the worst poverty in the world. Sachs writes that we should not worry too much about the people in second-to-last place, such as the poorly paid workers in labor-intensive industries who were then the focus of considerable debate and activism on U.S. college campuses. Sweatshop workers, Sachs conceded, were on the bottom rung of the ladder. But subsistence farmers were not on the ladder at all. Once we helped them get a foothold, they could begin ascending from textiles all the way up to high tech. I internalized Sachsâs argument, sensing it would help me feel better about the world we live in.
Illustration by Molly Crabapple
The global economy suffered an unprecedented shock during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the International Labour Organization, the number of work hours lost in 2020 was the equivalent of 255 million jobs, four times greater than losses during the crisis in 2009. Poor workers, especially those not able to work remotely, were hit especially hard. According to the United Nations, world gross product fell by an estimated 4.3 percent in 2020âthe sharpest contraction of output since the Great Depression, and more than double the output drop of 1.7 percent in 2009, during the Great Recession. The International Monetary Fund now estimates that global trade contracted by 9.6 percent in 2020 thanks to the pandemic.