Newsdeck: Sandamp;P 500 Up in Big Reversal as Fed-Cut Bets Mount
Top Stories Tamfitronics Stocks are ending the week on a positive note as latest economic data reinforced bets the Federal Reserve will cut rates in September...
Monthly Archives: July 2024
Tamara Kramar Shines On New EP ‘Make It Poetic’
Top Stories Tamfitronics Her personal testimony...12 07 2024 Slovakian songwriter Tamara Kramar has shared new EP ‘Make It Poetic’ in full.The emerging artist quickly gained attention in her homeland, winning Discovery of the Year in the Radio_Head Awards back in 2021. A viral single led to Tamara’s profile blossoming, gaining a listing in Forbes Slovakia’s 30 under 30.On her debut EP, Tamara Kramar took stock – but on this follow-up, she’s ready to move forwards, allowing her ambitions to soar.Pop-oriented musicality with a touch of soul, she’s worth comparing to Olivia Dean, say, or even Lianne La Havas; there’s a purity to her voice that makes each note ring with a palpable sense of truth.Her second EP – the aptly titled ‘Make It Poetic’ – is out now, featuring seven songs of personal...
News Corp’s child sexual offender list is a bad, not ‘especially effective’ idea, experts say
Top Stories Tamfitronics The Advertiser this week launched its “second annual” database ofchild sexual offenderspromising a regularly updated chart that “includes the names, ages, suburbs, offences and sentences of convicted offenders, provided all of that information is in the public arena and not suppressed”, in response to “mounting” support “for a national and publicly accessible sexual offenders register”. The campaign is backed by actor and abuse survivor Madeleine West, who told the paper that some of her abuser’s crimes predated her own experience and some were in other jurisdictions.“Were there a statewide public register, which was connected to a national register, it would have prevented me from being abused,” West said. Do registers protect potential victims?Professor Michael Salter, director of Childlight at the University of New South Wales, said evidence that “public naming and...
UPDATED: P&ID loses bids to upturn Court judgement favouring Nigeria
Top Stories Tamfitronics An English Court of Appeal has rejected a move by Process and Industrial Development (P&ID), a company owned by two Cayman Island-based entities, to set aside a previous judgement reversing the company’s $11 billion damages claim against Nigeria.Lord Justice Snowden, a justice of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales and the lead judge in the suit,noted that the decision of a British high court on the matter last December stands.The verdict was delivered unanimously with other judges such as Lord Justice Snowden and Sir Julian Flaux.P&ID was also challenging the decision of Robin Knowles, the judge who dismissed the damages claim, to deny it permission to appeal the previous judgement.In one voice, the three judges granted P&ID’s prayer for permission to appeal and promptly dismissed it, according...
