From the monthly archives:

May 2007

A brief note

30 May 2007

I’m travelling this weekend (Cat Island Rake-n-Scrape, yeah!) and so will be offline for four days. Given the issues with the theme, please be patient. I’ll try and fix it so you don’t get a blank page when the default is reverted to by the blog, but just in case you do get [...]

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On Why Race Matters

24 May 2007

It doesn’t. Really.
And if you believe that, I have a couple of bridges to sell you.
I’ve written about race before, from two different perspectives. The first time I wanted to write about why race didn’t matter — about how all people are fundamentally human alike, and how the concept of “race” is an [...]

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Opening of the House of Assembly

23 May 2007

This happened today, and it was a great event. What was even more great was the coverage offered by ZNS — congratulations to Carlton Smith and his guests in the analysis provided by their commentary.
I was going to write about my response to the Speech from the Throne, but I’ve changed my mind. [...]

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Theme challenges continue

22 May 2007

I’m still challenged with making the theme stay constant.  Result?  I’m trying another theme instead.
Forgive the inconsistency.  I hope that a fix will be discovered.
Cheers.
edit: No change — the theme problems continue. So back to the standard theme.

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On Personality Cults

15 May 2007

There has been much talk over the past three months in the media and over the airwaves about the differences between two men, men who, at their best are two parts of a whole. Much of the bottom line of the 2007 election rhetoric was fastened on to one thing and one thing only: [...]

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The Purpose of Art, Anthropologically

10 May 2007

Over on Bahama Pundit, Larry Smith (in a comment on his latest post) raises the question of Bahamian satire.
Satire, of course, as in all ex-slave societies, is a core element of our culture. That we don’t seem to know this as a people raises serious questions about the role of art in the Bahamian [...]

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On Victory

7 May 2007

Let me start by congratulating the Bahamian electorate on its victory at the polls.
Before the election took place, I had written a very different article. The bones of it are posted elsewhere; I was thoroughly disappointed in the campaign, and I thought this was going to be an awful election. An interesting election, [...]

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Spin

6 May 2007

What we are missing in The Bahamas, it would seem, is the ability to lose, or win, competition well.
Here’s what the new Prime Minister has to say about the elections and their results.
Now Perry Christie tells his supporters that he has some reports of election irregularities that his legal team will investigate.
We heard the reports [...]

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Update on election results – final numbers

5 May 2007

Votes Cast
Total Registered Voters: 150743
Total Votes Cast: 137578
Percentage: 91.27%
Popular Vote by Party
BDM 1186 0.86%
IND 3208 2.33%
PLP 64684 47.02%
FNM 68500 49.79%
Difference: 3816 2.77%
Total Seats
FNM 23 56.1%
PLP 18 [...]

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More Election Results

4 May 2007

A most fabulous site, just online:
http://www.bahamaselectionmap.com/
A most useful resource.
Of course, it would have been even more useful if it had been made available before the election — then people would have had some idea about where they were situated and what their constituency looked like. But it’s good to have it now, for analysis [...]

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