From the monthly archives:

August 2008

CARIFESTA Update – last days

31 August 2008

Well, so here we are again, at the tail end of the CARIFESTA adventure, and I’m writing this post on the date I’d originally planned to be my last day working as a civil servant. (Circumstances, as my paternal grandmother used to say, alter cases — a testament to flexibility from a woman whose circumstances [...]

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Just a note

29 August 2008

Internet connectivity has been really slow over the past couple of days — none at all yesterday, and slower than dial-up today, so that’s why you haven’t heard from me. Tomorrow we are scheduled to take the play to Berbice. Time to go to sleep, methinks. I’ll be home on Monday, and will post more [...]

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CARIFESTA Update – Second Georgetown Performance, and Anna Regina

27 August 2008

I can say right now that Anna Regina was the highlight of our trip. Protocol and prudence would have me add “so far”, but I doubt that there will be anything more to come that will rival our Anna Regina (Essequibo) experience. I offer my public thanks to the organizers and schedulers of CARIFESTA X [...]

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CARIFESTA Update – Monday

26 August 2008

For the past two days I have only half worn my director’s hat. Most of my time has been spent with the cast and crew of The Children’s Teeth, which played twice back-to-back in Georgetown, and which is now preparing to go out of town on a mini-tour. Because of the play, I missed seeing [...]

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CARIFESTA: Saturday and Sunday

25 August 2008

Saturday The stuff from the container arrived today, air freight (far more money than one would ever want to pay, but that’s another story), and was trucked from the airport to the hotel. Most of the costumes came, along with most of the drums, the set for Teeth and brochures for the Grand Market booth [...]

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CARIFESTA Report: Friday

25 August 2008

The main thing that happened today was the opening ceremony — that and the settling of the arrangement with the apartments.  This was done with some discretion and some cowardice, and I’ll say no more about that.  (The cowardice was on my part, in case anybody’s wondering — shame might be another word.  Say no [...]

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Walcott warns; others walk

25 August 2008

Walcott warns : Stabroek News Right, well I’ve been hinting at it for some time now on this blog, but now I think it’s time to come out and say it straight.  I’ve turned in my resignation as Director of Culture for the Bahamas Government.  I had originally intended to leave at the end of [...]

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A little aside – Blogger of the Week: Janine Mendes-Franco

25 August 2008

Global Voices Online » Blogger of the Week: Janine Mendes-Franco Some highlights: The Caribbean is generally viewed as a monolith by the international community, but anyone who has been here knows that there are tangible differences from territory to territory. This was one event that made me understand how interconnected we actually are. and The [...]

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CARIFESTA Update: Thursday

24 August 2008

So the container was definitely in Freeport, and we were faced with the issue of getting its contents here somehow. The call was made in Nassau, between the Minister and my Under Secretary. DHL was contacted and they agreed to fly the contents to Guyana by cargo plane. No explanation was given for the delay [...]

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Sunday Report from CARIFESTA

24 August 2008

Well, I know it’s been some time since the last update. The ideal would be to have daily updates, but it’s not always possible. Even today I’m writing from the Queen’s College auditorium, where The Children’s Teeth is scheduled to take place, which is, frankly, a school auditorium, Caribbean style, with some very nice elements [...]

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