THE 69-year-old Venezuelan internationalist, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, rechristened ‘Carlos the Jackal’ by the media, was in the French courts last week to challenge his conviction for life. The case he appealed against was a 1974 one  in which a grenade tossed in Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Pres, (Champs Elysee Avenue) killed  two persons at the Drugstore Publicis while 36 were injured. His  conviction on this charge, is lacking in hard evidence including fingerprints and DNA. Rather, it is  driven more by circumstantial evidence and supposition.

The PDP is like a person accused of being a thief, found cuddling another man’s calf in her bosom; in a decent society, or in a decent organisation, Secondus would have resigned or be forced to quit

REX Wayne Tillerson  visited Africa this week; it was not just a jinxed visit, but also his first and last as the American Secretary of State. He had proclaimed: “The purpose of my trip is to listen to what the priorities of the countries here on the continent are and see where there is good alignment.” In reality, he did most of the talking, and his visit had a hidden agenda.

He has no business trying to justify his great Bill or assuring that nobody will be victimised if it becomes law; the Senator should know that hate speech is like beauty and ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’

NORA Astorga was a very beautiful Nicaraguan lawyer who was into corporate practice. From a very rich and religious  family with connections to the ruling Somoza family, she married at twenty two,  spent two years studying in the United States before returning home to read law.