From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Day of Absence: 11th February

30 January 2009

In 1965, an African-American playwright by the name of Douglas Turner Ward wrote a play he called Day of Absence, which told the story of a small town — any small town — in the Deep South in which the white inhabitants discover on a particular day that all the black people have disappeared. When this [...]

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There Gatta Be A Better Way

28 January 2009

First things first. This post is being was written in the knowledge that it might never get posted, simply because it’s going to be critical and in contravention of my terms of employment — in other words, flying in the face of General Orders. So if you’re seeing it, (a) I’m no longer a government [...]

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Hard Choices and a New Age

20 January 2009

Text – Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address – NYTimes.com What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but [...]

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Dr Keva Bethel’s Speech at the Bahamas Business Outlook Seminar

18 January 2009

On Thursday past, my mother, Keva Bethel Ph.D., had the opportunity to address the luncheon guests at the Bahamas Business Outlook Seminar. From all reports, the reception to the speech was overwhelming. Two people asked me whether I could get a copy of it for wider circulation. Well, I spoke to Mummy about it, and [...]

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The Cuban Revolution, Fifty Years On

8 January 2009

It’s not fashionable these days for a writer to support Castro’s Cuba. Communism, after all, is supposed to be dead, a failed experiment that was roundly defeated, when the Soviet Union disintegrated 17-odd years ago, by the oh-so-superior capitalism and its apparent corollary, democracy. Let me say right now that I am sceptical, and deeply [...]

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No longer Director

1 January 2009

For those of you who have not heard and are not aware, I ceased to be Director of Culture on 31st December, 2008. It’s a move that has been a long time in coming. For those people who wish to speculate that my return to the College has to do with politics or changes in government or [...]

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