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Rick Lowe at Weblog Bahamas takes issue with an article in a Jamaican newspaper which laments the fact that the country “now has to pay the piper (IMF)”, saying: “Of course I am no fan of the IMF, but to suggest that a country ignore its debt is simply irresponsible…it is Jamaica's voracious appetite for government spending that caused the equally prodigious borrowing that has placed them in their current dilemma.”
One of the most dastardly parts of the Atlantic slave trade was how fellow human beings were treated as as if they less than men and women. And it seems that many of us feel the same way about illegal Haitians here in The Bahamas.
Weblog Bahamas’ Rick Lowe adds, “I agree they are illegal and we must deal with it, but do we have to pretend these people are not human beings?”
The backlash, growing quietly by the second, apparently, against the Differentology video isn't that it's a bad video, it's that it's the wrong class of video entirely for the song.
Mark Lyndersay explains why he thinks the video for the most transformative soca song of the year is simply ordinary.
In this new discourse of the Good versus the Bad Gay, that what is being policed is class as much as sexuality.
Under the Saltire Flag explains.
A generation of Criminals, just like a generation of Professionals, don't simply pop up. They are raised.
Trini World Views challenges everyone “who breathes fire and brimstone at criminals and the policing of criminal activity…to put that same passion into getting involved in the process [of] crime prevention.”
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Freedom from Fear...Now.
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