Full access to facts a foil to dishonesty: Laws on filing records ignored

Though everyone on this island shares, more or less, a common past many, often conflicting, versions of it are offered as an accurate record.

Religion, or at least the religious beliefs of our forefathers, politics, culture, geography, nationalism, ambition, opportunity or its absence and varying levels of material security all coloured the prism through which we view our past, and by extension our present and our future. Most of us are certain that our view, inherited more often than not, is the authentic, die-in-the-ditch one.