Voters will go to the polls in November desperate for change and with highhopes that the next president will pass and sign universal health care foreveryone living in the United States.

During Budget week I wrote that I was eagerly anticipating that this year's budget would include the creation of a Retirement Benefits Authority, (RBA), to oversee the liberalization of the Pensions sector. I was not disappointed.

The Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) has taken some of the main contractors at the collapsed Activox project site to the Industrial Court.

Some 800 workers of the defunct Cameroon Airlines, CAMAIR, who were retrenched at the end of May, have been advised not to sign any end-of-contract letters.