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Feb 04, 2010
Here is one of my favourite "As Bajan as Flying Fish" subjects. I've done 42 so far. Antoine appeared in the paper last July.
My name is Antoine Harry and I am a sno-cone vendor.
I'm born in Barbados before Independence. So I didn't have no choice. I was born British but end up
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Feb 03, 2010
The best part of my recent trip to Trinidad was the rediscovery of beer. I'd kinda fallen away from drinking it - not because I don't like Banks (though, truth be told, it's a titch too malty for me, unless just above freezing). I can get Carib, Stag, Piton, Heineken, Corona and other
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Jan 30, 2010
All roads in Barbados lead to Farley Hill today, where, since 10am, 90-something performers have been raising funds and consciousness about Haiti. Our own David Rudder is set to close the show, with all however-many people coming back onstage to sing,
We Are the World-style, his great song,
Haiti.
My son's football club, though, has its previously scheduled awards function from 4pm and that
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Jan 28, 2010
Here is the As Bajan as Flying Fish that appeared in today's Barbados Nation. From next week, I'll begin posting earlier ones, so that there will be a difference between what appears on BC Raw and the Nation's website; just hadn't thought of that before.
My name is Ethelbert "Stoney" Gittens and I'm the handy guy at a private primary school.
I'm known around the island as, "Stoney", the
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Jan 27, 2010
This is the continuation of the interview I did with then Leader of the Opposition, Basdeo Panday, in March 2002. The first part appeared yesterday. This is the bit that I enjoyed most, when it was happening. Apart from Lloyd Best, David Rudder, Peter Minshall, Derek Walcott, Michael de la Bastide and Mary King - there are more, but those spring to mind at once - apart from that lot, no one I've
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Jan 26, 2010
In honour of his political passing - and because it would take more than a blog to react to it - here is Part I of the very first Q&A I ever did for a newspaper, with the Lion himself, way back in March 2002, when all sorts of planets aligned to allow me to go from the Express to the Guardian (for two years that must have been more uncomfortable for the Guardian than they were for me). Because
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Jan 23, 2010
In Piarco International Cow Shed, waiting for my flight back to Barbados, taking the first dose of my travel medication - 2 to 3 swiftly consumed beastly cold Caribs or Stags - or Heinekens or Buds, according to which airport I'm in - and wondering, still - again - how strange it is to show a passport to move between these little pockets of ourselves.
On the drive here, I was saying to my wife
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Jan 21, 2010
Here is the As Bajan as Flying Fish from today's Barbados Nation, as told to me. I hope the formatting codes are not visible - I think I may have sussed it now. If I can figure out how to do it, I'll add a picture when I've managed to save the text successfully; I've already lost it three times....
My name is Gregory Adams and I run a used books store.
I was born in the Culloden Rd area,
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Jan 20, 2010
After several false starts, finally got to the cinema and took in, with immense satisfaction, Avatar ahead of the old Sherlock. It's not that Jude Law and Robert Downey Jnr aren't much better actors than the computer generated animated characters of Avatar - I'm particularly curious about Robert Downey Jnr's English accent, would be surprised to hear he got the then-version of the Hooray Henry
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Jan 19, 2010
Trying to see Sherlock Holmes and Avatar back-to-back today but the last touches on Cre Ole 2010 may prevent it - which may not be such a bad thing, after all, given how difficult it is to decide which one to see first. I've heard nothing but good things about Sherlock Holmes - but Guy Ritchie, remember, also made the Madonna version of Swept Away.
On the other hand, I watched the first 20 minutes
