40 results returned for search: "independence AND " author Khalid Wasi
The contest officially begins now after much speculation that Curtis Dickinson would throw his hat in the ring for leadership. Given there are at least two years left in this term, it is more than a party leadership matter; it’s about who will potent...
DATE: Sep 24, 2022
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Khalid Wasi
Talk of independence has arisen again, but this time over cannabis. While I do support decriminalisation, I am not sure there is enough oomph in the overall community to equate it with the subject of sovereignty.
The word “independence” doesn’t scare...
DATE: Sep 10, 2022
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Khalid Wasi
Once upon a time there was a Bermuda and its jagged past, to some as the “pirate’s port”, but truly the place where Western innovation and plots including the American Revolution occurred, not to mention the Jamestown and Virginia dialogues that form...
DATE: Jul 27, 2022
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Khalid Wasi
Uganda discovered recently that it had a cache of gold ready for mining that is worth trillions. No one is surprised because this is Africa, which is rich in metal and mineral resources, including oil and gas. The irony is, in spite of the tremendous...
DATE: Jul 04, 2022
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Khalid Wasi
Some readers will remember, with widely different perspectives, the events around the independence referendum of 1995.
Some may remember it as the beginning of the end for the United Bermuda Party and certainly the end of the premiership of Sir John...
DATE: Jan 08, 2022
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Khalid Wasi
The recent assassination of the Haitian president Jovenel Moïse has sent shock waves throughout the Western hemisphere. Haiti, which is known as the first of the enslaved colonies to break free and declare independence, has long suffered from authori...
DATE: Jul 10, 2021
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Khalid Wasi
The period of the 1940s through to the early 1960s saw tremendous movements in Africa inspired by many new activists such as Kwame Nkrumah, of Ghana, Patrice Lamumba, of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Jomo Kenyatta, of Kenya, to name a few.
Th...
DATE: May 12, 2021
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Khalid Wasi
This is not intended as an anti-political party opinion, as much as it is intended to cause reflection and hopefully develop a sense of accountability for the truth of the effects of party politics on Bermuda.
It has been stated and even repeated tha...
DATE: Apr 26, 2021
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Khalid Wasi
The 1960s saw real and explosive change in Bermuda. Given the international background, change abounded globally. In Africa, the Caribbean, and through civil rights and other movements in the United States, a potent environment was established.
On r...
DATE: Apr 23, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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Khalid Wasi
SOS! There is an urgent need to have put forward a few direct questions that have real-time significance and are of national importance.
What must one do in Bermuda to attain justice or even relief, if everyone from the very head of our judicial fram...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi