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fashion The Weekend Fashion Report Royal Ascot 2017

With Karin Herig and Cara Hunt

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Kate Duchess of Cambridge

Miss World Stephanie Del Valle

Barrister Edite Ligere

Divorce coach Sara Davison

Queen Elizabeth II

Karin says: “We all know Kate’s style is very demure and conservative, but once in a while I wish she would break out from that mould. This is pretty, but ages her. Some bright colours, especially for Ascot, would have been wonderful. I do like the lace, however.” Cara says: “It’s very old-fashioned, but I actually think it’s lovely. It would have been too dated at any other occasion, but I think that the ceremonial component of Ascot makes it OK. Her little hat/fascinator is one of the nicest I have seen her wear.”

Karin says: “This the more stylish, upgraded version of Kate’s lacy ensemble. I love the big sheer sleeves and the tilt of her hat, which is not too big and not too small. Yes, it’s also white, but much more haute couture and not as staid as Kate’s outfit.” Cara says: “I think it’s a great elegant and simple look. I like the sheer sleeves and the hat is a great way to top off the dress. It’s just enough drama for the event without being ridiculous.”

Karin says: “I’m all for outrageous hats at Ascot, but I like a theme. This just seems like a boring little black hat that someone stuck huge turquoise feathers on. Plus, I’m not the biggest fan of feathers on a hat to begin with. And that pearl choker is...well, choking her.” Cara says: “The hat has enough drama for the occasion and I like the neckline of the dress. So I am liking the look. If I had to be picky I would have said that the choker seems a bit huge and maybe a smaller necklace would have been a better choice, but otherwise it works.”

Karin says: “I think I like it! Yes, it’s basically a suped up straw hat, but it’s all twisty and tilty (is that even a word?) so it’s looks quite fun and interesting. However, the silver clutch and the gold belt are a huge ‘no no’ and almost ruin her entire look. Also the hair hanging down is a bit limp.” Cara says: “The hat is very Ascot – bold, loud and obnoxious, and it works. However, while I don’t think the dress is horrid, I dislike it for the occasion and I don’t think it works well with the hat. Also, is that a silver bag that is clashing with the gold belt?”

Karin says: “Look, she’s 91 years old and has probably attended thousands of official events. This has basically become her uniform. Although the almost neon green is new. But you know what, she looks good! Maybe she was just feeling like a big stalk of celery that day.” Cara says: “I think Her Majesty has 500 versions of the same hat and dress/coat combo and I guess she just chooses the colour that suits her mood on the day. I guess when you have had the role for so long there is no desire to want to think about what to wear. The green is actually very bright for her as she usually favours more subdued colours, but hey, she if wants she can be the monarch for jolly green giants everywhere.”

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Friday, June 23, 2017

design your lifestyle

Making lemonade Victoria Sarne continues her examination of life-changing moments and daily challenges.

pring is emerging in all its loveliness here in Canada with newly leafing trees, legions of tulips colouring streetscapes and gardens, and cherry blossoms making hearts sing and lips smile with simple pleasure. I am reminded how a significant change in seasons. whether here or in other moderate climes, seems to be directly connected to similar shifts of physical and emotional energy in most of us - positive, refreshing and above all, hopeful. Similarly in the Bahamas, which I left again on election day, there appears to be a sign of birth and new beginnings with the election of a new government by the overwhelming will of the electorate seeking their own Spring with a fresh perspective and in anticipation of better things to come. Let us all hope that the longed for change will be as inevitable as Spring turning into Summer. For myself, I think Jimmy Buffett said it well enough with his lyrics, “Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes”, and I find myself enjoying the slightly chilly freshness of Canada. It is energising. And whether a coincidence or not, has given me a different perspective on my current situation. For the past eight months it seems as if no matter what I did nothing was working satisfactorily in any area of my life – work or personal – and I felt as if I were being pelted with lemons by a cast of hundreds. Although I know better, I found myself trying the same thing using the same methods repeatedly and expecting a different

A change in seasons can bring about a shift in perspective. result, which as we all know is usually futile. So I took a step back to review and decided instead of ducking and diving to avoid the citrus overload, I would follow that old axiom and make lemonade. Anxiety is debilitating and enervating, a completely useless emotion in any situation and a hard one to conquer, but it can be done by learning to understand the root cause and developing mechanisms with medical help if necessary. Our mental and emotional health is important and has a direct impact on our physical well-being. Looking around and enjoying the burgeoning of nature, I was inspired to mirror those changes within myself. Instead of fearing the temporary precariousness of my personal and professional life, I decided to draw on my natural instincts and intuition and adopt a different viewpoint. I had to change my thinking and my strategy, remembering that survivors are those who are not necessarily the fittest or the strongest, but the ones who are flexible enough to adapt to any given situation. It now seems fortunate that there have been many changes, upheavals and physical moves in my life as I am used to such situations. This enables me (despite the conventional ‘warnings’ or exhortations of well-meaning friends to ‘settle down’) to look at my present in a positive and more accepting way. One of my favourite words is ‘surrender’, meaning acceptance but not giving up, and to know when it is right to stop fighting, take a breath

“One of my favourite words is ‘surrender’, meaning acceptance but not giving up, and to know when it is right to stop fighting, take a breath accepting what is and developing a different strategy.” accepting what is and developing a different strategy. Then to think my way through to fashioning a new and different way of looking at my world. Although I understand my friends’ concerns and wishes for me ‘settling down’ in any sense do not appear to be working at the moment, so now instead of trying to follow their advice, which feels like trying to swim upstream, I am

Victoria Sarne accepting this part of the journey as it really is – unsettled and slightly chaotic by conventional standards, and not particularly comfortable a lot of the time, nevertheless I seem to be getting through it. Serendipitously, I was reminded of my own true nature when I saw a card recently that said, ‘All who wander are not lost’. How true. Realistically, I have always liked ‘wandering’ and so I am embracing this part of the journey with renewed anticipation and pleasure and in a positive frame of mind calling it my ‘nomadic year’. I am looking forward to drinking lots of lemonade in the future, preferably from a champagne glass!

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music

The Special Blend Band of St John’s College walked away with the top prize and travelled to Boston for the Berklee summer programme.

Second place winners, the Jags Band of St George’s School from Freeport, received $3,000.

The Thrive Band of Queen’s College receives their $2,000 cheque for placing third.

Jael Peters, lead vocalist of Government High’s Magic Ivy Band, inspired an anonymous donor to give her the opportunity to Berklee for their summer programme.

Music Project winners travel to Boston

n February 4, The Music Project launched its inaugural High School Pop Band Competition to hundreds of supporters from throughout New Providence and the Family Islands. Nine high school bands from around the country competed for their chance to study at Berklee College of Music for the summer and other prizes. The Project, the brainchild of Andrew Gardiner III (a Bahamian songwriter and producer currently studying at Berklee College of Music), promotes the use of music as a positive outlet for high school students by giving them an opportunity to experience the rewards of musicianship, thus encouraging the pursuit

of their passion and an awareness that they can make music a viable career. Over the months leading up the competition, students participated in workshops and were paired with notable Bahamian artists who provided guidance on stage presence, as well as industry insights and best practices. Special Blend Band of St John’s College walked away with the top prize of the night after they dazzled and amazed the crowd with a rendition Dawn Penn’s ‘You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)’. As the winners, the band yesterday travelled to Boston where they will study stage performance and song writing. Much of the band’s success can be attributed to Ericka “Lady E”

Symonette, Luke Caley, and Shavardo Bullard, whose guidance helped to lead them to victory. The band includes Jodi Dorsett, Aaron Springer, Shanandon McKenzie, Darren Butler, Tristan Sherman, Christian Taylor, and Ajani Lawrence. Second place went to the Jags Band of St George’s School out of Freeport, Grand Bahama, who had everyone jamming to Survivor’s ‘Eye of the Tiger’. Their crowd-pleasing performance earned the band $3,000and the professional recording of their original song. Rounding out the top three was the Thrive Band of Queen’s College, whose most memorable performance was in round one when they gave their interpretation of Michael Jack-

son’s ‘The Way You Make me Feel’. The band walked away with $2,000 and the professional recording of their original song. The success of The Music Project is not limited to the experiences the students had during the inaugural year, but is also demonstrated in the support by the wider community. An attendee of the event (who prefers to remain anonymous), was so touched by the performance of Jael Peters, lead vocalist of Government High’s Magic Ivy Band, that they donated to the spirited performer an opportunity to also attend Berklee for their summer programme. Jael left on Sunday, June 18, to participate in Berklee’s Vocal Summit, where she will no doubt hone her singing abilities.

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Friday, June 23, 2017

gardening

Summer fruits As the vegetable garden wanes, the orchard waxes. When there are no more tomatoes to pick, Jack Hardy says we have the consolation of mangoes, passion fruit and the Barbados cherry.

ome fruit trees are productive all year round and are the mainstays. At any given time it may be possible to cut a bunch of bananas or pluck a ripe papaya so the more we grow the more often we can enjoy. The main commercial banana is Cavendish and it come in both dwarf and tall forms. Dwarf Cavendish is ideal for the garden because of the compactness of the plants but Apple bananas, most often called Sugar bananas in The Bahamas,

Barbados cherry fruit are my choice. The fruits ripen quickly and have very thin skins, making them a disaster for storage and shipping purposes but a delight when grown in the yard for family consumption. There is also a world of difference between freshly picked plantains and those that are imported. A small stand of plantains is a good investment. Papaya fruits are larger and tastier than they were 50 years ago. Most commercial varieties have perfect flowers containing male and female parts so there is no need to plant both boar and sow trees. If you see a beautiful half fruit on display in the supermarket you can buy it for the seeds and be eating their progeny from your own garden in a year. Another fruit that can be enjoyed spasmodically all year round is pomegranate. The lovely red flowers give way to small fruits that seemingly stay on the shrub for ever before ripening. Pomegranates are easy to grow from seed because the germination rate is close to 100 per cent. Most other fruit trees have a defined season and perhaps the longest fruiting season is provided by carambola. The first fruits ripen in July and the last can be picked in January or February. A carambola tree is a great addition to any orchard, especially if you have children. It bears heavily and can be

pruned to stay at a convenient size for easy fruit picking. The fruit I associate most with children is Barbados cherry. When the smallish shrub is laden down with cherries all kids find them irresistible. Parents can feel good about the vitamin-loaded fruits being consumed while they pick the dark winey older cherries that kids tend to pass up. Barbados cherry is grown commercially in Florida to provide vitamin C for baby desserts and juices where manufactured vitamins might be unsuitable. A tamarind tree is often rated as the world’s best tropical shade tree because of its abundant branches and fine leaf structure. The fact that it produces valuable fruit is a plus. The regular tamarind bears pods that contain a very sour pulp around the leaves. This sour quality makes tamarind pulp valuable in various Indian curry dishes and if sweetened provides the basis for a refreshing drink we Bahamians call switcher. In the last decade or so sweet tamarinds have been imported from Thailand and are very popular. That makes a case for having one of each in the yard. A mature soursop tree is a heavy bearer and the enormous fruits provide the basis for a delicious ice cream. I have often wondered why soursop ice cream is not a popular seller in the US

and probably discovered why when I bought a half gallon in early May produced by a Miami company. I wanted to see how commercial soursop ice cream compared with home-made. No contest. The product was pallid with very weak flavour, nowhere as tasty as home-made soursop ice cream. Later in the year we will be able to pick and eat sugar apples out of hand. These are at their best when fully ripe and falling apart. Pick the fruits when the surface between the segment bumps start to turn light yellow. A day or two later they will be perfect. Guava trees produce occasional individual fruits during the warm months of the year but the main harvest is in early August. Guava jam is easily made and – like soursop ice cream – tastes much better than imported jam. Guavas have little juice but can be trimmed top and bottom, cut in half, covered in water and boiled. When the fruit is tender allow the pot to cool then mash the fruit into pulp with your hands. I love doing this. Add sugar to taste and bring the pot back to a boil. Remove the pot from heat and allow it to cool again. This time strain off the liquid which can now be called guava nectar. But we have not finished. Add more sugar and water to the pulp and boil it up again for there is plenty of flavour in guava. Later in the summer is guinep time. A pocketful of guineps will keep you refreshed on a long summer’s day hike. The finest have a yellowish tint to the tart edible aril and separate easily from the stone. If you want to grow trees in your yard you should plant at least two, preferably three. The main fruit of summer is – of course – the mango. This year’s crop looks good without being over-abundant. We live in the age of smoothies and mangoes fit the bill perfectly. When the season is in full flood you can cube or puree mango flesh and freeze it for a Christmas smoothie or mango tart. In Cuba I was told that small hairy mangoes are for eating while large fibreless ones are for drinking. Make your smoothies from the latter. But do not disdain the small hairy – turpentine – bull – mangoes. Roll the fruits on a hard surface until mushy then cut – or bite – off the flower end. Squeeze and suck out as much juice as you can then peel the skin back to finish the job. Few large mangoes have the flavour intensity of hairy mangoes. • For questions and comments e-mail j.hardy@coralwave.com

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film

NBC says ‘Downton Abbey’ movie production to start in 2018 SINGAPORE (AP) — A “Downton Abbey” movie is in the works, with production likely to begin in 2018, an NBCUniversal executive said Wednesday. Michael Edelstein, president at NBCUniversal International Studios, said it hopes to assemble 20 cast members from the popular TV series. “There’s a movie in the works. It’s been in the works for some time,” Edelstein said in Singapore at a red-carpet event for “Downton Abbey: The Exhibition,” which features costumes, locations and never-before-seen footage from the TV show. The exhibition opened in the citystate last week and ends July 31. “We are working on getting the script right and then we’ve got to figure out how to get the (cast) to-

gether. Because as you know, people go on and do other things. But we’re hopeful to make a movie sometime next year,” Edelstein said. Emmy-winning writer and creator Julian Fellowes also said he hoped a film would be made. “I think we’ve got a film in us. I hope it happens,” he said. “Downton Abbey,” which concluded in 2015, portrays the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family in England and their servants amid the backdrop of such historical events as the sinking of the Titanic and World War I. It has become one of the most popular TV shows in the world, airing in at least 150 countries. ANNABELLE LIANG Associated Press

Ron Howard takes helm of Han Solo ‘Star Wars’ film NEW YORK (AP) — Ron Howard is taking command of the Han Solo “Star Wars” spinoff after the surprise departure of directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Lucasfilm announced their replacement director Thursday, two days after Lord and Miller left the project over creative differences. Howard gives the reeling production a veteran hand in the wake of Lord and Miller’s exit in the midst of shooting. Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, said filming will resume July 10. The untitled film, which stars Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo, is about three-quarters of the way through production. It has several weeks of shooting left, along with reshoots. Howard has shepherded Oscar winners like “A Beautiful Mind” and “Apollo 13.” But his recent films, including the “Da Vinci Code” sequel “Inferno” and “In the Heart of the Sea,” have struggled at the box office. He also has some history with

The cast of the Han Solo spinoff movie includes Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Danny Glover and Alden Ehrenreich as the titular star. Lucasfilm. He helmed the 1988 fantasy “Willow” and starred in George Lucas’ 1973 breakthrough “American Graffiti.” “We have a wonderful script, an incredible cast and crew, and the absolute commitment to make a great movie,” said Kennedy.

Disney reiterated the film’s release date of May 25 next year, suggesting that — at least for now — the “Star Wars” spinoff will be released on schedule. Representatives for the studio declined to comment. How producers and the Directors Guild of America handle the film’s

directing credit will also be closely watched. DGA rules govern the crediting of directors. Lord and Miller had previously been considered among Hollywood’s most sought-after directors, having turned “The Lego Movie” and “21 Jump Street” into unexpected and widely praised comedy hits. But reports have circulated that the duo, who favor improvisation and irreverent humor, clashed with Kennedy and co-writer Lawrence Kasdan, a “Star Wars” veteran and executive producer. “Unfortunately, our vision and process weren’t aligned with our partners on this project. We normally aren’t fans of the phrase ‘creative differences’ but for once this cliche is true,” the directors said earlier in a joint statement. “We are really proud of the amazing and world-class work of our cast and crew.” By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

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literary lives john fowles

A story of seduction Sir Christopher Ondaatje writes about the English novelist who blurred the boundaries of literature with experimental techniques.

he main themes of John Fowles’s writings are obsession and delusion. He spent his early life (1951) as a teacher of modern languages at the Anargyrios and Korgialenios School on the Peloponnesian island of Spetses in Greece. While there, he met his future wife Elizabeth Christy – the wife of a fellow teacher at the school. Inspired by his experiences there, he drafted his novel ‘The Magus’ (1966), which was set in Greece. He also began work on ‘The Collector’ which was accepted by Jonathan Cape, the English publishers. ‘The Collector’ was published in 1963, enthusiastically received, and received the highest advance payment for a first novel paperback right. This success changed his life and allowed Fowles to devote the greater part of his life to his literary career. The deranged hero of ‘The Collector’ collected pretty girls as one would butterflies. It was an innovative thriller and was optioned as a feature film of the same name in 1965. ‘The Aristos’, a collection of philosophical essays, was published the following year, after which he set to work

Belmont House in Lyme Regis where John Fowles lived until he died.

on his most studied masterpiece, ‘The Magus’, based on his previous life in Greece. John Fowles was born in Leigh-onSea in Essex, England, where he lived until the outbreak of the Second World War. He came from a middle-class family of London merchants and was educated at Bedford College School where he became head boy. He was an outstanding athlete: a member of the 1st Rugby Football XV, and captain of the school cricket team. After completing his military service in 1947 Fowles entered New College, Oxford, where he read both French and German. Eventually he concentrated only on French for his degree. After reading Jean-Paul Sartre and

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literary lives john fowles

A story of seduction Sir Christopher Ondaatje writes about the English novelist who blurred the boundaries of literature with experimental techniques.

Belmont House in Lyme Regis where John Fowles lived until he died.

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Albert Camus at Oxford Fowles flirted with becoming a writer, and spent his first year after Oxford teaching English at the University of Poitiers. At the end of the year, disillusioned, he turned down an offer from the French department at Winchester School, and instead accepted a job in 1951 as English Master at the Anargyrios and Korgialenios School of Spetses in Greece. It was during this emotionally inspiring time in Greece that he met l and recorded his experiences in ‘The Magus’. Two years later, after Fowles (with other teachers at the school) tried unsuccessfully to instigate school reforms, he left Greece and returned to England. For almost the next decade Fowles taught English to foreign students at St Godric’s College, an all girls school in Hampstead, London. In 1965, Fowles left London to live with his wife on an isolated farm in Dorset. While there he set about writing ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’. The farm, however, proved to be far too remote for Fowles and he moved in 1968 to Lyme Regis – also in Dorset. “Total solitude gets a bit monotonous,” he opined. Fowles lived for the rest of his life in Lyme Regis – living most of the time in Belmont House – a remarkable 18th century maritime villa, now owned by The Landmark Trust, which he bought. It was once owned (1769) by Eleanor Goade – the inventor of the artificial Coade stone. ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ is an extraordinary story of seduction – both of a fallen woman Sarah Woodruff by the highly respected geologist Charles Smithson – and also of the reader by the author. It is a wonderfully innovative book – set in his own town of Lyme Regis – where the main characters in the story become increasingly ambiguous and provide the reader with an option of choosing his or her own conclusion. In the end Fowles himself, rather than the heroine Sarah Woodruff, is the arch manipulator. “I don’t very often have the courage of my convictions face to face with people. This is why I became a novelist ... When I am inside a text I can say what I like. Not only about politics. I can be franker about sex, for example,” said Fowles. ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ was published in 1969 to both critical and popular success. The book was translated into over 10 languages and gave Fowles his international literary reputation. It was eventually made into a feature film for which the late Harold

The book jacket of ‘The Magus’

“I don’t very often have the courage of my convictions face to face with people. This is why I became a novelist ... When I am inside a text I can say what I like. Not only about politics. I can be franker about sex, for example.”

Pinter wrote the screenplay. The successful film starred Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep and was a true, although sometimes confusing, adaptation of Fowles’s novel. In 1968, a year before ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ was published, Fowles adapted ‘The Magus’ for cinematic release. It was not a success – which is perhaps why the producers of ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ chose Pinter rather than Fowles to write the screenplay for the film of the latter book. After ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’, Fowles produced four more critically acclaimed novels: ‘The Ebony Tower’ (1974); ‘Daniel Martin’ (1977); ‘Mantissa’ (1981); and ‘A Maggot’ (1985). The semi-autobiographical Daniel Martin reveals something of Fowles’s West Country upbringing during World War II, intimate Oxford relationships, and some interesting travelogues on Syria and Egypt. However, none of these books received the literary praise of his previous novels, although both ‘Mantissa’ and ‘A Maggot’ continued to use erotic inspiration for Fowles’s ingenious erudite literary technique. Fowles’s literary intellect continued to dazzle his readers. “You are every character you write. In ‘Daniel Martin’, where I describe myself travelling all over America, I probably revealed more of myself than anywhere else,” said Fowles. In addition to ‘The Aristos’ (1964) Fowles wrote a number of non-fiction pieces including essays and forewords or afterwords to other writers’ novels. He also wrote the texts for several photographic compilations including ‘Shipwreck’ (1975), ‘Islands’ (1978), and ‘The Tree’ (1979). ‘Wormholes’, a book of essays published in 1998, and ‘The Journals: Volume 1’ and ‘The Journals: Volume 2’, published in 2003 and 2006 respectively. In 1990, Fowles’ first wife Elizabeth died of cancer. Badly affected by her death he did not write for a year. In 1998, Fowles married his second wife, Sarah Smith, a London copywriter. She was with him when he died of heart failure on November 5, 2005, aged 79, in Axminster Hospital – a mere five miles from his beloved Lyme Regis. “No one in my family had any literary interests or skill at all. I seemed to come from nowhere. I didn’t really have a happy childhood. What bored me about my mother was her lack of taste. My father’s great fault was

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John Fowles photographed by Terence Spencer for Life magazine

“Total solitude gets a bit monotonous.” that he hated France – from his experience in the war, Ypres. And he liked Germany. We had a geographical falling out,” he said. In 2003, while Fowles was still alive, William Stephenson, the Reader in English at the University of Chester, had his treatise on John Fowles published by Northcote House. His insightful study divides Fowles’s work into three chronological phases, making sense of his development as a novelist, essayist and thinker. As well as discussing Fowles in the light of his literary predecessors such as Hardy, Defoe and Scott, Stephenson examines the key biographical influences on Fowles’ writing, including his travels abroad and his experience of the natural world. Through an examination of Fowles’ commitment to individualism and his complex fictional treatments of sexuality, Stephenson challenges some current critical readings that situate his work in a canon of post-modernistic fiction or that question his declared feminism. Stephenson’s study has broken new ground by exploring the hitherto overlooked role of ethnicity in Fowles’ novels, and his idiosyncratic treatment of the past in ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ and ‘A Maggot’. Stephenson’s book surveys all Fowles’ fiction and his most important non-fiction, combining the broad sweep of an overview with close readings and theoretical interpretations of some of the most rewarding passages in the work of this important storyteller and philosopher. Besides Fowles few modern best-selling writers have been able to offer such a brilliant literary experience. NEXT WEEK: Pat Cavendish O’Neill

Fowles’ most successful novel, ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’, published in 1969.

Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep star in the movie adaptation of ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’. (1981)

• Sir Christopher Ondaatje is an adventurer and writer resident in the Bahamas. A Sri Lankan-born Canadian-Englishman, he is the author of several books, including “The Last Colonial”.

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forgotten facts

Carl Brice’s Central Garage By PAUL C. ARANHA

he first car arrived in Nassau in 1902, long before the first gas station was built. But in 1920, when there were about 100 motor vehicles on the island, Carl Brice opened the island’s second gas station, on the northwest corner of Bay and Charlotte Streets, under the name Central Service Station. The only other downtown station was A B Malcolm’s, also on Bay Street, between Elizabeth and Victoria Avenues. Malcolm’s is now the Tourist Police station and the Cosmetic Boutique occupies the site that was Central Service Station and became Central Garage. It was hard to find space downtown, so Mr Brice’s Esso pump (he started with only one) was on the sidewalk, and customers parked their cars right on Bay Street to buy gas and have their oil, radiator-water and tyre pressure checked. Around 1930, the demand for cars had grown, so Brice and his associates (including Eddie Bode, Harold Cancino, Leonard Kemp, Vincent Perpall and Arthur Russell) expanded into selling Chevrolet cars. After World War II, when exchange control regulations slowed down imports from the United States, more and more English cars appeared on Nassau’s streets, and in 1952, Central Garage was sold to the Rootes Group, a British car maker whose brands included Commer, Hillman, Humber, Singer, Sunbeam and Talbot. The new management captured a major share of the local market and Central Garage outgrew its cramped quarters on Bay Street. In 1966, when Sir Harold Christie was chairman of the board and Percy Campbell was sales manager, Central Garage embarked on a massive expansion programme, centered on a brand new, custom-built 7,800-foot showroom on Thompson Boulevard, Oakes Field, with room to display 30 cars, under cover. In ‘Masters of Paradise’, AIlan A Block said, that Robert Vesco owned Central Garage, but the business, like Vesco, has gone with the wind. • Send comments and responses to islandairman@gmail.com

This advertisement, from the Bahamian Review magazine (vol 9, no 3), offers Rolls Royce and Bentley luxury cars amid other makes on display in the new showroom of Central Garage Ltd. Carl Brice’s former Central Service Station on the corner of Charlotte and Bay Streets, which was bought by the Rootes Group.

21st Friday, June 23, 2017 Century Dictionary (1999 edition)

Best described as a number crossword, the task in Kakuro is to fill all of the empty squares, using numbers 1 to 9, so the sum of each horizontal block equals the number to its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the number on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Kakuro increases from Monday to Sunday.

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so the each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Sunday

CRYPTIC PUZZLE Across 1 Man of the match (10) 6 A slice of processed American cheese (4) 10 The ghost of Shakespeare, some say (5) 11 A grand tie for a serious player (9) 12 Disease of more than one fruit, we hear (8) 13 Splendid and unusually large (5) 15 A second coffee maybe (7) 17 Pay trio for putting the shrubbery into shape (7) 19 His mark was made in India (7) 21 Bird pecked another (7) 22 A way to cook meat of a sort (5) 24 High points of MP’s diary reviewed (8) 27 Costly former writers I’ve gathered together (9) 28 It’s very much inclined to deviate (5) 29 She gets the same bit of luck twice (4) 30 It’s very well known to have had a festival (10)

Down 1 Short cuts (4) 2 Grows bigger in folds (9) 3 Nun that is upset by lack of interest . . . (5) 4 . . . is to go back to the nunnery (7) 5 I’d eat no differently though trying to lose weight (2,1,4) 7 Coming to a vital conclusion (5) 8 Putting down some of the main dangers of war (10) 9 Worn out form of pride etc. (8) 14 Twisted killer bent on finding an associate of Peter Pan (6,4) 16 Am to dine out on a theatre ticket perhaps (5,3) 18 Change for the better? (9) 20 Irritate a new pet inside a tortoise perhaps (7) 21 Be sure about including a thousand Easterners (7) 23 A papal order to cause dismay (5) 25 He keeps too much to himself (5) 26 A clear, dry solution (4)

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Yesterday’s Easy Solution Across: 1 Bewitch, 5 Volga, 8 Surrender, 9 Hug, 10 Tick, 12 Defiance, 14 Vienna, 15 Carrot, 17 Captured, 18 Snub, 21 Opt, 22 Top-secret, 24 Scary, 25 Paragon. Down: 1 Beset, 2 War, 3 Trek, 4 Hidden, 5 Vertical, 6 Lohengrin, 7 Augment, 11 Cleopatra, 13 Industry, 14 Vacuous, 16 Keep up, 19 Baton, 20 Gear, 23 Rig.

Yesterday’s Cryptic Solution Across: 1 Sobbing, 5 Amass, 8 Resonates, 9 Sum, 10 Bows, 12 Falsetto, 14 Pliant, 15 Relate, 17 Altering, 18 Isms, 21 Ion, 22 Prophetic, 24 Taped, 25 Methods. Down: 1 Shrub, 2 Bis, 3 Inns, 4 Get fat, 5 Assessed, 6 Alsatians, 7 Someone, 11 Written up, 13 Intrepid, 14 Pianist, 16 Inform, 19 Sacks, 20 Shut, 23 Too.

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animals Animal matters Kim Aranha

PET OF THE WEEK

Cruisin’ canines – Part II

PATRICIA VAZQUEZ

ast week, I introduced you to the unusual and very nice option pet parents have to travel across the Atlantic Ocean with their fur babies on Cunard’s Queen Mary ll. I was fortunate enough to be allowed to visit the “royal” kennels on this fantastic ship (I was only allowed access when I told them I wrote a weekly column for the Bahamian newspaper The Tribune!) The canine passage on this ship costs $1,000. They have modern steel cages, much the same as any veterinarian’s office will have for holding patients. This is where the animals sleep. There is a inside visiting area with chairs and sofas for owners to spend time with their fur babies. The outside walk area is decorated with patches of fake grass, a lamp post (for the English dogs) and a fire hydrant (for the American dogs). There is not a heck of a lot of space for them to walk, but enough. The littlest ones were running around; the bigger ones had to be a bit more restrained. I was particularly concerned about what would happen in the event of a disaster. This thought crossed my mind as the captain cheerfully pointed out one evening that we were passing 36 kilometres away from where the Titanic went down. However, after interviewing the kennel manager I found out that the kennel carries doggie life jackets in all sizes in the unlikely event of an emergency at sea. The owners are briefed as to how to find their way up to the kennels with their own life jackets if and when the alarm is sounded. They then take their pet to their own muster station, which is determined by cabin numbers. If for some reason the owner cannot make his way up to his dog, the kennels attendants assume responsibility and will care for the animal and ensure that the pet is put in a lifeboat. Clearly they prefer to have the owner deal with their own fur baby if some disaster were to befall the ship, as I am sure the pet and

Dogs can enjoy a red fire hydrant on board the Queen Mary II

A Gilmore boy By The Bahamas Humane Society

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ood morning! My name is Gilmore and I’m a male potcake, about four months old. I’m spending time here at the Bahamas Humane Society while I await my forever home. I’m pretty happy here as there are lots of other puppies to play with, and I’m fed and safe off the streets. However, I’d really like you to come in and adopt me so I’ll have my own dog bed to curl up in and my own human. Will you come in to the BHS to visit me, please? The BHS is currently having a dog and puppy adoption special (dogs $5 and puppies half price), so now’s a really good time to adopt! You can also check out some of my friends at the BHS Facebook page. Adoption hours are 11am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, and 10am

owner would also prefer. I found it very comforting that there are doggie life jackets in all sizes, so no pet would be left out. The manager of the kennels, a very cheerful and friendly fellow, was a former employee of a Philippine wildlife reserve and zoo. He appeared quite knowledgeable about his charges, but explained that there was no vet or vet tech on board. There is, however, a very comprehensive form that owners fill out when booking their fluffy one’s passage where all medical and culinary requirements are detailed. Your pet can have any food you wish, including anything cooked in the kitchens. They are fed twice a day unless otherwise requested. The most common health complaint is diarrhoea, which is invariably treated with natural remedies. My mind did immediately jump to the fact that if there is no vet or tech and you have a seriously dehydrated dog, what do you do? Diarrhoea can easily lead to dehydration and then the normal procedure would be to hook the animal up to intravenous fluids, but with no vet or tech to do it, I wonder who would. Does the ship’s doctor double

to 4pm on Saturday, or you can call 323-5138 for more information. I look forward to having a chance to play with you soon! If you’re more of a cat person, there are also many cats and kittens also looking for homes!” • Did you know the Bahamas Humane Society is Nassau’s oldest charity! Founded in 1924, it is still a charity and not a government entity. Funds are raised through memberships, fundraisers, donations, sales at the Thrift Shop, and a host of other ways. With more than 300 animals to feed and care for and our being a no-kill shelter, your donation is always put to good use. Please consider becoming a member, donating your time or some funds or even some items to the Thrift Shop. All will help the BHS continue its work with the animals of the Bahamas.

as Dr Doolittle? There really was no satisfactory answer to that query. All in all I would say that it is certainly a preferable, though much longer, solution to carting your best bud across “the pond”. A week-long voyage aboard the Queen Mary ll is much less scary than being shut up in a cage in a dark luggage compartment and no humans at hand to reassure them. They are certainly far less likely to arrive dead because the airline either forgot to heat the compartment or the compartment was not sufficiently pressurised. In a perfect world, Cunard would designate some cabins as being animal friendly, even with a generous refundable damage deposit. I know that my boys would find being in a hospital type cage for a week, even with the visits, a bit tedious. In spite of the drawbacks, if I had to move my dogs to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, I would opt for the Queen Mary ll over the stress of having them travel as cargo. On the whole, they are well cared for, they are able to spend time and be reassured by their family, and they arrive alive. Cruisin’ canines is a pretty cool concept.

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