Mexican farmer’s daughter: NAFTA destroyed us

If you ask President Donald Trump, Mexico won the lottery almost 25 years ago when it signed NAFTA, the free trade deal with the United States and Canada. “It has been a one-sided deal from the beginning of NAFTA with massive numbers of jobs and companies lost,” Trump tweeted on Jan. 26. But if you ask Griselda Mendoza, the deal nearly destroyed her family and her community of corn farmers in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Church builds for next 100 years

A HISTORIC church which had its foundation stone laid 120 years ago this October is hoping ongoing restoration will ensure it remains standing for another century. In 1897 scores of parishioners attended the laying ceremony for St Catherine’s Church which marked the building of new and much needed church in Horwich .

NZ’s luckiest Lotto town revealed

Kiwi punters may wish to buy their next Lotto ticket in Otorohanga, after the Waikato district was named the country’s “luckiest” area for 2016. On average Otorohanga District residents won about $1526 per capita, almost $600 more than the second most prosperous area .