Pateti and navu varas, or New Year, reminds us more than ever that if there is one blessing our community earnestly needs to invoke, it is peaceful co-existence. For a sickeningly long period have we been plagued by vicious infighting, making a public spectacle of our ineptness to resolve our own internal differences.
As a civil engineer, I have been a bridge builder, and in construction parlance it is indeed a defining moment when the last span of a bridge is cast and, instantly, the two sides which seemed eternally separated are brought together.
We need a bridge of understanding to span......