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2023:What Does It Mean For The Bahamas and Caribbean?
Several in the 21 st century have had a devastating impact like 9/11in 2001, the Global Meltdown in 2008, hurricanes like Dorian in 2019 in The Bahamas, and the Ukraine War in 2022 set off a wave of global inflation. With supply chain disruption caused by Covid-19, many Caribbean economies were paralyzed because of their heavy dependence on tourism, and visitor arrivals on some islands needed to be more present. Tourism for some economies represents 40 % or more of their GNP. In The Bahamas, tourism arrivals were 4.1 million; by 2020, there was a shortfall of 3 million( a 75.73% decline) as arrivals dipped to a meagre 1.0 million.
Branding: Athletes Vehicle to Wealth
It does not matter whether or not your performance is in one of the mega-arenas or stadia of a major global metropolis like New York City, London, Paris etc. It could be setting a world record in one of the national stadia in one of small islands in the Eastern Caribbean.
Branding is the promotion of a particular product by means of advertising.In consumer economies, advertising agencies use a range of vehicles to influence people to spend money on a range of commodities. Branding is suppose to generate loyalty to a commodity.
Olympic Lessons For Nation Building
Olympiads have established the tradition of creating sporting icons or national heroes.As a boy I used to read stories of Jim Thorpe, the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.Thorpe was described as the most versatile athlete on the planet at the time,particularly after winning two gold medals at the 1912 Olympics in the classic pentathlon and the decathlon.
The Caribbean Olympic Legacy :Rooted in Jamaica
For the past week, the eyes of the world have been on the Olympics in Tokyo. Japan.This Olympiad was special because, even though it was called the 2020 Olympics, it is being held in 2021 owing to the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic which shut down global sporting activity.The Olympics have become perhaps the biggest global event in which every country in the world seeks to participate. This was no exception as some 11,000 global citizens became Olympians.
Have We Cheapened Our Citizenship?
July 10th, 2021 marked the 48th anniversary of The Bahamas as an independent state. Having been born in 1942, I spent 31 years of my life as a British Subject in Colonial Bahamas under British rule. From this perspective. I have observed the evolution of The Bahamas from a colony to an independent state. I have often made the remark that I have lived in two Bahamas'.
Tuskegee University and Its Relevance to Black America and the African Diaspora.
Three generations of Eneas’ have graduated from Tuskegee. The first was my uncle, Cleveland Eneas, who was brought to Tuskegee by his father, Bishop W.V.Eneas of the Church of God, at the age of sixteen years old to finish his secondary education.When he entered,it was called Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and had recently celebrated its fiftieth birthday. I was the second generation and my son and Uncle’s grandson were the third generation.
My Take On The British Monarchy
By
Godfrey Eneas
The Monarchy of the United Kingdom is a British Institution which is dear to the hearts of the British people.This affection was manifested this past week for their Queen of 70 years. She passed away leaving a legacy ,some say, unmatched by Elizabeth 1 and Victoria. Simultaneously, there was an outpouring of lo ve and affection for her successor who became King Charles iii.I have lived all of those 70 years with her as my Head of State in a Colonial and Independent Bahamas respectively.I have seen her at a distance on the occasions when she visited The Bahamas to fulfill some ceremonial undertakings. As a student at ICTA/UWI in Trinidad and Tobago, she also visited an Independent T&T when Dr.Eric Williams was Prime Minister and saw her close up as Prince Philip came to meet one of my student colleagues, Middleton Archibald.