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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 want [...]

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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 savvy handling [...]

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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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Begging to differ

7 September 2009

with Ward again (c’mon, what did you expect? I mean, really.) Not that he’s totally off base. He’s right, as usual, but only partly so.
Here’s how he begins his fourth post on the viability of Bahamian art:

If you want to be a professional creative writer in the Bahamas you are going to have to be [...]

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Ward Follows Up

29 August 2009

Following up on the last article, Ward Minnis in his series of meditations on the viability of making a living off of art in The Bahamas writes to illustrate his position. First, he clarifies the sticky point of “viability”:
…when I ask is it ‘viable’? I am not asking ‘is it possible?’ Because, of course it’s [...]

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Dr Keva Bethel’s Speech at the Bahamas Business Outlook Seminar

18 January 2009

On Thursday past, my mother, Keva Bethel Ph.D., had the opportunity to address the luncheon guests at the Bahamas Business Outlook Seminar.
From all reports, the reception to the speech was overwhelming.
Two people asked me whether I could get a copy of it for wider circulation. Well, I spoke to Mummy about it, and she sent [...]

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A Balanced Moral Framework – Front Porch

22 September 2008

Over on Bahama Pundit, where I used to post when I was writing Essays on Life (hiatus almost over), the mind behind Front Porch has written on the need for a more nuanced morality when discussing Bahamian issues. Hear, hear. For those who haven’t read it yet, here’s a sample:
Genuine insight requires context. Its companions include [...]

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Walcott warns; others walk

25 August 2008

Walcott warns : Stabroek News
Right, well I’ve been hinting at it for some time now on this blog, but now I think it’s time to come out and say it straight.  I’ve turned in my resignation as Director of Culture for the Bahamas Government.  I had originally intended to leave at the end of [...]

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A little Jingoism never hurt anybody

13 August 2008

(though a lot can destroy a world … but that’s another story)
gallimaufry.ws looks at medal counts per capita in the Olympics, and shows how well the Caribbean performs.
My favourite direct link is here.

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Dissent, Power, and Politics

28 June 2008

Well, from Jamaica, this is interesting:
PM Golding has invoked the Staff Orders rule that says governmental officials must keep their traps shut when their individual positions conflict with existing gov’t policy. Not an atypical move for him to make. But, it really does and should sweet us when we see cracks in the veneer of retrograde, unsubstantiated [...]

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