From the monthly archives:

December 2007

Race/Colour in Barbados « Eemanee

30 December 2007

Race/Colour in Barbados « what crazy looks like Eemanee blogs about race and colour, and throws out the following thoughts: Even when we remind ourselves of just how fluid and contested race is we fail to reveal that race is in itself a fiction. When we refuse to see the difference between historical racial privilege [...]

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Goodbye, Benazir

29 December 2007

Global Voices Online » The assassination of Benazir Bhutto The assassination of Benazir Bhutto day before yesterday has the global blogworld talking. I haven’t added my voice yet because I honestly don’t know what to say. For now, then, I’ll simply post links to some of the various coverage of the event; the above link [...]

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More Junkanoo

29 December 2007

Esteban was so enthusiastic about Sperit that I thought I’d try and post a couple of other videos from this year’s Junkanoo. Valley Boys – first out the gate this Boxing Day: And click here for a link to the Saxons‘ presentation. The video embedding feature is turned off, so you’ll have to go to [...]

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A Little Night Music (a Junkanoo post)

29 December 2007

The video should say it all.  But if you want to see more of the discussion, go here.

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Theatre and democracy

27 December 2007

Theatre and democracy were invented in the same place and in the same decade. When two actors on stage talk to each other, at that moment a different emotion is demanded from the audience. It’s the emotion of empathy. The same emotion that is required for theatre to work is the emotion that is required [...]

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Caribbean murder rates hurting growth – World Bank

18 December 2007

How did we miss this? Reuters AlertNet – Caribbean murder rates hurting growth – World Bank MIAMI, May 3 (Reuters) – The tourism-dependent Caribbean may now have the world’s highest murder rate as a region, severely affecting potential economic growth, the World Bank and a U.N. agency said in a report on Thursday. Blaming most [...]

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The Journal meets the Tridian

13 December 2007

I work for government. That means several things. One of them was this: when it happened, I didn’t feel at liberty to comment on the acquisition, in July 2007, of the Nassau Guardian by the Tribune Media Ltd. There was plenty of noise about the merger, but most of that was sound and fury, signifying [...]

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Murders, Christianity, and Research

8 December 2007

There’s a lot of fear going about out there. My mailbox lights up on a regular — almost daily — basis. I receive local news circulars, you see, and the focus of every one is violent crime. There’s one email update that keeps count of 2007′s murder rate; there are others that blaze headlines across [...]

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Why would we want to be American?

1 December 2007

A year or so ago, I was in a gathering of people where someone asserted that Bahamians would prefer to be Americans (the 53rd state, it was said — ahem) than to be members of the Caribbean Region. I have to tell you, that scares me deeply. Not all Americans are this stupid, but the [...]

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