Challenging Times Social Share Many of us welcomed with great expectation, even if unable to celebrate, the passage from 2020 to 2021. We hoped that the particular challenges, headaches, and fears would have become something of the past. I made the point already that the change from 2020 to 2021 was simply a movement from one day to another. What matters most is a change of attitudes, a willingness to alter direction, for the government to become inclusive and bring all hands on deck as we tackle the new realities of 2021. As we approached the end of the year I worried when I heard about the spike in neighbouring countries that had opened their borders and relaxed many of their restrictions. I was shocked with the manner in which we conducted the November election campaign. At first there was an effort at virtual campaigning, but we then threw caution to the wind and went flat out. All that was missing were the foreign artistes. We enjoyed the electioneering spoils, in the process discarding masks as though the pandemic was something of the past. We should have known what needed to be done when our neighbours’ houses were on fire.