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Rex Nettleford Dies

3 February 2010
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Professor Rex Nettleford Is Dead
Prof. Rex. Nettleford CaribWorldNews, WASHINGTON, D.C., Weds. Feb. 3, 2010: Vice Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies, Professor Ralston Milton `Rex` Nettleford, is dead. Nettleford died at 8 o`clock tonight in the George Washington Hospital last night. He was 76.
via CaribWorldNews.com – Global Caribbean Daily Newswire.

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The Gaulin Wife: Making Connections

29 January 2010

This is not the crux of Helen’s post, but I chose it to inspire people to want to read the whole thing. It’s crucial reading.
I have to remind myself to continue making connections, and to look for the triumphant in the stories of disaster, to look for the survivance in them, for the ways people [...]

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How not to lead a nation

16 January 2010

Before I post this, let me say two things. First, I have been informed by a reliable source (one of the editors) that the Tribune was not responsible for writing the article whose headline I slammed; it was an AP story that they re-ran as the lead.
And second, I am trusting that by reposting this [...]

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Generation Y

11 November 2009

Generation Y
It’s been a long time since I was able to follow the blogs I read, partly because I’ve been doing so much other stuff but largely because I still can’t add bookmarks to Safari and I haven’t taken to other feed-readers. So I haven’t been discovering new blogs or dropping old ones — I [...]

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Killing with kindness

9 November 2009

We on the arts community in The Bahamas often like to believe that things are different for artists in other Caribbean nations. This blog post from PLEASURE blog suggests that it’s not so:
Tomorrow, the spanking new $518 million National Academy for the Performing Arts around the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, will officially open. [...]

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Google May Hand Over Caribbean Journalists’ IP Addresses

1 September 2009

I have often wondered seriously about the American commitment to freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I have often wondered also about the American belief in the principles on which it is founded; it’s one of those things that make me deeply sceptical about any action taken by that giant of a country that [...]

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On Culture, CARIFESTA, and the Bahamian Economy, Part I

17 April 2009

It came to my attention last month that our government was planning to postpone, once again, the hosting of the Caribbean Festival of Arts, if it had not yet done so. Announcements to that effect would be made very soon, I was told. The fact that such announcements have not yet been made may make [...]

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Fear: 4 packs, 10 oz. each

7 April 2009

Fear is the name of an art exhibition mounted and curated in Canada, but produced in Trinidad and Tobago. It’s the work of Christopher Cozier, whose bio notes that he is
an artist and writer living and working in Trinidad [who] has participated in a number of exhibitions focused upon contemporary art in the Caribbean and [...]

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Charlie Rose – A conversation with Indian author V.S. Naipaul

25 March 2009

Charlie Rose – A conversation with Indian author V.S. Naipaul

Found this interesting. The man is Trinidadian, not Indian!
The sound’s low, so you’ll have to pay attention.
I’d be interested in people’s comments.

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Another Reason Why We Need our Artists

12 February 2009

Bahamas Suffers While Jamaica Rocks
Posted by sally 1 day 23 hours ago (http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com)
Category: travel

Jamaican Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced a 3.4 per cent increase in visitor arrivals for the month of January, compared with the same period last year.

Bartlett said the 138,000 tourists who visited the island last month were the largest number of visitors to vacation in Jamaica in the month of January… in any year.

The minister was addressing journalists during a press conference at the Ministry of Tourism on Knutsford Boulevard in New Kingston on Wednesday.

Bartlett credited the growth to the staging of the annual JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival held last month, as well as the intense advertising, marketing and promotion campaign that the ministry had embarked on in recent months, especially for the start of the winter tourist season.

Bahamas News Center, my emphasis

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