From the monthly archives:

December 2006

Posting, or not (a Junkanoo meditation)

31 December 2006

This is just was supposed to be a brief post. I’m surprised that the last post I made was last Friday! I hope those of you who check here regularly had a good Christmas. I began a post on Junkanoo, which I thought was good this year, once the general chaos that surrounded the change [...]

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How did I miss this?

22 December 2006

Marlon James on How To Make A Jamaican Music Video. It’s hilarious.  Here’s a taste. Come to think of it, forget, the ghetto; you must shoot in the uberghetto. Remember that poor Jamaica is the real Jamaica. Forget high-rise buildings, Taino tribal grounds, the second oldest railroad track in the world, and the most fascinating [...]

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Peter Minshall on the Commercialization of Carnival

22 December 2006

Here. “The Savannah stage has done so much harm,” says Minshall. It has evolved to suit the needs of the bigger Carnival bands (i.e.: commercialism), and in the process, has “cut out the light for anything small to grow.” As the big bands got bigger and made more money, the expression became more shallow, to [...]

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On Commemorating Abolition

21 December 2006

This continues a topic I started last week. In November 2006, the United Nations adopted a resolution declaring March 25, 2007 as the International Day for the Commemoration for the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. That the resolution was put forward by the CARICOM states is remarkable. That it was [...]

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On Abolition

15 December 2006

In 2007, we in the British New World will observe a bicentenary of great significance. The anniversary I’m talking about is the abolition of the slave trade by Great Britain. That is a different thing from the abolition of slavery, which made it illegal for anyone throughout the British Empire to own other human beings. [...]

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Yet another update – hope springs

14 December 2006

Dear Sista, I hope this letter finds you alright. I wonder if you realize that when you bravely told your story to us, you were waking up the world. Officials of the Royal Bahamas Police Force Training College heard you tell of your ordeal and they are responding brilliantly, they are taking proactive and positive [...]

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Lynn posts an update

11 December 2006

Last week, Lynn Sweeting posted an update on the status of the case involving the police who took a woman in custody without permitting her to put on any clothes: Calling the Commissioner Because you are speaking out, Commissioner Farquarson is speaking too. He said: “I want to assure all women that there must be [...]

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Ringplay Productions’ Memorial Pages to Winston Saunders

11 December 2006

Ringplay has set up a series of tribute pages for Winston Saunders. Go to: www.ringplay.com Or check out the Memorial Page itself. There’s also a thread on Saunders at …conch een ga no bone, the Bahamas arts board.

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A place without dust

7 December 2006

Memorial Service for Winston Saunders Friday December 8, 2006 10 a.m. Christ Church Cathedral How do you hold a memorial for a man who was so fully alive? When my father died, almost twenty years ago now, the months that followed his leaving us were bright with sunshine, the kind of sunshine that picks up [...]

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Tribute to Winston Saunders by Rex Nettleford

1 December 2006

TRIBUTE TO WINSTON V SAUNDERS, CMG By Professor Rex Nettleford Vice Chancellor Emeritus Every society throws up in each generation persons of immense talent, intellectual energy and creative excellence. Winston V Saunders, legal luminary and cultural activist was such a person with talents ranging from playwriting and acting to musicianship and the sort of vision [...]

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