“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.”

NEXT Friday, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States of America.

NICOSIA is Europe’s last divided capital. For more than four decades UN peacekeepers have patrolled a dead zone — others call it a green zone — but whatever it is called it bisects the Cypriot capital and stands as a monument to the hatreds dividing the island’s Greek-Orthodox Christian majority and minority Muslim Turks.

CAR sales, as a measure of consumer confidence, are revealing enough. They also point to the availability of credit and lenders’ enthusiasm to lend money.

ANY appraisal of the life, times, work, and achievements of Dr TK Whitaker could just as easily be judged as an appraisal of the life, times, and development of this Republic and, to a lesser degree, modern democracies everywhere. 

ANYONE ready to argue that a person should be allowed to drive after one drink can expect something pretty close to an assault from those who want zero tolerance for drink driving.