“Right now, the industry desperately is waiting on the incentives to be expanded,” he said.

Kawther describes an agonising wait on the day the children were due to arrive until finally Unicef telephoned.

And what would have happened if the wall of water had hit the shore while I waited on the jetty to board our ferry?

“There is no fixing this without the Democrats. We’ve seen this over and over. I'm gonna just sit back and sip my tea and wait on them to figure it out.”

Helen Momita’s female friends “kept the coffee hot and waited on the customers and dusted and cleaned,” said one of those women on “This Is Your Life.”