Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-13

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  • Need to spend more time working on my various blogs. Head down today. #
  • SA ordered to prosecute Zim torture suspects - http://t.co/IMYp6nQM via @mailandguardian via @andrewiliff #
  • RT @adriancharles I started by abandoning insults based on gender or orientation. I ended up abandoning all insults. It feels good! #
  • RT @nicobet @KnowlesAsh How do you do that? If you own them you can *redownload* them can't you? I can on the iPad #
  • “@maalym: LMAO, a die hard PLP just told me a FNM is really a PLP only that the FNM has education.” Oh my dear lord. May I quote you? #
  • "@maalym: Successive governments seem to give the church more attention than the public service." Fear of preachers & shame of pub serv? #
  • "@maalym: We spend more money on public service salaries than anything else. Are we getting our moneys worth?" Not even close. #
  • "@maalym: @sbaranha I imagine a reformed public service. Outdated general orders run the largest employee base & budgetary expenditure." Yes #
  • RT @maalym: This is the first cabinet I've seen where the minister for the Public Serice was not identified.-> Noticed that too. #
  • “@TheRyan1908: "Haters are people who read with no resume, who critique with no credentials." @PattiLaHelle #LoveIt ?? Haters read? #
  • “@Mr_Adds: @nicobet @chrissyonir All this misinformation is dangerous. Thank you for your source.” I totally agree. #
  • “@mydnaparty: @sbaranha we'd like to make certain all accounts are balanced.” Yep - policy more important that parties IMO. Pun intended. #
  • “@TheEconomist: S. America export boom linked to growing global appetite 4 organic foods, http://t.co/H0JNp1aY” so why can't we cash in too? #
  • “@Truth242: Please get your copy of the Political Promise Tracking Score Card http://t.co/kD8sfpXi” @MYPLP_Believe @pgchristie #
  • “@noelle_elleon: Talkin Sense: Loretta Butler-Turner for 2017? Why Loretta trumps Minnis http://t.co/3bsWRsy0” Read it; like it! #
  • “@JoeyGaskinsJr: @nicobet I will do that...I'm CCing you guys, in case they want alternatives...even though yall won't be up. lolol” lmao #
  • Good. & good grief. & good night. #
  • & say that your perspective may be coloured by the fact you are in UK & then say what you know & think. You'll do FINE #
  • What do they want? Sent addys btw just FYI. Just provide the disclaimer that you are not on ground & your contacts are online & social media #
  • Oh good lord that's 7:30 our time. You do it! Have fun :) #
  • However feel free to give them my email anyway. Will DM it to you #
  • & my tomorrow is booked tho I can't speak for Stephen #
  • Cause if the interview is now I will be too sleepy to make sense @JoeyGaskinsJr #
  • What is the time of the show Nassau time? Is Ja on EDT or EST? Which end of the day is it? @JoeyGaskinsJr #
  • 6:30 AM? #
  • RT @sbaranha #Bahamas2012 PLP 48.7%, FNM 42.1%, DNA 8.4% -> as popular votes go in this country that is not close #
  • RT @signifyinwoman I've never spent time writing about a Bahamian woman writer. I say that with @nicobet's Lent/Elegies in hand :) -> Wheee! #
  • Being a successful minister has more to do with being respected by the key personnel in your portfolio than with anything else #Bahamas2012 #
  • People said the same thing about Cynthia Pratt but her record puts Turnquest's to shame. #DemandDebates #Bahamas2012 #
  • Tomorrow's PLP Cabinet appts (from Cable 12): Nottage=National Security, Halkitis=State for Finance, Pinder=Economic Affairs. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Just signed @BarackObama's Thank You card for #marriageequality Bahamas: step up! http://t.co/NyO2ggGa #
  • Starting work on a new blog post. This one will be harder to write than the last. Want to tackle once and for all the corruption narrative #
  • “@jbbahamas: really excited about the next 5 years. It is OUR responsibility #DemandDemocracy and #DemandDebates & we have already started” #
  • Worth remembering. “@Truth242: RT @JohnXLennon: A citizen who does not have it in them to be a dissident has no idea what democracy is!” #
  • “@erinaferguson: OAS observers gave us the thumbs up on a clean election, except for Campaign Finance Reform, Women Candidates” yeah! #
  • “@mydnaparty: The Women's Alliance will be looking to extend its branches ... http://t.co/XejRxKAK” Good start. Keep working, 3rd party! #
  • “@sbaranha: After the elections is before the elections. #bahamas2012 #DemandDebates #Bahamas2017 ?? yes! #
  • OK dinnertime … signing off #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy I imagine the National Lottery intended to generate revenue to offset tax cuts & greater investment in educn #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy So: 14 goals for first 100 days. Do-able? #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy 13) Reduce max. stamp tax on real estate to 10%. 14) Reintroduce ceiling on max real property tax on homes. #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy 12) Move towards referendum on National Lottery and gambling. #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy 11) Launch a 40th Anniversary of Independence National Congress. (Sounds good but don't understand …) #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy 9) Renew commitment to National Health Insurance. 10) Initiate plan to lower cost of electricity. #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy “@nicobet: 6) Reposition Bahamas Development Bank. 7) Re-establish Ministry of Financial Services etc” #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy 8) Introduce Employees Pension Fund Protection Act to secure pensions against exploitation from employers #
  • 6) Reposition Bahamas Development Bank to kickstart employment and entrepreneurship. 7) Re-establish Ministry of Financial Services etc #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy 4) Institute mortgage relief plan. 5) Set in motion plan to secure borders. #
  • “@vkrussell: @nicobet @funfelicity @sbaranha Letters important but academic standards of excellence and notable reputation matters most.” #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy 2) Prioritize doubling of investment in education and training. 3) Create Ministry for Grand Bahama. #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy 1) Launch Project Safe Bahamas & Operation Cease Fire & reintroduce Urban Renewal to fight crime & violence #
  • #Bahamas2012 #DemandDemocracy OK, here are the goals 4 1st 100 days @MYPLP_Believe #
  • #Bahamas2012 Anybody saving our wishes? We will need them to continue to #DemandDemocracy going forward. #
  • “@erinaferguson: We watch closely as the PLP rolls out its first 100 days, and the "Ready to govern from Day 1" Budget is due in 2 weeks.” #
  • #Bahamas2012 PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM!!! & ground-up revision of General Orders. #
  • #Bahamas2012 Ratification & finalizing of regulations of Freedom of Information Act #
  • #Bahamas2012 Back to the wish list of issues: Referendum on fossil fuel exploration (both oil & LNG). Development of alternative energies. #
  • “@Truth242:RT @TheRyan1908: #Bahamas2012 Independent Boundaries Commission with statistician, Supreme Court judge and accountant.” Yes! #
  • #Bahamas2012 Municipality for New Providence & separation of local issues from national ones (so no more spending on NP at expense of all) #
  • #Bahamas2012 Back to the issues wish list - constitutional & legislative reform to regulate PM & ministerial powers #
  • #Bahamas2012 @sbaranha @vkrussell @funfelicity University by no later than 2014 - College's 40th anniversary. Still too late if you ask me #
  • What's not in the Charter that we would like to see happen? #Bahamas2012 #
  • #Bahamas2012 …but back to reality. What do we wish to be on the agenda for this administration? Amendment of the Marital Rape Act back on. #
  • #Bahamas2012 Christie for Culture! & yes, I do know what I'm talking about. #
  • #Bahamas2012 No real prefs 4 Works, Youth & Sports, Immigration (are we sticking with the FNM idea of amalgamating Customs & Immigration?) #
  • #Bahamas2012 I could get behind that one too. Hanna-Martin first just because she's a woman #isaidit but I wouldn't turn down Bell! #
  • #Bahamas2012 Wilchecombe for Ministry of Grand Bahama? Don't mess with my wish list dude. #
  • #Bahamas2012 Wish List: Mitchell--Foreign Affairs, Nottage--Education, Pinder--Investments, Perry Gomez--Health, Wilchecombe--Tourism #
  • #Bahamas2012 I'll do a wish list though. So here it is: McWeeney--AG, Hanna-Martin--Security (no-nonsense & without taint), Jarrett--Finance #
  • #Bahamas2012 Expect to see many old faces in cabinet too but hope to see some new FULL ministers and few Parliamentary Secretaries #
  • #Bahamas2012 Prefer not to speculate on cabinet b/c don't know enough. However I expect to see Bernard Nottage in it. #
  • RT @Truth242 According to sources Leslie Miller being considered for Minister of National Security #Bahamas2012 >I pick Glenys Hanna-Martin #
  • RT @Truth242 RT @iAmSellz: Cochinonmongulous <---- http://t.co/XNt7SPDi #Bahamas2012 -> ROFLMAO #
  • RT @sbaranha @Truth242 - It's usually Youth, Sports & Culture... #Bahamas2012 -> PGC took Culture into OPM 2006-2007 & promised restructure #
  • RT @Truth242 Accdg to sources many MPs will be disappointed in Cabinet appointments #Bahamas2012 ->With this majority they shd be prepared #
  • RT @Truth242 According to sources Mitchell to return as Minister of Foreign Affairs #Bahamas2012 > Best man for the job - see wikileaks! #
  • “@ricklowebahamas: What political maturity means in a Bahamian Context http://t.co/GV1IODtd” Short read but have a look. #
  • “@TheRyan1908: Christie Administration Favourites: Ryan Pinder, Fred Mitchell, BJ Nottage..” I witchu! #
  • OK @MYPLP_Believe! Good start. Now REAL WORK needs to be done. No time to waste. 100 day plan is ambitious. Don't disappoint. Ppl impatient! #
  • “@jbbahamas: “@cerys84: My MP already gat his ppl taking down his posters. I really like this Minnis guy...” #Bahamas2012 ?? Minnis=great MP #
  • Short speech from PGC. Perhaps the shortest ever? #Bahamas2012 #
  • Wendell Major to be returned as Acting Cabinet Secretary (another retiree!!!) #Bahamas2012 - is this a good start? #
  • Announcing the new government - announcement of first minister tomorrow entire cabinet by Friday #Bahamas2012 #
  • Invites opponents to join in making the Bahamas the "finest little nation on all the earth". #Bahamas2012 #
  • Thanks the PLP supporters who worked to bring about the change of government & promises not to forget them - is this favour? #Bahamas2012 #
  • Promises to address youth unemployment and pledges to serve the youth. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Promises to be true and faithful to the people & to give the best of himself at all times. Promises a better & brighter future #Bahamas2012 #
  • New PM Perry Christie swearing in: thanks given to voters for re-electing him #Bahamas2012 #
  • RT @sbaranha OAS:disclosure of campaign financing, independent boundaries commission&more: http://t.co/bNDJvH7W #Bahamas2012 #DemandDebates #
  • RT @Phresh1914 Do feel that the BIG DOGS will be fed first under PLP. Special interests will be fed first.->No matter who wins this happens #
  • RT @vkrussell @tadaLive Voted for the first time. It felt great. Glad to make my voice heard in some small way. It took less than 2-mins. #
  • RT @TheEconomist Economists rethinking the view that capital should not be taxed..more sensible than previously thought http://t.co/cP8206BA #
  • RT @jbbahamas @nicobet We need 2 form a "keep the govt honest org" 2 keep whichever government is power in check & #DemandDebates -> Indeed #
  • RT @sbaranha Post-mortem on JCN demonstrates the old guard doesn't get it. #bahamas2012 -> Quite. #
  • #DemandDemocracy #DreamBetter #Bahamas2012 #Bahamas2017 #
  • Citizens - time to start work. Voting is only the beginning of the journey. Now we need to hold our representatives to account. #Bahamas2017 #
  • Two five-year governments is a great exercise in democratic voting but far more to democracy than placing a ballot in a box #Bahamas2012 #
  • #Bahamas2012 Great that @MYPLP_Believe campaign resonated with so many--don't betray that belief. Mind what happens when people lose trust! #
  • #Bahamas2012 In which case it would be a mistake to assume that this very comfortable lead is as comfortable as all that. Great expectations #
  • #Bahamas2012 I'm thinking the PLP's mandate is not only coming from its base but also from less predictable voters seeking change. #
  • Anybody working out the popular vote right now? Curious to know whether this result can be studied with regard to party "bases"#Bahamas2012 #
  • #Bahamas2012 For HAI to lose would shake MY world. For him to resign is a different matter. #
  • #Bahamas2012 People who were around in the 1980s know that only two men defeated the Pindling PLP as independents - HAI and PGC. #
  • #Bahamas2012 The world is right again. @Tribune242 report was wrong - Ingraham won his seat but just resigned it. Good night and goodbye. #
  • “@RikSweeting: I honestly believe that it was Hubert's "one man band" act that ultimately sealed the FNMS fate.” Agreed. #Bahamas2012 #
  • #Bahamas2012 STILL querying the North Abaco result - only saw that on @Tribune242. Confirmation please #
  • “@Tribune242: REPORTS: Ingraham concedes electionhttp://t.co/2yBLNgQh” Now THIS indicates a change of government ... #Bahamas2012 #
  • #Bahamas2012 "A momentous swing for the PLP"? - Dar(r)old. Note to doubting Thomases - DNA candidates getting deposits ... #
  • #Bahamas2012 I dead. I want Darrold to keep mispronouncing that name!! LMAO #
  • Mark Humes won his deposit! Go DNA. #Bahamas2012 Third party on the move. And no, I am not a DNA but a citizen loving democracy #
  • “@vkrussell: "Like Marathon the winner of Golden Isles has wins the government." Dr Ian Strachan #Bahamas2012 ?? I wouldn't go that far! #
  • Fred Mitchell polling old time results. Last time was close but not now. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Darrold is repeating that reportage. To think he been giving TCI these pearls! #Bahamas2012 #
  • #Bahamas2012 Looking like DNA splitting FNM vote in Bamboo Town so far #
  • #Bahamas2012 North Abaco results kind of interesting ... #
  • #Bahamas2012 Man when I ga eat? Can't leave the TV!! #
  • #Bahamas2012 I glad my gal Loretta winning in Long Island #
  • Bamboo Town independent carryin on #Bahamas2012 #
  • #Bahamas2012 Watch the DNA splitting the vote!! Check it out! #
  • #Bahamas2012 Did I say race wasn't a factor? Clearly I was reckoning without Darrold Miller ... #
  • “@sbaranha: My wish: No victimisation in the aftermath of #Bahamas2012 - real or alleged.” INDEED #
  • “@nicobet: Predicting the 2012 General Election: Third parties & other things http://t.co/woOCcmml” #Bahamas2012 FINALLY finished justintime #
  • Predicting the 2012 General Election: Third parties & other things http://t.co/woOCcmml #
  • Still working on a post that needs to be finished before results start coming in -- this one has been hell to compose #Bahamas2012 #
  • http://t.co/hlYp0Le1 Elizabeth poll. Interesting - survey interviewed more men than women: more female registered voters #Bahamas2012 #
  • My favourite images of today! I love 'em both -- Sir Durward and Obi(e) Pindling. Go head OneBahamas!! http://t.co/Didyvxj5 #
  • #Bahamas2012 - looking around for the best coverage I have finally settled on the Nassau Guardian. Twitter feed's sluggish but webpage fine #
  • “@JoeyGaskinsJr: What I'm wearing tonight. Red, yellow, green and black. Nonpartisan fashion: http://t.co/0SxqdVJu” -> LIKE! #
  • RT @Tribune242 WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR TODAY?http://t.co/Eh7EOVxR MYOB #Bahamas2012 #
  • RT @Tribune242 Tribune Insight:A WISH LIST FOR THE NEXT GOVERNMENThttp://t.co/4PJ1IZrL Read it! Worth the read. #
  • RT @Dangeloreid @nicobet You do realize that you just broadcasted your home address to the internet right Dr. Bethel? -> Yeah pretty dumb #
  • RT @BahamasLocal Polling stations are open and the lines are long.. http://t.co/aG3Ml4Fz No line in my division! Walked in & back out in 5 #
  • #Bahamas2012 Winning this election is NOT a mandate to destroy the good in the name of party loyalty. You ate elected to serve not get fat #
  • #Bahamas2012 This goes for all. For all have sinned & come short of the democratic good. #
  • #Bahamas2012 To whomever forms the next gvt: this time work for the good of the citizens not the glory of your party. You are being watched #
  • Chillin @ Montagu polling divisions 6-10, 1 & 12 (??) #Bahamas2012 http://t.co/nPGWaA1c #
  • RT @thisisrazz Just voted for the very first time! #Bahamas2012 #
  • RT @sbaranha I cast my ballot. #Bahamas2012 http://t.co/nceia76u Smarter than me - no DOB in yr photo #
  • The deed is done #Bahamas2012 http://t.co/YkqoUcwC #
  • RT @JoeyGaskinsJr Austerity in Europe is failing, the neoliberal push is faltering. #France #Greece->World is shifting #
  • #Bahamas2012 Going to get ready to vote. Wearing my We The People shirt. Bahamas first. #Bahamas2012 #DreamBetter #DemandDemocracy #
  • #Bahamas2012 Getting ready to go vote and STILL don't know where that X gon fall ... & I'ne telling when it do #
  • “@jbbahamas: any party wishing to get my vote in #Bahamas2017 must commit to public debates early on in the race.” Hear hear #DemandDebates #
  • RT @jbbahamas Cable 12 needs to stream their coverage of the results... i prefer them to ZNS -> A slight measure of independence? #
  • RT @Phresh1914 @nicobet still living in constraints of Stafford's 1950 economic vision that required us to be trained -> & I'm no supporter #
  • Check it #Bahamas2012 #Bahamas2017 RT @AP Twitter's role in 2012 presidential campaign extends beyond 140 characters: http://t.co/mm5psOPP #
  • RT @sbaranha We've been such good students of our colonial masters. Too good. http://t.co/fDSP1QGr #Bahamas >let's change that starting 2day #
  • RT @Chrisreports @ St Matthew's Anglican Church http://t.co/4XX3DOn6 -> not far from my parents' grave #
  • “@Phresh1914: A jr minister has no idea of the mechanisms necessary to lead a country” inexperience is not always a liability - see 1967 #
  • “@Phresh1914: A coalition government would be perfect for where we're at right now” Certainly. Ingraham+Christie=damn good PM #
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  • “@joeybahamas: Making two huge moves this summer...we're about to change the face of Bahamian politics….”-> Sounds good to me #
  • “@sbaranha: "Who you wotin' for?"via @theycallmeTAP <- Just be sure it's no hologram or other hot air of any colour. #Bahamas2012 ?? #
  • “@Chrisreports: Das a LOT of WHITES ....#JustSaying ....” This is the 1st election since party politics began where race wasn't a factor #
  • “@Truth242: RT @flowersdoe: 2 individuals stabbed at PLP rally!! @Bahamaspress” No matter who wins Monday it'll be tough to dial this back #
  • “@sbaranha: Blogging about tweeting about #Bahamas2012 - or something to that effect. http://t.co/W2QhYKGk #DemandDebates ?? Great post! #
  • Reason #1 to quit attending funerals: b/c my fellow citizens think it's OK to block their neighbours in #onlybahamianpeople #
  • “@robbinwhachell: (VIDEO) Zhivargo Laing Explains The Bahamas Parliamentary system of Government ... http://t.co/72yr9Gdr” ->Great but late #
  • “@j9: Is "NO" a bad word?http://t.co/U0d7PyQC” -> No #
  • “@sbaranha: "Support the COB in continuing its transition to university status." #Bahamas2012 #DreamBetter http://t.co/NTEsM0F2” #
  • “@BahamasWeekly: PLP FNM: Personal Attack on Minister of Tourism “Disgraceful”: ... http://t.co/cHN8ZrU7” Whole campaign's been disgraceful #
  • “@TheEconomist: American presidential election will determine whether austerity can be avoided http://t.co/iZN1oxvB” -> Austerity optional? #
  • “@globalvoices: Almost 5% #Africa agricultural #land been bought/ leased by investors since 2000 http://t.co/lGMU0gHR” FDI not always good #
  • Note to #Bahamas2012 politicians: look beyond your base & ask: how do I get the undecided to vote for me? #DemandDemocracy #DemandDebates #
  • Call the election in #Bahamas2012 I wouldn't be so fool! Anything could happen, whee!! #DemandDemocracy #DemandDebates #
  • #Bahamas2012 How will the swing vote? Ay, there's the rub. #DemandDebates #DemandDemocracy #
  • #Bahamas2012 Swing voters: watch this minority; the power is there. Never mind da noise in da market #
  • #Bahamas2012 Highlights: voter involvement. Low points: petty violence, trash talking & messianic delusions #
  • #Bahamas2012 Highlights: social media. Low points: social media #
  • #Bahamas2012 Best & worst election season in a long time. Highlights: DNA insistence on issues. Low points: FNLP ad hominem attacks. #
  • “@Tribune242: The PM says 'victory is in sight'” For some politicians, for a party -- but what about the Bahamian people? #
  • “@Tribune242: Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham is addressing a huge crowd at RM Bailey Park”->All crowds huge. Watch the swing. #Bahamas2012 #
  • “@TalkBahamas: Who Ga Win and Who Ga Lose? Bahamas 2012 Election Predictions | Straight Talk Bahamas http://t.co/BuLmPyrv” Interesting take #
  • “http://t.co/dtxHwCWn” Somebody want to tell me what voice I have when politicians say no debate, duck issues, & pick candidates in caucus? #
  • How To “ SPOIL YOUR BALLOT!!! http://t.co/dtxHwCWn” #
  • “@Truth242: RT @island_boy19: These crooked politicians need to be put in jail. Every last one of them.” Wd there be anyone left to govern? #
  • “@Truth242: FNM: PLP paying $50 to sport PLP hats, $100 to sport PLP shirts, $500 to vote PLP in South Andros”-> What's the going rate? #
  • “@Truth242: FNM: PLP paying $50 to sport PLP hats, $100 to sport PLP shirts, $500 to vote PLP in South Andros”->Politicians are different? #
  • Chair of Social Sciences's office after the rain last week @sbaranha http://t.co/NCDmJA8I #
  • RT @Truth242 Bahamas Petroleum Company stock continues to fall >> #thingsthatmakeyougohm #
  • RT @mydnaparty My goal is to become like You Jesus. http://t.co/2lo7wsNk>>Prophecy, crucifixion, resurrection, adoration? #
  • RT @JoeyGaskinsJr @Truth242 So basically, BPC is trying to play with the elections and the market? I may have to write something (-__-)>YEAH #
  • #demanddebates in on Guardian Talk Radio NOW ! #
  • RT @sbaranha RT @thisisrazz "#onlybahamianpeople worship political leaders" <-why we need exposure 2 our Caribbean neighbours #DreamBetter #
  • RT @sbaranha RT @thisisrazz "#onlybahamianpeople worship their political leaders" <- sad truth? #DemandDebates #DemandDemocracy #DreamBetter #
  • “@Truth242: The advanced poll in London went well! We acted as agents to observe the poll” >> Someone shd be studying this election #
  • “@Chrisreports: FYI May 7th is also my birthday #sigh http://t.co/zOndoPbU” >> I feel for you #
  • The last event @bocaslitfest: the winners read from their books #bocas2012 http://t.co/kGQAbBAq #
  • Carolyn Ali, aka The Egg Lady, introduces cookbook/children's tales b4 serving up some goodies @bocaslitfest #bocas2012 http://t.co/0tCwNiaU #
  • Loretta: the poem is breath. The poem gets in. @bocaslitfest #bocas2012 #
  • Loretta, 'El Velorio' - "The indiscriminate gun always at our backs, the cosmic bullet always in the air" @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • How to write by Loretta: Tease out the troubling passages in the discourse and trouble them more @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • Teachers: beware the boredom of studying literature in the classroom for real readers of books, like @Karen_Lord @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • Ramchand: Do writers feel it necessary to go back to the great writers of the past to influence our tradition? @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • Loretta: The resonances between places. Brathwaite's submarine unity. @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • RT @Karen_Lord @nicobet @bocaslitfest LOL don't make me sound too sane! >> good thing you're the sanest person I met in TT! #
  • Loretta: The energy of being betwixt & between linguistically is energetic. @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • Loretta: the influences of second-hand boxes all mixed up - & Kamau @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • Influences. @keimiller: While writing a sermon he became conscious of the manipulation of words. @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • Influences. Shara: Music. King James translation of the Bible. British canon from Chaucer to the Romantics. @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • Anxieties of influence:postcolonial writing & literary tradition: Loretta Collins-Klobah, Shara McCallum, @keimiller, @Karen_Lord #bocas2012 #
  • Sunday with Kei Miller & Mervyn Morris - @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 http://t.co/SR76qoOi @keimiller reading #
  • Was not always online to tweet at the time @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • gonna finish up Sunday's tweets made @bocaslitfest #Bocas2012 #
  • RT @sbaranha It seems that we did not #DemandDebates loudly enough, but don't expect this hashtag to disappear. #Bahamas2012 #Bahamas2017 #
  • Cool & humbling RT @bocaslitfest @novelniche--thoughts on the poetry of @nicobet & Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming. #bocas2012 http://t.co/SPNeqwAL #
  • Yes!RT @sbaranha @JoeyGaskinsJr On behalf of my & previous generations, I apologise that there's not a wider range of choices. #Bahamas2012 #
  • RT @JoeyGaskinsJr #TheWork doesn't stop at voting...make sure who wins does what's right #Bahamas2012 >>& who loses. Not only victors govern #
  • Elections all round!>> RT @TheEconomist New French interactive simulator come up with a victory for Nicolas #Sarkozy http://t.co/P5mq3Piq #
  • “@JoeyGaskinsJr: Voting today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My first time....”--knock em dead #Bahamas2012 #
  • “@TheEconomist: Malaysia's PM looks strong, but the opposition remains confident http://t.co/aP2Xbrov” global perspectives #Bahamas2012 #
  • “@TSElibot: O my people, what have I done unto thee.”--This should be the politician's lament, & that of each political flunky #Bahamas2012 #
  • “@Salon: @ggreenwald discusses CIA hypocrisy, #WarOnWhistleblowers and more http://t.co/4gh4IktM via @majorityfm” Democracy under siege #
  • “@csbhagya: Appa: You have an exam on May 1st?! Me: Yes Appa. I have an exam on a Sunday also. :/” That's just wrong. #
  • “@TheEconomist: Serbian may 6 elections unpredictable, but any new government will have a hard time http://t.co/tL5lRO6W”--sound familiar? #
  • “@TheEconomist: world losing its ability to reconstruct history. Better regulation could fix that http://t.co/hoMDsdPR” or better education? #
  • Getting up @ stupid o'clock to catch the plane to Miami and leave T&T and @bocaslitfest #bocas2012 A good time was had by all. #
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  • Hear hear @ricklowebahamas & Edward Hutcheson Those one sided political discussions http://t.co/U0XAe74N #
  • Blessed blessed rain last night. Today is fresh & sweet #
  • RT @jbbahamas “@Bahamaspress: 5 more hours to SHOWTIME!!!! http://t.co/9zFEL5XA” > nice to know the plp rallies are just a show>> arent all? #
  • Great start--Details?>>RT @mydnaparty @nicobet Our vision for ALL Bahamians is to be esteemed higher than any material or natural resources. #
  • #Bahamas2012 Democratic milestones of the past: Majority Rule: 45 yrs ago. independence: 39 yrs ago. Freedom of speech: 20 yrs ago. But now? #
  • #Bahamas2012 @YourFNM @MYPLP_Believe @mydnaparty We need a vision. We need deliverance from paternalism. We need, after all, a nation. #
  • #Bahamas2012 @MYPLP_Believe Democracy without issues isn't: where are yours? @YourFNM Paternalism isn't democracy: where's my voice? #
  • #Bahamas2012 Democracy is turning down the emotion & turning up the mind. Educate, investigate, interrogate. #DemandDebates #
  • #Bahamas2012 Democracy isn't parroting issues parties define for us or voting for people parties pick for us #DemandDebates #
  • #Bahamas2012 Ask questions. Have vision. Dream better. #DemandDebates #
  • Think critically.Seek truth.(you en ga find it on any party website or party document).Have standards to measure promises by. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Or: Don't mind the noise in the market. Just watch the price of the fish. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Or: mouth could say anything.Or: paper will sit still & let anyone write on it. #Bahamas2012 #
  • A little something to keep in mind this election season: talk cheap, money buy land #
  • “@TheEconomist: Marriage is a surprisingly good predictor of management style http://t.co/k83jvk7T” >> sthg to consider when voting? #
  • “@sbaranha: @MYPLP_Believe - How is @YourFNM manifesto "too little, too late," when your own ain't even out yet? #DemandDebates ?? Damn yeah #
  • “@JoeyGaskinsJr: Still in the library at 7am...” O the luxury of a true-true 24 hour library. Dream better Bahamas! #
  • “@sbaranha: Q: Which party transformed rusty steel into our national stadium? A: Communist Party of China. #DemandDebates ??>>w/Chinese labour #
  • “@Truth242: FNM to increase scholarships for Family Island students” Scholarships to where? The USA & the brain drain? Invest in UOB! #
  • “@sbaranha: Somebody is going to offer a laurel wreath to Caesar any minute now. #Bahamas2012 #DemandDebates” Lol look what I missed! #
  • Stayed away from twitter today to get some work done. I blame #Bahamas2012 for keeping me up all night last night. #
  • Dream better!>@jbbahamas:Sustainable boutique hotels. Different islands, different experiences @YourFNM > I can get behind this #Bahamas2012 #
  • Why must we have our national anthem sung to us? What's wrong with everybody standing up and singing it together? & getting the words right? #
  • It's a start>>RT @TheRyan1908 A classmate of mine said the Government shd have ONE tangible goal by 2020:every child should be able to read. #
  • Talking bout education ... gotta return to MARKING ... ugh #
  • Not willing to let govts off the hook but not willing to accept mediocrity & lame excuses either. Demand more but provide opportunity too #
  • Wanna find a govt that sees Bahamian citizens as humans equal to anyone anywhere on the planet & expects excellence & makes no excuses #
  • Or lack of self-esteem & conviction they are second-class? Agree with #PLP there #
  • RT@TheRyan1908 What do u think happened? >>>Hard to answer in a twitter feed!! #
  • Before 1974:excellence available in public schools.After 1974, 1992, 2002, & 2007:excellence requires fee-paying.Unacceptable.@TheRyan1908 #
  • Citizens, let us demand what we need and let the politicians jump to serve us. Disbelieve whatever sitting politicians say - spin is endemic #
  • Principles have to cut both ways. Under #PLP loan scholarships were being regularized, the way #FNM regularized mortgages. 6 of one & other. #
  • Argument presented re Mortgage Corporation by #DrDuaneSands holds true for Government Loan Scholarship programme which #PLP regularized #
  • And if they did, is it adequate? RT @JoeyGaskinsJr Did the #FNM pass the Person With Disabilities (Equal Opportunity) Bill?? #Bahamas2012 #
  • As #FNM initiatives they are being touted. When will our needs be more important than political pointscoring? #Bahamas2012 #
  • Is citizenry forced to suffer for the sake of political ascendancy?Inner city renewal & community policing were decried as #PLP initiatives #
  • #FNM reinstating the concept of community policing. Why was it stopped? #Bahamas2012 #
  • Moral standards developed by early #PLP Youth between 15 and 25 raised in #FNM times. What fundamental changes are proposed to fix it? #
  • Sands thinks we have a sick society. Let us share the blame for that. We are all complicit. What are solutions, then? #Bahamas2012 #
  • Disbelieve me? Compare Our Plan 2002 with Manifesto 2012. Stop looking back. 2007's mistake was to revert to 2002. Will 2012's be the same? #
  • My concern: #FNM now investing in plans proposed by #PLP 2002-2007: urban renewal, city regeneration, social programmes. But 2012 isn't 2002 #
  • No discussion of any of these things. We look back, throwing stones, not forward, tossing seeds. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Youth unemployment is a pressing issue. Underemployment for qualified Bahamians is a pressing issue. Civil service reform is critical. #
  • Fastest growing areas of global economy: tourism & creative industries. No discussion of either. FDI continues to be seen as a saviour #
  • This back and forth is unproductive and does not bode well for 2012-2017. Vision is lacking overall. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Bahamas economic base under threat and no party is addressing this reality. Economic expansion cannot be done by business as usual. #
  • My problem with this election: the arguments are obsolete and do not take into account the reality of the 21st century. #Bahamas2012 #
  • #FNM #039;s urban renewal plan as articulated by Duane Sands is gentrification not economic renewal of the ppl in the area. #Bahamas2012 #
  • All of a sudden #FNM is a champion of Urban Renewal. Someone explain the philosophy behind it please. #FNM will gentrify the city. #
  • Discussion devolving into more name calling and accusations of untruth. More of the same. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Fundamental difference between #FNM and #PLP #PLP helps ppl, #FNM helps people help themselves #
  • FNM seeks to level the playing field. However the economic method they champion does not have the track record of doing this #
  • Sands indicates that we require a visionary outlook. I entirely agree. He says the political issues are as acute as in 1967. I agree too #
  • This goes both ways. The measure of validity depends upon the amount of assurance a speaker has in his/her voice, upon personality, not fact #
  • Listening to #Love97 - Duane Sands defending the record of the #FNM My problem with the discussion is that propaganda eclipses expertise #
  • & nothing wring wt that RT @JoeyGaskinsJr Leslie Miller saying #FNM funded by old UBP connections in Easter Road, Lyford Cay. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Absurd RT @JoeyGaskinsJr "More money being spent in this election than ever before."- Daryl Miller #Bahamas2012 #
  • Can't agree there RT @JoeyGaskinsJr I think once you lose a seat in parliament, you should step out of politics. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Talk it RT @JoeyGaskinsJr Come on @TeejGrant! No need to biologize false gender differences. #
  • Will the government? RT @ricklowebahamas Will the unions and their leadership answer to the Bahamian taxpayer? http://t.co/xW8nLwtM #
  • RT @peepaltreepress Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes http://t.co/lpVkOwNe via @guardian #
  • LOL RT @HeracliteanFire We got a Nigerian email scam today. But by post. And from China. #
  • Still waiting for #PLP document. Feel in need of some vision. Reward our patience & share some. ##Bahamas2012 #
  • Kudos to Eugene Dupuch Law School for the evening & to the candidates who turned up. #DemandDebates #
  • Cunningham (#DNA): initiate a system by which MPs can be recalled, whether by constituents or cabinet is not clear. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Pinder (#PLP): Representation is a big job and should not be done as a sideline. MPs should be full time jobs. #DNA 's Munroe disagrees #
  • Facing the future: all parties myopic & unconscious of the spirit of the times. #FNM in hotseat but little light shed by others #Bahamas2012 #
  • Hot air & platitudes re the question about the arts & culture. Not high on any agenda. Only #PLP recognized economic opps. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Munroe (#DNA): Too much PM power over Judiciary. Curtail it. Judiciary should be independent and seen to be. #Bahamas2012 #
  • RT @Truth242 Is legislative reform on your candidate's agenda? ASK HIM/HER! >> And #DemandDebates #
  • RT @Truth242 @nicobet Most Bahamians don't have access to justice so as to review Executive decisions. We need written standards>>SNAP #
  • RT @Truth242 @nicobet Far too much Executive discretion, I agree. Nearly every law is SUBJECT to 'discretion' by the Minister >>hear hear #
  • #DNA reforms go further. Fixed life of Parliament. Campaign finance reform. PM's power curtailed by consent, not consultation, of opposition #
  • All parties would seek constitutional amendments. #FNM women, #DNA & #PLP limit PM power #Bahamas2012 #
  • Pinder (PLP) simple constitutional reforms can curtail PM powers-Boundaries Commission, powers to appoint senior officials etc #Bahamas2012 #
  • Munroe (#DNA): the position of Prime Minister is despotic in nature and by constitution. DNA will limit PM's power. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Munroe (#DNA) Citizenship by birth not supported. Only children born to people with status are Bahamians. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Hunt (#FNM): constitutional amendment required to allow any Bahamian, make or female, to confer citizenship on children. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Pinder - constitution a living document. Need for amendments as time goes on. #Bahamas2012 #
  • Catching up on the tweets from the Governance Panel #DemandDebates #
  • RT @JoeyGaskinsJr I just want to hit the reset button on Bahamian politics....#Bahamas2012 Best one yet #DemandDebates #
  • RT @nplaughlin Files from Anguilla and the Bahamas in the "secret" colonial records newly released by the British gov't http://t.co/dg0wwaxs #
  • RT @nplaughlin "Every sensitive document kept by the authorities in British Guiana" destroyed in Independence handover? http://t.co/Vj1z1toM #
  • RT @JoeyGaskinsJr RT @dwayneroper: DR: Life of a Hashtag: #DemandDebates http://t.co/rVB0w3ef (cc: @nicobet )<< very cool! >> Ditto! #
  • RT @KnowlesAsh "@gotyouhigh Best advice anyone could ever give: Always be kind and polite, and have the materials to build a bomb. " >> Heh #
  • RT @museum_studies Activism in museums? Italian museum starts burning artworks in protest. http://t.co/ZNB0EiR9 >> Bit extreme #
  • RT @AncientProverbs When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. -Ethiopian Proverb >> Call the spiders #
  • AKA young men in yellow shirts laid redshirt effigy in road.Who created young men? RT @JoeyGaskinsJr #PLP create effigy of #FNM #Bahamas2012 #
  • Eugene Dupuch Panel Discussion on Governance. R. Pinder, H. Hunt, W. Munroe, K. Cunningham #DemandDebates http://t.co/GcoW9bEd #
  • On constitutional amendment - K. Cunningham - amend citizenship via women & ultimate power of the PM #DemandDebates #
  • H. Hunt - honesty and integrity are her strengths. #DemandDebates #
  • W. Munroe - representation of constituency, second only to greater national good. #DemandDebates #
  • Good governance: K. Cunningham - good opposition. R. Pinder - good legislation & representation. #DemandDebates #
  • All parties represented. Good stuff. #DNA #PLP #FNM all here. #
  • Will tweet till phone charge dies. No Internet. #DemandDebates #
  • At the Eugene Dupuch sponsored panel discussion on governance. #DemandDebates #
  • USA not the best example I can think of for model election systems. Concentrate on our own flaws. They have enough. #DemandDebates #
  • Like the #DNA ads though. But is there substance behind the rhetoric? #DemandDebates #
  • Feeling insulted by the repetition of the "opportunity society" ads. Few opportunities for qualified young people. #DemandDebates #
  • Lester's points are sound. Listening is a valuable virtue, Darold. #DemandDebates #
  • Not a whole much else I agree with - more sound than light so far. Thanks for the numbers, Lester. #DemandDebates #
  • Listening to Guardian Talk Radio regarding elections. One thing I agree with. Elections to consider like this: 1967 and 1977 #DemandDebates #
  • Still undecided. Issues clear; solutions not. No Plan from PLP yet. Time running out. Waiting to be wooed. #DemandDebates #
  • Bahama Republic http://t.co/LBFlysvT #
  • “@sablikatriumph: @nicobet hi there, the last elections also didn't have political debates? #DemandDebates #Bahamas (#Curacao)”>>No debates #
  • “@sbaranha: I am an undecided voter in St. Anne's." I am an undecided voter in Montagu. Help me decide. #DemandDebates #
  • Is "free" trade undoing the progress attempted by the 20th century? Gap between richest & poorest sounds feudal to me https://t.co/m1jVnIJe #
  • “@JoeyGaskinsJr: @nicobet did you peek the #twitpic lol” >>> Did but haven't seen nor read The Hunger Games so didn't get it yet #
  • “@JoeyGaskinsJr: Wherever there is a binary there's trouble...gender, sexuality, racializations and nationalisms.” >> Add partisan politics #
  • “@ricklowebahamas: Bahamas Elections 2012. Trend setting site for the elections. http://t.co/b2pRbf62” >>Go Alex! #
  • “@sbaranha: @JoeyGaskinsJr @Tribune242 - Every time a Bahamian newspaper re-designs their website, the old stuff gets lost.”>>On purpose? #
  • “@wardmin: Finished reading #theHungerGames today. Now I can go see the movie! :)” >>> I need to start #
  • “@JoeyGaskinsJr: Headed home...” >>> Transatlantically, or across town? #
  • “@DBoodooFortune: The Art of Danielle Boodoo-Fortune: April thoughts http://t.co/VnlNWmTl” >>> Love your art! #
  • “@BahamasWeekly: Police investigating shooting incident resulting in death of 12 yr oldhttp://t.co/LP6aHnOJ” >>Most gun ownership's illegal #
  • “@InjusticeFacts: 1960: the 20% of the world's people in the richest countries had 30x the income of the poorest 20%, in 1997: 74x as much.” #
  • “@mydnaparty: Great nations like great people must decide what they want 50 years from now and then work like a dog to get there.” >> Amen #
  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-15 http://t.co/zqUrT7EC #
  • RT @JoeyGaskinsJr: I will fight free-market capitalism and the conservative economic agenda in the Bahamas… >>>Hard to choose a party then #
  • …marking… rescue me… marking… somebody say something good... #

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  • Well worth considering RT @globalvoices How should we react to beggars? http://t.co/OkRwdXtS #SriLanka #poverty #
  • BEC power gone off @ 4 am. Woke up. 8:30 am the BEC robot calling the house, say if the power restored. BEC I am not a robot. I need sleep. #
  • RT @TheRyan1908: I dont think most Bahamians appreciate the value of education unless they have to pay for it. >>> I happen to agree. #
  • RT @KnowlesAsh Should I even vote? All 3 parties seem inadequate. >>> My dilemma exactly. We still have one more document to go though #PLP #
  • RT @KnowlesAsh Culture & Heritage section of the #FNMManifesto is weak. >>> it's worse than weak. It was fuller in 2007 and has been pruned #
  • #DNAVision released today. Still digesting the #FNMManifesto Hope there's more hope in the Vision. #DemandDebates #
  • “@sbaranha: @nicobet - Did you hear HAI promising to remember those who don't strike & threatening to remember those who do?” Didn't. Glad. #
  • “@Tribune242: Tribune Business:STOPOVER VISITORS TO HIT 1.88m BY 2022http://t.co/gutFgrzj” This is GOOD news? Why will it take that long? #
  • “@mydnaparty: Vision Book 2012 & Beyond has been released!!! - Click on the link to view:... http://t.co/AZfPvNxh” Downloading tonight #
  • #FNMManifesto Any proposed changes to exchange control to give individual entrepreneurs direct access to global markets? #DemandDebates #
  • #FNMManifesto p. 39: REALLY disappointed in tourism plans. Continued handing off of main industry to foreign hands. #DemandDebates #
  • #FNMManifesto p. 37: Tourism achievements seem to be window dressing. What was the impact - economic, environmental? #DemandDebates #
  • #FNMManifesto p. 38: Not impressed by the extension of concessions to private cruise ports. Why help our competitors? #DemandDebates #
  • #FNMManifesto p. 33: I like the Return to the Island initiative. A lot. Want to know details. #DemandDebates #
  • #FNMManifesto p. 32: creed of salvation by foreign investment (aka nation-for-sale) continues. #DemandDebates #
  • #FNMManifesto p. 31: Complete process of accession to WTO. Disaster in the making. WTO not geared to benefit small nations #DemandDebates #
  • #FNMManifesto begins (p. 4) with an anti-PLP screed. Are we preparing for 5 more years of insulting almost half the nation? #DemandDebates #
  • “@KheliAshlee:I really wanna see a debate tho.Leaders should debate and all those running against each other should as well” #DemandDebates #
  • This college professor wants to know that her tax money isn't going to continue being spent on hefty foreign consultant fees #DemandDebates #
  • This college professor wants to know what the role of intellectuals will be in the next 5 years of FNM rule #DemandDebates #
  • Not interested in selling more of the country. Want to know what plans there are for encouraging widescale Bahamian participation in economy #
  • #DemandDebates Want to know what lies between the Manifesto's lines cos what's written isn't wowing me. Talk to me. Earn my vote. #
  • Disappointed. No real faith in people expressed. A conservative, cautious manifesto when we need radical vision. Train citizens not servants #
  • Investment in manual labour not intellectual achievement. Plans for university delayed. Training favoured over education. #DemandDebates #
  • Looking for some real alternatives in the economic arena but saw more of the same. Investment in servitude not creativity. #DemandDebates #
  • Lowering of Junkanoo ticket prices is not an achievement. Capping revenue on a multimillion $$ industry is not visionary. #DemandDebates #
  • C'mon #PLP let's see your vision. Want to know how you will face the future. Issues matter to this voter; feed me. #DemandDebates #
  • Not impressed with cultural agenda. Cultural economy sparking economic recovery elsewhere. No mention here. Next? #DemandDebates #
  • Some of FNM Manifesto 2012 reads suspiciously like PLP Plan 2002 - Urban Renewal initiatives? Wasn't that a fail? #DemandDebates #
  • Are we going to see governance in next 5 years rather than continued political point scoring? Not an auspicious beginning #DemandDebates #
  • RT @KnowlesAsh @savageminds Anthropology was Not All White Males: Early Ethnographies by Women & Persons of Color http://t.co/b89qox1Q /KF " #
  • #DNA talking issues. #FNM Manifesto up. #PLP we're waiting - #DemandDebates #
  • Finally, #FNMManifesto https://t.co/ibn3Pk4B No university for the Bahamas in the next 5 years. Aren't we good enough yet? #DemandDebates #
  • Come now @branmccartney - all politicians will say anything before an election. Stick to issues - What makes you different? #DemandDebates #
  • #DemandDebates The Bahamian electorate has become weary of campaigns without substance http://t.co/mLs6PbQR #
  • FNM, PLP or DNA? No, a PCB -- Proud Citizen of The Bahamas. Join me: #DemandDebates #
  • Still giving the DNA kudos for engaging with issues, even when I don't agree with their stands. PLP and FNM: we're waiting. #DemandDebates #
  • Haven't picked a colour yet. I kinda like the Bahamian flag myself. But life is too short to listen to screaming and shouting and rallying. #
  • Listening to DNA Good Governance. Issues matter. Not sure that prettiness is a criterion for election though. #DemandDebates #
  • Just had a flashback to David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People starring Frances McDormand. Don't ask why. Don't know. http://t.co/jjHSbIG4 #
  • RT @joeybahamas RT @nicobet: @joeybahamas Huh! curiouser & curiouser<< i feel like i'm being investigated now lolol << No fear of that! #
  • Point is there were shades of complexity in Bahamian race/class continuum that makes reductionism nonsense. Bahamas mixed US & WI attitudes. #
  • Social conservatism is a different thing and was almost always expressed racially. Adderley certainly married light, Toote lighter. #
  • Fought for education etc. GHS and so on. Sat in House of Assembly between the wars. Later what was progressive may have become conservative #
  • Amen RT @vkrussell @nicobet I hope that the student work doesnt come down. It would be a sad day for freedom of speech and expression. #COB #
  • Not that the light skinned didn't disassociate from darker skinned but colour was not always a sure marker of class. #
  • This light/white thing is relatively new, mostly post-PLP, post-1992. Also influenced by Haitian racial categories. #
  • Tings change RT @JoeyGaskinsJr My light skin, American & British education & my class background make me get called "white" constantly #
  • #DemandDebates RT @JoeyGaskinsJr McCartney uses Toronto as eg.of low murder rates.Canada has not executed since1962. #Election2012 #Bahamas #
  • Just heard that the #COB Colour of Harmony art protest may be coming down. Hope it's not true—unless the students take it down themselves. #
  • Just almost got creamed by a driver flying a party flag coming the wrong way out of a one way street. Way to advertise your party dude. #

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  • http://is.gd/eufWe In Praise of Difficult #
  • Check it out. http://is.gd/eufK1 #
  • So true. #
  • RT @guardianbiz COB campus in Grand Bahamas almost complete http://fb.me/FokqX94t >>>xcept that it's Grand Bahama. #
  • Back to school for you is back to work for me. Semester plans in progress. See you all Monday. Come ready to work. #cob #
  • RT @DrowsyButAwake OK, were the hippies mellowed by having kids, or by their insatiable desire for consumer electronics? >>>Weed, I say! #
  • RT @guardianbiz Bahamas urged to promote to the world http://fb.me/FfkUcuxo >>>IOTW. Shakespeare in Paradise. CariFringe. Fall in Nassau. #
  • RT @the_crb New in the CRB: two poems by Vladimir Lucien: http://bit.ly/bb7aNa >>>I love Vladimir's work ... #
  • October has a holiday too: http://wp.me/p1AQe-of #
  • RT @GeoffreyPhilp: Happy Birthday, Marcus Garvey (2010) http://bit.ly/aMwiTN #
  • Checking in: http://wp.me/p1AQe-od #
  • It's been a frustrating morning. We keep doing the same old same old and expecting different results. #
  • RT @nalohopkinson Snow peas stir-fried in butter w dill, oregano, basil, mint + garlic, ginger, dash of rock salt. Oh, my. >>> Yum #
  • I'm sorry I didn't do them. I've used/ referred to stats throughout my career. I struggle. Do em now. #
  • b/c we tend to talk off the tops of our heads a lot of the time. We tend to assume that if we think it it is so. Stats help. #
  • And of course I'm a qualitative researcher not a quantitative one. #
  • On publishing. I have been working an article about my Junkanoo research for far too long. It's taking me that long b/c it's statistical. #
  • Faculty research and publication. Daphne Grace & Virginia Ballance. The search for truth. #cob http://twitpic.com/2fc2yw #
  • Mentoring one another in research. Assist in developing ideas and proposals http://twitpic.com/2fbxgh #
  • President's message over we move on to the two plenary sessions: the focus is research. #cob #
  • 1423 of >2400 applicants accepted. This is fewer than the last 2 years. Standards being maintained. Expect to accept 1023. #cob #
  • Discourse most important to a tertiary level institution. We need to raise the level of our discourse. We need to do our homework. #cob #
  • Now we get into the nitty gritty. The President's message over, some discussion. Controversy remains but we are moving forward. #cob #
  • First graduate programme; COB's very own MBA. #cob #
  • Small Island Development goes ahead with its external funding. F. R. Wilson Business Centre too. #cob #
  • Yes I know times hard but we seem to invest far more in cosmetic upgrades (roads, harbour) not people (university, hospital). #cob #
  • Finances. COB subvention has been reduced by $5m over the past two years. Yay government of the Bahamas. #cob #
  • RT @anniepaul RIP Seya RT @natgalleryja: The NGJ deeply regrets the passing of artist Seya Parboosingh on Friday, August 13. #
  • Update on 2009-2010 year. Interesting numbers & information. Despite appearances the college continues to succeed. #cob http://bit.ly/bk61L2 #
  • Relocation to both new Northern Campus and the new Library by ond of December 2010 #
  • Harry C Moore Library nearing completion too. #cob #
  • Northern campus is nearing completion & looks good. #cob #
  • We meet in the PAC for the first time. http://twitpic.com/2fb9qv #
  • Welcome to Dr Carey-Baines, our new president given by moderator Carolyn Rolle. #cob #
  • Back to work again. Faculty Seminar ongoing. #cob #

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  • RT @lordstreet: Playwrights Workshop presents A TRIPTYCH OF PLAYS at TTW from August 13th. Don't miss them!!!!!! (cont) http://tl.gd/30epl7 #
  • OK Bahamas. Time for the revolution. Too long now we been ruled by drones. #
  • RT @MoveOn Google: Say no to VZN to kill #netneutrality Don't be evil! http://bit.ly/dgxZdY #
  • Uh ... hello ... anybody got any info re the BTC outage? #
  • Reporting some BTC weirdness: We're sorry, all circuits are busy now. WTF? Did we flash forward? #
  • Yes I am preparing to prepare semester plans. #
  • Trying to get my head around the next 2 months. Back to work, Shakespeare in Paradise, wrap-up toto 5 & getting ready for toto 6 - no joke. #
  • First week in forever I made NO tweets. Yes I'm still alive yo. #
  • RTing Rob b/c don't hear from him much: RT @oppcabb must question my habits, such as squeezing empty cans before throwing them in the bin #

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  • Hear hear! #
  • Sustainability is a joke. Water in the desert. We should be smart as whips. #
  • Nassau would shrivel to dust if we couldn't rely on barged fresh water from Andros. No way that 250000 ppl should survive on this lil island #
  • Am being charitable & guessing that the barge couldn't make it across the Tongue of the Ocean this week #tropicalstormbonnie #
  • No water in the tap this morning. TTL I was raised in the 1970s & know how to live without running water. #tropicalstorm #
  • Olive Senior talks tomorrow @ COB. Lecture theatre in the Tourism complex. 7 PM. Reads Sunday at PopOp. #BWSI #
  • More to the point. When leaving the meeting I ran into Olive Senior in town for #BWSI & she remembered me from Miami 1992. #
  • We shall see. Time will tell & it longer than rope. Nuff said. #
  • Not the greatest fan of resorts but I met with a rep of this group back in 2003 & they still spinning the same line:a truly Bahamian resort #
  • Went to a very interesting meeting yesterday at Baha Mar - http://bit.ly/aEptVK - if they deliver what they say it'll be exciting. & fresh. #
  • TriniBahamian poet Christian Campbell shortlisted for Forward Prize. Bigups to Christian!!! #
  • Hailing all Caribbean artists: Go follow @Carifringe!! #
  • I love the @CRB! Even if I am a delinquent. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18

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  • Patti - if you have the courage & a little madness you can tell the truth as you see it. #BWSI #
  • Lynn - I'm still here. I'm still here. They haven't silenced me yet. #BWSI #
  • Lynn - I try to tell the stories I have been taught not to tell. The ones I am scared to tell. #BWSI #
  • Whenever I go by instinct the truth will come out. Christi - #BWSI #
  • If you want to know whether or not you are authentic read your own writing - Christi. #BWSI #
  • Helen K: How do we resist decolonization? Keisha - be honest #
  • PGM - we are a euphemistic society. #BWSI #
  • BWSI 2010! http://twitpic.com/26adj2 #
  • Bahamas Writers’ Summer Workshop 2010. First public meeting/discussion @ the Hub is ongoing #BWSI #
  • #BWSI Bahamians practice the politics of exclusion - PGM @oceantongues #
  • RT @blottingpaper Hah! Hah! I've had enough of Americans testing my English. >> Comes from knowing too little of the world. #
  • Larry Smith summarizes conditions in TCI: http://bit.ly/b5YuNr #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

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  • RT @BahamaDip so i dont know what with me and wrinkly faced dogs. dammit. #pug #sharpei #englishbulldog #frenchbulldog >>> #chow #
  • RT @mikeyReiach Favorite breakfast? #fb >> Grits and. Bacon, cheese, sardines, tunafish salad not hot like fire engine. #
  • Support #Bahamas add a #twibbon to your avatar now! - http://bit.ly/iw6WX #
  • Shoutout to Trinis on the dark !! #
  • Happy Independence Bahamas !!! #
  • Miracles might be miracles but they don't generally come with no pain. #
  • Bey in TT y'all get REASONS? Y'all livin. RT @georgiap: Reason for today's power cut. h/t @globewriter http://twitpic.com/23tnrd #
  • Note to Americans: STOP correcting my spelling. There is a whole world of English out there that didn't have your revolution. #
  • Just had 10 days of FUN and games with my nephew. 3 y.o. And bursting with flavour. #
  • Good morning allyou. Between #twitellator & #twitterrific twitterrific. Why? It gives me a whole timeline not just the latest to login. #
  • Well first there were exam papers. Then doctors' offices. & last of all deadlines. #
  • RT @BahamaDip #anthropology #geek! >> Say more pls #
  • RT @wardmin #Stilltryingto create a hashtag that can go viral... >> good to see you tweeting again. & then there's me #
  • RT @wardmin #Stilltryingto figure out the #LOST finale. > yep me too #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31

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  • Link for the last tweet: http://bit.ly/99ziAY #
  • So here's the thing. If Haiti is really a failed state just who is fixing the roads & the phone lines? #
  • Peculiarly quiet Saturday night in town. Thought it was odd earlier but now it's midnight and there is not much noise. Not even dogs. Hm. #
  • Masekela's Chileshe - thinking about the complexity of the influences and wondering when we will swallow ours and put out beauty like this #
  • On Poland & Haiti - http://bit.ly/cM54h1 #
  • In T&T (and in Nassau Bahamas) business as usual: by-election in Nassau, carnival & politics in T&T #
  • Haitian girl survives 15 days http://bit.ly/98gDyW #
  • News not good about #Nettleford Intensive care in DC. Bahamian friends praying for him. #
  • RT @anniepaul Full 100: False alarm - Jamaican mute mistaken for Haitian refugee - JamaicaObserver.com: http://bit.ly/dz4Fui #
  • RT @anniepaul False alarm! CVM News says the man presumed to be a Haitian was a fisherman from Portland! His mother identified him! #
  • RT @anniepaul And he was so famished he went to the bar looking for food. 1st reported Haitian fugee in Jamaica. #
  • RT @anniepaul A Haitian man just arrived at a bar in St Mary, Ja, wet and starving, the residents fed and clothed him #
  • Lynn Sweeting on prejudice & hate. http://bit.ly/bUhohm #
  • Helen Klonaris' latest post is a must-read - on Haiti, the colonial self, race http://bit.ly/czYj5D #
  • LOL RT @ledrama don't u hate telling a story to a stupid person? if you don't, ur probably the stupid one. #
  • RT @anniepaul Jamaican icon Rex Nettleford suffers heart attack in Washington, DC, is in intensive care in a US hospital #
  • RT @caribbeanaxis Caricom owes debt to Haitian people http://bit.ly/aTxQbs #
  • RT @georgiap RT @globalvoices: Haiti: Security vs. Relief? http://bit.ly/a9vAyg #
  • RT @KatyEvansBush RIP Salinger on Baroque in Hackney, this news feels important http://bit.ly/1Nob92 #
  • RT @nplaughlin Afro Modern at Tate Liverpool: Cbn artists include Ronald Moody, Wifredo Lam, Christopher Cozier: http://bit.ly/6Rjf2l #
  • RT @la_davis Aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti-current numbers recorded at 170,000-just around the population of New Providence, Bahamas! #
  • RT @RAMhaiti Jacmel is a special town. Look like part of the French Quartier in New Orleans. An undeveloped version. #
  • RT @RAMhaiti Destroying historical homes in Jacmel that could potentially be saved would be a crime. #
  • RT @anniepaul RT @BeautyinWordz: Even tho he's in jail reggae artist Buju Banton sent clothes & cash 2 the earthquake victims of haiti #
  • Whose Army? Save Jacmel! RT @RAMhaiti Army Corps of Engineers want to knock down historic buildings in Jacmel. #
  • RT @georgiap On global Voices & the Haitian blogosphere http://bit.ly/cv1ym1 in reply to georgiap #
  • Well Twitlonger ga hattie do more work den - RT @anniepaul RT @ceoSteveJobs: Just to make you jealous, I'm tweeting today from the tablet. #
  • Cmon Arnold- the world has shrunk & sending problems offshore won't solve them. Time we all learned that. http://bit.ly/a8Ohz4 #
  • You probably all know this already but worth mentioning anyway: survivor rescued after 14 days. http://bit.ly/9wlRCV #
  • RT @OneNightStanzas RT @poetryireland Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. - Thom Gunn #
  • Or occupation? RT @RAMhaiti I hear 13,000 US troops on the island but only saw 2 sand colored jeeps 2day as I drove round town. Indecision? #
  • RT @RAMhaiti There's a pretty heavy duty PR campaign against African based religions as well as Afro Caribbean religions;KNOW YOUR ROOTS. #
  • RT @ledrama RT @Ampero: good morning gray sky, good morning nippy breeze, good morning potcakes and yellow elder trees.. I just love Nassau #
  • via @wardmin - a timely piece of satire: http://su.pr/2LvnXf #
  • Interesting: RT @pathways Coconut palms block nutrient flow in tropical ecosystems—by driving birds to poop elsewhere http://bit.ly/7LomEV #
  • The need for ongoing research at the College/University of The Bahamas - well said, Jones Communications: http://su.pr/6c1BF8 #
  • Take heart and learn how to live - http://bit.ly/8l1YSQ #
  • Cmon Bahamians let's get some facts straight. Silly myth no 1: the Bahamas is a small country. Nope. Third biggest AngloCarib land mass! #
  • RT @RAMhaiti The corruption isn't limited just to Haitians. People in the International Community are also involved. #
  • RT @RAMhaiti The Haitian population is convinced the Govt buildings were destroyed because of corruption #
  • Three local pastors respond to Pat Robertson's idea that Haiti was cursed. Read and judge. I with Myles myself. http://su.pr/9rezkc #
  • RT @Tribune242: Bahamas telethon for Haiti tonight 8-10 on local tv. Reporting in real time on tribune242.com. http://bit.ly/8at5VI #fb #
  • The Caricom initiative in Haiti, or what presented itself as such, is suffering considerably. http://su.pr/8M94U7 #
  • Resemblance between Toussaint L’Ouverture & Obama - http://su.pr/4glugh #
  • RT @anniepaul: Suggestion that Obama read Black jacobins. good one. RT @aravindadiga: Haiti: http://bit.ly/8aP6HJ #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24

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  • Tanks fa da plug! Glad you liked it. #
  • Watching Dialogue with Travolta Cooper re the Stafford Sands movie (Monday @ 7:00 PM). Go see it. #
  • Haitian-Bahamian Solidarity: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lq #
  • RT @georgiap: Reading: "#Haiti earthquake: BBC to start Creole broadcasts" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8475381.stm #
  • Hear hear hear. RT @RAMhaiti: The opening of banks and wire services;Vital step forward in "Post Earthquake Haiti". #
  • Haitian-Bahamian Solidarity on ArtOvation now #
  • I done buy my own RT @nicobet $7 for GHS AllStars CD @ Juke Box & GHS go support our artists. Go buy it. #
  • $7 for GHS AllStars CD @ Juke Box & GHS go support our artists. Go buy it. #
  • RT @tadaLive ArtOvation w/tada - http://www.star106fm.com @8am EST guests - Fava Records & GHS Magic AllStars soundin GOOD #
  • Yes-I. Let's ban the word "looting" from our disaster vocabulary until we know how to use it. Cheers. http://su.pr/8t4I8d #haiti #
  • http://bit.ly/4phEgL I really like this idea - both for a present & as a fundraising strategy. Via @HeracliteanFire #
  • Great article on reporting the disaster - via Erin Greene http://su.pr/1JN9DO #
  • What I say? Aw. - Guy-Uriel Charles agrees: STOP CALLING QUAKE VICTIMS LOOTERS. http://su.pr/2uNvec #
  • READ THIS! RT @anniepaul RT @huffingtonpost Gina Athena Ulysse: Haiti Will Never be the Same http://tinyurl.com/ycux8zp #
  • Haiti: http://wp.me/p1AQe-lp #
  • More perspective on Haiti - distribution of aid, reality with regard to violence, cracks in the system, and hope: http://su.pr/2ePd7M #
  • Caribbean response to quake criticized http://su.pr/3fhVYo #
  • Hear, hear, Rick Lowe: http://su.pr/1UqOb3 #
  • #artsandbusiness Sitting in a workshop offered by You in Music - worth it!! #
  • Interesting how quickly the term is applied during situations when the participants happen to be, not to put too fine a point on it, black. #
  • "Looting" privileges the object above the human being. Let's change the language. In #Haiti right now "looters" = food foragers. #
  • Please can we stop using the term "looting" to describe the most basic human response to hunger - finding ways to subsist? #haiti #
  • Many Haitians I know best have been extraordinarily fortunate; they are safe and their families are accounted for. This is not true for all! #
  • Worth noting. http://su.pr/2gNRla #
  • Never seen such flippity-floppety in all my life. Bahamian gvt announces the umpteenth policy shift regarding Haitian immigrants. WTF? #
  • Some interesting geology, specially given the other quakes in the region this past weekend: http://su.pr/1QCwGs #
  • Worth consideration for more than one reason RT @ScharadL Learned today that comfort stops success. http://myloc.me/30EIQ #
  • RT @wardmin RT: Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! Reporting From Haiti http://bit.ly/7ie5x2 (@democracy_now) #
  • RT @erinaferguson THE HAITIAN SITUATION - http://bit.ly/692kOb - Worth reading in full - Gilbert Morris comments #
  • RT @globalvoices Brazil: Viewing the Haitian earthquake from without and within: The Brazilian blogosphere is in uproar http://bit.ly/4uqxfB #
  • http://bit.ly/4GKbA2 via Jackson Burnside & Facebook - Hilary Beckles gives context for Haitian suffering #
  • This the HAI we know: "imagine hypocrites in church Sunday morning & saying we must detain ppl & send em back to Haiti" http://su.pr/61PvTk #
  • 2nd poorest Caricom country, Guyana, announces that it will provide US$1 million in immediate assistance to Haiti. http://su.pr/3hK70e #
  • RT @georgiap: YouTube channel of Haitian media outlet Le Nouvelliste - reporting by Haitian journalists http://bit.ly/5HPCkM #Haiti #
  • WHOA - repayment would be right. RT @georgiap: "Baby Doc" Duvalier "donates" (repays?) US$8 million to Haiti http://bit.ly/6fxGBO #
  • RT @georgiap: "Don't Count Haiti Out" writes @amywilentz http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-wilentz15-2010jan15,0,2404187.story #
  • RT @nplaughlin: Charity workers apparently running the airport in Jacmel to get in relief supplies: http://bit.ly/7elIaJ #Haiti #
  • RT @Morning_Porch: Sorry @pathways: Pat Robertson in blackface compounds offense, & "Voodoo dolls" come from Europe. Vodun not comparable. #
  • RIP ANDREW CURRY - Bahamian musical giant. Join the choir of angels, Andrew! #
  • USA: Never forget you do not own Haiti, which freed itself as you did from colonial domination. Let the planes land. http://bit.ly/8z64Yn #
  • Haiti not Babylon. RT @anniepaul dem nuh follow fashion RT @bigblackbarry: I dont see 1 rasta in Haiti. Why is that? What does that signify? #
  • Reading @qarrtsiluni's "Words of Power" issue I LOVE this poem: http://bit.ly/7fEZt6 @morningporch #
  • RT @globalvoices Haiti: Power of Music: Repeating Islands - music by Haitian artists is making a difference http://bit.ly/6QZ2N8 #
  • Suffering from a headcold. Grouchy & unoriginal. This should explain all the retweets. #
  • RT @nplaughlin Images of Jacmel post-earthquake by the director of the Ciné Institute there (on Flickr): http://bit.ly/7oX8GX #
  • Read this of facebook back before the quake but it's still worth a read: http://bit.ly/5Cccxf Avatar: Another Neocolonial Story #
  • http://bit.ly/8tIIPx It may be unfair, maybe even insensitive, of me to wish for more pre-disaster images of Haiti @ #
  • Official statements from Ministry of Foreign Affairs as reported in the Bahama Journal: http://bit.ly/7vkPci #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17

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  • Japan & the Haiti quake: "This was not Port-au-Prince circa 2010, however. This was Kobe, circa 1995." http://bit.ly/6lUAkA #
  • http://bit.ly/6WF9zP Rick Lowe on the earthquake: "It's not often that words escape me, but this is one of those occasions." #
  • Worth reading ib full: http://bit.ly/4Fn5Zh USA: Haitian Nationals Granted Temporary Protected Status #
  • I am boycotting all talk shows that permit naked hate and raging prejudice to sway the good impulses of us all. Hate grows when nurtured. #
  • Not good enough. Miami could get people in and out of PAP & we can't? Fail. Bigups to all who'n payin no mind to this!! http://su.pr/1XUsHL #
  • Amen. RT @sreiach @nicobet Hopefully not following Pat Robertson's example. #
  • RT @sandrineszabo TED has been asked to help find best solutions for aiding Haiti. Mail suggestions to chris@ted.com (via @oliviertripet) #
  • RT @wardmin RT: We are haitian, first free black nation, It's gonna be hard, but we shall overcome (@FinessP) #
  • RT @georgiap Watching Haiti: Have spent most of today following the aftermath of yesterday’s 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. http://bit.ly/7sNoUj #
  • Ja leaders flying to Haiti. Any word about our leaders? Where is the Christianity of our nation when it's needed? #
  • RT @anniepaul Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding flying to Haiti tomorrow with Leader of the Opposition Portia Simpson-Miller #
  • RT @anniepaul On why Haiti's misery is so acute http://bit.ly/5aHKeT #
  • RT @anniepaul RT @bigblackbarry: I am always impressed at the generosity of America and Cuba in times of crisis in other nations #
  • RT @wardmin: RT: Haiti capital shattered by worst earthquake in 200 years: http://bit.ly/6woWuw (via @TorontoStarNews) #
  • Pray, work, donate: http://su.pr/206dIL #
  • Courage Haiti et tous nos amis là-bas. http://su.pr/1mjobp #
  • Day of Absence debate went very well -- started nice and polite and ended with raised voices (all good, though, just artists taking stances) #
  • Probably they lit fires in the camp, made babies, or went & sat in the sea. The water is warm in comparison. Trust me I felt it. #
  • Y'all ever wonder what the Lucayans did in the 242 when it got this cold? Wasn't like they had hoodies or anything. #
  • 45 degrees F (7 degrees C!!!) in Bimini. Sometimes it en good being able to see Miami from your island. #
  • Any kind of doubles is good. RT @nalohopkinson: Trying 2 make gluten-free doubles: http://bit.ly/5sCcdz Wish me luck; I suck at pastry. #

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