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The Duty to Vote – by Simon

2 January 2012

I’ve been thinking about this commentary by “Simon” of Bahama Pundit (and the Nassau Guardian): To refuse to vote is a decision.  It shows a level of disdain and contempt for our democratic system.  There is certain arrogance to those who feel that voting is beneath them and that they won’t participate in electing “those [...]

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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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Taking another look: unexpected gifts

22 November 2010

Some things I get all excited about little things. I’m checking my blogs irregularly these days, for reasons one day I’ll write about, and came across a comment in the spam filter that I thought I ought to keep. I followed the link that went with it, and I came to the blog dailyplanet.org.uk, and [...]

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Developing democracy in The Bahamas

22 October 2010

A year and a half ago, I had the privilege of attending a weeklong faculty seminar in Maryland. The topic: globalization and democracy. The Wye Faculty Seminar was established to bring faculty from all over the USA together to think deeply about democracy, particularly, though not exclusively, the democracy practised by the United States of [...]

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Love My Bahamas

18 September 2010

Just had to share this. Artists Takin Ovah!! If you’re on Facebook, go find the Love My Bahamas page and have a look at the art. When CariFringe starts, there will be tours you can take of the art. Love my Bahamas Downtown Art Experience is a mural project that will enliven the walls of [...]

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Please. Don’t Call Me White.

21 July 2010

It’s become fashionable for youngish Bahamians (people in the mid-30s range or so — people born since Independence, that is) to call individuals whose skins are cork-brown, tawny, biscuit brown, tan, paper bag brown, teabag, beige, coconut bark, gumelemi, tamarind, mango, eggshell, café-au-lait, milky tea, carnation, condensed milk, or thereabouts “white”. To be a “white” [...]

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Reimagining oneself: possible, and profitable

19 July 2010

Came across this in my reading and thought not of the change in Durham, SC itself, but in the attitude and the social structure that wrought that change. We are trying something similar here with the various attempts at rejuvenating downtown, but we aren’t thinking big enough. To start, we need a municipality to govern [...]

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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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Bahamas Folklore « Bahamas Gullah-Geechee Connection

2 May 2010

Go ‘head, Cordell — ca’yin on! According to European history, the Bahamas was the first landfall of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus on his voyage of discovery on October 1492. The truth was that when he arrived in this part of the world, the islands were already inhabited by Arawak Indians who had originally migrated [...]

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