Afua Hirsch: Our parents left Africa – now we are coming home | World news |...
Something else worth reading. Read the whole thing. I remember the usual things that people comment on when visiting equatorial African nations for the first time – the assault of hot air when stepping...
View Article6 Ways To Raise A Rebel Or Future Woman Leader – Forbes
Lisa-Marie is a friend, a former expat in the Bahamas, who was one of our most dedicated volunteers at Shakespeare in Paradise, the woman who got our Facebook page to log more than 1000 likes, an...
View ArticleForty years and maybe more, or falling off the balance beam
Birthdays are meaningless except to measure the process of maturing. Pat Rahming, “Still and Maybe More — A Trilogy“ Need I say it? I am overcommitted, and I am feeling compromised, and am consequently...
View ArticleFirearms group formed | The Tribune
“There is a great need to protect our rights to bear arms and in doing that gun owners should be able to have somewhere – a shooting range or facility to learn the proper handling of a firearm. There...
View Articlethebahamasweekly.com – Bahamas 2013: A Year in Review with Nicolette Bethel
The highlight, for me–the part I spent the most time on: 5) 2013 may have been one of the worst years ever for crime in The Bahamas. What are your thoughts and suggestions? I’m not sure I buy the...
View ArticleHow The Tribune is helping me get into trouble
What’s not made clear, of course, is that the “revamping” of Urban Renewal that I’m talking about was the cutting short of the programme in 2007, not the instituting of Urban Renewal 2.0 in 2012. I...
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Research at the College of The Bahamas
Some time ago I wrote a post about the absurdity of cutting the budget for the College of The Bahamas at the same time as the College is being mandated to move to university status. Not only is the...
View ArticleEinstein: The Negro Question (1946) | On Being
Einstein: The Negro Question (1946) | On Being. In 1946, Einstein wrote the following with regard to white Americans’ prejudice against Blacks. I believe we need to challenge ourselves today to...
View ArticleWatching Baltimore Burn
The title says it all. I’m watching the burning on MSNBC right now, having started watching it on CNN, and I’m thinking of all the mistakes we have made over the past ten years, the past twenty years,...
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Seeding the Revolution: Methods & Madness
People ask me the same questions again and again. Why go out of your way to spoil the ballot—why not stay home/go to the beach? What is spoiling the ballot going to achieve? Why aren’t you looking at...
View ArticleSpoiling the Ballot: Spreading the Revolution
There are a couple of questions Alicia, Ian and I get over and over again by those people man and woman enough to face us to ask about our #OutDaBox campaign. I’ve dealt with them in comment threads on...
View ArticleSeeding the Revolution: Resist the Status Quo
Bahamian democracy is too narrow in scope. 1) We have one vote which must be cast for one of a slate of candidates that most ordinary citizens had no hand in selecting, vetting, or ratifying. 2) Once...
View ArticleDemocracy, ritual, responsibility, and … (yep) spoiling the ballot, giddily
We live in a democracy. It’s not perfect, but we adhere to certain fundamental principles. Like this one: individuals are entitled, even encouraged, to hold widely divergent views. The vigourous debate...
View ArticleCounting Down to the Ballot
Under one week and counting. Advance polls opened (late and chaotic) yesterday. And the question is, who’s going to win the election? Now I’ve gone on record saying that I don’t believe that it really...
View ArticleReflections on Majority Rule 2018 (better late than never)
Fifty-one years and two months ago, on January 10, 1967, the Colony of the Bahama Islands held the election that concluded with what we have come to call “Majority Rule”. In 2014, January 10 was...
View ArticleOban, the Glass Window, and other cautionary tales – Part I
Or, why I really spoiled my ballot Time and rope There is a great Bahamian saying: time longer dan rope. A year has passed, a year and a month or so, since #OutDaBox242 began its much-excoriated...
View ArticleOban, the Glass Window, and other cautionary tales – Part II
In the first part of this meditation, I outlined the reasons I did not vote for any candidate in the last election, and why I will continue to withhold my consent to be governed by candidates going...
View ArticleOban, the Glass Window, and other cautionary tales – Part III
In the first part of this three-part meditation, I examined my reasons for spoiling my ballot in 2017. In the second part, I looked at some of the issues that are current in March 2018, which are, I...
View ArticleWhy democracy is more than just casting a vote
There’s a common perception in The Bahamas, and perhaps in other parts of the world too, though I can’t speak to them, that democracy flourishes during election seasons, when the citizenry is given its...
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