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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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Larry Smith on The Alternate Reality of Bahamian Squatter Settlements

4 August 2011

This is an issue that needs research, reflection, and discussion, not knee-jerking. Larry Smith starts the ball rolling at Bahama Pundit. … the deeper we delve into the so-called ‘Haitian problem’, the more we come face to face with ourselves. The squatter settlements that give rise to so much public angst are a clear example [...]

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On Emancipation Day

2 August 2011

Wanted to post something all day yesterday but was working to finish one of the two reviews and so I didn’t. (I did finish the review though!) This is the beginning of what I wrote: Today is Emancipation Day. It’s the last public holiday for the summer, but that’s not really the point of the [...]

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Bahamas Caves in National Geographic

18 July 2010

Dis my Bahamaland. I tell you dat. Offshore flooded caves, so-called ocean blue holes, are extensions of the sea, subject to the same heavy tides and host to many of the same species found in the surrounding waters. Inland blue holes, however, are unlike any other environment on Earth, thanks largely to their geology and [...]

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Womanish Words: Teach the Children Well

29 January 2010

Hear, hear, Lynn. It upsets me when I hear the little children I know and love speaking in the the racist/religious/hateful language of the local Bahamian press/the moneyed elite/the generally ignorant. There are probably more than a million orphan children struggling to get through the day today in Haiti. It is natural for children to [...]

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10 to Watch in 2010, 01/10 | The Independent

27 January 2010

Kareem Mortimer listed as one of the “ten filmmakers to watch in 2010″ put out by the Independent Newspaper, UK: DAY TWO of TEN – KAREEM MORTIMER Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer shakes up his homeland’s homophobia with Children of God, which debuted last month. Read what his mentor, Steven Beer, had to say about Mortimer’s [...]

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Differing Further

18 September 2009

I only began to touch on the reasons for my not agreeing entirely with Ward on his assessment of the theatre industry here in The Bahamas. To recap: his take on things proposed that the surest way for any writer to make a living at writing creatively in our country is to do it for [...]

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