From the monthly archives:

August 2008

CARIFESTA X: Second Report

20 August 2008

First off, a note:  though I want to update regularly — every day if possible — there’s a teeny-weeny issue to do with connectivity.  We’re online intermittently today — the hotel’s upgrading its system and of course the accompanying result is less internet service rather than more.  Presumably it’s a temporary situation — connectivity was [...]

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CARIFESTA: Report from Georgetown

20 August 2008

Well, here we are in Georgetown. After our late (LATE) arrival on Sunday night Monday morning, when we were met at the hotel by our liaison officer, we slept through a lot of the morning and didn’t get started until midday.  First things first:  we changed US dollars into Guyanese currency (exchange rate yesterday – Bank [...]

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CARIFESTA: Arrival in Guyana

18 August 2008

The biggest barrier to Caribbean integration is the difficulty of moving around in the region. All right, let’s face it.  We were travelling from the northernmost point in CARICOM to just about the most southerly; there’s got to be some challenge from moving from The Bahamas to Guyana.  But does it have to be this [...]

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African Reading Challenge 2

18 August 2008

So I’ve taken the books I hope to finish with me to Guyana. The one I’m reading now is Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. In short, I’m enjoying it so far. I cheated and skimmed forward — I do that sometimes — but now I have to read on, savour it. Watch this space — I plan [...]

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CARIFESTA and Tourism Potential

17 August 2008

There’s a tendency for Bahamians and other “sensible people” to express scepticism regarding the value of the arts.  Word has it that there’s a fairly widespread consensus that the hosting and/or attendance at CARIFESTA is a waste of money and time. However, there’s no similar consensus that direct expenditure on the hiring of international (read [...]

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Ancient Cemetery Found; Brings “Green Sahara” to Life

17 August 2008

Ancient Cemetery Found; Brings “Green Sahara” to Life I know I’m going to be CARIFESTA-blogging, but I couldn’t resist. How cool is this? Hat tip PZ Myers, Phyrangula.

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Hosting Carifesta X : Stabroek News

15 August 2008

…we have every right – and every reason – to continue to believe that an event like Carifesta can help to fashion the economic integration that we have talked about for so many decades and which, it appears, is even now, being contemplated with renewed interest by sheer force of circumstances. … One of the [...]

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CARIFESTA X

15 August 2008

In one week’s time, the Opening Ceremony of CARIFESTA X will be over.   We’ll be in Guyana, the place CARIFESTA originated, celebrating the festival’s return to its birthplace.  Guyana stepped in when we in The Bahamas relinquished our commitment to host, and, despite having had only one year to plan the festival in, took [...]

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A little Jingoism never hurt anybody

13 August 2008

(though a lot can destroy a world … but that’s another story) gallimaufry.ws looks at medal counts per capita in the Olympics, and shows how well the Caribbean performs. My favourite direct link is here.

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J. K. Rowling’s Speech at Harvard Commencement

12 August 2008

On the benefits of failure and imagination. On failure: personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s [...]

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