From the monthly archives:

March 2007

How I know we’re still enslaved

27 March 2007

So yes, this is an American study. And yes, we know that, despite legislative changes and affirmative action and this and that, racism continues in the USA; only people who are not black (or of other colours) can believe that it has been eradicated.
But I’ll bet you anything that if you did [...]

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Birthday Meme

25 March 2007

From Geoffrey Philp :
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday, month and day only
List 3 events that occurred on that day
List 2 important birthdays
List one notable transition
List a holiday or observance (if any)
Tag five of your friends.
My birthday: March 25
3 events that occurred on that day:

1300 – Dante descends to the Inferno [...]

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Amazing Grace: Corresponding with the distributors

24 March 2007

Not wishing to wait for Galleria Cinemas to get back to us, the National Commission on Cultural Development (of which I’m the Deputy Chair) contacted the distributors for the film Amazing Grace to see what the story is on the release of the film to the Caribbean.
Now. Let me make my position clear here, [...]

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Amazing Grace Update

22 March 2007

I just got off the telephone from Galleria Cinemas.

Several inquiries were received by the Cinemas about the movie Amazing Grace.  Accordingly, I was told the following:

Although the film is showing in the USA at the moment, and will open in the UK and Ireland tomorrow (March 23, 2007), it is in limited release. Galleria’s [...]

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Top Ten Caribbean Works of Fiction (again)

22 March 2007

So there’s now an interesting exchange going on in the comments of Geoffrey’s post, where the fundamental question of how to choose the top is being debated.
Frances-Anne, who, from her reference to Trinidad, isn’t likely to be who I thought she might be, says:
1) I resist the idea of “best” in this context (creation) as [...]

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Still More – Amazing Grace

22 March 2007

Letter sent by National Commission on Cultural Development to Galleria Cinemas re: Amazing Grace:
Manager
Galleria Cinemas
Nassau Bahamas
Dear [Sir]:
Re: Commemoration of the Bicentenary of the Abolition
of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
and
the Film Amazing Grace
As you are no doubt aware, 2007 marks the Bicentenary of the Abolition by the British Parliament of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
In 1807, [...]

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More on Amazing Grace

19 March 2007

This review, from the Daily Telegraph online, prepares for the release of Amazing Grace in Great Britain this Friday.

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Top Ten Caribbean Works of Literature

19 March 2007

I linked earlier (though late in the game) to Geoffrey Philip’s semi-formal survey of the top ten works of Caribbean fiction.
The process was two-tiered. The first part prepared a shortlist of twelve Caribbean works to be considered. This was done by a process of online nomination — you could enter any book you [...]

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Stumbling towards freedom

18 March 2007

I began this year with an observance about the date. In The Bahamas, years with twos, threes and sevens in them are likely to be major anniversaries of things; and as the twos and the sevens are five years apart, they double one another. Years with eights in them are extensions of the [...]

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A note about commenting

16 March 2007

I’ve never said this before, but for those of you new to my blog, I’ve got security for the comments set so that if it’s your first comment, I have to approve it. Once you’ve had a comment approved, you can post as you like. Or else you can register as a subscriber [...]

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