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N/A Rotary hosts World Peace and Understanding day dinner
The Rotary Club of New Amsterdam recently hosted a dinner in celebration of World Understanding and Peace Day. Appropriately, every year the anniversary of the founding of Rotary, 23 February, is celebrated as World Understanding and Peace Day.
The day provides an opportunity for Rotary to reflect and build on its partnerships with various organizations and also inform the world on its diversity and internationality in addition to its activities.
N/A Rotary Club President Robin Sookraj
President of the N/A Rotary Club, Robin Sookraj stated that service above self does knows no borders. “We are not only helping the young or elderly, or this school—when we serve, we are helping all of humanity.” He added that serving others is a choice, “choosing to put other people’s need above our own—your problems are my problems and I care enough to help you”. Rotary brings peace, he stated, by addressing the needs that cause conflicts—the need for clean water, nutrition, sanitation and healthcare. When these needs are met, there are opportunities and hope.
In delivering the feature address, Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh, linked the rule of law to the achievement of peace and understanding to the world. One of the key pillars that peace and stability rests in any state, is a commitment to respect and observe the rule of law, he stated.
Justice Singh added that the law can create rights and obligations and the citizens are entitled to determine for his or herself, exactly the nature of obligation the law imposes on him or her, “but sometimes the law itself creates uncertainty because of the lack of clarity”.
He mentioned, for instance, the Banking Act in England, which has appeals procedure regulations made in 1979, and read the wording of the regulations. “Any reference in these regulations to a regulation is a reference to a regulation contained in these regulations”.
The rule of law, he said, meets the law of rules. “If you put a simple construction on the rule of law being the law of rules, the rules can actually be manipulated in a way that produces an injustice”.
Chancellor Justice Carl Singh delivering his address
Talking about how the violation of rule of law in the society manifests itself, he stated that such violations take many forms.
“They manifest themselves in the inequitable distribution of public resources and public services; impartial and unjust applications of laws; unequal and discriminatory treatment of citizens and misuse and misapplication of public monies”. People become restless and agitated, he said, when such infringements appear continuous and overwhelmed. “Public resentment against such state of affairs arise and this could lead to public disorder, affecting the very foundations of peace and stability in society—national growth and economic prosperity could never be achieved in such settings and increased levels of criminal activity is usually a spin-off of such circumstances and the productive energies of a considerable number of citizens convicted as a result of such criminal action…are wasted and lost during penal confinement”.
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