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Dec
31
Posting, or not (a Junkanoo meditation)
December 31, 2006 | 4 Comments
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 [...]
Dec
22
How did I miss this?
December 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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 network of [...]
Dec
22
Peter Minshall on the Commercialization of Carnival
December 22, 2006 | 3 Comments
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 the [...]
Dec
21
On Commemorating Abolition
December 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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 supported [...]
Dec
15
On Abolition
December 15, 2006 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Dec
14
Yet another update - hope springs
December 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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 measures [...]
Dec
11
Lynn posts an update
December 11, 2006 | 1 Comment
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 common decency [...]
Dec
11
Ringplay Productions’ Memorial Pages to Winston Saunders
December 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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.
Dec
7
A place without dust
December 7, 2006 | 3 Comments
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 dust motes and reveals [...]
Dec
1
Tribute to Winston Saunders by Rex Nettleford
December 1, 2006 | 2 Comments
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 about culture and [...]