Meir was elected prime minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. The world's fourth and Israel's first and only woman to hold the office, she has been described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics; the term was later applied to...
Who should hold power in a country, the head of state or head of government? This was a question decolonized African nations had to ask in the 20th century, and Zimbabwe is an example of how the answer can change. The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe is head of government, but the position ...
Bryce was based in Jamaica (his wife Sheila, owned Bellevue, one of the most important houses on the island), during the Second World War, where he ran dangerous missions into Latin America. Ian Fleming, who was personal assistant to Admiral John Godfrey, the director of naval intelligence,...
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997. As of 2019, Blair is the last British Labo...
D. BROWNLIE, who is an organic chemist and chemical engineer, has published a pamphlet strongly advocating the abolition of compulsory mathematics in university matriculation examinations, even for degrees in engineering or science. He claims that "the very great majority of candidates, say about 90...
Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga Of Jamaica dead at 86. Edward Seaga the man who lead Jamaica politics from 1980 to 1989, and was also the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from 1974 to 2005 when he retired from active politics, has died at 89 on his birth.… Administrator May...
the Court of Admiralty) lying on the table. As pirates are not very often apprehended in Britain, so particular notice is always given when a Court like this, called an Admiralty Sessions, is to be held, the prisoners until that time remaining in the Marshalsea, the proper prison of this...
Certainly, New Labour thought so, embracing Cushnie as one of its own, putting him on a European election broadcast alongside Sir Alex Ferguson and Mick Hucknall. The sight of a man who came to this country alone, from Jamaica, aged 13, after his father died, praising the Prime Minister,...
Bonin is also suspected of committing a further 15 murders. Described by the prosecutor at his first trial as "the most arch-evil person who ever existed", Bonin was convicted of 14 of the murders linked to the "Freeway Killer" in two separate trials in 1982 and 1983. He spent 14 ...
Edward Seaga the man who lead Jamaica politics from 1980 to 1989, and was also the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from 1974 to 2005 when he retired from active politics, has died at 89 on his birth.… Administrator May 29, 2019 ...