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My family went to dinner at L’Oriental in the first week of 2017 and next to us was a table of what looked like 18 to 20-year-olds eating, drinking and talking. Six of them were black and six of them were white, having a good time. In contrast to tha...
DATE: Jan 24, 2017
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Cheryl Pooley
A collision awaits President Donald Trump. Exactly when it will take place is not clear, but it is almost certain to occur. The extravagance of the President’s rhetoric is soon to meet the reality of governing.
The President’s inaugural address was p...
DATE: Jan 23, 2017
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Being among the politically disenfranchised through our societies’ undeclared anathematisation, there are many who will sit outside the door of honour. It is an oddity and a price that anyone will pay for being honest with their intellect and for bei...
DATE: Jan 21, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
Just minutes after Donald Trump took over as President, WhiteHouse.gov was updated with his new priorities. Among them? An “America first” foreign policy.
Trump has laid out a staunchly nationalist vision for America, a zero-sum world where our need...
DATE: Jan 21, 2017
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A strong democracy is as much about free and fair elections as it is about how we get to that point. For this we need a defensible framework — rooted in integrity and transparency — for how we conduct our elections. In the absence of such a framework...
DATE: Jan 20, 2017
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Walton Brown
Reconciliation is the process of establishing and maintaining a mutually respectful relationship between peoples previously separated by oppression and violence. For that to happen, there has to be a raised awareness of that oppressive past; a proces...
DATE: Jan 20, 2017
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It is interesting to read the drivel from political pundits, extolling the virtues of conservatism while denigrating with righteous indignation anything remotely progressive as left wing.
Barack Obama has come to the end of his presidency amid a flur...
DATE: Jan 18, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
The road to harmony is never paved with bitterness, anger, resentment, revenge or hate. Instead it is paved with a willingness to accept another’s view point even while in total disagreement, with respect and dignity for that person’s human right to ...
DATE: Jan 17, 2017
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Al Seymour
Imagine England in the early 1950s. It was post-Second World War and young men who had grown up in that era of conflict were lost.
The UK was experiencing an epidemic of Bermuda’s equivalent to our “youth sitting on the wall”. A significant number o...
DATE: Jan 17, 2017
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JF Roxburgh, the legendary first headmaster of England’s Stowe school, once good-humouredly said his overriding purpose was to turn out young men who would be “acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck”.
Perhaps the examples he used are s...
DATE: Jan 16, 2017
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