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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11 July 2009
“Africa doesn’t need strong men — it needs strong institutions.” — President Barack Obama, Address to Ghanaian Parliament, July 11, 2009 It’s been two years now, and there’s been all kind of noise in the public sphere about Bahamian party politics and who bears responsibility for the difficult times we have faced for most of [...]
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