In a matter of months,the economic partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe will be signed in Barbados.
While the formal treaty arrangement may come into being against a background of demonstrations, in part orchestrated by bodies from outside the region, there is no political appetite in the region to reject what has been agreed.
This means that the [...]

Health commissioner Ron Paterson, whose office launched the study after the Sunday Star-Times last year questioned the quality of foreign doctors says he had referred his findings to the Medical Council and specialist colleges.
The research into six years of complaints to his office found Indian-trained doctors are attracting more complaints per head than any other [...]

I went out sans jacket last week for the first time since October. That evening it snowed. Again.
Never have I seen so much of the white stuff. Its been good for the skiers and mostly Ive enjoyed it but now I want some real consistent warmth.
My baby girl, Ella, is 5 months old and sitting [...]

Her brother had been accused of inflicting severe brain damage to his three-month-old twin babies in a Mangere home in 2006.
They died in hospital five days later.
New Zealanders were outraged at the family%26rsquo;s silence and opinions flared over how they lived and who was to blame.
Mona Kahui was reluctantly thrust head first into this media [...]