Of course, the earnings that provided the basis for these bonuses evaporated in 2008.

The attention demanded by the new projects mentioned above had also served as a diversion.

An increased burden has been placed on programme managers, who are forced to spend a disproportionate amount of time on the recruitment process.

She also took a paid position with the local Farm Loan Association, dispensing small loans to local farmers.

Indeed, many regard Netanyahu s Iran obsession as nothing more than a successful ploy to divert attention from the Palestinian issue.

In the same vein, calls for dialogue and attempts to impose a Special Envoy on the parties were diversions designed to slow the process further.

Nor are there any exchange controls, and, although the official currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar, the United States dollar is commonly used.

A sign of that commitment was the appointment of the Secretary of Youth, whose main tasks include the promotion of sport as a way to turn youth, and the general population, away from vice and idleness.

To register returning refugees, registration sites have been established inside six returnee encashment centres located in Herat, Kabul, Zaranj, Nimruz, Kandahar and Nangarhar.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) also helps countries emerging from conflict develop a coherent macroeconomic framework to serve as a basis for the disbursement of donor support.

Kyoto style policies can only ever be an expensive distraction from the real business of weaning us off fossil fuels.

Zambia 2008Zambia celebrated its Sanitation Week in the week of 15 October 2008, as announced by the Ministry of Local Government and Housing.

The methodology suggested for establishing such a bonus is along the lines of the current termination indemnity applicable to Secretariat staff, as provided for in annex III of the Staff Regulations. The termination indemnity is not an entitlement for staff at the Tribunals.

A country wide currency exchange was completed in January 2003, introducing a new currency controlled exclusively by the Central Bank, thereby providing a basis for economic stability.

Here, we applaud the Government of the United Kingdom for spearheading the International Finance Facility to support immediate front loading of ODA to achieve 0.7 per cent no later than 2015.

There is only one way to divert attention from this humiliating predicament propaganda about self reliance and the imminent threat from US imperialists and their South Korean lackeys must be turned up to a hysterical pitch.

Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat?

Expressing its support for the work of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and of other international bodies combating such pandemics, and encouraging the Global Fund to develop further effective and appropriate processes for the disbursement of funds,

And, because sex scandals are always interesting to read about certainly compared to yet another undeclared war, or a bailout that created jobs costing an estimated 850,000 each they will always be useful diversions.