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Ot­to Car­ring­ton

The new school term has opened un­der the shad­ow of for­eign ex­change short­ages, with lo­cal book­sellers warn­ing that lim­it­ed ac­cess to US dol­lars is leav­ing fam­i­lies strug­gling to se­cure text­books.

Kelvin Nizam Khan, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Ish­mael M Khan & Sons, one of the coun­try’s longest-stand­ing text­book sup­pli­ers, said the crunch has left shelves thin­ner than usu­al.