Come January, what will we do if things aren’t better. Not ‘January’ the month, but the New Year: a six month span, 12 months later…come 2010.
What if come January, there are more layoffs by the hundreds. What if the layoff spread from the hotels and the hotel sectors to the banks, to the small businesses over the hill, and G_d forbid to government agencies. Come January, what if the struggling city market chain goes bellyup; what if gas and electricity prices rockets again; what if the hotels on the family islands which has major impact on the island communities faults. Come January, what if the Port situation in freeport is not resolved, what if things become worst, if that is possible in Grand Bahama.

Come January, how will the National budget look? What will happen to the thousand of students who graduating. Come January what will our plan be.

It looks like our government has forgotten, or does not have the political will, or man power to accomplish such feats. Sad to say, it looks as if they don’t even have a plan, be it 5 years or 10 year plan to achieve some of the things we need fix from yesterday.

Education: Carl is trying is best; but clearly his best isn’t good enough. I want to know his plan. Yorick say’s boarding schools for the youth. Carl smiles and says nothing. Some say longer school hours. Carl says nothing. Sunny and Concern say magnit/privatized schools. i.e. similar to the old Government high. But Carl is quiet. What is your plan man. Can something meaningful happen within this 5 year term? Or do we have to vote you in one more term to see the begining of change. I feel like yall holding me hostage.

Immigration: Branville, seems to be working hard. Every day you hear 6 immigrants get catch. However, we have a guessimation of 70k illegal immigrants living in the Bahamas. Surely it can’t be that hard to find them. They all over the place. They at the hospitals, at the schools, at the clinics over PI, they own carmichael, the have they own settlement in the mud and pegion cay. Come one Bran, stop playing with our emotions.

Crime: Tommy, Tommy, Tommy. I know you mean well. So I aint ga hit you hard. It aint your fault. However, your police force is constantly accused for brutality, and corruption. Something wrong dread. Clean house. Plus we need a commissioner of police, not no acting. Yall need to make up yall minds.

Judicial system: Michael B. A smart man they say. But is he truly effective? Ah nope. Not when, the Court houses are being deemed condemned. There are cases that has been back logged since jabim. The judges them aren’t happy and claim they under paid and the system just seems to take so freaking long. Not when rapist and murderers does get bail and wreak havoc on the public. Something wrong man. Imagine the society where we have wanting police and an inept judical system.

The economy: Well, some say its based on the US. However, Bahamians have been asking/suggesting that we diversify for years. Ah we aint no closer than we were under the Pindling regime. Be honest people. Farming aint working for us. We always talking about it. But has it really improved. Bahamians just need to start growing the vegetable in the back of their yards again. But on the real though. Hubert, Zhivargo, where we headed man? What direction you see us going. By the way, thanks for EPA. That ga really help us. It aint like we will all of a sudden get excited and start being productive over night. At least if we did sign CSME, we might have had gained some people who actually want to work.

Tourism: Vinnie, Vinnie, vinnie. How can you market a product that needs to be worked upon. You putting the cart before the horse. Fix up Bay Street. Fix the straw Market. Put bathrooms on beaches, fix up the forts, Fix the fish fry, create Bahamian tours, and modernize some of the family island to have electricity and running water first. OH yeah, the entire country needs to attend Bahama Host, free of charge, or near free.

America is at a threshold; and the world is watching as she stands near the edge of a cliff about to jump; about to soar; about to glide; about to dive into the deep, doing one of those super summersaults that warrents a score of 10.  However, this test of prowess is about direction.  Which direction is America headed.  A possible conclusion?  Either America is going to continue to be a superpower or a great diplomat.

 

America has historically proven themselves as not being very diplomatic, inspite the fact diplomacy is what they always try to enhance, promote.  America however, as always been good at leading.  They were the superpower who simply just do;  If a problem exists, they don’t egage in much speeches, they fix it.  If there existed something that they do not like, they jump in head ways and be involved, rearranged, recast etc.  However, perhaps, its time for a change.  Perhaps its Americas time to be like the mediators of France or Canada and negoiate and take the issues to their counterparts for advice and assistance; instead of doing things themselves.

 

The American election is soon over;  And if or when Obama wins, the world will have America’s first diplomat who will talk things out, giving their superpower strength to the United Nations.

Nassau, The Bahamas:  The Capital of the World!

the rhythmic beating of my heart

loudly moving in time with the wind

flowing through my hair

 

crescendo sound shaking my peaceful

form reminding me how alive i truly am

boom boom

 

it feeds on hot honey

swirling in my soul

da da

and its sweet

 

this feeling

boom boom

and i linger

in ecstasy

da da

breathing you

in with my thoughts

ba boom

and my heart races

and i imagine you here

da da

closing the space between us

ba boom

leaning in

da da

i smell you

ba boom

heady bouquet of manness

and i sway intoxicated

ta boom

by you

 

my hands find your waist

and my fingers explore

ba boom ta da

your sensual form

tada ba boom

all man and all sexy

ta boom da da

 

and i linger

and long for more of you

ta da ba boom da

cause there’s something about you

with eyes that drown me in desire

lips that call me nearer

beckoning me for just a taste

ba ba ba boom da

so high now just a taste

and da da ba boom da

nose to nose

pupil to pupil

lips part and touch

ta ta boom ta ta ta ta

and i explode

in an instant

da da da boom

ba boom boom da 

ta ta ba boom

words, words, words.
the intent of words, the meaning of words, the power of words.
The good and the evil that words portray.
sighs.
I have no idea what sissy talk means.
I have heard sissies talked…I usually cringed at their femininity.
Nonetheless, if they are talking sense, I listening

Then I have heard talks that are just sissy talk. Talks of lesser men, puny men. Men who talk in verse and make no sense. A bunch of grand standing type talk.

In our honourable house we have both: sissy talks and talks from sissies.
To be called either is an insult to real men; moreso, is an insult to any man who trying to make sense, as in truth you have been dismissed.

What the question should be is, what type of talks should be spoken in the House. Surely no azzy talks, better yet, certainly no shietty talks or no bungy talks. Yet our prime minister likes to go there. He likes to say shietty things and we laugh and giggle and point.

Here is to the real men in parliament, who are too busy to engage within idle talk. I know they are few, but kuddos to them all the same.

Well Muddo

Uproar over “Sissy Talk” Parliament goin’ crazy over Hubert Ingraham’s remark about Alfred Sears comments being “sissy talk”. The country and global financial markets are in serious times, and they are using prescious parliamentary time arguing about “sissy talk”?!

Its been over a year now since the FNM took the reign again, and our country’s main thoroughfare still looks the same, i.e grimey. Our major tourism product mecca besides Atlantis is still lacking, yet we continue to remain silent; our government continue to be closed mouth.

Bahamians like good Christians continue to live in hope. Hope that soon, our one good leader, Mr. Ingraham will do something, will inact change. As in truth, we now realize more and more that it seems as if only he is is first rate, as the entire FNM party is lacking in leadership and direction and moreso, the PLP party is finished; bankrupt of original thought and insight.

There were talks of a green space, talks of moving the trailers, talks of erecting the straw market, talks about moving the straw market, talks of pressure washing, talks of commitees governing store owners and explaining their mandate to the Bahamas; in fact, there were even talk of changing the entire down town area, making it less Bahamian and more ‘mordern’, with condominiums and high rises, with more gucci and fendi shops. Yet nothing.

Mind you, there have been some new street signs and Bacardi has been brave enough to set up a novelty shop down town, but is that enough. It seems as if the more things change, the more things remain the same. But the truth is, Bahamians are hungry for change. We see the Caribbean quickly catching us up in sophistication, we see we are wavering in the world of competition and we see our children are at risk and their future more challenging that ever. Therefore, we demand change, look for change, humbly asking for change, nothing dramatic, something we can join in on and be proud of. Something that will encourage us to march on.

Is there still a need for such a movement, such a thinking? Do we still need to acknowledge our colour especially when in public. Do we need to be socially aware that we are being watched, being analysed, being stigmatised.

Should we even care now, as that time in history of white oppression has come and gone: forever disappeared, never to return. Should we just live now, carefree of others, at least when it comes to colour. In fact, colour does not matter. Bahamians are free of it, (purposefully left out the word black in front of Bahamians). Being a colour no longer describes our characteristics, explain our journey, our direction, our history and our way of thinking. There is no need to distinguish Bahamians as white Bahamians, as black Bahamians, even as chinese Bahamians, as we are one, walking the same road, desirous of one goal. There is no need to have a colour census, as to the ratio of whites vs blacks in prisions. There is no need to have a colour census as to the ratio of rich white Bahamians vs blacks, as such information no longer matters. There is no need for statistics as to who are having the bastard babies, who are smoking the dope/trafficking it, who are perpetrating all the crimes, for we are one and gleefully accept that this is a Bahamian problem and not a colour problem. I just want to know whether I still need to be black and proud and just be Bahamian and proud as we are one. Is there still a need to highlight black success stories, black heroes, black women who have survived and still live, better yet are living good.

Is there still a black sickness in the Bahamas? Do we still look down at ourselves? Is the white barbie doll still prettier, still preferred by our kind. Is that even a problem, or should we even care about what colour the doll is? Is there such a thing as black Bahamian culture, moreso white Bahamian culture, or are they one in the same? Do black bahamians still have an inert African way of thinking, and what about white Bahamians, do they have a latent European way of thinking. Why is it that, being call black still is a stigma in this Bahamas, in spite years of open talk, (has there been enough open talks). Why is it that being called conchiejoe in white communities is a dirty word to some? Is it the black blood they are upset about, concerned about?

There was a thread about classism in the Bahamas I quickly scanned through and decided not to comment on as no one there seemed to be able to provide statitics, mainly because there aren’t statistics, therefore the thread is irrevelent and serves no purpose, as we still cannot clearly state who makes up the different classes. I remember reading once that there is a cry for Bahamian unity: one Bahamas. There was an invitation to white Bahamians, and to a lesser extent to the majority, black Bahamians. However, I thought we were one since 1973. Is there still a need for a formal unification. If there is, then I guess it is a fact that there exists a seperation.

Black Bahamians steriotype white Bahamians all the time. We call them the man. The rich people. The powers behind the government. Them set who own down town. But, no one ever questions and inquire about what steriotypes do white Bahamians see us as. Do they even sterio type, or have they transcended such, and such is a black desease. I know it seems as if, black Bahamians do all the crimes. I wonder if they talk about that in their homes? I know it seems as if we having all the bastard babies? I wonder if they talk about that in their homes. Has there been any open discussion about how we view each other, or truly there is no need for such discussions.

There is a train of thought that the black family is in jepordy. Perhaps white families are too? Perhaps they are facing the same issues: the fear of their children joining gangs, dealing drugs, becoming mobsters, selling off themselves in the streets. I am sure they suffer from the same single parent homes, the poor educational system, and the same fear of coming outside to play. However, should such things be dealt with on a national issue or within individual communities. No longer are our communities lay seperate, we now have white Bahamians in Bain and Grants Town. They are living in Chippingham, blue hills, in the grove, right on Peter Street, living joyously with their black brothers and sisters.

I am sure that there will be some, who will comment and say, I am in the victim mode of thinking. Not quite sure victim of what, as I am just asking questions. Just wondering if there is still a need to be black and proud, or is that era dead and gone, subsequently, there is no need for such thinking.