In her own words
KNOWING WHEN YOU ARE NEEDED, AND NOT
Ours is an 'I'-driven generation. Hashtags, 'likes', 'selfies', images and impressions so far from shy, have come to dominate what is supposed to be social messaging, social media. The 'Look what I am doing' phenomena has gripped the world across...
OUR GIRLS, OUR VOTE, OUR WORLD
Monday morning. Two sleeps ago, news broke across the world that 82 kidnapped schoolgirls of Chibok were finally being returned home to their families after over a year in the horrific hold of Boka Haram. The exhausted sounds of cries of relief of families in...
IT TAKES JUST ONE
For those of us in the global travel & tourism industry, to call it, now them, 'heartbreaking' would be a profound understatement. Scenes of airline passengers being abused by staff and, systems. First it was a medical doctor being forcefully and ultimately...
TAKING CARE OF TRAVEL’S CRITICAL ENABLER
Tickets. Passport. Money. Mobile & charger. Go. For millions of travellers, the ability to pick up and venture off, whether around the corner or across the world, has become a daily reality, not to mention necessity. Mobility is a must to make each day count. And...
NOT MY FLAG
Patriotism. The pride felt for one’s flag, one’s people, one’s national identity and one’s overriding ideology. It is something that is felt, deeply, even if not on show overtly. At times, however, the love of country can reveal itself...
COUNTDOWN TO CLOSURE
Just a few hours left...... As Washington DC concludes final rehearsals in anticipation of today's inauguration of the 45th President of the United States of America, rehearsals of not just events related to the ceremony taking place in front of the nation's...
IN HONOUR OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST TRAVELLER
December 24th. Work phones and emails are silencing across networks, deep exhales are sounding across the globe. Everywhere, whatever the global coordinates, local sentiments, races & religions, rhymes or reasons of daily life, a hush is setting in....
AIDING OUR BETTER ANGELS
It was only 3 weeks ago. It is hard to believe it was only 3 weeks ago when so much of the world woke to a shock they will never forget, yet one that so, so many wish that they could. The map was red, undeniably, unquestionably, irreversibly red. He had won. The...
WORDS FAIL
To watch / read / listen to the debates, discourses, digs, documenting, and painful dispatches from campaign offices in this year's US Presidential election is truly historic. In so many ways both the Democrats and Republicans are making history. Personalities...
PLEASE DO NOT LOOK AWAY
One year ago the image of baby Alan Kurdi washing ashore gripped the world. The desperate quest of his Syrian family for freedom and safety ended up in this tired, overtaken rag doll image becoming a reflection of the plight of the Syrian refugees. A little...