In Memoriam: Alex and Violette Zybine

4 January 2012

Got a piece of terribly bad news this morning: the Zybines are dead. They were found in their Mexico home, having both succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning from their heater. For those people who don’t know, Alex and Violette Zybine were dancers who worked in The Bahamas during the 1960s and 1970s. They were engaged [...]

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The Duty to Vote – by Simon

2 January 2012

I’ve been thinking about this commentary by “Simon” of Bahama Pundit (and the Nassau Guardian): To refuse to vote is a decision.  It shows a level of disdain and contempt for our democratic system.  There is certain arrogance to those who feel that voting is beneath them and that they won’t participate in electing “those [...]

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Joey Gaskins on Elections

31 December 2011

There’s a strong new voice out there in opinion-land. It’s the voice of Joey Gaskins, a Bahamian currently studying sociology at LSE. He’s already made interventions in all sorts of arenas, to some personal cost; but he’s still writing. Hats off to him. My plan is to go and dig up the various positions he’s [...]

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Ghosts and Christmas

25 December 2011

My friends and others have been awfully solicitous this season. It’s the first one since Mummy died, since indeed my brother and I joined our cousins in being the elders in the generation (and pretty young elders we are too, the eldest of us being not yet 52). Christmas is a time for family, a [...]

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CRB • A Surveyor’s Journal • Ishion Hutchinson

21 December 2011

The more I read by Hutchinson the more he sticks with me. To wit: I hemmed into my skin this hymn: O lemming souls of the mass migration that ended in drowning O embroidered heart and marigold wrists that brushed the copperbrown field O cargoes that left the dengue jungles and ended on the yellow [...]

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On Postcolonial Wretchedness

9 December 2011

A week ago, as those of you who follow my Twittter feed may remember, the College of The Bahamas hosted a one-day symposium in honour of Frantz Fanon, the Martinican psychiatrist whose field of study was the psyche of the colonized. Now Fanon’s books were on my parents’ bookshelves long before I realized their significance; [...]

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Democracy is an experiment

17 November 2011

Democracy is an experiment. It doesn’t just happen. It isn’t a natural state of affairs. Natural states of affairs tend towards hierarchy — the idea that some people automatically have more power than others. Sometimes those natural states of affairs are nice places in which to live. Some dictators are benevolent and think about the [...]

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Facebook says:

12 November 2011

“You currently automatically import content from your website or blog into your Facebook notes. Starting November 22nd, this feature will no longer be available, although you’ll still be able to write individual notes. The best way to share content from your website is to post links on your Wall. Learn more… about notes.” Way to [...]

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COB’s Violence Symposium

4 November 2011

Yesterday, the College of The Bahamas put on a one-day symposium highlighting current faculty research, which from 2009 focussed on the topic of violence in the nation. The studies were varied. They ranged from a study of the language used in Bahamian media reports about violent incidents to a study of the (failed) proposed amendment [...]

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Bahama Pundit’s Larry Smith – Running Hot on Culture

19 October 2011

We Bahamians are considered such philistines around the region. They laugh at us for stooping so low as to blow up our own culture, and that’s not a joke – it actually happened in 1987, when the government demolished Jumbey Village with explosives. The village was an offshoot of a community festival launched in 1969 [...]

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