From the monthly archives:

May 2004

On Fact and Fiction

26 May 2004

My recent article on generation property raised at least one very interesting response. The facts were thin on the ground, we were told. Much of what the article covered was fiction. For example, there is no such thing as generation property. The law does not recognize it as fact. Whatever takes place outside the law [...]

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On Cultural Production

20 May 2004

There’s a lot of talk about globalization these days. We talk about it as though it’s something new and potentially dangerous. Globalization is coming, we say, as though it’s some kind of demonic force that is going to take us over. And we worry about the free movement of people, our ability to compete in [...]

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On Generation Property

13 May 2004

There is a lot of talk these days about generation property, the practice by which Bahamians have owned land throughout the archipelago throughout the ages. It’s a problem, we’re told; it impedes development. Time for us to fix the system. Well, good. Just as long as we don’t fix the system by making it just [...]

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On Being Human

6 May 2004

Imagine this: you wake up one Sunday morning, and you are in a world without art. When you go to church, the building you enter is an ordinary building. Nothing distinguishes it from the buildings around it. Inside, people are clad in uniforms. There are no suits, no hats, no dresses or gloves. The pastor [...]

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