From the monthly archives:

January 2004

On Tourism

29 January 2004

I want you to do me a favour. Take a minute and write a short paragraph describing The Bahamas. Done? Good. Now let me guess: you wrote about the beautiful blue water, the white sandy beaches, the coconut trees, and the warm and friendly people. (Those people who didn’t pick any of these things skip [...]

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On Carts and Horses

22 January 2004

Now that the silly season is over, the year has been spared, the halls undecked, the paychecks spent and the A-groups robbed, it seems a good time to lay out something I’ve been thinking about for quite a long while. I touched on it last week in my article about the sport of Junkanoo, but [...]

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On Junkanoo

15 January 2004

Well, it’s official. Junkanoo is not a cultural event. It’s a sport. Complete with winners and losers, gamblers and fixers, points and penalties and appeals. Think about it. In all the debate that we hear about Junkanoo every year, how much do we hear about the event itself? About the innovations in the art, the [...]

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