Category: Bureaucracy
Free money, no questions asked
Much as I love it, I seem to have plenty of criticism of Greenland. But the Bank of Greenland? No complaints. For one,…
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The road to hell…
‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions,’ they say. Greenland abounds in good intentions. Mine included. Last year, the Government of…
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Is Greenland a Danish colony?
Greenland was colonised by the Danish. This statement might seem neither here nor there to most, but the concept of colonialism is outright…
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Falling through the cracks…again
*File photo of a crevasse It happened again. But this time it was worse. On April 6, a group of alpine touring…
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Primary school politics
Election Day, April 24. The morning commute was slow, like every morning this last week since the tunnel – the only other route…
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So much for the Kingdom of Denmark
*Cartoon by Buuarsikkut Soon there will be an election in Greenland. Elections are a time when Greenland, sometimes, makes it into the international media….
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Money for nothing: the hidden danger of resource millions
Greenlanders would like to have a successful resource industry to help them on their path to independence from Denmark. So how could large…
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Stuck in the middle
Three years of working in Greenland has brought me into project partnerships with Danish and American agencies. From both, there is a clear…
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Where can you lose a plutonium bomb?
*Still image from ‘Camp Century’ film (1963) Greenland is a big place. Things get lost, forgotten, hidden, and some things noone ever…
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