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Dutchess in demand Fergie celebrates return to Atlantis page 2

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entertainment

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Fergie embraces Caribbean influences for NYE concert

The Jacksons perform their biggest hits.

Fergie delighted audiences at Atlantis’ New Year’s Eve concert.

By ALESHA CADET Tribune Features Writer acadet@tribunemedia.net

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N EMOTIONAL Fergie thanked her Bahamian fans for allowing her the opportunity to ring in the new year in a place she finds so serene and peaceful.

As part of Atlantis’ acclaimed entertainment series, which aims to provide guests with an all-access pass to top musicians and artists, the

Fergie welcomes special guest Fat Joe to the stage.

Grammy Award-winning singer Fergie performed live for both visitors and residents on New Year’s Eve. A multi-platinum solo artist and winner of eight Grammy Awards, Fergie initially rose to fame as the lead vocalist for hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas. Following a successful run with the group, Fergie ventured out into world as a solo artist, ultimately becoming pop’s leading lady with hit after hit, including multiple number one placements on the Billboard Hot 100 list.

On stage in Atlantis’ Imperial Ballroom, wearing shimmery black

leggings and a bedazzled black blazer, Fergie opened with one of her latest hits, “You Already Know.” Audience members leapt to their feet to welcome the star. Fergie then took us back to 2006 with the hit song “London Bridge” from her debut album entitled “ The Duchess.”

The singer kept the crowd bopping and singing along with her, especially during her popular “Fergalicous” and “Glamourous” jams. At one point she called on audience members to leave their seats and come as near to the stage as possible to enjoy all the fun up close and personal.

One of the things fans took note of was Fergie’s eye-catching coat changes as she transitioned her different performances. For the song “L A Love”, Fergie took a minute to change into a glistening white coat. She took a moment to wish Atlantis’ President Audrey Oswell a happy birthday and led the crowd in singing the birthday song.

Fergie was also happy to declare that her Bahamian supporters have taught her a thing or two. She then performed Konshens’ dancehall banger “Pull Up To Mi Bumper.” The singer even showed off a few traditionally Caribbean moves, alongx with her dancers who performed during soca hit “Split In Di Middle” by Freezy.

But entertainment didn’t end there, as Fergie welcomed to the stage rapper Fat Joe, who performed his mega hit “All The Way Up.” “Everybody give it up for my friend for many years back in the day, Fat Joe,” Fergie shouted out. The concert concluded with Fergie’s walk through the crowd, and a thank you speech to all who celebrated the New Year’s Eve with her.

Concert-goers were invited to view a stunning fireworks display from the Royal Towers pool deck, which offered more entertainment and a countdown to 2019.

Prior to Fergie’s performance, but still part of Atlantis’ NYE celebrations, The Jacksons took the stage last Saturday night. Jackie, Jermaine, Tito and Marlon sang all their biggest hits, including “ABC”, “I’ll Be There”, “Shake Your Body”, “I Want You Back”, and many more.

Atlantis Live has showcased some of the top performers from every genre. Over the past few years the team has featured the likes of John Legend, Diana Ross, Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, Reba McEntire, Jerry Seinfeld, Jordan Sparks, Justin Bieber and many more.

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Inside Weekend Interview 4-5 After ending his successful career in the ring, boxing champion Meacher Major wants to save at-risk youth through sports programmes

Lifestyle 7 How to put together a vision board for your 2019 goals

Leisure 8 - 9 A day of wonder and adventure at Blue Lagoon Island

Travel 10 Andros’ famous fishing lodge takes new approach to tourism

Music 11 Gospel singer Latisha bares her soul

Nature 12 Neem Abaco attends world summit in India

Art 13 The NAGB wants to help young artists create a portfolio for success

Weddings 14 - 15 East meets West in spiritual ceremony

Culture 16 Trends we hope to leave behind this year

Film 17 - 18 Jennifer Lopez returns to the big screen with her ‘Second Act’, plus ‘Bird Box’ has Hollywood all a flutter

Gardening 19 Start 2019 with a green thumb

Literary Lives 21 - 24 Anthony Powell hears the music of time

Forgotten Facts 25 Paul C Aranha on the Bay Street that was

Puzzles 26

Animals 27

The spirit of giving, B-Humane Award nominations, plus Pet of the Week

My perfect Bahamian weekend Jayde Knowles BTC corporate account manager Q: Saturday breakfast or Sunday lunch?

“Saturday breakfast definitely... and only because there is this crazy little spot that only serves my fave dishes on Saturday mornings, so they win with me, my daughter and my friends every weekend.”

Q: Wine, rum, cocktail or Kalik?

“I’m a cocktail kind of girl. So many mixtures, so little time. Of course some occasions will call for a little more indulging, so cognac will be my drink of choice then.”

Q: Beach or sofa?

“If the beach includes a boat I’m all for it. Otherwise, my sofa and a good movie and blankie will do.”

Q: What is the one thing that you can’t live without?

“My daughter. Like any mom I need a break sometimes, but there’s no way I can live without her! Oh...and my cellphone. It’s my life wrapped up in one little device; keeps me connected and in communication with the rest of the world. Not to

mention, it keeps me entertained during very boring meetings.”

Q: Weekend away, where would you go?

“For a weekend away I would travel to a beach house on any one of the family islands with a spectacular view. Some friends

and I stayed in one in Eleuthera before and it was such an amazing weekend, very peaceful and beautiful, and the scenery was breathtaking. So I’ve promised myself whenever I get a chance to go and stay at one on each Family Island for a relaxing weekend and to explore my Bahamian roots.”

Things 2 Do this weekend Friday

• Teen Scene Friday Time: 6pm Venue: Skate City Bacardi Plant Calling all teens. If you enjoy skating and good music, come out to Skate City to have a good time. Music by Bahamas Hottest DJs. Call 821-7042 for more information.

• M-ad Monthly Mix Time: 9pm - 2am Venue: The Rooftop Lounge, The Pointe DJ Fresh International will be performing at what is being touted as one of Nassau’s most exclusive parties.

• Rah Vision Live Time: 10pm Venue: Bistro Underground, Bay Street Bahamian rapper/singer Rah Vision performs his latest song

“Triple Digit” and more. Tickets are $15.

• DJ Nights at T2 Cigar Bar Time: 9pm Venue: Grand Hyatt, Baha Mar No cover charge. All ages for dancing; 18 plus only with ID for drinks.

Saturday • Home Run Derby in Paradise Time: 12noon Venue: Montagu Beach For the second consecutive year, the country’s top pro baseball prospects will host a showcase of local and international talent as they vie for the title of the Bahamian Home Run Derby King.

• Latin Night with Maydi Time: 8.30pm - 11.30pm Venue: Meliá Nassau Beach

Join instructor Maydi Bacallao for a fun night of Latin dance; all skill levels welcome.

Sunday

• Unruly Brunch Time: 1pm Venue: The Art Room, West Bay Street Enjoy mimosas while being entertained by Twindem, Vocab and Ajay International

• Jazz at Jacaranda Time: 6pm Venue: Jacaranda House Enjoy the best jazz in town while sitting around a beautiful pool, sipping a glass of wine and a new tapas menu. There is a $15 cover charge and cash wine bar. In case of inclement weather, the audience will be moved into the drawing room of the house, which was built in 1860.

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interview Boxing, he says, saved his life. And now, after ending his decadeslong career on a high note, this champion wants to save at-risk youth with the help of a sport he believes has transformative powers.

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rowing up, Meacher Major – also known as “Major Pain” – quickly discovered that he liked to fight, but luckily he was able to stay out of any criminal activity, which was all around him in his community.

It also helped that unlike many kids in his neighbourhood he had an active and involved father in the home.

“Growing up in Kemp Road and at school, all you use to see was fights, so I used to like to fight.

“I would get to school and get in fights, then come home to end the fight. I never picked on anybody, I tried to defend others, but if you bothered with me then I would bother with you. I was the smallest of all the guys around but I was not going to be beat,“ he recalled with a grin.

And he did not become a statistic either.

“At the age of eight and nine, I see kids who have seen so much violence in their young life. They’ve already seen murders and have become hard, they are now fearless, unafraid and aimless. Many of these kids have no role models, or their parents are on the blocks not checking for them.”

For a young Meacher on the other hand, a chance encounter with a Bahamian boxing legend changed the trajectory of his life.

Major “Boxing makes a difference. I tell young men all the time, all that anger and aggression could be channelled in the ring.”

“One day I was home with my parents, I was watching the news and saw Ray Minus, Jr. He had just started his boxing programme and I said to my Dad that I wanted to try that. I went for fun and within two weeks I got my first fight in Inagua,” he recalled.

“Mr Minus saw I advanced quickly. I lost my first fight but it didn’t dampen my spirit.

I went back in the gym and went on a winning spree after that.”

He attributes much of his success over the years to God. His roots in Kemp Road grounded him and through boxing he was able to see the world.

With growth there were inevitable growing pains but he was determined to adapt to his new environment, learn and become better at the sport he loved.

“Because of boxing I was allowed to travel places internationally I’d never seen except on TV or even dreamed of seeing.

I met people from other countries and my perception of life changed. I became an ambassador for the country, I was the youngest from the Bahamas and I had to adjust...it was tough at times, but I chose to calm myself down and not get myself into problems,” he said.

For over two decades, Meacher enhanced his prowess in the field of

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Meacher Major in action against Martin “Iron First” Anderson of Jamaica during the Caribbean Showdown at the Kendal G L Isaacs Gym. boxing locally and internationally, becoming a Super Featherweight Champion for the Bahamas and a World Boxing Association (WBA) Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) Lightweight King.

The 37-year-old has 23 wins, six defeats and one no-contest under his belt. Additionally, he is a sports ambassador for the country and the Pan American Caribbean Boxing Organisation (PACBO) regional director.

Still healthy and driven, Meacher decided to hang up his boxing gloves last October, yet remains deeply committed to the community through the Major Pain Boxing Club and several community outreach projects.

“Seeing the condition of my community and the condition of my people with all these murders and crimes, I realised I could give myself time back to help out,” he said.

“I know how boxing changed my life, and (for) many of the guys who got involved with it, it did as well. I realised this was a tool I can use to help kids in the community through the boxing club. From the ages of seven to 17, free of charge, kids can learn how to box.”

His passion for young adults and giving back is infectious as other male role models in the community

(”Boxing) is like therapy to me; all that frustration can be taken out on the bag.” have joined forces with him for these endeavours.

The Major Pain Movie Fight Night was one such successful venture, held in November in the Kemp Road community thanks to the support of other community builders.

“We are out in the community to give our youth inspiration. We are rebuilding our community. I want to say thanks to God and those who are supporting this venture – Thomas Robinson Howard Thompson, my business partner and part of the Major Pain Youth Foundation. We want to make sure our youth have a future, and the future is not tomorrow it is today. We are looking forward to doing more to give these young people something to look forward to, to keep boxing alive.

We want kids to also play basketball

Ray Minus, Jr, Meacher Major’s idol, holds up the boxer’s arm after winning against Roberto Acevedo of Puerto Rico in the 2016 Caribbean Showdown.

(Photo/Shawn Hanna) and have exposure to other sports as we build a better Bahamas,” he said.

And 2019 looks bright for Meacher and his community partners, with several professional and amateur bouts planned to be staged in Nassau and Grand Bahama.

For Meacher, boxing was a gift which saved his life. He is a firm believer in the transformative power of the sport

“Boxing makes a difference. I tell young men all the time all, that anger and aggression could be channelled in the ring. It is like therapy to me; all that frustration can be taken out on the bag,” he said.

“Boxing brings discipline. Through boxing, at-risk youth can be saved.”

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lifestyle

Dare to

dream big How to use a vision board to manifest goals in 2019

By CARA HUNT Tribune Features Writer cbrennen@tribunemedia.net

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t’s a brand new year, which means it’s also time to take stock of your life and make those all-important resolutions.

And if it seems that every year you fall short of your goals, perhaps it’s time to take that extra step and create a vision board that will help you to physically see what you are working towards.

A dream board, or vision board, is a collage of images, pictures and affirmations of one’s dreams and desires, designed to serve as a source of inspiration and motivation, and also – if you believe in the principle – to use the law of attraction to attain goals.

Sharell Carroll, an MBA communications specialist and life coach, explained that a vision board provides a creative means of visibly displaying ideas and specific goals for various aspects of your life.

“They can be physical or digital displays. In my opinion, they serve as complementary tools that remind people of who and what is important and what they should focus on over a specific time frame,” she told Tribune Weekend.

Persons interested in creating vision boards can include anything that will inspire them to achieve their goals.

“This can include items such as photos, scriptures, or quotes that will transform your mind and get you in the

frame of mind for success,” Sharell noted.

The great thing about vision boards is that they also can be shared with family and friends.

A fun way to start the year with a group of friends is to hold a vision board party.

Grab a few of your girlfriends or buddies and some old magazines, or have a printer on standby so people can print out their Pinterest finds, some accent décor, and get to work.

Sharell offers the following advice: “Keep it intimate and transparent.

Allow people to share and help each other find photos/ images for their boards. Make it fun. Use posters, markers, glitter, magazines and music.

“I also suggest having people give a summary of their vision board once completed. Solutions have emerged through collaboration many times for me.”

So once you have brought your vision to life, how do you actually go about achieving your goals for 2019?

“From a biblical perspective it’s important to ask God for guidance and the grace to walk out His will in our lives,” said Sharell. “Start with a gracebased approach and be gentle with yourself.”

She also urges not over-complicate things.

“Write the vision and make it plain; simplify and focus; take a consistent approach; choose quality over quantity; keep the bigger picture in mind. Do

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quarterly check-ins and remember that people are more important than profit, popularity and priority lists.”

Additionally, she said people should be very careful with whom they share their vision with.

“Choose and treasure your mentors and accountability partners. Do something different to get new results,” she said.

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leisure

A day of wonder and

adventure

By MORGAN ADDERLEY Tribune Staff Reporter madderley@tribunemedia.net

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ourists visit it on a daily basis and leave amazed.

It is right on our doorstep; only a short boat ride away. And yet, many Bahamians have never taken the trip from Paradise Island to Dolphin Encounters’ beautiful Blue Lagoon Island.

If you’re looking for a new experience in 2019, this might just be the one for you. Because when Dolphin Encounters promises you a day of wonder, learning and adventure, trust me, they deliver all that and more.

There is of course the main attraction, the dolphins themselves, but also sea lions, stingrays, sea urchins, and

even raccoons. And they all call the beautiful Blue Lagoon Island home.

The facility offers dolphin and sea lion encounters, private beaches, Segway tours, an inflatable aqua park, beach soccer and volleyball, snorkelling and private beaches.

Tribune Weekend recently visited the world-famous site to get a taste of all these incredible features.

As a local, a day trip to the island felt like an incredible twist on the familiar — the ability to interact with and marvel at these majestic creatures right here at home.

For each programme featured, Dolphin Encounters offers a discounted local rate of approximately 20 percent off to encourage residents to take advantage of these experiences.

As they should. The island offers a lovely and tranquil escape from the hustle and bustle of Nassau; it is

perfect for a day trip for the entire family. It also allows residents to get to know one more of our 700 islands and cays.

For tourists, it offers the chance to make a trip to the Bahamas truly memorable.

“I think if people are coming to the Bahamas they should visit Blue Lagoon Island because it’s so beautiful,” said Eesha Bajaria, a 23-year-old woman who originally hails from India.

“I thought the entire island was really well designed. There are different areas and different experiences offered for families, couples, solo travellers, groups of friends, kids, et cetera.”

Ms Bajaria made the trip to Blue Lagoon during her first visit to the Bahamas last month.

Like Tribune Weekend, Ms Bajaria also participated in the Dolphin Swim,

the Sea Lion Encounter, and Segway Tour.

The Dolphin Swim included the opportunity to feed and dance with the dolphins, kiss them on the cheeks and on the lips and culminated in a “dolphin foot push”. This involves the participants floating on their stomachs while two dolphins place their mouths on each of the participant’s feet. The participants are instructed to raise their hands above the water — creating the sensation of flying as the dolphins propel them forward.

Ms Bajaria admitted she was initially apprehensive about getting in the water with the dolphins, but thanks to the trainers and the playful nature of the dolphins, she soon relaxed.

“The trainers were definitely very, very helpful and they seemed to really care about these animals,” said Ms Bajaria. “They had a relationship with

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(each) of the animals and were really good at explaining how they take care them, why they do everything they do during the encounter. That’s important, because you want to be sure that the people who are helping you with these animals actually know about them.”

During the Sea Lion Encounter, the sea lions kiss the participants on the cheek and give them a hug. The participants also get in the water with the animals, giving them belly rubs and feeding them fish as they perform tricks in the water.

The hour-long Segway tour goes around the island, allowing visitors to get up close with the flora and fauna, see sharks in the sea, and ultimately climb the tower that heralds the entrance to the facility — offering a breath-taking bird’s-eye view of the island.

This particular trip to Dolphin Encounters was very special, as a baby had recently been born to Princess, a 51-year-old dolphin at the facility.

Princess was one of the facility’s two “founder animals”, said George Rodgers, the site’s zoological director.

In an interview with Tribune Weekend, Mr Rodgers provided the history

“You can watch something on television, but it will never have the impact of standing next to the living, breathing animal and being amazed by it.” of the site, addressed detractors of animal facilities, and discussed the importance of such operations in the promotion of wildlife and environmental awareness.

“The business started as a rescue operation,” he said, explaining that it arose in the aftermath of another aquarium in Nassau closing down.

The company’s founder, L A Meister, acquired the two dolphins that needed a new home, and eventually developed Blue Lagoon Island into the perfect space for them.

“Princess was one of those two animals,” said Mr Rodgers.

Decades later, Dolphin Encounters acquired California sea lions in a

similar manner — the animals needed a new home after their old one was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

When asked about those who criticise animals being held in captivity, Mr Rodgers underscored the importance of such programmes.

“The saddest thing for me nowadays is some people focus on facilities just as this and ignore what’s happening in the wild,” he said.

“Princess, with her new baby, she’s 51 years old. The average lifespan of a dolphin in some parts of the wild is 12. In perfect circumstances…25 is the median lifespan.

“The only place people actually learn about animals like this is in a

Getting to know you: up close and personal with a sea lion.

Dive with a dolphin

Explore local flora and fauna via Segway

place like this,” Mr Rodgers continued.

“And when they see them, they can relate to them. And when they can relate to them, they start to care about them. And then they start to question, ‘Well, what’s happening out there in the wild?’”

When asked what guests’ biggest takeaway from a trip to Blue Lagoon usually is, Mr Rodgers said: “I think everybody as an individual takes something different from it. You can’t fail to learn something just by looking.

You’ll see the relationship between people and the animals. But you’ll also learn about the anatomy of the animals during programmes. You’ll find out what a dolphin actually feels like or smells like. There’s no substitute for the real thing.

“You can watch something on television, but it will never have the impact of standing next to the living, breathing animal and being amazed by it. I think that’s the most important thing that people take away from here. It makes an impact on them and it makes them aware of other life forms and how important they are.”

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travel

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ith the islands of the Bahamas being named 2018’s ‘Best Caribbean Destination’, one local boutique resort is stepping up to promote not only itself, but its island as a whole.

Eva’s Bonefish Lodge in Staniard Creek, Andros is raising the bar as a tourism destination by encouraging visitors to take advantage of as many local experiences as possible. This creates a win-win situation in which lodge guests get to experience the natural beauty of Andros, taste local cuisine and visit various settlements, supporting local vendors along the way – all increasing the chances of them returning to the island, and the lodge.

This makes Eva’s an even more interesting destination in the world of angling. Fishermen have the opportunity to get an experience that cannot be recreated anywhere else in the world.

In order to make this happen, Eva’s has invested in a brand new website promoting itself and other Androsian businesses.

Jason Edgecombe, the lodge’s vice president, is now calling on hotels and resorts throughout the Bahamas to adopt this same principle, with a view of improving the country’s overall tourism product.

Andros’

bonefishing lodge takes new approach to tourism Introduces website to promote fellow local businesses

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Jason Edgecombe, vice president of Eva’s Bonefish Lodge

“Local vendors are important because they are a part of the community,” said Mr Edgecombe. “It’s not just about us; it’s about the community and creating more jobs for more people.

People from all over the world are coming to experience the Bahamas.

They want to experience nature and culture, and Andros is great for that.

At Eva’s we will take them around and

Eva’s Bonefish Lodge, a boutique hotel in Staniard Creek, Andros

help them experience all that Andros has to offer.”

The new website, EvasBonefishLodge.com, encourages visitors to “come live the Bahama life and experience a true fisherman’s paradise” and to “realise the true beauty and culture of the Bahamas, Andros Island and Eva’s Bonefish Lodge...”

Highlights include information about the three-bedroom cabana sitting on 12 miles of beach offering an all-inclusive stay; a page dedicated to Andros and its many unique natural features, and an activities page. The activities page currently highlights nine enjoyable things to do, including scuba diving, bird watching, deep sea fishing and local shopping.

The lodge’s website is backed by Orvis, a renowned family-owned business specialising in high-end fly fishing, hunting and sporting goods. In addition to offering a ‘things to do’ list, the site also features an online shop offering an exclusive line of Patagonia brand fishing gear.

Mr Edgecombe visits several fishing conferences throughout the Unites States each year, promoting Eva’s Lodge as well as the Bahamas as a country with endless opportunities to experience. He is particularly fond of his home town in Andros, which he feels offers some of the best fishing grounds in the world. What makes Eva’s unique, he said, is that it is 100 percent Bahamian owned and operated and is nestled in an eco-touristic paradise.

Frank Reyes, the lodge’s marketing manager, said online marketing efforts allow them to “highlight and promote the positive aspects of the island while still maintaining the integrity of the local environment with a ‘leave it better than you found it’ approach and mindset”.

“We feel that Eva’s Bonefish Lodge is in a position to work hand-in-hand with the Andros community,” said Mr Reyes, “whether it’s an established deep sea fishing outfit, a new crafts vendor, or the islands’ respected eco-related tour guides. In turn, it’s mutually benefiting all parties involved.”

Expect to see links to local chartering airline companies on the site soon. Andros is a less than 15-minute plane ride from Nassau, and about 55 minutes’ flight from South Florida.

The island boasts 2,300 square miles of deserted beaches and freshwater lakes, home to a wide variety of marine life.

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music

Gospel singer Latisha bares her soul

By JEFFARAH GIBSON Tribune Features Writer jgibson@tribunemedia.net

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EING an artist whose music is relatable and resonates with audiences means being open and transparent. Though opening up to people she doesn’t know and may never have the opportunity to meet is not the easiest thing to do, for Bahamian gospel singer Latisha it is a necessity.

Latisha, a cancer survivor who is currently charting her course on the local music scene, wants her songs to touch, heal and inspire others. But in order to do that, she said, she has to make herself vulnerable by sharing her life’s experiences with listeners.

Latisha said she has slain numerous giants in her life so far and has turned her triumphs into melodious tunes. She is hoping her music brings hope and inspires those who hear it.

“The thing that I love most about creating gospel music is to be able to let life’s experiences (inspire) such meaningful lyrics and sounds that it brings healing and hope to others,” she told Tribune Weekend.

“Even while music is medicine to me, I care more about the ones that want to give up, so I ask God to give me the ability to be transparent in my life. When I create this sound of praise and worship and watch the expression of one who might have been (burdened) and see the expression of hope and relief, it brings so much joy to me.”

Latisha recently released her extended play album entitled “It’s Only a Test”, which is also the title of one of the songs on the CD. “I wrote the song when I was 12 years old but never released until after going through so much more in this life. But through all the pain,

hurt and the battle of cancer, God completely healed me,” she said.

“I realised that everything in life is a process and in God we are protected; He is just testing us. So again this brings hope to a person who may be experiencing a rough time, (telling them) that no matter what you face, you can definitely make it through.”

Three songs are on the album, including “I Give You Praise”, were first released four years ago.

“It speaks of my cancer experience. This song has been a blessing to many so I re-recorded it into a praise Bahamian jam. I also included the instrumental,” she explained.

Latisha is now working on a music video for “It’s Only a Test”.

Gospel music has been a source of comfort to Latisha for a long time.

“It soothes and heals,” she said.

“This music makes the atmosphere conducive for God to dwell. Coming to Christ and forming a relationship with him through prayer, I realised that He inhabits the praises of his

people. So I would listen to gospel to help me get into mediation of the word and my own personal thoughts.

Gospel music speaks of God; it is medicine that could sooth and heal any hurt. Praise and worship through music is life.”

Ultimately, Latisha hopes people who listen to her music understand that while trials and tribulations will come to every person, they can be overcome.

“You will find that you will become stronger, wiser and a beacon of life that shows that no matter what we face we will live and not die.

There is hope and you will take your eyes off people and focus on the source that provides the strength that you need daily. You are more than a conqueror,” she said.

One of her favourite gospel artists is Mahalia Jackson. Her father,

Apostle Ernest Sweeting, is also a musician, and saw the gift within her early on. He encouraged her to do praise and worship in the church at a very young age. Following the lead of her mother Nathalie is where her ministry began.

Latisha has served in many capacities within the church. She was the praise and worship leader at Voice of Deliverance Eleuthera, now Deliverance Faith Ministry, Prayer and Praise Assembly, a member of the choir at Living Waters Kingdom Ministries praise and worship leader at Divine Encounter Ministries, and later became the associate pastor of New Direction Kingdom Ministries.

Last year, she established Latisha Sweeting Ministries International.

She is now a member of Agape Church under the leadership of Bishop Helen McPhee.

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nature

Abaco Neem showcased at world summit in India

By AZALETA ISHMAEL-NEWRY

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BACO, Bahamas – The proprietors of Abaco Neem, Nick and Daphne Miaoulis, recently returned from the first annual World Neem Organisation (WNO) summit and educational trip to Bangalore, India which was attended by 21 companies from seven countries outside of India. Those countries included the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Kenya, Australia, Canada, Paraguay and Portugal.

The use of neem originated in India almost 5,000 years ago and has been used as a popular medicinal herb as part of traditional remedies for antiviral and anti-bacterial, along with being a powerful immuno-stimulant.

The attendance and participation of the Miaoulis team at the WNO summit and exhibition was sponsored by Dr Martin Vorderwülebecke, founder of their four-year-old joint venture in Paraguay, South America called The Neem Project. That farm currently has 800-acres cultivated with an excess of 20,000 neem trees originating from Abaco Neem certified organic seeds.

The aim of The Neem Project exhibit was to promote the Paraguay farm as a supplier of world-class, organically grown, raw commodity of neem leaf, oil, bark and cake (a by-product of the neem seed).

Bahamian Nicholas Miaoulis started his farm in Abaco in 1992, with seeds that originated from India, which the world’s largest producer of neem.

Today, the farm encompasses a 110acre neem orchard, almost 50 variety of fruit trees and is a rich habitat for birds, bees and butterflies. There is also a quaint island style cottage for visitors, a camp site for tents and a holistic retreat programme offered.

Their factory and retail store based near the Marsh Harbour airport is where they produce and sell an

Attending the first annual World Neem Organisation summit in Bangalore, India are Abaco Neem COO Daphne de Gregory-Miaoulis (left) and CEO Nicholas Miaoulis (right) with Leopold Ingenohl (centre) representing Dr Martin Vorderwülebecke who sponsored their attendance to promote their joint venture – The Neem Project.

(l-r) Founder and CEO of Abaco Neem, Nicholas Miaoulis and COO of Abaco Neem Daphne de Gregory-Miaoulis (second from right) with Dr Ramesh Sazena, chairman of the Neem Foundation, and core founding WNO member (right) with his wife Sulakshna (second from left) at the World Neem Organisation summit in Bangalore, India.

extensive line of neem products, also available online through their website.

During their two-week Bangalore trip, Abaco Neem CEO Nick Miaoulis and COO Daphne de Gregory-Miaoulis learned about the latest industry developments, shared their knowledge, met some of the leading researchers and producers, and showcased their neem oil.

At the WNO exhibition, they demonstrated the superior quality, colour, scent and taste of the Abaco Neem oil that is a result of their organic farming and harvesting methods. The fruits that hold the neem seed are collected from the trees and not the ground, and the cleaning and drying process of the neem fruit contributes to making their neem oil, one of the best in the world, according to many of their colleagues.

The same production methods will be incorporated by The Neem Project to ensure the same high-grade, superior quality products.

Dr Joaqium Morgado, founder member, chief scientific coordinator and Europe and the Middle East’s director of WNO, is interested in the work of the Miaoulis team and plans to visit the Abaco Neem farm and factory in February 2019. For the past 25 years, Dr Morgado has studied neem for sustainable medical applications and is close to a major breakthrough using neem as a treatment for oral and prostate cancer care.

Networking at the summit also included in-depth and personal meetings with Klaus Ferlow with whom prior contact was through email and phone. Mr Miaoulis and Mr Ferlow are both passionate about educating the public in the many uses of neem for healthcare prevention in humans and animals and for beneficial uses in agriculture. Mr Ferlow is a renowned neem researcher and producer who has authored over 70 articles and a leading book called “Neem – Nature’s Healing Gift To Humanity.” Together with Mr Miaoulis, their combined 50 years of experience has helped increase the education of neem and the medicinal benefits.

Abaco Neem is working towards becoming a research centre for preventative medicinal purposes and being a major part of integrated medicine of the future. Holistic retreats and educational programmes as well as farm and production centre visits are currently available. You can learn more about the company at www.abaconeem.com.

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Friday, January 4, 2019

art

Creating a portfolio

for success

By JEFFARAH GIBSON Tribune Features Writer jgibson@tribunemedia.net

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ORTFOLIOS and the way they are presented can make or break prospects for artists seeking to continue their education or receive new

work.

It is a must artists to offer a professional presentation of their craft, curated in a way that includes strong pieces of work which also highlight the range of their skill.

And with great competition both locally and internationally, a carefully curated portfolio can mean the difference between an artist getting hired and accepted into a programme, or not.

Young aspiring artists transitioning from high school or university programmes may find the upcoming Portfolio Development Workshop hosted by the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas useful.

Participants will learn about some of the most important components of how to build their portfolio and what should be included when the event starts on January 26 at the gallery.

According to Katrina Cartwright of the NAGB, the workshop will cover areas such as: choosing work for your portfolio; taking good photos of your work (particularly with a smartphone); writing a personal statement; critiquing artwork (participants are asked to bring two recent completed works to the workshop for the critique); creating artwork (students are guided through an observational drawing exercise).

A presentation on the many careers available in the arts will also be included and participants will be presented with an extensive list of schools in the US and Europe that

offer degrees in a wide variety of art disciplines, said Ms Cartwright.

These workshops are for aspiring young artists transitioning from high The NAGB is inviting young artists to learn school or a first or second year at how to create the best portfolio of their work. the University of the Bahamas who are applying for entry into college/ university art programmes abroad in 2019 or 2020.

“For creatives or anyone else pursuing a professional career, a portfolio is a compilation of all of a persons most successful works, particularly those most relevant to the opportunity for they are applying. It gives employers, universities, curators etc. a more comprehensive idea of the individuals capabilities, skill and potential to grow,” said Ms Cartwright.

For artists, a portfolio should contain not only their most successful works, but works that showcase a diverse skill set, give a clear idea of their capabilities in a particular art discipline (or more, depending on the artist’s interest) and those that are screening committees etc. want to see reaching out to the museum with any relevant to the opportunity for which work made within the last year or so questions they may have and see it as they are applying, she said. included in the portfolio,” she said. safe space where they can get assis“I hope that all of the participants Those artists who are constantly tance and constructive feedback as feel more confident in their selection creating work worth documenting can they begin their journey to becoming a of a university/programme and feel update as often as they necessary. creative professional.” comfortable following the applica“However, it is important to note For more information, contact kcarttion map that they have been given. I that when applying to universities or also hope that they feel comfortable for other opportunities in the arts, wright@nagb.org.bs.

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culture

Bye-bye 2018, keep vampire facials and, yes, the Floss NEW YORK (AP) — Keep your backyard chicken coops, dear 2018, and your vampire facials, too. And the stiffarm Floss dance? Stomp it out in the new year.

Among other things we’re over as we slide into 2019: Bell sleeves that need constant policing, the cash-cow otherwise known as subscription box services and Alec Baldwin’s “Saturday Night Live” Donald Trump, because isn’t the real one enough?

Here’s what we’d like to leave behind this year. You’re welcome.

FLOSS NO MORE The arm-flailing, hip-swaying, rapidfire dance craze is the new Dab and we owe it to 16-year-old social media dude Russell Horning, aka The Backpack Kid. Horning grew a sizable Instagram following through his dance moves as far back as 2014, and Rihanna reposted a photo of him well before Katy Perry invited him to do his thing with her on “Saturday Night Live” in 2017, launching him to social media superstardom.

Other celebs, moms, dads, athletes and pretty much all of YouTube are flossing their lives away. So are all the little kids in your households, once they outgrow “Baby Shark,” that is.

“Fortnite” added a Floss Battle Royale victory emote. The fisted, stiffarmed dance that involves rotating arms from the front to back over and over again isn’t as easy as it looks for some, so it has sprouted instructional videos. It also won Horning a 2018 Shorty Award.

Aren’t all you Flossers exhausted?

Have a seat. Take a load off. Go cheek-to-cheek with someone. Anything but another year of your back-and-forthness.

GENDER REVEAL PARTIES

Firstly, gender is not solely boy or girl. Gender can be fluid. Gender is a spectrum. A child may have a nonbinary gender identity, meaning they don’t identify strictly as boy or girl.

They may identify as both, neither or another gender entirely.

Actress Lorraine Toussaint sports some wide sleeves as she walks the runway in the Red Dress Collection 2017 show during Fashion Week in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/ Invision/AP, File) “Backpack Kid” is suing Fortnite creators over the ‘Floss’ dance.

Secondly, have we not outgrown blue for boys and pink for girls? Thirdly, how about a surprise? How about keeping all of this to yourselves?

Gender reveal events, such as the one recently that sparked a massive fire in Arizona , have grown into an industry, with party supplies on sale and DIY tips all over the place.

Celebrate the birth of a human being instead. Oh wait, that’s what baby showers are for, and birthdays.

BIG OL’ SLEEVES

Runways are full of bell sleeves, and stores, too. But what about the marinara sauce? Nobody needs to police their sleeves quite this much, especially when they’re eating or doing something equally bottom-of-the-sleeve skimming.

Bell sleeves were once oh-so-boho but have popped up on all manner of tops and dresses. How hard do you want to work to stuff those things into a jacket or coat? How big the bells have become. How utterly same-same we all look in our flared sleeves.

And tiered bell sleeves? And those flares that fall at the elbow or way high off the wrist? Prairie-wear and swingy sleeves, take a breather.

KETO DESSERTS

Ketogenics, and ketosis, and the ketogenic diet have been around

forevah. But the masses got all whipped up in 2018.

Here’s how it goes: A high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carb approach to eating may be good for difficult-to-control epilepsy in children, and for weight loss and general health in all. The idea is for you to get more calories from protein and fat and fewer from carbs, in part by cutting back on carbs that are easy to digest.

And that, my friends, includes sugar.

And THAT means so many desserts.

Of course, eat what you want. Celebrate your health, but do the rest of us need to go without when we, say, come over for dinner?

“My sister’s cheesecake was basically a fatberg,” notes one unsatisfied enlistee.

VAMPIRE FACIALS

Using your own blood with little skin pricks and sometimes radio frequencies thrown in to make you, what, the best skin-deep version of yourself, somebody else entirely, is on the gross side of the beauty equation.

But then again, so are the gods commonly known as dermal fillers.

Let’s shed some light on the bloody facials. First, you need your blood drawn. Then you need your blood to be run through a centrifuge to isolate the platelets. This is all about PRPs, or platelet-rich plasma. Then

microdermabrasion or microneedling is done to really get those platelets in there. Optional are the aforementioned radio frequencies to further run over your face and assist rejuvenation.

Vampire facials can hydrate and offer boosts of collagen and elastin, fans say. And cure the common cold?

Kim Kardashian West famously partook and shared her bloody face on social media. She wasn’t alone. Bloody faces are all over Instagram. Vampire facials have been around years now (KKW ‘gramed in 2013) but practitioners have continued to ka-ching their way through time.

We never thought we would wax sentimental about bird poop facials, caviar facials or cow amniotic fluid. On the face.

BEYOND, BEYOND AND BEYOND

When we’re not “obsessed” with everything, we’re “beyond blessed,” ‘‘beyond grateful,” ‘‘beyond honored,” ‘‘beyond exhausted” and “beyond excited.”

No. We’re all right here in this dimension. Is the meaning of the word not enough without the qualifier? Why not allow yourselves to be, simply, blessed, grateful and honored? The same with “truly” happy, sad or angry.

Be thrilled beyond words, but do trust that language has your back.

Hopefully, so does the new year.

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Friday, January 4, 2019

film

With ‘Second Act,’ Jennifer Lopez makes her own opportunity LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Lopez learned a long time ago that in the entertainment business you can’t just sit around waiting for opportunities, you have to make them for yourself. It’s the simple reason “Second Act,” her first film in three years and her long-awaited return to the glossy, modern-day fairy tale, exists.

“I’m quite particular,” Lopez said on a recent afternoon in Los Angeles. “I’ve been offered a couple of movies over the past couple of years but unless it’s the right thing and I get the right types of opportunities, I’d rather create them. That’s mine and Elaine’s mantra. We don’t force things, but we don’t wait around either ... If no one is giving us the stories that we want to tell, then we’ll create them ourselves.”

Elaine is Elaine GoldsmithThomas, Lopez’s longtime friend and producing partner who’ve worked together on projects like “The Boy Next Door” and “Shades of Blue.” ‘‘Second Act”, now in theatres, was her idea. She thought that Lopez would be the right woman to play the 40-year-old big box store worker with business savvy but no degree who gets a chance to prove herself to Madison Avenue’s elite. A little bit “Working Girl,” a little bit “It’s A Wonderful Life,” it was right up Lopez’s alley.

“We’re stuck on these movies because we know, we grew up on them and we know. They’re necessary. People need inspiration. They need to believe in a fairy tale,” Lopez said. “I think that is the evolution of the romantic comedy. It’s not so much about falling in love with Prince Charming, it’s about falling in love with yourself and your life and realising that you have to be the love of your life.”

Leah Remini, left, and Jennifer Lopez in “Second Act.” (Barry Wetcher/STXfilms via AP)

(l-r) Charlyne Yi, Alan Aisenberg, Jennifer Lopez, and Annaleigh Ashford star in “Second Act.”

She hopes that people find inspiration and hope in “Second Act.” One person who already found himself quite emotional about the film is Lopez’s boyfriend Alex Rodriguez, who related to being self-conscious about not having a college degree.

“He didn’t get to go to college because he went into the big leagues at 18-years-old and he always missed that,” Lopez said. “When he saw it he was like ‘I felt inadequate because of that.’ He’s one of the greatest baseball players of all time who has made some of the biggest contracts, but it’s not about that, you can feel inadequate being measured up to others because of their privilege and intelligence.”

Lopez, 49, herself only attended one year of college, but for her, that was a choice that was necessary to jumpstart her performing career. Still, she remembers feeling self-conscious and not worthy of some of her successes early on, like becoming the first Latin actress to get $1 million for a role (”Selena”).

“I probably didn’t realise how important it was. I was so young at the time. And there was a lot of to-do made about that,” Lopez said. “Back then you were kind of ashamed like maybe I didn’t deserve this. You come from a culture where you don’t ask for anything. But now I realise that it was important because our community needed that boost to say, ‘Yes we are just as valuable as any other actor playing leading role in Hollywood in a big film.’”

Lopez doesn’t like the word “reinvention” — it implies that you have to be something different than you are — but rather she prefers “evolution.”

And she believes change is happening in the entertainment film industry because women are forcing it to.

“It takes time for us to believe in ourselves. I didn’t believe it back then and it happened to me,” she added.

“Now I’m at a point in my life where I think yes, I do have worth and value and I should be compensated in this way or that way and I do deserve to have a good life and I do deserve to have love... We all are our own activists, we all are our own change, we all are our own vessel to have the life that we deserve but we have to believe that we deserve it.”

LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer

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television SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix said 45 million subscriber accounts worldwide watched the Sandra Bullock thriller “Bird Box” during its first seven days on the service, the biggest first-week success of any movie made for the company’s nearly 12-year-old streaming service.

Netflix, which typically refuses to provide viewership numbers, made the rare disclosure in a recent tweet as movie producers, writers, actors and investors continue to size up a company that has already reshaped the way the world watches video.

The first-week audience means nearly one-third of Netflix’s 137 million subscribers watched the movie from December 21 through December 27 — a holiday-season stretch when many people aren’t working and have more free time. Had 45 million people actually gone to a theatre in the US to watch “Bird Box,” it would have translated to about $400 million in box-office revenue, based on average ticket prices.

But people were watching the movie on a service for which they already had paid and had the luxury of doing so without leaving their homes. That makes watching “Bird Box” more comparable to watching a television programme, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said.

By that yardstick, the viewership for “Bird Box” is less impressive. For instance, the Super Bowl typically attracts 100 million to 110 million viewers in the US alone. The annual telecast of the Academy Awards has drawn a US audience of 26 million to 40 million in recent years. And those totals are for a single day, not a week.

Television viewership and theatrical box-office numbers are typically calculated by third-party firms, unlike the “Bird Box” figure released by Netflix.

The Los Gatos, California, company has steadfastly refused to divulge its viewership because it regards the data as a competitive advantage in deciding what programmes will attract subscribers. All Netflix will say about its “Bird Box” number is that it counted only accounts that watched at least 70 percent of the movie. Multiple viewers sharing a single account are counted once.

Netflix so far has made its biggest splash with highly acclaimed TV series such as “House of Cards,” ‘‘Stranger Things,” and “The Crown.” ‘‘Bird Box” is the latest example of the company’s resolve to become a bigger player in movies, too.

Netflix’s ‘Bird Box’ success gets Hollywood clucking

Sandra Bullock stars in Netflix’s post-apocalyptic drama “Bird Box” (Merrick Morton/Netflix via AP, File)

To pull it off, Netflix is borrowing billions of dollars to pay for original movies and TV series. But beyond money, Netflix needs to appease directors and actors who want their work to also be seen in movie theatres, both for their larger screens and for award consideration. That’s why Netflix has been arranging for films like “Bird Box,” ‘‘Roma,” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” to have limited runs in theatres first.

That’s a strategy that Amazon had already been following, enabling its “Manchester By The Sea” to win Academy Awards for best actor and original screenplay in 2017. An ESPN documentary, “OJ: Made In America,” also won an Oscar in 2017 after appearing in theatres before its debut on the TV network.

By breaking tradition and disclosing viewership numbers for “Bird Box,”

Netflix cleverly created even more buzz, Pachter said. “They are masters at getting attention and they knew revealing the numbers would get the media to write about it,” he said.

That, in turn, gets the attention of movie producers and directors, as well as luring back investors who had sold off Netflix in recent weeks as part of a broader sell-off of tech stocks. The company’s stock closed Wednesday unchanged at $267.66, but has dropped 37 percent from its peak in June — a slump that has wiped out nearly $70 billion in shareholder wealth.

Netflix quickly found itself grappling with another problem Wednesday as it acknowledged censoring an episode from its “Patriot Act” series in Saudi Arabia to comply with laws in that country.

MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer

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Friday, January 4, 2019

gardening

Start off 2019

with a

green thumb Jack Hardy dispenses essential advice for gardeners in the new year

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hysanthemums are perennials. so if you buy a pot of beautifully flowering mums do not give up when the flowers die. Re-pot the mums in the next size up and add some Osmocote to the surface of the soil. Trim off the dead flowers and the top two inches of each stem with scissors. You will soon have a display of new flowers. An alternative is to separate the individual plants in the original pot, trim them and plant them in a flower bed.

A fruit seed that is enclosed in aril needs special attention before drying and planting.

Examples of this type of fruit are papaya, passion fruit and kiwano melon. Squeeze the aril-enclosed seed until the membrane bursts, then let it dry for a few days. If you do not break the membrane it will surround the dry seed like plastic wrap and could cause the seed to be in the ground for years before it decides to germinate.

Whenever you see ants scurrying up and down a plant it almost certainly means you have an aphid infestation. The ants deposit the aphids in a good location on the plant and ‘milk’ them of honeydew, the sweet excrement produced by the sap-sucking insects. Before

using any chemical, blast and knock off the aphids with a jet of water from a hose. Repeat a few days later if necessary.

Some plants are notoriously bad transplants, often because they have easily damaged tap roots.

These plants include watermelons, cucumbers, papayas and borage, but transplanting can be made easy with a little preparation. Take some soda can size brown paper bags and coat the insides with cooking oil spray. Fill the bags with potting mix, water, and add a seed. Store the bags upright in a steep-sided tray with drainage. When your seedlings are the right size for transplanting, just bury the bag.

Your bird peppers trees may die if you do not pick the stalk along with the pepper. An adjunct to this is to pick peppers (and stalks) when the tree is full of fruit. It seems that if the plant has a mass of fruits it considers its job of procreation over and dries up. The plant cannot tell the difference between an attached stalk with or without fruit. The same applies to just about all peppers but is most noticeable in bird peppers where lazy human pickers are careless.

Bell peppers should be picked when mature, not allowed to be an ornamental. They will probably not die if overloaded then harvested but may not bear new fruit for a couple of months.

If you want pretty peppers then buy ornamental pepper plants. All ornamental peppers hold fruit for a long time and do not debilitate the mother plant.

All vegetables that produce fruit (peppers, tomatoes, physalis) benefit from an application of triple phosphate (0-50-0) to the soil around them

at flowering time. Triple phosphate helps the plants develop more and healthier fruits.

Watering orchids is a real chore. We can spray the medium they grow in with water from a squeeze bottle on a daily basis but that is only superficial maintenance and the plants need a good soak once every month. This is done by dunking the whole container in a basin of water with a little orchid food added. The bits and pieces of bark, wood chips and polystyrene float away unless you use two hands to hold the growing matrix in until sufficiently waterlogged. Then you must drain the container over the basin until it stops dripping. If you have a dozen orchids in pots and slat cages the exercise could take you hours. Use ice cubes instead. Two or three ice cubes per plant every two or three days will look after the regular maintenance. As the ice cubes melt the potting medium absorbs the water with aplomb and there are no drips. There is no need for a monthly soak and the feeding of the orchids can be done by using cubes made in special use ice trays that are identified as such. Fill the trays with a solution of a teaspoon of orchid fertilizer in a gallon of water.

Something to bear in mind: All hybrid seeds must be labelled as such.

It therefore follows packages of seeds that do not use the word hybrid are open pollinated and any seeds you get from the plants will be useable for the next season.

We all know that roses love parsley, but (don’t tell the roses!) parsley also loves tomatoes. Plant parsley between tomato vines in your garden and you will have healthier plants and more abundant fruits (plus lots of parsley).

Any bell pepper seeds you plant in the next month or so will be producing when the temperature is rising.

Try sowing two seeds in one hole; not half an inch apart but touching each other. You will have to add a little more fertilizer to satisfy your double planting and be extra assiduous with the watering but the double amount of foliage will help protect the peppers against sun scald. Peppers usually do not like competition and that is why we have to weed around them thoroughly. But they do seem to enjoy each other’s company. Tie the stems together and there will be no need to stake.

• For queries and comments e-mail jacktribune242@gmail.com

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Friday, January 4, 2019

books

Book reflects on Rock Hudson’s stardom, closeted love life

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ad Rock Hudson not died of AIDS in 1985, he might be best remembered as the most successful of the postwar male stars who got into the movies solely on their looks. He remained on the screen for decades because of a likability that can’t be learned or manufactured.

Instead, Hudson became the first celebrity to acknowledge that he suffered from the mysterious disease that seemed to target gay men. The potentially career-ending sexual secret he had protected was all but confirmed in the last months of his life.

Mark Griffin’s perceptive and sympathetic biography “All That Heaven Allows” gives Hudson, both the movie star and the man, the kind of reassessment only time can allow. He improved as an actor yet never lost the fear that moviegoers would discover that their ideal leading man was only playing a role.

While he needed time and experience to hone his craft, pretending for the cameras came easy to handsome, Illinois-born Roy Fitzgerald. Escaping reality at the Winnetka movie theater was a must for the boy with an overprotective and domineering mother, a father who walked out on the family, and a stepfather who beat him.

Childhood friends remembered Roy for many of the same qualities that made him a favorite with fellow actors and film crews: diligence, generosity, easygoing charm and fun-loving spirit.

Living a closeted life and trying to make it as an actor only added to his insecurities. With his new name, Hudson appeared in more than two

dozen films under contract to Universal between 1948 and 1954. Eager to learn, he blossomed under the direction of Douglas Sirk, whose romantic tearjerkers “Magnificent Obsession” (1954) and “All That Heaven Allows” (1955) turned Hudson into a heartthrob at 30.

With the hugely successful epic “Giant” (1956), Hudson was an Oscarnominated actor and soon Hollywood’s most popular star. Routine dramas followed until 1959’s “Pillow Talk” with Doris Day revealed Hudson’s knack for light comedy. He remained an audience favorite for several more years despite undistinguished movies. Imagine what might have been had Universal followed through on its original plan to cast Hudson as lawyer Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

All the while Hudson lived and loved on the down-low. A sham marriage around the time of “Giant” quelled the gossip for a time. Publicly, he played along with the fan magazine image of the happy if lonely bachelor trying to find the right woman when he was actually trying to find the right man. Promiscuity as well as meaningful relationships marked his private life. Had Hudson been a straight star, he may have been married several times and envied as a ladies’ man.

Griffin suggests that Hudson’s better performances — the paranoia classic “Seconds” (1966) being one example — came with roles in which he could identify with a character’s internal turmoil. Wisely, the writer explores Hudson’s films and TV shows without trying to make them more than what they were — generally average entertainments punctuated by occasional hits and many, many misses. (TV’s “McMillan & Wife” resuscitated his flagging career in the 1970s.)

Like most other aging stars, Hudson struggled to find good roles as the wrinkles appeared.

Alcohol and cigarettes took a toll on his health long before the AIDS diagnosis.

Given his generation’s intense homophobia and the 1950s communist witch hunt that ruined so many careers, it’s understandable that Hudson didn’t want to risk everything as a gay-rights pioneer. But he was indiscrete enough that his secret was widely known or assumed in Hollywood and elsewhere (FBI and police files suggest as much). He occasionally heard gay epithets tossed his way, even when he attended the Los Angeles premiere of “Ice Station Zebra” (1968).

Griffin’s interviews and correspondence with many of Hudson’s co-stars — among them Doris Day and Carol

Following the Netflix film, “Bird Box” climbs the charts

The top 10 books on Apple’s iBooks-US iBook charts for week ending December 30, 2018

1. Becoming by Michelle Obama 2. Bird Box by Josh Malerman 3. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty 4. The Terminal List by Jack Carr 5. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 6. Educated by Tara Westover 7. Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci 8. Target: Alex Cross by James Patterson 9. The Reckoning by John Grisham 10. One Day in December by Josie Silver

By The Associated Press

Burnett — and many of his lovers show how protective they were of their warm, loyal friend. Had he lived into the next century, the abandoned and abused boy from Winnetka might have discovered a public ready to root for him to be who he really was.

DOUGLASS K DANIEL Associated Press

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Friday, January 4, 2019

literary lives – anthony powell

Anthony Powell hears the music of time Sir Christopher Ondaatje writes about the English novelist best known for his 12-volume work “A Dance to the Music of Time”, and introduces one of the most incisive commentaries on Anthony Powell’s great novel by Anthony Wigram – a resident member of Bahama’s Lyford Cay Club.

riting is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” – Anthony Powell

Anthony Dymoke Powell was born on December 21, 1905 in Westminster, Middlesex. His father was an officer in the Welsh Regiment, while his mother came from a landowning family in Lincolnshire.

In 1919, Powell passed the Common Entrance Examination for Eton. He was a founding member of the Eton Society of Arts. In 1923, Powell went up to Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford he met the author Evelyn Waugh. He was awarded a third-class degree at the end of his academic years.

After Oxford, Powell spent the next 25 years in London attending formal debutante dances in Mayfair and Belgravia, renewing his acquaintance with Evelyn Waugh, and becoming a member of the Gargoyle Club – which provided him with an insight into London’s Bohemia. He married Lady Violet Pakenham in 1934.

Powell worked for the publishers Gerald Duckworth and Company in Covent Garden, then as a script writer for Warner Brothers Studio in Teddington, was rejected in Hollywood as a screenwriter, and found work only as a book reviewer for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator.

Powell’s first novel, “Afternoon Men”, was published by Duckworth in 1931. Duckworth also published his next three novels. His fifth novel,

English novelist Anthony Powell (1905 - 2000) “What’s Become of Waring”, was turned down by Duckworth but published by Cassell in 1939.

In 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, Powell, now 34 years old, joined the British Army as a second lieutenant. He was not at all prepared for military life, eventually securing an assignment with the Intelligence Corps, later getting a posting to the War Office. Writing became his sole activity only after his demobilisation. He completed a manuscript, “John Aubrey and his Friends” in 1946, although it was only published after difficult negotiations in 1948.

After 1948 Powell started thinking about a long novel sequence. Over the next 30 years he produced his major work: “A Dance to the Music of Time”. Its 12 novels have been acclaimed as being among the finest English fiction of the twentieth century. The cycle of novels, narrated by a protagonist, follows the trajectory of Powell’s own life, giving a vivid portrayal of Bohemian life within high society between 1921 and 1971.

The title of the series of books is taken from the painting of the same

name by Poussin which hangs in the Wallace Collection in London. ***

A COMMENTARY ON A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME

By Anthony Wigram, 2018 Like many others I started to read this great novel at university after the first few books had been published, then had to wait impatiently as Anthony Powell squeezed out the rest of the story. The twelve books took 25 years to produce; an extraordinary feat of concentration and dedication by Anthony Powell, with no loss of quality or momentum.

However for the reader it was difficult to remember what had gone on, and therefore to understand what was going on, because even though each novel stands on its own, after prolonged gaps it was difficult to grasp a central theme if there was one. Fifty-three years later one lucky day the time had come to reread “A Dance to the Music of Time” and I did so with growing amazement, enjoyment, appreciation and respect.

It is a complex tapestry of a book so this short essay Continues on page

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Anthony Wigram, whose incisive commentary on “A Dance To The Music Of Time” appears in this text.

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is my attempt to explain to myself what it is about and maybe to encourage a few friends to give me their ideas.

The problem is that there seems to be no plot; just a series of events connected by the presence of the narrator Nick Jenkins, by chance information received from third parties, or by the force of the will of the characters and possibly by unseen cosmic powers.

Many people see Dance as pure comedy and say they laughed out loud while reading it; and it is true that Anthony Powell insisted on having Osbert Lancaster to illustrate the Penguin paperback edition. It is also true that there are some extremely funny scenes as when Stripling is caught

by Farebrother parading down the corridor and about to replace Farebrother’s top hat with a chamber pot.

Later in the same book Farebrother destroys three of Stripling’s collars in the collar turning machine in which he has invested. But this is not comedy.

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Nearly all the major characters die young and often in violent deaths and are judged to be complete failures in their lives by their contemporaries.

Stringham is the most charming school boy and man but becomes a hopeless alcoholic, and dies in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. He is the narrator’s greatest friend. Moreland the composer, also a great friend, dies young and forgotten, living with the appalling Audrey Maclintick.

Maclintick himself, the music critic, commits suicide, as does the beautiful but impossible Pamela Flitton.

X Trapnel, whose first novel Camel Ride to the Tomb is a huge success, dies very young of a heart attack after a drunken pub party, and after the manuscript of his unpublished novel Profiles in String has been thrown into the canal by Pamela Flitton – who then leaves him. Ralph Barnaby, the potentially brilliant painter and successful womaniser, is killed in a plane crash during the war, and his major painting in the Donners Brebner building is destroyed in the Blitz. Molly Jeavons, one of the few kind-hearted people, is also killed when her house is hit by a single bomb dropped by a lone bomber. Peter Templer is murdered in Egypt, on Widmerpool’s instruction, according to Pamela Flitton. St John Clarke is a failure and his novels are ridiculed. Quiggin and Craggs go bankrupt. Edgar Deacon is held up as a joke as a painter, and gives up painting to

sell antiques although ironically he is “rediscovered” long after his death.

A few minor characters like Odo Stevens, Louis Glober, Stanley Jeavons, and Umfraville seem to get away with it but the whole novel is coloured by the Sisyphean travails of Kenneth Widmerpool. From the first few pages to the last Widmerpool is the butt of unremitting sadistic mishaps. He is a joke at school because he wears the “wrong” sort of overcoat and is publicly humiliated when Budd, the captain of cricket, throws a banana which accidentally hits him in the face.

He gets covered in sugar by Barbara Goring when the top comes off a sugar shaker as she attempts to stop him forcing her to dance with him. He

knocks over a flower pot in his pathetic little car at Stourwater Castle. He is bamboozled into paying for Gypsy Jones’s abortion. He is rejected as a lover and fiancé by Mildred Haycock, and when being appointed chancellor of a university is covered by paint thrown by the Quiggin twins. Some people may consider this funny; and his constant rudeness, his arrogance, his slyness, his pomposity, his greed, his lust for power are designed to make us feel he deserves what he gets – but it’s rather like getting pleasure out of seeing someone suffer in the stocks. Later on his fetish for sexual humiliation ripens in the shape of Pamela Flitton, the most beautiful and sexually available woman anyone has

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Powell’s epic “A Dance to the Music of Time” is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century.

The painting “A Dance to the Music of Time” by Nicolas Poussin which initially inspired Powell to write his 12-volume masterpiece. ever met, who gratifies his desire for humiliation by exposing his plotting, scheming, and underhand methods in public. But in spite of everything he is in life terms a success and a winner.

He displaces the great Bill Truscott in the Donners Brebner organisation. In the Army he becomes a full colonel and chairman of an important

cabinet committee. He becomes an MP, is elevated to the House of Lords, and is a university ckinhancellor. He always works extremely hard over long periods, and early on shows an ability to arbitrate by settling a row over a tennis match between Orn and Lundquist at Madame Leroy’s French language establishment. And of course

he marries the most beautiful girl in England. Widmerpool is held up as a grotesque character, a sort of ugly clown, but he is too awful to be funny, too awful even to arouse our pity, and prominent though he is, he is partially hidden by the jostling and elbowing of other figures.

The women are paraded before us in an array of determined promiscuity.

The sad, unhappy, beautiful Pamela Flitton is the ultimate nymphomaniac who according to X Trapnel goes stiff when making love and never achieves any pleasure. Close behind her come Jean Templer, Mona Quiggin, Gypsy Jones, Mrs Foxe, Anne Stepney, Mildred Haycock, Matilda Wilson, Audrey Maclintick, and various waitresses and barmaids who regard sex as a natural part of the feminine armoury.

Love is mentioned only as a prelude to disaster. Poor Captain Gwatkin falls in love with a barmaid and finds her making love on a stone bench to his own Corporal. He loses touch and his military career is ruined. X Trapnel falls in love with Pamela and this leads to the destruction of his second novel, as already mentioned, and directly to his early death. Nick Jenkins’ love for Jean Templer ends when she deserts him, and he later finds out that during their affair she was having a simultaneous relationship with Jimmy Brent who

Nick had always considered distinctly inferior.

In every book there are a number of truly great set piece scenes where the circumstances and the clash of characters seem to be larger than life. I have picked out a few of these but there are many more: • The collar turning scene in Templer’s father’s house.

• The car crash in the rain in Templer’s new car with Duport, Brent and two girls they have picked up.

• The Huntercombes’ dance when Widmerpool has sugar poured over him.

• The planchette scene at Templer’s house.

• The dinner at Thrubworth showing how Erridge lives, Smith the sulky butler and his refusal to admit there was still a magnum of 1906 champagne.

• The seven deadly sins at Stourwater Castle.

• Bridge’s funeral when Pamela is sick in a large Chinese vase.

• Trapnel’s flat in the back of Paddington, and threatening Widmerpool with his swordstick.

• Trapnel finds his manuscript in the canal and throws his swordstick into the canal.

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Powell with his wife Violet on their wedding day in 1934.

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• The Tiepolo ceiling in Venice explained by Professor Brightman.

• The scene in the street after Odo Stevens’s party.

• General Conyers covers the naked maid Billson.

• Doctor Trelawney gets locked in the bathroom at Albert’s seaside hotel.

• Bithel saves the Modigliani.

There are many, many more. Paired with this is Anthony Powell’s extraordinary ability to observe and in a few words describe a gesture or a flicker of an eyelid betraying emotion which reveals an entire character. For example: “Norah threw her cigarette into the fireplace in a manner to express despair at all human behaviour, her own family’s in particular” or again, “Canon Fenneau’s mouth went a little tight ... at the mention of his Bishop, the eyes taking on a harder, less misty surface”.

There is still one major subject to consider and that is the significance of the supernatural. Mrs Erdleigh, Doctor Trelawney and Scorpio Murtlock are evidence that Anthony Powell did not necessarily disbelieve in certain cosmic forces. Mrs Erdleigh tells fortunes with unerring accuracy. Firstly that of Nicholas Jenkins and later of Pamela Flitton. Doctor Trelawney’s strange sect attracts no lesser follower than General Conyers who is able to reply to his greeting “The Essence of the All is the Godhead of the True” with

the reply “The Vision of Visions Heals the Blindness of Sight”. This greeting and response are taken up by Scorpio Murtlock’s group, whose watchword is “Harmony”, and Murtlock himself shows mystic powers when he is able to fall into a trance-like state and tell Farmer Gauntlet where to find his lost dog in a countryside where he had never been.

Then there is the Planchette episode which is left unexplained, and subsequently un-referred to, when the players get quotations, which none of them had ever known about, from Karl Marx in neat handwriting. This is left

by Anthony Powell in the air without resolution or further mention and we are left either to believe or to forget.

Jenkins is one of the Planchette players, denies pushing the pencil, and says it was not possible to write in a near clear script upside down; the other two players had never heard of Karl Marx.

It is also worth pointing out that the final book is entitled Hearing Secret Harmonies and as already stated Scorpio’s sect’s watchword is “Harmony”.

A number of serious people who are sect members, including Fiona Tolland and Henderson – the art dealer who became very successful with his own West End Gallery, exhumed Edgar Deacon, and sends Bithel – a hopeless alcoholic and drop out – to save Stringham’s Modigliani drawing which has gravitated through Pamela Flitton to Widmerpool. Bithel saves the drawing from being burned with Widmerpool’s other effects by Scorpio Murtlock.

What conclusions, if any, can be drawn? The last page of the book

is devoted to a long quotation from Robert Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy”, which Nick Jenkins has been studying and writing about for a few years. The quotation is about 200 words long and consists only of a list of events “Meteors, comets, spectrums ... edicts, petitions, lawsuits ... laughs, weeps, &c.” all taken out of any context. So it looks as though Powell is saying there is no context, no plot, just a series of random events punctuated by clashes of will, desire and character.

There is no such thing as truth except in the salutation “The Essence of the All is the Godhead of the True” – a phrase in which I have been unable to find any meaning whatsoever.

At one point Trapnel says “Life becomes more and more like an examination where you have to guess the questions as well as the answers. I’d long decided there are no answers. I’m beginning to suspect there aren’t really any questions either, none at least of any consequence, even the old perennial, whether or not to stay alive”.

Before giving up on finding any sort of moral compass let us consider the narrator himself, Nick Jenkins. He is a decent, honourable, modest, and kind individual. He has a gift for friendship.

He is a gentleman who has a quiet, but apparently successful, marriage and a couple of children. He does not seem to be an outstanding success as an author but he is able to send his son to Eton, has always been willing to be called out to help his friends in almost any circumstances, and to listen to their problems – even Widmerpool’s. Is this the secret to a happy life?

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Anthony Powell, together with his creative writing, was the main fiction reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement. He was literary editor of Punch from 1953 to 1959, and regularly reviewed books for The Daily Telegraph from 1958 to 1990. He published two more novels: “O, How the Wheel Becomes It!” (1983) and “The Fisher King” (1986). Many of his book reviews were published in Miscellaneous Verdicts (1990), and Under Review (1992). Several volumes of journals, covering the years 1982 to 1992, appeared between 1995 and 1997. His “Writer’s Notebook” was published posthumously in 2001 and a third volume of critical essays, “Some Poets, Artists, and a Reference for Mellors”, appeared in 2005.

Powell was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1956, but he declined an offer of a Knighthood in 1973. He was appointed Companion of Honour (CH) in 1988.

NEXT WEEK: Sir Christopher writes about the 10 best films ever made – and compares his choices with the great movie directors and historians.

• Sir Christopher Ondaatje is the author of “The Last Colonial”. Anthony Wigram is an artist, businessman, and contributor to The Anthony Powell Newsletter.

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ecently, I had reasons to visit Bay Street, and on separate occasions, walked from Charlotte Street to the British Colonial Hotel and from Charlotte Street to East Street.

In the 1940s, as a schoolboy, friends and I walked from Charlotte Street to the Eastern Parade almost every day, and I always ran into people who I knew and who knew me. Not so in 2018. I saw nobody I recognised.

Bay Street used to be the focal point of the whole island, because whatever one needed to buy was to be found there – pharmacies, groceries (wholesale and retail), hardware, shoes, cars, bicycle retailers and repairers, the (only) bank, the Post Office. My friends and I passed most of them on our way home from school.

Thinking back to those friends, it’s impossible to name them all, because it wasn’t always the same group, but John Knowles was always there. He lived in St Matthew’s Rectory, at the top of Lovers Lane; Billy Albury lived in Buen Retiro; Hubert Pinder, Jr lived in Sears Addition, on the hill. I lived in what is now called Shirley Park Avenue.

Nassau shops closed at noon on Fridays and stayed open until 10pm on Saturday nights, but late closing time changed in 1947, when there was a notice in the July 2 newspapers that shops would close at 9pm on Saturdays. It listed shops that would observe the new hours, namely:

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Street that was Forgotten facts | Paul C Aranha

A Baker & Son; Jack’s Department Store; Albury’s Pharmacy; Jewers Department Store; Argyll Store; Joan’s; Arteaga’s Little Shop; John A Zervos; Artie’s Dry Goods Store; John Bull Store; Barry’s; Josephine Kemp; Blake Key; K A Saunders; Carib Shop; K S.Moses & Sons; City Pharmacy Ltd; Kay’s; Cole’s; Thompson Pharmacies; Leon J Amoury; Columbus Pharmacy; Lightbourn’s Pharmacy; D S Warschoff; Lila Albury; Dantzlers; Little Hat Shoppe; Distinctive Shops Ltd; Meg’s; Domestic Bazaar; Melita; Elijah T Moses; Men’s Shop; Family Shoe Store; Mike’s Shoe Store; Fine’s; Moseley’s Book Store; Frank Park’s; Moses Department Store; Freimark’s Department Store; Myrtle’s; H L Roberts; Nassau Bazaar; Hollywood Shop; Nassau Drug Department Store;

Irving’s Department Store; Nassau’s Stop-N- Shop; Island Bookshop Ltd; Natcha’s; Old England Store; P M Lightbourn; Paris Shop; Park Store; Patricia Hall; Powell’s Pharmacy; Pyfrom’s Department Store; Pyfrom’s Juvenile Store; R Stanley Hilton; Rubin R Bott; Stanley T Kemp; Snappy Hat Shop; Sylvia’s; The Fashion Shop; The Vogue; The Wren; Thomas Armaly; Thompson’s Department Store; Tiny Shop; Vanity Fair; W J Armaly; W T Saunders; West of England Store; William’s, and the Windsor Shop.

I remember many of the stores by name, but cannot remember where most of them were located. Some of these shops sold expensive bone china, sets of silverware, highest quality woollen garments, watches and

cameras to the rich and famous who frequented our shores. Bay Street shops of today depend on cruise ship passengers, most of whom are not looking for expensive goods, and sadly, so much of Bay Street – particularly the section east of East Street – looks unloved and deserted.

A century ago, people lived on Bay Street. Does anybody live there today? A resident population would put life back into what we like to call ‘world-famous Bay Street’ and have a beneficial effect on its economy – just as did in the beginning.

There was two-way traffic on both Bay and Shirley Streets until September 20, 1947, when Bay Street became one-way eastbound and Shirley Street became one-way westbound. It stayed this way until the second FNM government reversed the directions to what they now are.

The Bahamas Historical Society has an artist rendering of what the south side of downtown Bay Street used to look like. Can you recognise the shops?

• For questions and comments, e-mail islandairman@gmail.com

Artist’s sketches of building on the south side of Bay Street (Bahamas Historical Society)

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Friday, January 4, 2019

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The spirit of giving and the B-Humane Awards Animal matters | KIM ARANHA

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he spirit of giving was alive and well this Christmas at the Bahamas Humane Society.

Angels and Santa’s elves came to visit the shelter bearing homemade, organic treats from the recently established company Waggee Treats.

A few weeks before Christmas I saw a post on Headknowles asking for direction on how to contact the Bahamas Humane Society because Waggee Treats wanted to pay forward and give something special to the shelter animals at Christmastime.

I immediately responded and in no time at all Kim Munroe was in touch with our shelter manager, Chief Inspector Percy Grant, and a day was chosen.

We were a little concerned that generous Waggee Treats did not actually know just how many animals were at the shelter and would be standing at the fences waiting for their gift, but true to the generous spirit that started this project off in the first place, the numbers did not deter.

On the day in question Kim and her angels and Santa’s elves arrived at the shelter with platters full of delicious pet treats.

What a happy sight it was to see these lovely, polite and compassionate children dressed up to play the part of the true spirit of Christmas and giving.

The kids delighted in their roles and the animals loved their treats!

The homemade treats come in four different flavours: Banana Paw-Nut, Woof Berries, Turkey Bacon Barks, and Vegan Waggers.

Wagers they are. I bought some for my five dogs as their Christmas gift and I cannot tell you which flavours they liked best; they are all on the top of the tasty list.

Kim Munroe told me that I should remember that the treats have no preservatives in them so they must be stored in the refrigerator. She added that they are also best served warmed in the microwave or toasted in the toaster oven, but my boys were never willing to wait that long.

It is really nice that we are getting pet-oriented businesses in the Bahamas. As a country we frequently discount the importance of pets in people’s lives and completely ignore the often essential role that they can play.

It was such a pleasure to see Mrs Munroe arrive with the five kids dressed up to play the part in delivering treats to the shelter animals who are patiently waiting for homes. It was a picture of loving and giving and a wonderful example of the true spirit of Christmas.

There were several very positive messages being sent at the same time

by Waggee Treats: Mrs Munroe was teaching the children the importance of compassion for all living creatures.

These kids delighted in giving to the animals and you could see happiness radiate from their little faces each time a puppy bounded up to the fence barking and quickly taking the treat offered, eating it joyously and running back for another one. There were giggles, woofs, laughter, licks and waggy tails.

However, there is even more to this tale: there is the generosity of a company that is starting up and yet understands the importance of giving. Life is not all taking; much of life’s greatest pleasures come from giving, and Waggee Treats got that one right straight off the bat.

This is the perfect opportunity to also remind the public that the nominations are now open for the B-Humane Awards.

We have several categories: New Providence Resident, Out island resident, International, Corporate, and when applicable, Juniors.

It is simple to submit a nomination, you just send an e-mail to: bahamashumanesocietymembership@gmail.com, stating who you wish to nominate and why. It is essential that you tell us why because it is possible that we do not know the good work that these individuals do.

Nominations close on January 20.

There are many people in the Bahamas who do great work in the

animal field and we at the Bahamas Humane Society like to recognise them. Nobody ever does charity work to be praised or thanked, but we feel that it is nice to reach out and say thank you to those who go way above and beyond.

So please take the time out to let us know if you know if anybody you might feel deserves to be nominated for a B-Humane Award.

There will be a fabulous awards event with BHS President Kim music, prizes, food, Aranha (far left) with drinks and entertainWaggee Treats’ helpers. ment on February 2, and by next week I a positive manner, celebrating and will be able to share with thanking those who care. you where the event will be held and And not to forget, a huge shout-out where you can get tickets to attend and to the new company with a heart of celebrate with us as a big and happy, fun-loving, compassionate family. gold: Waggee Treats. We look forward So be sure to watch this page. We to working together with our new are so happy to start the year off in friends!

Pleasant by nature PET OF THE WEEK

By The Bahamas Humane Society

(Photo/ Patricia Vazquez)

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t’s more than just a name. Pleasant was found in the Mount Pleasant area and his name nicely reflects his personality. He’s a very pleasant chap, probably about one year old. He lets his kennelmate Scooby take the lead, but he’s friendly to both humans and other dogs.

Pleasant would love to find a home where he can be loved for himself, maybe go for some walks, and who knows, maybe end up inside one day.

Have you been thinking to add a dog to your family in the new year? Pleasant could be the prefect choice! Come in to the Bahamas Humane Society to meet him or call 323-5138 for more information. Adoption hours are 11am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, and 10am to 4pm on Saturday. Pleasant will be happy to see you!

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