We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.
You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.
We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self-serving pronouncements and forms of cyber-bullying are replaced by thoughtful dialogue and open-minded conversation.
Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations.
Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.
As much as with increased exploration new gas reserves can be found, what must be obvious to all is that our oil and gas reserves are not renewable and they are diminishing, and to protect the generations to come, we must engage in nothing short of a radical shift in the diversification of the economy.
