Stories about Bahamas from October, 2009
Bahamas: Effects of Colonialism
“There’s an affliction that strikes countries whose histories come out of colonialism. It’s the sense that what happens in your space of the world…is not quite real. It isn’t really...
Bahamas: Homosexual Rights
Catch a fire and Wishful Thinking discuss homosexuality in the Bahamas.
Caribbean: Rethinking Online Publishing
Caribbean bloggers imagine an online writing and publishing community using participatory media to overcome the difficulties of book publishing in the region.
Bahamas: Ferguson Dies
Repeating Islands acknowledges the passing of “Bahamian self-taught international artist Amos Ferguson”, who passed away “after a long battle with dementia.”
Bahamas: Fed Up With Crime
“This country needs to be done with pandering to the criminals and give them their due so that the rest of us who want to live in a civil society...
Bahamas: Crimes Against Tourists
Tourists are held at gunpoint, prompting Rick Lowe at Weblog Bahamas to ask: “What will the ramifications be to our tourist industry? How do we get this under control? Only...
Bahamas: Helping the Homeless
Bahama Pundit‘s Larry Smith takes a look at the problem of homelessness in New Providence: “Resettlement support alone will not be enough to help these people back into mainstream society.”
Bahamas: Crime Questions
Jerome Pinder at Weblog Bahamas has a few pressing questions for the Minister of National Security.
Bahamas: On Borrowed Time?
Rick Lowe at Weblog Bahamas hopes he “misread the news article recently that quoted the Prime Minister…as saying his government was having to borrow $150 million a month to keep...