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May
26
On Why We’re Third World
May 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May
19
On Asking the Right Questions
May 19, 2005 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
May
12
On the Plantation
May 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May
5
On Citizenship
May 5, 2005 | 11 Comments
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 [...]