Stories about Bahamas from September, 2006
Trinidad & Tobago, Bahamas: The Bahamas at Carifesta
Nicolette Bethel has a series of posts (1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5), reporting on the experiences of the Bahamas contingent at Carifesta, the Caribbean arts festival...
Bahamas: State television
Larry Smith questions whether the Bahamian state television channel is still relevant or required.
Bahamas: Doing what you love
“. . . the humanity of the Bahamian citizen has been compromised. We allow ourselves and our reality to be defined by other people, because we have made it difficult,...
Bahamas: Reforming broadcasting
“The country's entire broadcasting policy needs to be re-evaluated and reformed to fit our modern context,” says Sir Arthur Foulkes in a post outlining the history of television broadcasting in...
Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago: At Carifesta
Bahamian Nicolette Bethel posts her first report from the Carifesta XI arts festival in Trinidad and Tobago.
Bahamas: Crime and collapse
A gang-related murder leads Bahamian Adrian Gibson to wonder “How far are we now behind Jamaica and Trinidad?“
Bahamas: Challenges of nation-building
Sir Arthur Foulkes outlines the challenges faced by the Bahamian “nation” as the country seeks an appropriate model for development.
Bahamas: Non-Aligned Movement
“. . . For the first time we have an ideologically driven foreign minister who appears to have some latitude to set policy, whether by default or otherwise. And that...
Bahamas, Cuba: Bahamian friends
Rick Lowe questions the motives of a group calling themselves “Bahamian friends of the Cuban Five”
Cuba, Bahamas: Ambassadorial priorities
The Cuban ambassador to the Bahamas has been promoting the Non-Aligned Movement Summit which takes place in Havana from September 11, says Rick Lowe, but “we wonder if he will...
Bahamas: Extradition and the ugly American
Bahamian Sir Arthur Foulkes discusses the “widely-circulated – and up to now not denied — report” of irregularities in cabinet's handling of the extradition of a Bahamian wanted in the...
Bahamas: The milk stand
A slice of Bahamian history is encapsulated in a milk stand in Nassau that was recently bulldozed to create a traffic lane. Nicolette Bethel tells the story.