'It is now time for us to bring a greater degree of closure to a tragic period of our history. We must not forget what happened in 2000, but we must turn our eyes more to the future.'

'We cannot bring our people together, and give all energies to development, when the agony of 2000 lives on and haunts us through prosecutions and sentences. F…

'We have to recognise our cultural differences, but accept that they enrich our society. We also have to accept that all communities and citizens have contribu…

'Two distinct ethnic groups, with quite different cultures and religious beliefs, were ... put together in the same islands. Colonial policy largely kept them …

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

When you look closely it is a question whether that which is a wrong to the present community may not prove to have been a right to the interests of posterity.…

'Regions Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they.' Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with cele…