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Poor political salesmen? Give me a break.

22 February 2010

In the Tribune today, Adrian Gibson comments on the Elizabeth by-election:
With no easily certifiable winner and throngs of voters who shunned the polls, the Elizabeth by-election has revealed voter discontent and, at this juncture, shown-up both the FNM and the PLP as poor political salesmen.
The Elizabeth by-election, featuring a virtual tie, ensuing recounts, hordes of [...]

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Bahamas B2B: Elizabeth Lessons

18 February 2010

There at least three important lessons to be learned from the Elizabeth by-election.

Bahamian voters are fed up with “politics as usual”.

Voter turnout for the by-election was around 64%, low for The Bahamas, where the usual turnout is over 90%.

Independent candidates are now a formidable force in Bahamian politics.
The governing FNM party will not coast to [...]

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Elizabeth By-Election: a Tribute to Idiocy, Absurdity and the Lowest Common Human Denominator

17 February 2010

Vote Independent. Or New Party. Let us try and find some adults to run our country. Let us behave like adults at least some of the time.
11:10am Supporters of both sides continue to hurl abuse at one another. FNM Deputy Leader Brent Symonette put his hand on one woman’s shoulder, asking her to calm down, [...]

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Peter Hallward, “Securing Disaster in Haiti”

25 January 2010

Well worth reposting, reading, and savouring in days to come. Sobering commentary indeed.
Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, it’s now clear that the initial phase of the U.S.-led relief operation has conformed to the three fundamental tendencies that have shaped the more general course of the island’s recent [...]

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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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Strong institutions, not strong men

11 July 2009

“Africa doesn’t need strong men — it needs strong institutions.” — President Barack Obama, Address to Ghanaian Parliament, July 11, 2009
It’s been two years now, and there’s been all kind of noise in the public sphere about Bahamian party politics and who bears responsibility for the difficult times we have faced for most of that [...]

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Why Obama matters to all of us, everywhere

5 November 2008

Four Fingers and a Thumb
On a hot day in a school in Laventille, I am reasoning with a student. This beautiful young woman of 17 years or so. I say to her, what do you want to be? She laughs and says a stripper.
Her classmates laugh too, because to them it is a joke, [...]

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Obama, Elections, History

4 November 2008

I’m in New York City this week. I’m in New York today. It’s part of a regular pilgrimage we make to the city every year if we can make it; above all, my husband’s a theatre director, and this is part of his investment in his career, this is part of his own research. Since [...]

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Shout-Out to Eemanee & Long Bench

18 June 2008

Hypocrisy & HIV in the Caribbean (Eemanee)
Responses to HIV in the Caribbean are hampered by an entrenched hypocrisy, homophobia and false trotting out of “christian” values when convenient. meanwhile people continue to have sex, all kinds of sex, a lot of it unsafe.
We feel free to talk around sex, to joke about sex, to sing about [...]

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Tim Wise: Your Whiteness is Showing

12 June 2008

Tim Wise: Your Whiteness is Showing
I’m sure that others have linked to this before me, and I’m coming late to the party, but –
it’s fun.
And rings true.
See for yourself.
This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism, and supposedly because of their commitment to feminism, are threatening to withhold [...]

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