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Melting Ice Could Lead to Massive Waves of Climate Refugees

28 February 2010

As the Earth warms, the melting of its two massive ice sheets—Antarctica and Greenland—could raise sea level enormously.
via SolveClimate.com.
Last month’s earthquake in Haiti brought out two sides of Bahamians: the all-too-common bigotry that holds tight onto what we’ve achieved over the past forty years and refuses to share our good fortune with others, and a [...]

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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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Day of Absence 2010: Third Response – Investment

12 January 2010

If the Day of Absence is really about tourist’s pleasure, if this is
what we really care about, let us at least be honest about it. I
sincerely believe that we should deal with our own cultural hunger
before we worry about how to provide better shows for our visitors.
Confusing the two will eventually bring us right back [...]

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Day of Absence 2010: Second Response – Quality

2 January 2010

… are all Bahamian artists worthy of respect?
The simple answer is no. Why should anyone respect bad poetry, bad writing, bad painting or poorly organized festivals? … Allow me to suggest that there are perhaps two reasons why Bahamians, on the whole, have not received much in the way of international (or local) acclaim for [...]

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Day of Absence 2010: First Response – Clarity

1 January 2010

The critique(s) offered by Ward Minnis about the Day of Absence concept on his blog, Mental Slavery, and on Bahama Pundit, are both comprehensive and impressive. And he’s right, in several places. Particularly when he writes
Her Day of Absence clouds over and conflates many different and unrelated ideas while advancing an awkward historical agenda and [...]

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Day of Absence 2010: Introduction

31 December 2009

Well, it’s that time again.
What time? you may ask. Because it’s not like this is a regular occurrence, a public holiday so to speak, or anything grand or exciting. But the new year is a-coming in, and February is nearing, and it’s time for me to observe the Day of Absence once again.
Now for those [...]

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Preserving tradition in Jamaica – Jonkonnu and Christmastime

28 December 2009

We love to believe in the uniqueness of our traditions. Well, let me correct myself. We love to believe in the uniqueness of Junkanoo. The heartbeat of a people, we’ve called it. Festival of The Bahamas. The cultural pinnacle of our selves, our lives, our work (I trust my priests will forgive me for this). [...]

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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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This one’s for Lynn: Aimee Mullins on poetry, science and super-powers

20 June 2009

Lynn Sweeting, that is.
Science can make her able; art and poetry make her super-able.
O brave new world, that has such creatures in it!

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Another View of CARIFESTA

5 September 2008

Alissa Trotz makes some salient points (hey, Alissa!!)
In the Diaspora : Stabroek News
In a presentation made at the Caricom Heads of Govern-ment Conference in July, Barbadian novelist George Lamming took Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo to task for the following comment “…and now we come to the lighter side, CARIFESTA in Guyana.”
There is one way to [...]

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