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Fifty years have gone by so quickly, and while it is appropriate to celebrate the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, certain not-so-celebratory realisations need to be acknowledged also.
The 1960s were a high period of transformation in the ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
Hi, Joe Wakefield. I missed the time frame to comment on your letter of March 29, 2018. You are a senior lawyer and a former teacher, and it should be below me or, better said, above my pay grade to comment on your comprehension.
Nowhere in my op-ed...
DATE: Apr 05, 2018
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There are some political events that mark our calendars and will be topical enough to take a place in our history books. The recent dismissal of the Bermuda Government v Lahey Clinic case in the United States is one of them.
As a student of revealed...
DATE: Mar 26, 2018
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A while ago, my spirit became weary as a thought crossed my mind that much of the efforts for the greater portion of my life to heal the divisions and to break down the walls that keep our society lingering in separation may have been like bashing on...
DATE: Mar 17, 2018
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The bitcoin and cryptocurrency intervention has brought a new layer of a technological mystic, particularly to the older generation and those of my era who are still grappling with simple things, such as how to answer a smartphone — a task that our f...
DATE: Mar 08, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
“Old pirates, yes they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships.”
Those words were so profoundly placed at the very beginning of Bob Marley’s Redemption Song. The song had a message that was obviously deep and personal because he, at the time, knew of hi...
DATE: Mar 05, 2018
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George Benson’s 1978 hit song, The Greatest Love of All, later popularised by Whitney Houston, has within it some very important phrases that are appropriate for our political dispensation.
In particular, the words pertaining to the search for leade...
DATE: Mar 01, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
My rights! “Son, there is no such thing as ‘your rights’. The only rights that exist are the ones you create and learn to protect.”
We have so many positions we take as truths, but are merely assumptions — and society often contributes to its own ent...
DATE: Feb 24, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
When I read this year’s Budget in the relationship with the state of the economy and society, I had to fall back on my cricket analogies. The comparison I give would be that my opponent has declared at 350 and my team are on 110 and we just lost the ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
Does anyone think that sanctions will stop the North Korean Government from pursuing its nuclear programme? If you do, I not only have a bridge to sell you but a tunnel from here to America as well.
Let’s assume for a moment the North Koreans did dec...
DATE: Feb 12, 2018
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Khalid Wasi