WeekendAtasteofColombiaentertainmentinterviewcraftsgardeninghistorymusicpuzzlesDominoesreinventedPages08+09 New eatery specialises in authentic empanadas and arepas pg 07 Friday, August 26, 2022
Multi-platinum enter tainer Jake Owen said “yee haw” to the Bahamas as he kicked off Atlantis’s Country Week with a high-energy concert on Casuarina Beach last weekend. Ahead of the concert, the country star took a moment to tell Tribune Weekend about his career, what motivates him, and his hope to tee off on a Bahamian golfAncourse.avidgolfer, Jake had dreams of going pro until a wakeboarding accident left him unable to con tinue with a professional career. Instead, he turned to another area of interest – music; teach ing himself to play the guitar and starting to sing country music at a local bar. And as they say, the rest is history.Eventually, Jake moved from Florida to Nashville, Tennessee, where he launched his country music career, winning the Acad emy of Country Music for New Male Artist in 2008. And 14 years later, he’s still topping the country charts.Some of his most popular songs include “Anywhere With You”, “Starting With Me”, “What We Ain Got”, “Barefoot Blue Jean Night”, “Yee Haw” and “Alone With You”. His latest hit is “Best Thing Since Backroads”. Jake said he is grateful for his success and he tries not to take any of it for granted. “I guess the biggest myth about this life is that people sometimes say artists get tired or jaded about it. I try to stay grateful and remember how crazy it is that we get to do what we do. Being out on the road and playing shows always puts the wind back in my sails on the off chance I forget,” heJakesaid.loves his classic country influences.“Mymusical influences grow ing up were a lot of country and rock acts: Waylon Jennings,
“We’ve got a quick travel turnaround, but I’d love to play a round,” he said. Country Week at Atlantis continues this Saturday with the Grammy ACM, CMA, and AMA Award-winning group Little Big Town.Before the concert, guests can enjoy food, beverages and fun provided by local food trucks. There is also a beer garden, a tropical bar, Bahamian crafts, and more at the Concert Village, which opens at 7pm. Tickets start at $86.90 inclusive of tax.
“I think it’s shown up a lot in the music we’ve put out recently; ‘1x1’, that we just released, is one of my favourites. It’s about slow ing down and enjoying the little things, especially family, friends, the most important parts of a life. My girls and my fiancé are my world, they influence everything,” heJakesaid.said he always wants his fans to come out and have a great time.“Iwant to play them some great music, have a great time, and I hope they leave happier than they came,” he said. He is also busy working on some future projects.
“We’ve got a lot of great songs already that we’re working on. We’ve been putting some out already this year that I’m really proud of. I’m excited to see how the next record comes together,” heButsaid.first he hoped to play some golf while in the Bahamas.
Country star Jake Owens on stage in At lantis’(Photos/MattConcertVillage.Paskert)
02 | The Tribune | Weekend Friday, August 26, 2022 music
Nashville superstar kicks off Country Week at Atlantis
By CARA HUNT | Tribune Features Writer | cbrennen@tribunemedia.net
Merle Haggard, Jon Anderson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alan Jackson, The Allman Brothers, Tom Petty. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. I feel like you can hear that influence across all my records, even as the music has evolved with Fatherhoodme.”has also had a huge impact on his music. Jake is dad to daughters Olive and Paris.
Friday, August 26, 2022 The Tribune | Weekend | 03 entertainment
John Bull Group of Companies (Entrepreneurship)
The documentary, simply titled “Sidney”, premieres in theatres and on Apple TV + on September 23. It will feature candid interviews with Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Robert Redford, Lenny Kravitz, Barbra Streisand, Spike Lee and many more. In the first trailer for the documen tary, the late Sir Sidney explains how when he was born on Cat Island in 1927, the world, to him, was a very simple one. “I didn’t know there was such a thing as electricity, or that water could come into the house through a pipe,” he recalls.
A SHOT from the upcoming “Sidney” documentary (Photo/ Youtube/AppleTV+)
From producer Oprah Winfrey and directed by Reginald Hudlin, a new revealing documentary honours the legendary Sir Sidney Poitier and his legacy as an iconic actor, filmmaker and activist at the centre of Hollywood and the American Civil Rights Movement.
Edmund Moxey Cultural Show rolls out red carpet for unsung nation-builders
Sir Sidney’s legacy in the spotlight in new Apple documentary Bahamian artists and professionals regardless of their field of expertise often go uncelebrated. But on July 29, 12 of the country’s greatest were chosen as the 2022 Lignum honorees and celebrated as part of the Edmund Moxey Cultural Show and Lignum Awards. The show was held at the Bahamas Harvest Church on John F Kennedy Drive and featured skits, speeches and documen taries capturing the life of the Lignum award winners. There were perfor mances by the famous Ancient Man, Dyson and Wendi Knight, Alia Coley, Anya Bowe, the Harvest Genera tion Dancers, the Colours Junkanoo Group, led by Chris Justillien, and many others. The Lignum Awards winners for 2022 Theare:
Joann Deveaux Callendar (Culture) Sir Arthur Foulkes (Politics) Dr Corrine Sinquee-Brown (Medicine) Mychal Thompson (Sports) Dr Linda Davis (Education) Philip Burrows (Arts and CommissionerEntertainment)Reginald Ferguson (Law and Order)
The Bahamas National Trust Great(Environment)Commission Ministries (Civic Organisation) The Edmund Moxey Cultural Award was presented to the Baha Men. The majority of this 17-member group took to the stage together for the first time in years to receive the award.
The late Edmund Spencer Moxey was both a former member of parliament for the Coconut Grove Constituency and a culturalist, dubbed “The Father of Culture”. Honouring his legacy, part proceeds from this year’s cultural show went to scholarships which were presented to two students – Jada Culmer, enrolled in the School of Social Sciences and Political Sciences with hopes to one day become a politician, and Jordan Allen, an Associate of Music, Major Double Bass. They received scholar ships in the amount of $1,500 each. The College of the Bahamas Music Department also received a monetary donation during the official presenta tion on August 11.
“I never thought about what I looked like. I didn’t know what a mirror was…I left the Bahamas with this sense of myself. From the time I got off the boat, America began to say to me, ‘You’re not who you think you are’. There was a habit in Holly wood of utilitising Blacks in the most disrespectful ways. I said, ‘I cannot play“It’sthat’.”noteasy being the first when you have to represent the entire race,” says movie director Spike Lee during the first official trailer. A highlights reel shows Sir Sid ney’s most notable performances, his trail-blazing efforts during a time of racial upheaval in the US. The film is also produced by Derik Murray, in close collaboration with the Poitier family. Sir Sidney, the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Acad emy Award for Best Actor, died on January 6 this year at the age 94.
late Rev Dr Timothy Stewart (Religion)
“I think people take it for granted that we can all survive these encounters. Men do have a societal advantage, even with just perceived strength and the fact that men of needy or vulnerable, but also potentially dangerous dispositions, may not target male clergy for violence or otherwise harmful behaviour.”Womenclergy face also many of the challenges that are present in other careers, she said.
As a servant of the people, we (the clergy) are expected to embrace and interact and deal with a wide range of personal ities and people with various issues going on, even ones with hostile dispositions.
“However, despite the overall existing challenges, that are mostly due to internal politics of leadership, the member ships are generally kind and supportive,” she said of the congregations.“Theysaythey are proud to see you as a younger woman in ministry.”
As a woman in a leadership position in the Church, this Methodist minister has faced many challenges. But she is ready to fight for gender equality on all fronts. She tells Cara Hunt about her upcoming trip to Germany, where she will attend the World Council of Churches, offering a Bahamian perspective on many pertinent issues, including gender inequality when it comes to passing on citizenship.
“I saw some of the struggles persons before me went through,” she said.
Currently, she is assigned to the Bahamas/Turks and Caicos Islands District of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas (MCCA), with pastoral charge of the Methodist Church of the Good Shepherd on Fire Trail Road.
Rev Kelli D Jolly interview
“I grew up in the Methodist Church, and in 2006/7 is when I answered the call to ministry and decided that I would attend seminary,” she told Tribune Weekend.
Rev Kelli D Jolly originally pursued a career in medicine before she realised that her true calling lay in healing the soul and not the body. Today, the young Methodist minister is using her influence to advance gender equality in the Bahamas and is set to represent her country at a global con ference in Germany next week.
Rev Kelli admitted that being a female Methodist minister does come with some challenges; challenges which initially made her hesitant to answer the call to ministry.
“The biggest challenge for me is probably the vulnerability of the body of a woman in a patriacharial society at large.
04 | The Tribune | Weekend Friday, August 26, 2022
“Before that I was studying biology and was planning to go into medicine, but I felt strongly led to go into full time ministry.”RevKelli eventually earned her Masters in Theology and began her ministry career in Jamaica, where she spent several years before she was called back home
For example, Rev Kelli said people feel they can make inappropriate comments about one’s appearance or marital status.She also noted that sometimes women are perceived to be less capable in leadership roles than men. This happens espe cially earlier in their careers when they look younger.
weekendthishistoryin
churchesherfromthetogoodbyesayssomeofchildrenoneofJamaica
“And people would consider those countries to have backwards views when it comes to women,” she pointed out.
Friday, August 26, 2022 The Tribune | Weekend | 05 April 26
Rev Kelli said there are additional difficulties that come with being an itinerant pastor.
“I can be moved anywhere in the Caribbean or in the Bahamas each year. As someone who entered who entered formal ministry relatively young, at 26, it’s sometimes the case that as soon as you get adjusted and put down personal or social roots separate from church life, you can be asked to move again,” she explained.Thiscan make it difficult to maintain lasting friend ships and relationships, or find a suitable life partner, if that is what one desires.
Rev Kelli first became familiar with the WCC during her time in Jamaica and she attended a confer ence on the subject in 2013 as a steward. She was approached by the organisation again when the Bahamas was preparing to hold a referendum on the subject of gender equality as it relates to Baha mian women being able to pass citizenship on to their children born outside of the country.
“I consider it to be a blessing and appreciate faith spaces that are open and inclusive,” she said.
HARRY Houdini in 1899
Rev Kelli said that one of the challenges of that referendum was that people chose to focus on political affiliations rather than truly seeking out godly wisdom on the matter. She noted that the only countries in the region where this is an issue is the Bahamas and Barbados. It is also an issue in Middle Eastern countries.
Rev Kelli will be travelling to Karlsruhe, Germany, next week to attend the 11th Assembly of the WCC. She will participate in workshops on statelessness and reparation, presenting a Bahamian perspective on gender inequality in nationality laws as well as the Caribbean approach to reparations.
Notably, the Catholic Church is not a full member, although it sends delegates to meetings who have observer status. She noted that the Methodist Church has been pretty vocal on the subject of gender equality.
Rev Kelli said it can also be hard to finally form bonds with church members and communities over a few years and then to have leave them, sometimes only to return to funerals, and hearing about illnesses or deaths from afar. She feels strongly about gender equality, particu larly when it comes to passing on citizenship and has used her ministry to highlight this issue. She has par ticipated in several conferences and events organised by the the World Council of Churches. It is a worldwide Christian inter-church organisation founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Old Catholic Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, the Mennonite Churches, the Methodist Churches, the Moravian Church, Mar thoma Syrian Church and the Reformed Churches, as well as the Baptist World Alliance and Pentecostal Churches.
She said she is excited to participate in the event.
REV Kelli
Diagnosis,
12345 67 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Across: 1 Hot dogs, 5 Alpha, 8 Horseshoe, 9 Lie, 10 Snag, 12 Indicted, 14 Castor, 15 Probed, 17 Ethelred, 18 Veto, 21 Pot, 22 Tattooist, 24 Raced, 25 Earnest. Down: 1 Ha-has, 2 Tar, 3 Open, 4 Sphinx, 5 Ateliers, 6 Palatable, 7 Amended, 11 Aesthetic, 13 Polluted, 14 Creeper, 16 Settle, 19 Octet, 20 Poor, 23 Ire.
KakuroYesterday’sAnswer
6 Sprinkled, 8 Peeress, 9 Saviour, 12 Ignore, 15 Bloc, 17 Ate. CROSS DOUBT Across: BOXER Down: ARENA TV show: Squid Game THE ALPHABEATER CAN you crack the Alphabeater? Each grid number represents a letter – or black square. As in Alphapuzzle, every letter of the alphabet is used. But you have to complete the grid too! Use the given letters and black squares below the grid to start. The grid is ‘rotationally symmetrical’ – in other words, it looks the same if you turn the page upside down. Solution tomorrow Extra letter 0907 181 (Deduct three each extra clue Full solution 0907 181 *Calls cost 80p yournetworktelephoneaccess ● Alternatively, for six Extra Letter clues to your mobile, text DXBEAT to 64343. Texts cost £1 plus your usual operator FIND where the fleet of ships shown is hidden in the grid. The numbers to the right of and below the grid indicate how many of the squares in that row are filled in with ships or parts of ships. The ships do not touch each other, even diagonally. Some squares have been filled in to start you off. Solution tomorrow A 1 B C D E F G H I J 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 1 5 1 1 2 5 1 1 1 0 1 x Battleship 4 x Submarine 3 x Destroyer 2 x Cruiser G I E N D I H V E HOW many words of four letters or more can you make from the letters shown here? In making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each must contain the centre letter and there must be at least one nine-letter word. No plurals. Verb forms ending in S permitted. TODAY’S TARGET Good 14; very good 21; excellent 27 (or more). Solution tomorrow ● wordsusesTargetThe in the edition)(1999DictionaryCentury21stChambersbodymainof Call 0907 181 2585 for today’s Target solution *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge.BTARGETATTLESHIPS 27 WORD BUILDER Answer the clues so that each minusword,previousassamecontainswordtheletterstheplusorone. 4213567 1 Lubricant 2 Earth 3 Storage 4 Ruins 5 Skids 6 Speech 7 Rim Solution tomorrow 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ■ 9 10 11 12 13 21 22 23 24 ■ 25 26 27 28 29 H 30 31 32 V 33 14 15 16 17 34 35 36 37 ■ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 8 39 10 13 4 7 28 27 20 35 32 6 17 25 6 40 34 3 31 17 6 39 16 35 4 39 30 28 17 2 37 15 30 18 13 36 23 40 26 21 17 6 34 19 35 21 11 40 34 40 37 6 23 24 13 38 8 40 2 40 12 24 21 12 20 35 34 35 22 35 33 40 17 36 33 31 5 6 3 1 28 3 37 19 15 8 19 31 36 16 17 3 31 27 29 28 3 31 20 6 23 9 11 17 35 16 31 1 4 35 8 31 19 5 1 30 6 34 4 22 31 27 14 11 6 8 27 33 40 23 21 31 25 39 2 11 16 9 24 39 29 24 12 diet (7) 27 A politician initially dismissed methane (8) 28 Confined dodgy dealer on the day (6) 21 Back out and weep, leaving (3,3) 22 Greeting current in river in renunciation (6) 24 Good score for a bird (5)
Kakuro increases from Monday to Sunday. Across1Produce impressionan(4,6) 6 AsiacountryLandlockedinSE(4) 10 A discharge of artillery (5) 11 Type of religious song (9) 12 Betoken (8) 13 Chose (5) 15 An attack by aircraftbombing(3,4) 17 Certificate qualificationof(7) 19 Be uncomfortably hot (7) 21 Inhumanly cruel person (7) 22 Donor (5) 24 Handcuffs (8) 27 Put an end to (9) 28 Storehouse (5) 29 Grim fate (4) 30 (2,1,7)Continuously Down1Instance (4) 2 Australian city (9) 3 Make amends (5) 4 To answer (7) 5 salaryClergyman’s(7) 7 Improper use (5) 8 Make distinctionsoversubtle(5,5) 9 Vulnerable (4,4) 14 Prescient (3-7) 16 Minor planet (8) 18 Then and there (2,3,4) 20 Unchecked in growth (7) 21 Social behaviour (7) 23 Sixth sign of zodiac (5) 25 An coniferevergreen(5) 26 Impress deeply (4) Across1Hard struggle appears to end with marriage (5,5) 6 Goddess lives again (4) 10 A good shot but not quite a winner (5) 11 Insect presented by a bird to a fish (9) 12 Happy-go-lucky benefit of a welfare state? (8) 13 It uses rounds or ovals (5) 15 Passes directions around the circuit (7) 17 Joined by the sailor - or the parson (7) 19 Running away for security reasons (7) 21 A new car coat? (7) 22 Bella’s wrong name tab (5) 24 Caution had Simon dithering (8) 27 It brings down the tone when depressed (4,5) 28 Cast of exceptional worth (5) 29 Band giving some of Sousa’s hits (4) 30 Sort of lady we hate to go before (4,3,3) Down1Company in the money (4) 2 A vain fool in futile guise (2,2,5) 3 Strange oriental lake (5) 4 Current lines of agreement (7) 5 Catches cavorting seals (7) 7 Stand and refuse to go forward (5) 8 Happiest time for those not attending night classes? (10) 9 Comes to grips in sporting fashion (8) 14 They provide simple remedies (10) 16 Where many enjoy the pleasures of the slippery path (3,5) 18 It’s used to clear a bottleneck (9) 20 Foreign nobleman enraged by exchange of letters (7) 21 Being ruled out the politician appears crushed (7) 23 Uses Polish enthusiasts? (5) 25 Make a score (5) 26 Initially smart approach to gain influence (4) 2 1 1 4 2 2 1 3 3 2 1 1 4 5 6 9 2 6 1 3 2 6 5 3 2 1 8 2 7 1 4 5 1 1 8 2 1 2 7 2 9 4 3 1 2 3 2 3 1 3 1 4 1 4 2 4 4 2 3 1 TARGETQUICK CROSSWORD Across: 6 Revolve; 7 Extra; 9 War; 10 Encourage; 12 Domesticate; 15 Contemplate; 17 Pollution; 19 Sag; 21 Cloth; 22 Despise. Down: 1 Debar; 2 Woe; 3 Oven; 4 Extricate; 5 Frigate; 8 Mortal; 11 Postulate; 13 Enmity; 14 Monocle; 16 Marsh; 18 Open; 20 Apt. BANDAGING again agin aging angina baaing band BANDAGING banding bang banging banian dagga gaga gain gang naan naiad nana Around, Hive, Gamma, Telling, Those, Hoed (clue), Teacake. Down: Pledge, Hatch, Numb, Convulse, Physique, Convoy, Gargle, Aromatic, Unlawful, Took, Fishy, Drivel. Across: 1 Attic, 6 Prue,
CRYPTIC PUZZLE EASY PUZZLE
Yesterday’s Easy Solution
LINGO WORDS Castleford Tigers, Widnes Vikings, York City Knights
CLOCKMUDDLESOME-WISE Ergo, Gone, Near, Area, Ease, Seer. 4x4=16, 1+9=10 1 7 8 Put up, 10 Air, 11 Abates, 13 Sovereign, 14 Debunk, 16 Ego, 18 Routs, 19 Ogre, 20 Stretched. Down: 1 Disasters, 2 Icebox, 3 Gnat, 4 Our, 5 Stadium,
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 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 8 Yes Prime, 10 Moira, 11 Sandi, 12 Corden, 15 Lena, 16 Isaacs, 17 Glee, 19 Stephen, 21 Evan, 22 Devey. Down: 2 Tyra, 3 Cybill, 4 Eric, 5 Hendricks, 6 Project, 7 Eva, 9 Strange, 13 Neil, 14 Quarshie, 17 Game, 18 Ewan, 20 Eve. TV CROSSWORD
Icon,
Yesterday’s Cryptic Solution
SudokuYesterday’sAnswer
Across:
06 | The Tribune | Weekend Friday, August 26, 2022
Across: 1 Lawless, 5 Heist, 8 Pyongyang, 9 Tie, 10 Evil, 12 Prospect, 14 Sombre, 15 Solace, 17 Innocent, 18 Skip, 21 Don, 22 Play havoc, 24 Greet, 25 Pattern. Down: 1 Lapse, 2 Woo, 3 Edgy, 4 Starry, 5 High spot, 6 In the dark, 7 Theatre, 11 Imminence, 13 Crackpot, 14 Shindig, 16 Encamp, 19 Pecan, 20 Chat, 23 Vie.
QUIZ OF THE WEEK 1 Barlow 2 Wisp 3 Elf 4 Taylor Swift 5 Composer 6 1980s 7 Wiltshire 8 Brisbane 9 John Constable 10 Windsor Davies. SSUMTHINGMALLCROSSWORD 5x5=25,
adventureempanadaAn
“When the pandemic started and the store where I was working closed, I started thinking that no one knew exactly what was going to happen and when everything would be opened again, so I started thinking what could I do to make money. In Colombia we have a phrase like, What should I do? Empanadas that’s what it sells the most. And with a pandemic or not, people still need to eat, so I went into the empanada adventure,” she said. “I started looking into different ways to make the empanadas and I found some machines designed in Colombia. I studied a little bit of how to make them, then I proposed the business to my mom and my boyfriend and they said yes, and that’s how Ms Patty was born.”
Tribune Features acadet@tribunemedia.netWriter
“We also want to become suppliers for res taurants, bars and cafés. Right now, we are in different locations and they are doing very well,” she added.
And her Latin-American eatery, called Ms Patty, seems to be a success with locals, as Diana said she sees the same patrons come in at least twice a a home-based ordering service to a brick-and-mortar store has been a great experi ence for Diana and her team.
Diana Grimaldo wants to share a taste of home with her Bahamian custom ers – her home, that is; Colombia. In her new location in the MellDon Mall on Mackey Street, she offers empanadas made the authentic Columbian way, as well as arepas (cornmeal patties).
Empanadas have their origins in Galicia (Spain) and Portugal, with cookbooks as far back as 1520 describing how to make the patties. And around the world, different countries have their own specific ways to make empanadas, but in Medel lin, the second-largest city in Colombia where Diana grew up, they make them with real corn, no wheat.“We also complement them with our special sauce, the Aji – that’s a combination of different onions, tomatoes, pepper, cilantro and lime. It’s delicious and makes for the perfect combo,” she explained.“Anempanada is a very simple product to make and to eat. It can be good for breakfast, lunch, dinner, a snack and even a very easy way to please your guests when you are having a party.”
“We worked from home for around nine months and we opened on Mackey Street four months ago. We have been doing very well and we are very happy seeing the response of the Bahamian market; they love it. It’s a new product here, but we have been seeing that people are really happy to have more options and are becoming more open to trying new things,” she told Tribune Weekend.MsPatty is a restaurant that for now sells mostly Colombian food, especially empanadas and arepas. The gluten-free patties are made in-house with 100 percent crunchy corn dough and various meat and vegetable fillings.
Friday, August 26, 2022 The Tribune | Weekend | 07 food
Goingweek.from
Ms Patty also offers Colombian coffees and naturalDianajuices.wasborn here in Nassau but raised in Colombia, which is why she considers the food she sells “Bahamian-made but authentically Colom bian.” After coming back to the Bahamas in 2009, Diana fell in love with the islands and decided to stay and make a life for herself here.
The fillings Ms Patty’s offers include shredded beef and potatoes; shredded chicken and pota toes; cheese, ham and chickpeas, vegetables and potatoes.“Andwe sell them frozen also, in bags of ten, so you can make them in the comfort of your house. The beauty is that because they come pre-fried, you can either make them in the oven, the air fryer or just deep fry for nine minutes,” she said.
Very soon, Diana said, Ms Patty is going to introduce its wheat products: puff pastry empana das, cheese sticks with raspberry marmalade and other South American specialities.
By ALESHA CADET
The only solution would be to have a cooling house, a greenhouse that is climate controlled to have much cooler temperatures than we have naturally. Some of these plants are sold locally in the cooler months, but they have to travel a long way to get here, and they are used for a very short time as a holiday plant, for example Christmas or Mother’s Day. They cannot be used successfully as landscape plants. We are lucky to have the sub-tropical to tropical climate that we do, as so many beau tiful plants can be grown successfully as landscape plants. Check out any plant nursery and you’ll likely find that the majority of available flower ing plants that are widely carried and stocked are pretty much the same. That is because they are what works!
Good day, gardeners. We live in a region where we have wide options as to the types of plants that we can grow and have in our gardens, plants that come from all over the globe. A friend of mine is currently in Europe and is sending photos of the most glorious flower gardens, with colours abound and bees a buzzing. We have an entirely different type of garden here in the Bahamas. So many of the annuals and perennials that are grown and that flourish in the cooler climates to our north and south really tend to have very short lifecycles here, or simply do not bloom as they may be expected to. At our nursery we get asked for any and all sorts of flowers and plants, including tulip, lavender, rud beckia, narcissus, hydrangea, azalea, and so on. These are plants that have little success here in our hot and humid climate, and they are plants that would fall under the heading of “gimmick” if anyone was to be sell ing them. I would not take anyone’s money for any of these plants or flowers, it goes against our ethos of honest customer service. This is not to say that these cannot be procured, it is just that they are a guaranteed loser, and it would essentially be rob bery for us to try to sell these plants to anyone without making it clear that they will not perform as they do in their native growing zones.
As the years pass, the germina tion rate slowly decreases, but there will always be seeds that germinate if they are given the correct soil and light and temperature. Some seeds require light to germinate, some require dark, this is why it is important to read the seed package, to see whether a specific seed will require burying or not. It is about time to start weeding out our veggie gardens and adding in fresh compost or amendments to prepare them for planting. It is also a good time to do some pruning of shrubs and thinning of trees. We do have a year-round growing season, and if your plants are yellowing, bring in a picture and we can help to get the nutrients needed to bring the plant or plants back to health! As always, I wish you happy gardening.
As we approach the end of August, it is time to get preparing our gardens for winter colour and vegetables. Fruit trees and land scape plants can be used at any time during the year, but there are specific times of the year where annuals and vegetables will thrive, and of course, that is in the cooler months. Most of us get to seeding or sourcing in September, for planting in October through May. If you want to get a head start, seeding can be done now in a cool spot in the garden or inside an air-conditioned building with some natural light.
Flowering plants… some work, and some don’t
The differences come in the quality of the plants, pricing, and customer service. Any of us who have been bitten by the plant bug are always seeking new plants to procure. Once someone starts gar dening, it is rare that they stop. It becomes infectious!
Tomato, swiss chard, arugula, cabbage, pak choi, peppers, and so on, can all be started now from seed for planting in the next four to six weeks. Remember, seeds do not go bad! The expiration date on a seed pack is to be taken with a grain of salt. “Expired” is really a misnomer. Seeds will germinate years past the package expiration date. The thing is that seed producers date the package as
10 | The Tribune | Weekend Friday, August 26, 2022 gardening
percent.toi.e.,package,onratenationgermiprintusuallyandseedsthetestedhavetheyathe9598
HYDRANGEAS are stunning to look at, but don’t do well in our climate
The Bahamas is one step closer to being able to export one of its beloved staples worldwide.
The New Duff, a startup that strives to make guava duff an international sweet treat, captured first prize at the national finals of the Entrepreneurship World Cup com petition held recently in Nassau.
“The Bahamas could globally export and make guava duff world wide,” said Kendrick. “Just like the croissant and Cinnabon”.
The New Duff takes beloved Bahamian treat to new heights
Friday, August 26, 2022 The Tribune | Weekend | 11 community
The New Duff offers traditional guava duffs, as well as unique varie ties such as caramelised coconut, fried sugar bananas and pina colada.
Kendrick Delaney, Jr, owner of The New Duff, won first place and advances to the next round of the global competition against national winners from 200 countries.
The New Duff, which started out as a mobile and pop-up service before moving into its current store front located on West Bay Street, strives to capture the taste of the original Bahamian duff with silky sweet guava-based sauce. Inspired by his first-hand experi ence of Southeast Asian cooking, Kendrick decided to give his “duf flings” a twist by cooking them in individual portions in the style of traditional Chinese bao buns.
The first “New Duff” guava duff was made in hopes to provide sup port for the medical bills of Patrice Delaney, mother of founder Kend rick Delaney, Jr. But the demand for their new and interesting take on the Bahamian staple quickly exploded. And today they are charging forward to take their brand to the international level.
In preparation for the EWC Global Finals, Kendrick will partici pate in an acceleration programme which features virtual training and one-to-one mentoring targeted to their company’s current stage and growth trajectory.
The New Duff emerged victorious from a pool of 22 contestants who applied – each receiving access to free virtual training services and up to $25,000 in perks to help them take their venture to the next level. Other finalists at EWC Bahamas included: -Judges for competitionthewere:
KENDRICK DELANEY, Jr
NEW Duff’s pre-packaged guava duff could soon be an international export
The Entrepreneurship World Cup is one of the biggest and most diverse startup pitch competitions and sup port programs of its kind, featuring more than 370,000 entrepreneurs from over 200 countries and offering winners life-changing prizes. Since launching in 2019, the EWC has awarded $3 million in cash prizes, $150 million in in-kind prizes and provided opportunities for entrepre neurs at all levels – from idea stage to scale-up – to reach the next stage in their journey by providing them with free access to world class train ing and resources, enhancing their visibility, and working to connect them to mentors and investors.
– Kenneth Tynan Coward’s 1955 cabaret act at Las Vegas, released as Noël Coward at Las Vegas, prompted CBS to engage him to write and direct three ninetyminute TV specials for the 1955 -1956 season with Mary Martin. It was followed by productions of Blithe Spirit, in which he starred with Claudette Colbert, Lauren Bacall and Mildred Natwick, and This Happy Breed with Edna Best and Roger Moore.During the 1950s and 1960s Coward continued to write musicals and plays. After the Ball (1953), based on Lady Windermere’s Fan was the last musical he premiered in the West End. His last two musicals were first produced on Broadway: Sail Away (1961) set on a luxury cruise liner was his most successful. The Girl Who Came to Supper (1963), a musical adaptation of The Sleeping
– Noël Coward In Private Lives Noël Coward starred opposite his most famous and favourite stage partner Ger trude Lawrence, together with Laurence Olivier. It was a highlight of his career selling out in both London and New York. Coward disliked long runs, and after this he made a rule of starring in a play for no more than three months – anywhere. He wrote Design for Living for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. It was a play so risqué, with its theme of bisexuality and a ménage à trois, that Coward premiered it in New York, knowing it would not survive the London censor.
“I will accept anything in the theatre provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.”
Literary lives – Noël Coward (1899 -1973)
In 1933, Coward wrote, directed and co-starred with Yvonne Printemps, the French singer, in both London and New York in the production of an operetta Conversation Piece. He next wrote, directed and co-starred with Gertrude Lawrence in Tonight at 8.30 (1936) – a cycle of ten short plays played across three evenings. One of these plays, Still Life, was expanded into the 1945 David Lean film Brief Encounter. Tonight at 8.30 was followed by a musical Operette (1938) which included “The Stately Homes of England” – one of his most famous songs, and a Broadway revue Set to Music (1938) based on his 1932 London revue, Words and Music. Coward’s last pre-war plays were This Happy Breed and Present Laugh ter – a comic self-caricature, written in 1939 but performed in 1942. Between 1929 and 1936 Coward recorded many of his best-known songs for HMV Records, includ ing “I’ll See You Again” from Bitter Sweet, “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” from Words and Music, and “Mrs Worthington”.
Perhaps Coward’s most enduring war work was the hugely successful Blithe Spirit (1941) which researches the occult, brings back the ghost of his first wife, and causes havoc for the novelist and his second marriage. With 1,997 consecutive perfor mances it broke box- office records for the run of a West-End comedy, and was produced on Broad way with an original run of 650 performances.
Sir OndaatjeChristophercontinues to marvel at the wit, famboyance, and sense of style of the English andcomposer,playwright,directorsinger.
With the outbreak of the Second World War Coward abandoned the theatre and sought official war work. He ran the British propaganda office in Paris, and used his celebrity status to influence American public opinion in favour of helping Britain. In 1942 George VI wanted to award Coward a knighthood for his war efforts but Win ston Churchill refused. Churchill’s view was that Coward could do more for the war effort by enter taining the troops than by intelligence work. He toured, acted and sang indefatigably in Europe, Africa, Asia and America. His London home was wrecked by German bombs and he took up residence in the Savoy Hotel. One of his wartime projects with David Lean was the naval film drama In Which We Serve in which he starred. The film was popular on both sides of the Atlantic, and won an honorary certificate of merit at the 1943 Academy Awards.
“Work hard, do the best you can, don’t ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.”
– Noël Coward
The play was adapted into the 1945 film directed by David Coward’sLean.new plays – after the Second World War, never attained the popularity of his pre-war hits. Relative Values (1951), South Sea Bubble (1951), Quadrille (1952), and Nude with Violin (1956) were moderate successes, but two musicals Pacific 1860 (1946) and Ace of Clubs (1949) were financial failures. To add to this Coward’s good friends Charles Cochran and Gertrude Lawrence died in 1951 and 1952 respectively. Despite this he maintained a high profile performing in The Apple Cart (1953) with Margaret Leighton, entertaining troops, and honing his cabaret act first in London at the Café de Paris, and later in Las Vegas.
“To see him whole, public and private person alities conjoined, you must see him in cabaret ... baring his teeth as if unveiling some grotesque monument, and cooing like a baritone dove, he gave us ‘I’ll See You Again’ and the other bat’s wing melodies of his youth. Nothing ... sounds strained or arid; his tanned leathery face is still an enthusiast’s ... If it is possible to romp fastidiously, that is what Coward does.”
A playwright of cheek and sophistication II
Part
12 | The Tribune | Weekend Friday, August 26, 2022
“I would like to act once more before I fold my bedraggled wings.”
“In the 1960’s ... his best work with its inspired inconsequentiality, seemed to exert not only a period charm but charm period.” – Time Magazine
A STATUE of Coward at his burial site and inholidayformerhomeJamaica
COWARD, with Norman Hackforth at the piano, per forming for sailors aboard HMS Victorious in Ceylon, August 1944 COWARD, thought to have Ochohome,hisgroundsOut’,atshowsColegraphedphotobeenbyLesley,him‘LookontheofJamaicanearRios
Friday, August 26, 2022 The Tribune | Weekend | 13
In the mid 1960s and early 1970s, successful productions of his 1920s and 1930s plays, and a new revue celebrating his music Oh, Coward! on Broadway and Cowardly Custard in London regained Coward’s popularity. Private Lives was revived in 1963 in London and then in New York. He was invited to direct Hay Fever at the National Theatre with Dame Edith Evans in 1964 but refused. The 1968 off-Broadway production of Private Lives at the Theatre de Lys, star ring Elaine Stritch, Lee Bowman and Betsy von Furstenberg featured a theatre poster of an Al Hirschfeld caricature of Coward instead of an image of its stars. The illustration captured how Coward had changed by the 1960s from a smooth 1930s sophisticate into a doyen of the theatre, and possibly the greatest living English playwright.
– Noël Coward
Noël Coward suffered from arteriosclerosis by the end of the 1960s. He suffered from memory loss during the run of Suite in Three Keys (1966), and in his work on The Italian Job (1969). He retired from acting almost immediately afterwards.Cowardwas knighted in 1970, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received a Tony Award for lifetime achievement in 1970. In 1972 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Sussex. Noël Coward died at his home, Firefly Estate, in Jamaica, on March 26, 1973 of heart failure, and was buried three days later on the brow of Firefly Hill, overlooking the north coast of the Island. A memorial service was held in St Martin-in-theFields in London on May 29, 1973 in which the Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, wrote and deliv ered a poem in Coward’s honour. John Gielgud and Lawrence Olivier read verse and Yehudi Men uhin played Bach. On March 28, 1984 a memorial stone was unveiled in Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey, by the Queen Mother. The Noël Coward Theatre in S. Martin’s Lane, originally opened in 1903 as the New Theatre and later called the Alberry, was re-named in his honour and opened on June 1, 2006.
Prince ran for only three months. He directed the musical adaptation of Blithe Spirit called High Spirits. His late plays include the farce Look After Lulu (1959), and Waiting in the Wings (1960), both of which were successful despite critical disdain. His comic novel Pomp and Circumstance (1960) about life in a British colony was much more criti cally successful. A trilogy set in a penthouse suite and was his swan song as an actor.
It received glowing reviews and did good box office business in the UK. He intended to star in the trilogy on Broadway but was too ill to travel. He achieved new film popularity late in his career in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Our Man in Havana (1959), Bunny Lake is Miss ing (1965), Boom! (1968) and The Italian Job (1969). He turned down offers to compose a musical version of Pygmalion, two years before My Fair Lady was written; playing the king in The King and I, and Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He refused to play the title role in the film Dr. No, and also the role of Hum bert Humbert in Lolita.
14 | The Tribune | Weekend Friday, August 26, 2022 history
The Colonial Annual Report for the Bahamas from 1927 states: “Per haps the most interesting event of the year was the opening of the new harbour constructed by private enterprise at Hatchet Bay, in the island of Eleuthera. A large pond has been connected with the sea by a canal cut through the solid rock for a distance of forty yards, and, when the work has been completed, will afford safe anchorage for vessels drawing up to twenty feet. The company engaged on this development proposes to export limestone, which is found there in particularly rich quality, and to extend its activities in other directions.”Thewording of the above item came as a surprise. It is com monly said that Austin T Levy was responsible for opening the har bour at Hatchet Bay, but “Come to Eleuthera or New Lands for Old”, a 32-page booklet from 1929, edited, and partly written by Stella Benson – a name previously unknown to me – told another story.
AUSTIN T Levy (1880-1951) STELLA Benson (1892-1933) GOVERNOR of the Bahamas Sir Charles Orr (1870-1945) SIR William Philip Colfox, 1st Baronet (1888-1966)
Stella Benson (1892-1933), an award-winning writer of prose and poetry, visited her brother, Major George Benson (1888-1961), who was the resident managing direc tor of Hatchet Bay Ltd, a company formed on October 2, 1927, and wrote: “In 1924-1926, Major Benson found himself in the Bahama Islands, where he was developing an invention of his own – a machine for cutting the local stone into ready-squared blocks, suitable for building.”Asstated in the Colonial Report, the company planned to export limestone.Stellawent on to say: “George believed there would be a huge market for ready-squared blocks, but he was concerned about the cost of delivering the blocks to build ing sites. To minimise the costs, the blocks would have to be quar ried near a deep-water shipping port, something hard to find in the Bahamas.”MajorBenson found his longedfor port at Hatchet Bay and saw that by cutting through the 20’ high wall of solid rock separating a salt pond from the sea, a harbour would be created.Compared to Suez and Panama, cutting a canal 110 feet long, 90 feet wide and 17 feet deep, was far less dauntingHavingso.failed to persuade the Bahamas government to pay for the canal, Major Benson offered to buy the land and do the job himself, but the government refused to let him buy Crown Land until he could show that there was adequate financial backing behind him and that no expense would fall to the Public Treasury.Theson of a prominent prop erty developer in Shropshire, Major Benson went back to England to consult with Major William Philip Colfox, who arranged the needed financial backing.Theprincipals of Hatchet Bay Ltd were Major W P Colfox, MC, MP, JP; chairman (In 1939, Colfox became a baronet);EJHKitchen, Esq; secretary; Captain AD Pass, director, and P L Z Lea, Esq; director. The company acquired some 3,000 acres of land, 75 acres of which were set aside for experimental agricul tural purposes – growing citrus, mangos, nuts, tamarind and other fruit trees; raising chickens and goats.Having invested £50,000 (approxi mately £2.2 million in today’s money) of capital and needing to raise more, the company offered 10,000 new £1 shares (at a price of 21/- per share), with the proviso that “all appli cants must be natural-born British subjects”.“OnDecember 17, 1927, the Gov ernor of the Bahamas (1927-1932), Sir Charles William James Orr, was the first person to enter the (unfin ished) harbour by water - rowed through by a crew of sailors, wearing the Company’s uniform.” So although Austin T Levy (18801951) did not create the man-made channel that connects the seawaters of the Great Bahamas Bank to what had been a salt water pond, thereby creating one of the better harbours in the Bahamas, Levy came to Eleuthera in 1936, bought thousands of acres of land, started a vast farm, created a whole community and is, justifiably, the ‘Father of Hatchet Bay’.
PAUL ARANHAC FORGOTTEN FACTS
Major George Reginald Benson –the unsung hero of Hatchet Bay
OFPETTHEWEEK
That is what I want to ask them. “We are moving, having a baby, get ting married, too busy…” Well, good try, but doesn’t really do theLet’strick.look at it this way: you choose to own the animal in question, you bring it home and (I sincerely hope) treat him with love and respect . This is very nice, but then your life changes and it is time to get rid of the pet, just likeDothat.you actually stop and think of the confusion that poor animal must be feeling - one day with you and one day never again! I was shocked to see two animals looking for a new home and somebody asked should they stay together, the answer was, “No, it doesn’t matter.” Wow, just like that, it doesn’t matter! So, what does matter, I wonder? That the nail polish on your fingernails match your dress tomorrow night?Animals wander in our streets, hungry and thirsty. A handful of people (probably all my readers) will worry about the animal, look to find water, try to home him or rescue him. The rest will go on their way without pos sibly even noticing him, he is invisible because he too doesn’t matter. Where is the love? To go one step further, there are “owners” who tie up their animals on short chains in this hot climate, with no shade, no shelter, no water and very lit tle food; their pets, their own animals. Why, I ask myself over and over. If you have any love in your soul, how can you allow any animal to suffer on your watch. An act of kindness is very simi lar to an act of love, a simple gesture can change an animal’s entire existence. A hug, a pat, a kind word, and that animal will start to feel loved. Water, food, shelter from rain or sun are basic and very obvious needs of all creatures, including man. If you have any kindness, ergo love, in your soul, how can you deny any living entity the right to comfort? I am devastated how we have be come a world of hate, aggression and unkindness. Turn on the television and people are mistreated everywhere. We are so privileged to live in the era of technology and advancement, but in the glory of all these amazing in ventions, let us not forget the basic de cencies. We cannot stop showing love and nurture to our surroundings, to our friends, families and our friends with fur, feathers or scales. Life is short and when we look back in our old age it will often be the small and special moments that will resonate, and frequently with an animal by our side.
By The Bahamas Humane Society
Today something that strikes me more than anything else is the blatant lack of love. Love for self, love for oth ers, love for creatures of all kinds, love for nature. In the Bahamas we are more than anything else concerned about “being respected”. People talk about “respect” all the time. If you say something somebody doesn’t like you may well be accused of disrespecting them. The need to be respected can even stretch to whether sandwiches are served at a board meeting, I kid you not. I was on a board and they served copious amounts of food that was never eaten, when I finally spoke up and said I thought it was pointless and wasting money, that all we needed were bottles of water and some cookies, I was called back to order very quickly and told that it was a matter of respect and if food was not served it proved that the entity did not respect us. I said no more. But respect is something that, in my humble opinion, you earn; it is not automatically something bestowed upon you. You respect Mother Nature, yes, and you nurture her creations. You need to sit on a beach and watch a wild dolphin’s fin break the water and feel joy. You should want to get up and dance for the simple joy of the beauty of it Youall.need to love it with your whole being - not just respect that nature is awesome but love the very essence of our surroundings – love the animals and want to be with them in a happy and wholesome way. Yet those people who leave trash on our beaches, those mindless ones who toss the KFC box out of the car… are they showing the love for our sur roundings, or for that matter, respect? Heck no! I read many of the Facebook groups and there are lots of posts of people not wanting their pets anymore for myriad reasons; these are family members, or at least should be. Where is the love?
Friday, August 26, 2022 The Tribune | Weekend | 15
)(PHOTOOF/SHELLEYHARDMAN
Animal matters Kim Aranha ofimportanceThelove
animals Pierre says ‘bonjour’
“Bonjour. Je m’appelle Pierre, et je suis un Potcake aux Bahamas Humane Society... oops. Sorry. Wrong language! I’m Pierre! I’m a potcake awaiting adoption at the Bahamas Humane Society. I’m just over a year old and still full of energy. I’m com fortable being around other dogs but cats are too tempt ing to chase so I’d be better in a home without any. Have you been looking for a great watchdog, one who’ll keep your home safe, but also come on long rambling walks with you? If so, then I’m your Comeguy. to the BHS to meet me, or check us out at Super Value Cable Beach tomorrow from 11am to 3pm. You can also call 323-5138 for more informa tion. I look forward to meeting you! Au revoir!” If you can’t adopt, foster. If you can’t foster, volunteer. If you can’t volunteer, doIfnate.you can’t donate, educate! Help make a difference!
16 | The Tribune | Weekend Friday, August 26, 2022
