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THE WEEK THAT WAS
Poor Gordon Brown. That’s not a phrase you hear too often, but compared to ‘Teflon Tone’ he really is the ‘Velcro PM’. When you’re down, you’re down, and everything which can go wrong, does go wrong; sticking to him with a suffocating voracity which is snuffing out the life of his tenure [...]
Direct ocean freight services between the island of Ireland and North America are expected to start next month. The service, which will operate between Belfast Harbour, Montreal and Baltimore, is being planned by US-based firm, Trans Atlantic Liner Services (TALS).
At present all ship-bound exports to North America are first trans-shipped to larger GB and northern European [...]
A major new public artwork by artist Tony Stallard has been launched at Titanic Quarter, as part of Belfast Festival at Queen’s. The high profile contemporary and innovative artwork which is called ‘Kit’ is situated in the public realm area facing the Abercorn Basin and beside the Abercorn Residential Complex (ARC), the first phase of [...]
THE bright new face of the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists – New Force appears unsurprisingly somewhat familiar judging from the greying faces of the Ulster Unionist Party.
The tortuous selection process adopted means that both Northern Ireland Tories and the Ulster Unionists will respectively choose candidates in each constituency – and then, by a process of [...]
Shoppers at Junction One International Outlet Shopping Centre can enjoy Northern Ireland’s freshest food offering with the opening of the first ever ‘We Make’ restaurant, the new venture from Mount Charles, Northern Ireland’s leading local catering company. The ‘We Make’ brand opened recently in the Antrim shopping complex and will create up to 25 full [...]
The Galbraith Lecture which is the keynote event in the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s annual Marketing Week provided guests with many thought-provoking words of wisdom.
Renowned Marketer Charles Nixon MBA FCIM FCAM FRSA was the keynote speaker at the event which took place in the Ulster Hall on Wednesday 21st October 2009.
Charles Nixon is the Chairman [...]
Chamber President Highlights Importance of Upskilling at Symposium Launch
Bro McFerran CBE, President of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce, today launched the ‘The Improvement Agenda-International Symposium for Learning and Skills’. Organised by the Learning and Skills Development Agency the 2010 event will focus on examining ways to improve learning and skills in Northern Ireland.
Bro [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS
Graucho Marx once quipped: “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others” while Alfred Adler, a student of Sigmund Freud, summed up much of the human condition with “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them”.
The ongoing debacle of MPs’ [...]
You can nearly imagine it. Julie Andrews on the front steps of Parliament Buildings belting out that old favourite:
‘Swags for my curtains and art for the walls
Bright coloured coffee pots and chaise long for my halls
Expensive brown envelopes tied up with string
These are a few of my favourite things.
Cowboys and contractors and paid volunteers
Jobs for [...]
With all the excitement of the US visit dying down matters in the chamber return to their normal routine with another absence of executive business flowing through. OFMDFM and Regional Development form the basis of question time before the assembly rubber stamps the work of the Committee on Procedures and debates a Employment and Learning [...]
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