Noteable Quotes

THE time for carrots is over. Now we have to bring in the sticks. – City Police Chief Abraham Kanime on visits to workplaces in Windhoek to round up traffic offenders who have not come forward to settle their fines

DEVELOPING countries face especially serious consequences as the financial crisis turns into a human and development calamity. – The International Monetary Fund and World Bank on the current world financial crisisOLD age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. – Maurice Chevalier (1888 – 1972) was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer.SOME are trapped in water, and are just feeding off grass on top of the water, and crocodiles are already feeding on some of them. – Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministryof Environment and Tourism, Erika Akwenye, describing the situation of cattle affected by the flooding in CapriviIT was not the first time we went for that kind of ship and this time we came closer to capturing it and we really sprayed it with gunfire. – Mohamed Muse , a commander of the Somali pirates who attacked a packed Italian cruise ship over the weekend bemoaning a missed opportunity to set a new hijacking landmarkONCE on a tiger’s back, it is hard to alight. – Chinese proverb From the history booksTHE only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. – John ‘Ken’ Galbraith, (1908 – 2006) was a Canadian-American economist who dies on April 29 2006