Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-15

15 April 2012

Well worth considering RT @globalvoices How should we react to beggars? http://t.co/OkRwdXtS #SriLanka #poverty # BEC power gone off @ 4 am. Woke up. 8:30 am the BEC robot calling the house, say if the power restored. BEC I am not a robot. I need sleep. # RT @TheRyan1908: I dont think most Bahamians appreciate [...]

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Elections—and beyond

11 April 2012

So, in the parlance of the day: Papa done ring da bell. Whatever that means. Don’t get me wrong. I can talk the talk like any other Bahamian in 2012. Papa = the current prime minister, Hubert Ingraham. “The Bell” = the announcement of a date for the next general election. I know how to [...]

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Nassau, What Happened?

13 February 2012

Check this out: Nassau, What Happened? Is a group project that anyone can contribute to by adding his or her own line to a collective poem about the city of Nassau. It will be part of Transforming Spaces 2012 under the theme of “Fibre”. Inspired by an exercise by the poetry festival O, Miami, this [...]

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On the mis-education of the Bahamian citizen

1 February 2012

One of the reasons I am unmoved by either any of the current political parties’ manifesti, plans or proposals, is that I have the pleasure of teaching new groups of young Bahamians every year. This is a pleasure, because they are far more open and interested than they have any right to be, given the abysmal [...]

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Some scammers en gat no shame!!

31 January 2012

Got this today. I laughed so hard I had to post it here. Attention, The Federal Government of Nigeria through provisions in Section 419 of the Criminal Code came up with punitive measures to deter and punish offenders. The Advance Fee Fraud section deal mainly with cases of advance fee fraud (commonly called 419) such [...]

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Just a note

26 January 2012

A little apology. Been writing posts via iPad today, using the WordPress app, and have run into a couple of glitches. Thats why, if youre following this blog via twitter or Facebook or an RSS feed, you may have got a couple of erroneous and annoying updates that lead nowhere. Im having the devil of [...]

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Answering the challenge: a consideration of patriotism, democracy, and voting – part I

24 January 2012

Of all the responses to the Voter’s Manifesto I received, it was the one that challenged it that I appreciated the most. Not that I didn’t welcome the people who commented and wrote in support of the Manifesto, or that I am not happy to know that the original seemed to have struck a chord [...]

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A Reader Responds to the Voter’s Manifesto

17 January 2012

Got the following response to my Voter’s Manifesto. It was sent privately, for reasons the writer makes clear, but as that individual has encouraged me to post the response and to respond in my turn, I’m honouring the request. Happy New Year I wish to challenge your Voter’s Manifesto as ill-conceived, emotive and racist. You [...]

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A Voter’s Manifesto

16 January 2012

With elections around the corner and three political parties, none of which appear to have formulated, much less articulated, any new or credible plan for Bahamian development or growth in twenty-first century (and no, planning to beg more rich people for more money to buy up more of our precious archipelago does not count), I [...]

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Towards A Voters’ Manifesto

14 January 2012

It’s 2012 and the silly season is officially upon us. Bloggers and tabloids and Facebook commentators have begun their discussions and predictions. To quote Pat Rahming (and I’ll quote him again before this post is over), everybody catchin politics like germ. It’s a rare situation this election. For the first time in 35 years, it’s [...]

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