Clearly Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell personifies this expression. Her come-from-behind victory in the 100 metres at the World Championships proves she is a true champion of the highest calibre, even amongst Caribbean athletes. With her 100 m gold at the Worlds added to her 2004 Olympic 100m gold, 200m silver and 4×100 gold, not to [...]
Entries from August 2007
August 27, 2007
Our prayers are with them…
The prayers of all Barbadians must surely be with the Codrington family in Brittons Hill, whose home caved in yesterday in the wee hours of the morning. Apparently the apartment block which they had recently moved into was built over a well-known cave system. Yesterday the roof of the cave beneath their unit’s foundation, just [...]
August 26, 2007
Competition is bad…at least for CBC apparently
So as a cultural observer (and someone with an unused, government paid-for degree in the cultural industries) I was very excited by the Barbados PM’s announcement earlier this week that the long-mooted Festivals and Events Bureau would be taking over running of the Crop-Over festival from next year. This is to allow the NCF to focus [...]
August 24, 2007
Hmm…wouldn’t you?
So the press and the opposition in JA are acting all outraged and spluttering that Sista P seems to be delaying the elections after the passage of Hurricane Dean.
Ummm…duh. Wouldn’t you? I mean come on. If Portia does not win this election, she is done for. The woman barely got a year to savour being [...]
August 21, 2007
Are we killing the newspaper?
An interesting article here from the Toronto Star about how concern about the demise of the newspaper industry has been overblown and also about some new trends that will take place in the media industry with greater intensity over the next few years.
Now I have been a journalist. I have always wanted to write and [...]
August 21, 2007
The Jamaican dichotomy…an American analogy
Jamaica is the most conservative island in the Caribbean.
Sounds pretty rich coming from a Bajan doesn’t it? Considering that Barbados is usually considered the most conservative island in the Caribbean, ‘little England’ and all that.
But really it’s Jamaica even though it is considered the most radical and outspoken island in the region. But JA in [...]
August 21, 2007
In Praise of Old Schools
What with the scholarship results announced last week (lion’s share to BCC once more) I think this is a most appropos time to resurrect this article from my other blog…
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The other day, I was at Queen’s Royal College in Trinidad to do a story on that school’s contribution to West Indies cricket (a dozen WI [...]
