From the monthly archives:

May 2005

On Why We’re Third World

26 May 2005

It’s commonplace for us to believe that we Bahamians do not inhabit a third world country. We might be forgiven for believing so; to be fair, when we judge ourselves by economic indicators alone, as if money is all that matters, we don’t qualify.
But we would be wrong.
Being first, second or third world isn’t [...]

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On Asking the Right Questions

19 May 2005

There’s a lot of discussion out there about acronyms — CSME, LNG, FNM, PLP. Elections are coming. Oh, sure, they’re two years away, and we’re not yet at the point when the woodwork meets the worm, but let no one fool you. We’re only going to hear more about acronyms as time [...]

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On the Plantation

12 May 2005

Slavery, they say, was abolished some time during the nineteenth century. We quibble about the date of its abolition, whether it was 1834 or 1838, but according to the history books, it’s been out of vogue for, oh, a hundred and seventy years. In The Bahamas, the plantation, which with we associate slavery [...]

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On Citizenship

5 May 2005

It’s a funny thing about belonging to a country. We think of it as something that happens automatically, but it’s not. Anyone who’s had to apply for a passport for travel will realize that fact; it’s all very well to talk about being “born dere”, but in fact being a citizen of a nation [...]

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