Haiti minimum wage increase ignites competition row in textile industry
by Rashmee
Posted on December 31, 2013 / The Guardian
Protest over small salary increase inflames workforce conflict with an industry concerned about being uncompetitive…
Read MoreA spirit haunts the year’s last hours and it’s one of joyous pathos for 2013
by Rashmee
Posted on December 31, 2013
A spirit haunts the year’s last hours, wrote Lord Tennyson referring to the joyous pathos …
Read MoreThis isn’t just an American disease. LOL. But texting can wait in the new year
by Rashmee
Posted on December 30, 2013
If there’s just one New Year resolution you make, it should be this: No texting …
Read MoreBaghdad, not Kabul, is key
by Rashmee
Posted on December 29, 2013 / Hindustan Times
US needed a deal with Iraq more than it does with Afghanistan Rashmee Roshan Lall…
Read MoreA year in many words. Why Bitcoin and not the self-help Bristol pound?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 29, 2013
The Financial Times chose Bitcoin as one of the words of the year. Some of …
Read MoreBeat military fatigue with a flip-flop arc of commerce in failed states
by Rashmee
Posted on December 28, 2013
This is a story that’s made for Christmas, except that it’s not. It’s been in …
Read MoreThe painting that’s become a Christmas cliché, but not here in #Haiti
by Rashmee
Posted on December 27, 2013
A cracker of a story this festive time of year– the most reproduced seasonally appropriate …
Read MoreNot on the menu for Haiti Christmas: Turducken, the steaming trinity
by Rashmee
Posted on December 26, 2013
I thought of the Turducken yesterday as I looked at our turkey and smoked salmon …
Read MoreJoy to the world, Christmas time is becoming the collective sabbath
by Rashmee
Posted on December 25, 2013
Christmas is becoming so popular even the Muslim Council of Britain has been moved to …
Read MoreStocking-filler news is all seasonal and about food habits, new and old
by Rashmee
Posted on December 24, 2013
The seasonal news drought (not that there’s less news, just that everyone wants to go …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK