From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Terror at Millar’s Creek Fundraiser

27 April 2008

I received the email below while I was away in Guyana, attending a regional cultural meeting and hearing about Guyana’s difficulties with crime and civil liberties. As I read it, I found myself thinking Why am I worrying about Guyana? We have problems with civil liberties right here. And we don’t talk about them. The [...]

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National Poetry Month

25 April 2008

I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, and am posting (irregularly) the poems I’m writing daily. But I wanted to note that Geoffrey Philp has been doing a daily update on Caribbean poets all month long. You can find it here. Today’s is particularly good: Anthony McNeill (Jamaica): Somebody is hanging: a logwood tree [...]

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The Long Silence

24 April 2008

I am never sure how to address this question — the question of my silence. It’s not that I am not thinking. It’s not that this blog isn’t important either. The challenge I have, though, is my position as a senior government official. More and more the things I have/want to say seem to be [...]

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He was the Greatest of Us All

17 April 2008

R.I.P., Aimé Césaire. Cesaire’s best known works included the essay “Negro I am, Negro I Will Remain” and the poem “Notes From a Return to the Native Land.” His works also resonated in Africa. Former Senegalese President Abdou Diouf said Cesaire led a noble fight against hate. “I salute the memory of a man who [...]

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Just an update

16 April 2008

… because I’m not the regular little poster I ought to be. Shall try to do better in future. In the meantime, something to watch (it’s fun)

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Too much pinkery?

5 April 2008

For those of you who might be thinking that I have waaay too much time on my hands, know this: I’ve been on vacation for the past two weeks. The public service has the policy of being able to bank your vacation — you get a certain number of weeks per year, and you can [...]

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Downtime

3 April 2008

For those of you who came to this blog over the last night or so, you will have noticed that you couldn’t get to it — the comment that came up was “ERROR CONNECTING TO DATABASE“. It was a problem that affected all the nicobethel.net blogs. Our service provider is having issues. I am working [...]

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It’s April

1 April 2008

and the USA is celebrating National Poetry Month.  Not that (a) we’re American, or that (b) we should do what our northern neighbours do, but it occurs to me that it wouldn’t harm us to have national months for some reason or another. The problem is that nothing our governments decide seem to stick anymore. [...]

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