• RT @demwaves 22 yr old american katie spotz on trans atlantic row from senegal almost reaches port georgetown Guyana. #
• 6 hours later we're on our way back to the NAGB. A day well spent! #
• http://twitpic.com/18dvp1 http://twitpic.com/18dw1u #
• Max welcomes us http://twitpic.com/18dvbg #
• Final stop on the tour: Post House Gallery – Max Taylor & Antonius Roberts http://twitpic.com/18du6s #
• AJ & his art http://twitpic.com/18dmq2 #
• Ladder Gallery – AJ Watson: http://twitpic.com/18dkqc http://twitpic.com/18dm6k #
• http://twitpic.com/18dad1 http://twitpic.com/18dave http://twitpic.com/18dbyo #
• Tag at the Pro Gallery at COB http://twitpic.com/18d9nq #
• Thierry Lamar & paintings of Ophelia in Long Island http://twitpic.com/18czrp #
• Portrait of the artist as a bronze man. http://twitpic.com/18cy31 #
• Stingrae Studios. Art & the garden. Malcolm Rae & students. http://twitpic.com/18cxig #
• Doongalik stuff http://twitpic.com/18crhq http://twitpic.com/18crrs http://twitpic.com/18csd4 #
• Avery & Toby in synergy at Doongalik http://twitpic.com/18cpbl #
• This stop Doongalik http://twitpic.com/18cote #
• Ceramic fish & nature pics @ Pink 'Un http://twitpic.com/18cjs7 http://twitpic.com/18ckj1 #
• Pink 'Un is the next stop: lil gallery with big ideas http://twitpic.com/18ch29 #
• The Hub! http://twitpic.com/18ce3m #
• http://twitpic.com/18ccfa http://twitpic.com/18ccmg http://twitpic.com/18cd13 #
• Inside the space – young artists rule http://twitpic.com/18cai7 #
• This stop: the Hub & A Sudden & Violent Change. Writers & artists together. http://twitpic.com/18c9fj #
• Lillian: quilts on walls. Not literally. Look: http://twitpic.com/18c4kc #
• The artist, the tour guide & the collector – Lillian Blades http://twitpic.com/18c3fq #
• New Providence Art & Antiques in new premises on East just south of Bay – http://twitpic.com/18c283 http://twitpic.com/18c2vq #
• Next stop: New Providence Art & Antiques: Lillian Blades #
• Sitting on the art http://twitpic.com/18bxpl #
• Popop! http://twitpic.com/18bwef #
• On the orange bus. Michael Edwards is our guide. 9 spaces. Popop first. 10 $100 Chairs. http://twitpic.com/18btda #
• Kudos to D'Anthra Adderley and Kenton Meronard for the night. #
• Good times were had by all. Poetry coffee & doughnuts. Not your typical school function & one I'd attend again. #
• Poets in attendance: Obediah Michael Smith, Sonia Farmer, Heather Thompson, Philip Armbrister & myself. @oceantongues #
• Last night: poetry at St Andrew's. A decent evening organized by students & better that many organized by adults. #
• Well yeah. I'll tweet from the road. I'll tweet the tour. Sure. #
• RT @yatalley Just passed by the airport.. Canadian soldiers are leaving.. Good or bad thing? #Haiti #
• RT @RAMhaiti New Matt Damon Movie called GREEN ZONE. We still have RED ZONE's in #HAITI How do you get AID to a place you can't visit? #
• What is Transforming Spaces you ask. It's an art bus tour. $30 buys you a seat on a bus & a ride round town to a string of galleries. #
• Today's the day … Transforming Spaces at 10 AM. #
• Can they find their island on a map? Do they know what freedoms were fought for & won? Do they know what chains they still possess? #
• They know more about pleading the Fifth than majority rule. More about Obama than Lynden Pindling. Thank you spenders of my tax money. #
• They know more bout Ft Lauderdale than Over the Hill. #
• Of The Bahamas. Thank you nonexistent national curriculum. Thank you Ministry of Education. They know more bout Rosa Parks than Milo Butler #
• Thank you government of Tge #
• What they don't know: one sensible thing about themselves. They still know no Bahamian history to speak of. No comprehension of self. #
• They still have to be taught how to judge information and how to write critically. They still need rewarding for knowing how to think. #
• The good thing about teaching college English in 2010: students have relearned how to write. Thank you Internet. #
• Rereading Paul Scott's Raj Quartet: duty, honour, the seamy side of empire, the helplessness to fix what was inadvertently broken. #

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Over on The Bahamas Weekly, a story’s running that announces the release of the fourteen films commissioned by the Ministry of Tourism as part of this year’s  marketing campaign for The Bahamas.

For those of you who don’t know, or don’t remember, this campaign has come under considerable fire from local filmmakers, photographers and other artists.

The films are now all finished, and if they’re all like the teaser, they’ll be interesting to watch. There’s no doubt that the idea is a brilliant one from the point of view of marketing The Bahamas  The question remains, though: was the campaign ill-conceived from the point of view of Bahamians?

The discussion so far seems to be generating more heat than light. The Ministry of Tourism certainly seems to have gone on the defensive about it. “We are surprised,” said a press statement early in February, “at the criticism that has been directed at this promotion.” And that bemusement is further developed:

It would certainly have made headlines in The Bahamas if, instead of devising a search among Britain’s young film makers to be selected to come to The Bahamas to shoot, we’d announced that we were selecting 14 of our own people to shoot promotional videos of their country to show in Britain, but it would have had minimal impact in Britain. Aside from the interest British citizens will have in the output of their own young film makers, their output is likely to be perceived as more credible than material produced by Bahamians about their own country.

via thebahamasweekly.com – 14 Films Challenge films are ready to watch – Voting ends March 14th.

There’s a whole lot more in this vein, all supporting the idea of breaking into the UK market, attracting attention from the British, widening the tourist net, etc, etc. And the arguments are all good ones. I can’t take issue with them: the attention of BAFTA, the attraction of British sponsorship, the penetration of the British population by appearances in British cinemas, and so on.

But here’s my problem.

I have no doubt whatsoever that this campaign will get the people here. None at all. The British will come as a result of this campaign. And in the short run, it’ll be deemed a success, just like so many marketing campaigns run by the Ministry of Tourism.

But will it last?

I’m going to argue that the likelihood of it lasting is very slim, and the key to that argument is contained in the Ministry’s defensive statement. It’s the idea that lies at the heart of the way in which the Bahamian government spends its money: “their output is likely to be perceived as more credible than material produced by Bahamians about their own country.”

The government of The Bahamas, no matter its colour, stripe or initials, in the end, has absolutely no confidence in the people of The Bahamas to do anything of worth. And because of that, governnment funds, whether collected from the taxpayers or borrowed from some international agency, are almost never invested in projects that will do more than maintain the aging status quo in our economy and our society — tens of millions on the dredging and redredging of our harbour, more tens of millions on the construction of new roads, more contracts with concessions to multinational resorts to come in and “provide jobs” for the least productive among us, more maintenance of inequalities, more skewing of the local GNP by collecting the uber-wealthy to hike up our collective numbers while not doing a whole lot fresh and new to spark economic activity that is indigenous, reproducible, sustainable, resilient. As a result, we spend waste a whole lot of money on packaging and distribution and invest virtually nothing in the product itself.

Because the 14 filmmakers challenge could’ve done exactly what it’s doing now with a different spin. It could’ve got the same mileage — or more — by incorporating Bahamians into the equation. Rather than assuming — and stating that assumption publicly! — that Bahamian work is “less credible” than UK work in Britain, the Ministry of Tourism could have spent the same investment on a competition between young Bahamian filmmakers and young UK filmmakers. It could’ve invested not only in the advertising of The Bahamas — in the packaging and the distribution of the product — but in the improvement of the product as well, with the goal not only to raise awareness in Britain of The Bahamas and its existence, but also to generate some respect for the people of The Bahamas at the same time. Because it’s respect and love and curiosity that keep people coming back, and the hospitality that comes from being respected — not more pretty pictures and stereotypes of “native” activity, no matter how well packaged, how cleverly distributed, how brilliantly conceived the idea.

International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.

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IWD is now an official holiday in China, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. The tradition sees men honouring their mothers, wives, girlfriends, colleagues, etc with flowers and small gifts. In some countries IWD has the equivalent status of Mother’s Day where children give small presents to their mothers and grandmothers.

About International Women’s Day.

What did you do today?

• I looked at this one for toto. Check it out on St. Somewhere. http://su.pr/3j32Dz #
• As Tranforming Spaces nears. A different kind of installation in London: http://bit.ly/cboOWr via @heraclitanfire #
• Check out this project on Haitian Bahamians (better: Bahamians of Haitian parentage) http://su.pr/2kMDGB #
• If you're following me yes I have nothing original to say right now. Wanna come do my marking for me? #
• RT @vkrussell Bundle up people, its going to be another chilly one in The Bahamas. #
• RT @blottingpaper Less than a month to NaPoWriMo. I'm already excited! #
• RT @georgiap Reading: "Haitian Singer and His Guitar Fight Urge to Weep" http://nyti.ms/auW396 #
• RT @RAMhaiti Such a light rain you could almost call it a mist,coming down in PortauPrince.Ships are still in the harbor.Grey,overcast.quiet #
• RT @RAMhaiti Good Morning. A brief light rain last night, that was it for us. The sun is about to rise.It's quiet. No planes.No helicopters. #
• RT @RAMhaiti It's starting to rain… #
• RT @RAMhaiti I hope we don't have that huge downpour again tonight. It stresses me out. #
• RT @RAMhaiti A lot more activity at the City of Champ de Mars than the Tent Cities by the airport which were darker. #
• RT @RAMhaiti Drove through Champ de Mars Tent City tonight. Saw a few big Screen projectors showing videos. Saw a lot of commerce. #
• Lynn Sweeting blogs for International Women's Day http://bit.ly/ac7j7h #
• Come to Town @nplaughlin http://bit.ly/aa9enp #
• Help Haiti through Rotary via @ricklowe http://bit.ly/cjRP9Y #
• New online literary community – via @geoffreyphilp: http://bit.ly/abiL1g #
• Thanks to @vkrussell @edcbeth #
• Going to class in the bright bright light makes me happeeee … #
• Duh.Conservationists shd study anthropology. RT @pathways:Researchers challenge "forest transition" agriculture model" http://bit.ly/bmb3gi #
• Into the second half of the semester — gotta get on top of work now, power through to the end!! #
• Two more poems on tongues: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lS #

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• First Bahamian ambassador to the USA that's who our LBJ was. #
• One of the Bahamian freedom fighters. Go look for the book to find out more. #
• Launch of L B Johnson's book (the Bahamian LBJ) tonight. Young people if you don't know who I'm talking about go find out. #
• Kudos Ian Strachan @funfelicity @maelynnbacchus & COB School of English Studies! Poitier Conference made me look again at #sidneypoitier #
• Shoutin back ! RT @RonnieButler Shout out to my family, friends, and fans in the Bahamas. I miss you. One nation under a groove…:) #
• #sidneypoitier Artists as catalysts for change as opposed to agents of change #
• The concretization of our demand. What about inspiration? #
• Responses to the Moss protest of #sidneypoitier – desiring benefit vs recognizing achievement. Which has more weight? #
• It reach! Been holding – RT @vkrussell There is a little sunshine in Freeport @nicobet. Hopefully, there are some rays coming your way soon. #
• Perspectives from Bahamian artists on #sidneypoitier challenging the idea that he hasn't done nothing for us #
• From where I am, notsosure: RT @vkrussell I can see clearly now that the rain is gone…its gonna be a bright sun shiny day in The Bahamas. #
• ?? He already has – who gave him the sir? RT @Tribune242 Should Sir Sidney Poitier be honoured in the Bahamas? http://bit.ly/9guuLY #
• Anybody want facts and figures about Haitian migrants in The Bahamas? Check this PDF document: http://su.pr/1WWSNZ #
• Larry Smith analyses the Elizabeth numbers. http://bit.ly/aT1HlU #
• Are Haitians getting a fair crack at rebuilding their nation? http://bit.ly/bU6yXC #
• “We are not at war. Why all these troops?” – in Haiti, aid looks more like an occupation. http://bit.ly/9Nq9SY #
• First Sunday in Lent: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lN #
• First Saturday: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lL #
• Cp #sidneypoitier with Tyler Perry & Precious. #
• 2 Africas – the capitalized exploited Africa & the guilt-ridden Christian save-the-African Africa. #sidneypoitier shattered that opposition. #
• Why do black men have to excel only as bad guys? Where are today's young black heroes? #sidneypoitier #
• Stereotypes have come back again. What #sidneypoitier fought & conquered is being erased. #
• Note the contrast between #sidneypoitier movies & so many afrocentric films today- so
  any negative images of black masculinity #
• Sense of panAfricanism embodied by #sidneypoitier #
• Charisma & power & dignity. Articulation. African leaders of the 1960s wanted to be like him. #sidneypoitier #
• Sidney Poitier has done everything for us. He embodied us. Manthia Diawara. He's the face of black modernity. #sidneypoitier #
• We ignore what he meant not just for us but for the entire African world. We need to consider. @sidneypoitier #
• The most dignified and therefore uncolonizable black actor on the silver screen – Mianthia Diawara #
• Maybe better in some ways. Close-ups. The Man still beautiful at 83. #
• The conference opens with a video about & then by Sidney Poitier – his address to the Conference. Next best thing to being here in person. #
• RT @OneNightStanzas:Just had a student with about2%attendance email&ask what he's missed in class since Xmas.The course ended at Christmas. #
• Opening of Sidney Poitier Conference @ COB. Give it some attention y'all. #
• An interlude: two new pieces on <i>tongues of the ocean</i>: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lJ #
• Working on making it up! New day, new brew.RT @la_davis:RT @nicobet: @nicobet!- not so nice when the barista falls down on her job …oh no! #
• Long as we can get it back eventually RT @anniepaul:be grateful to Europeans for having stored cultural products safely http://bit.ly/a5lXNz #
• *ahem* What exactly is left then? RT @wardmin: is feeling like a rockstar. You know, without the booze, meth or groupies. #
• RT @vkrussell Some people go to Starbucks for a cup of coffee. I enjoy the luxury of having my own barista @nicobet come to me with my brew. #
• RT @RAMhaiti Aftershock wakes up my whole family. They want to go back to sleeping outside. What to do? What to do? There goes another one!! #
• "poor political salesmen"? More like irrelevant, condescending, and out of touch. How can you sell something you don't have – like a vision? #
• the Elizabeth by-election has revealed voter discontent & shown-up both the FNM and the PLP as poor political salesmen. http://su.pr/2mxIdT #

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As the Earth warms, the melting of its two massive ice sheets—Antarctica and Greenland—could raise sea level enormously.

via SolveClimate.com.

Last month’s earthquake in Haiti brought out two sides of Bahamians: the all-too-common bigotry that holds tight onto what we’ve achieved over the past forty years and refuses to share our good fortune with others, and a generosity and compassion that signals a possible change in the way we talk about ourselves, our country, and our neighbours.

What struck me, though, was the almost unquestioning subtext of both: the growing-old refrain that we are blessed, we are special, God has smiled upon us, and therefore we must either keep that blessing selfishly to ourselves or spread it more generously than we have done in the past.

And we’ve gone off to thank God, to congratulate ourselves, that we were not so unfortunate as to have had an earthquake here in our land, that we are mostly outside the earthquake zone (except Inagua, which is close enough to the fault that shook Port-au-Prince to have experienced the earth’s shaking at different times in its history).

What I wonder about, though, is the question of why in all our discussions about blessedness, in all our wrangling about who-won-Elizabeth, in all our self-centredness and short-sightedness, no one — not during the debates, not during the discussions on the air, nowhere, not even during the Copenhagen talks last year — has raised the issue that should have every Bahamian deeply concerned: the question of the impact that global warming will have on ocean warming, the melting of the ice caps, and the eventual rising of the seas.

Now it’s possible for us to not-believe all the science about global warming. I myself, while accepting the research and the results, and believing entirely that the earth’s climate is experiencing some major changes, am vaguely sceptical about the stated causes of climate change, and am also not always convinced about the predicted results of it.

BUT.  One thing that isn’t in dispute at the moment is that the ocean temperature is currently rising. Or, to be more precise: “July 2009 was the hottest month for the world’s oceans in almost 130 years of record-keeping” (Seas at Risk.Org); and that scientists are noticing a shrinkage of the ice sheets of both Greenland and Antarctica.

Here’s what that means:

If the Greenland ice sheet were to melt, it would raise sea level 7 meters 23 feet. Melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise sea level 5 meters 16 feet. But even just partial melting of these ice sheets will have a dramatic effect on sea level rise.Senior scientists are noting that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC projections of sea level rise during this century of 18 to 59 centimeters are already obsolete and that a rise of 2 meters during this time is within range.

via Melting Ice Could Lead to Massive Waves of Climate Refugees | SolveClimate.com.

Here’s what that means to our country.

The Bahamas is flat, low-lying, with few points on any island that can be considered high ground. Our highest point, way away on Cat Island, is 206 ft (63 metres) above sea level. But what’s perhaps more worrying is that our fresh water sources are universally fresh water lenses, which rely to some degree on the stability of the salt water levels to continue to provide us with fresh water levels. Consider the fact, too, that New Providence gets its fresh water barged in from Andros (having long outgrown/contaminated the local freshwater lens, which was once considerable for a Bahamian island, but which can in no way support Nassau’s population of a quarter of a million people, give or take), and that Andros is one of the flatter, lower islands. We don’t know what impact rising sea levels might have on that.

So it’s not inconceivable that rising sea levels will turn Bahamians back into what for the past three generations we have not been: migrants, refugees, emigrants in search of dry land. It’s not inconceivable that Atlantis, for the past decade or so our “saviour”, may be what we actually become one of these days — a sunken country, our property reclaimed by the sea. One of these days, The Bahamas may become just a memory to be kept alive by those most reviled of us all — our artists.

Just saying.

In the Tribune today, Adrian Gibson comments on the Elizabeth by-election:

With no easily certifiable winner and throngs of voters who shunned the polls, the Elizabeth by-election has revealed voter discontent and, at this juncture, shown-up both the FNM and the PLP as poor political salesmen.

The Elizabeth by-election, featuring a virtual tie, ensuing recounts, hordes of lawyers and the possibility of an election court challenge, appears to have been the most contentious by-election campaign in recent history and has caused a political circus in that constituency.

The by-election was a nail-biter, initially yielding a razor-thin margin of victory for the FNM’s candidate and a thoroughly inconclusive outcome.

via The Tribune.

No offense, Adrian, but “poor political salesmen”? I don’t think so.  More like irrelevant, condescending, cowardly, and out of touch. How can you sell the vision you don’t have? How can you represent a people you don’t respect? How can you expect greatness out of a people when your supporters behave like hooligans and you are too afraid to correct them?

Neither major party has outlined any clear position on governance and their concepts of the Bahamian future are mired firmly in the past. Neither major party seems to think enough of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and its citizenry to demand standards of behaviour that showcase the parties and the nation at their best, preferring apparently to reinforce and reward our worst. Neither major party has shown the courage it needs to correct the clear failures inherent in our system (like our outdated, bloated, inefficient and misnamed “civil service”, our overreliance on tourism and foreign investment at the expense of real investment in the Bahamian citizenry, or our crucial need to address and rethink the question of (im)migration in The Bahamas, or the  overpopulation and underrepresentation of our capital city at the expense of the entire country). Both seem to believe that ad hominem attacks on their rivals, bombast and one-upmanship will satisfy the people they are sworn to serve. Neither seems to have cottoned on to the fact that Bahamian people want, and expect, far more.

The BDM has gained some loyalty but is not much better when it comes to vision. Rodney Moncur for the Workers Party is as he always was: radical, irreverent, interesting, but ultimately divisive. The NDP may prove to be an exciting new force, especially with its bid for more direct democracy with regard to parliamentary representation, but cautious (or jaded) voters will demand more before they throw their full support behind them.

What the by-election suggests to me is that the time is ripe for people of conscience and conviction to take a chance and stand up as true representatives of the Bahamian people — that committed independents and new parties may well be a force to reckon with in the coming General Election, that anything is possible in this post-Obama world, that yes, we can reaches beyond the US borders.

• An unpayable debt: RT @Fledgist What the World Owes Haiti http://bit.ly/9ljS5a #
• So true RT @mikeyReiach Research is very time consuming when Google's not an option http://post.ly/OrKc #
• http://bit.ly/bmlusz an eye on this place – a new literary journal for the Caribbean #
• First Friday: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lG #
• First Thursday: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lE #
• http://su.pr/1hD2uI Featuring all Caribbean films including Maria Govan's Rain. #
• Ash Wednesday: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lD #
• The Best of CaribbeanTales 2010 : Film Festival, Symposium, Marketplace, Workshops.: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lB #
• I'm sure I'll regret this, but: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lA #
• RT @GeoffreyPhilp New Book: Bougainvillea Ringplay by Marion Bethel http://bit.ly/cD3xc3 #
• Bahamian Attitudes Towards the Haitian Migration – Larry Smith talks sense http://bit.ly/9GGKO1 #
• Ash Wednesday. Broke my emotional fast with a phonecall to/from my brother & his son. #
• RT @GeoffreyPhilp Rex Speaks: On the weekend of Sept.4-7, 2003, Prof. Rex Nettleford speaking in Florida. http://bit.ly/bSDZQR #
• Go third parties! RT @Tribune242 Sands by one vote. Will he declare victory tonight? Will Ryan Pinder concede defeat? http://bit.ly/auwWgM #
• RT @anniepaul Rex Nettleford is the first of UWI's graduates to have become its Vice Chancellor. #
• RT @anniepaul Rex's ashes being carried out to tune of Lord of the Dance. Moving. #
• I had something to say. I am not puss, dog, or fowl. RT @anniepaul Every puss, dog and fowl have something to say about Rex… <Baugh> #
• RT @anniepaul Which other university's vice chancellor has been a dancer, choreographer, head of a trade union education institute? #
• RT @anniepaul i can now speak about Rex. Just Rex. Everybody's Rex.<Eddie Baugh. #
• RT @anniepaul Prof Eddie Baugh, former University Orator, at podium now. i love to hear him speak. #RexNettlefordfuneral #
• Small Axe Literary Competition 2010 http://bit.ly/9YTYZi @geoffreyphilp #
• Bahamian facts: in 2004 Haitian nationals paid in $1,418,889 more than they received in benefits http://bit.ly/aPOmG3 #
• Signifyin' Guyana – inspired by W.A.R. Stories, Chung's documentary on the life, activism, and death of Walter Rodney. @signifyinguyana #
• Are you interested in Open video? http://bit.ly/b9YtOx #
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Findley The Butterfly Plague http://bit.ly/d1zliC #
• Got pyjamas for Christmas & Valentines. Not sorry right now. Not freezing like early Jan. But nice & cool at night. #
• Tried to send that last tweet while twitter was down … #
• What I like about lengthening days: going to class in the light! #

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There at least three important lessons to be learned from the Elizabeth by-election.

1. Bahamian voters are fed up with “politics as usual”.
   • Voter turnout for the by-election was around 64%, low for The Bahamas, where the usual turnout is over 90%.
2. Independent candidates are now a formidable force in Bahamian politics.
3. The governing FNM party will not coast to a victory in 2012.

–Bahamas B2B, Lessons from Elizabeth

Hear, hear. More on this later.

Vote Independent. Or New Party. Let us try and find some adults to run our country. Let us behave like adults at least some of the time.

11:10am Supporters of both sides continue to hurl abuse at one another. FNM Deputy Leader Brent Symonette put his hand on one woman’s shoulder, asking her to calm down, and as he turned to walk away, she hit him in the shoulder. He didn’t report it to the police or have her removed from the area.

10:30am Barricades have now been put up to separate FNM and PLP supporters. Even though they’ve now been physically separated, the angry shouting continues. PLP candidate Ryan Pinder, who at the moment remains down by a single vote, arrived a short while ago and stopped to speak with the media gathered there. He chided the media for focusing attention on the acrimony between the two groups, suggesting that by doing so, they’re fueling the problem.

10:26am Police have had to form a human barrier around the gate to the Thelma Gibson Primary School where the recount is taking place. This after they had to break up groups of passionate, arguing supporters of the FNM and the PLP. Inside, FNM Deputy Leader Brent Symonette and PLP Leader Perry Christie shook hands for the cameras. via The Tribune.