Here is our tradition At every Himba village, there is a sacred fire.

In relation to the past, he used to say, we make a choice of traditions, and with its help we express our views and options.

To be authentically human in the spirit of our great religious and ethical traditions means the following

And through this, we actually started realizing our dreams, and we maintained honoring our traditions but we were still open to new ideas.

When we live up to our own best traditions, we can stimulate emulation and create the soft power of attraction.

And Einstein foresaw that as we grow more modern and technologically advanced, we need the virtues our traditions carry forward in time more, not less.

In a teaching called a hadith qudsi in our tradition God says that, My servant, or My creature, my human creature, does not approach me by anything that is dearer to me than what I have asked them to do.

Firstly, our long tradition which requires strickt differentiation of tasks in the family. A woman's place is at home and she takes care of raising children, and the man works outside home and takes care of material security of the family.

As essential as it is across our traditions, as real as so many of us know it to be in particular lives, the word compassion is hollowed out in our culture, and it is suspect in my field of journalism.

The Government and the people of Barbados have a vision to transform Barbados into a fully developed country a model democracy that is prosperous, productive, peaceful, socially just and inclusive a centre for high quality services whose standards of excellence are global but at the same time rooted in our best traditions.