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entertainment

‘Happy Foods’ takes viewers on new culinary adventures

By ALESHA CADET | Tribune Features writer | acadet@tribunemedia.net

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he hit culinary show ‘Happy Foods 242’ returns next month with its 11th season of highlighting restaurants, private chefs and bartenders throughout the country.

The first episode, to be aired Saturday, October 5th at 7 pm on OurTV (channel 212), will feature a very unique event: the Bahamas’ Welding and Fire Grill Competition.

“It was interesting and showed me specifically that we have a lot of talented Bahamians, particularly men, who can grill and make awesome creations with grilled food,” said Sasha Lightbourne, CEO, host and executive producer of the show.

As to what viewers can look forward to during the rest of the season, Sasha said there will of course be more food, more fun, new places and experiences, and even a few reunions. While it’s too soon to let the cat out of the bag in terms of revealing the participating restaurants, Sasha did divulge that viewers can expect to see a trip to a Family Island.

“This time is extra, extra special. First, there were 10 seasons that I didn’t think we were going to get to, and now there’s 11. Some major international shows don’t make it to seven seasons, much less 10 or 11. It’s been hard work, blood, sweat and tears – lots of tears for me. I still can’t believe it some days,” she said.

Sasha said she is especially proud of the fact that the show helps to shine a spotlight on so many smaller restaurateurs.

“This show gives the small and medium sized businesses an outlet to market themselves. Most of these small and

medium sized food businesses don’t have a marketing manager or marketing budget. In many cases they can’t afford it with all the other costs and expenses associated with their businesses. so ‘Happy Foods 242’ provides them with an outlet to market themselves,” she said.

“Not only do they get a full 30-minute slot on Cable TV, but we also put them on our YouTube channel. That channel can be seen by anyone, anywhere and at anytime. You can’t really pay for that kind of marketing that goes beyond the Bahamas because of social media. I provide a platform for these businesses and I am grateful to be able to do so,” she said.

Even after having experienced so many restaurants for the purpose of show, Sasha said she still loves to dine out in her private time.

“Some days I want my real Bahamian food. Some days I am in the mood for Café Matisse. It just depends on my flow, my vibe. Like I am answering you and feeling for a nice bowl of conch salad with a cold Kalik. I can also eat some oysters and steak from Carna. It just all depends on my mood,” she said.

Asked if she thinks the show has inspired more Bahamians to take advantage of the many dining options available in the country, Sasha answered: “Most definitely.”

“The feedback is amazing.

One of the things I love about being Bahamians is that we are not afraid to voice our opinions. So some fans have come to me and told me they visited a place and it was exactly what I said it would be. There have also been some places we have featured and fans went and it wasn’t as good of an experience. We take the bad with the good. But people love that there is a platform where they can see where to go to eat, and in many cases they never knew these places even existed,” she said.

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Inside Weekend

My perfect Bahamian weekend Gerard Royale CMM Modeling Academy

Q Q Q Q Q

: Saturday breakfast or Sunday lunch?

Interview 4 - 5 Meet some of the volunteers behind the hurricane relief efforts

Celebrity 7 Rihanna, Ludacris and others pledge their support to Hurricane Dorian victims

Art 8 - 9 Artists spread messages of hope and strength in wake of catastrophic storm

Gardening 10 It’s hot pepper September

Theatre 11 Playwright gives audiences another slice of ‘Haven’

Film 12 Teen filmmaker sees beauty in being broken

Weddings 14 - 15 A bonfire of love results in vows of ‘I do’

Film 17 “It: Chapter 2” is a big-screen funhouse

Education 18 BETA campers celebrate all things STEM, promote maritime industry

Calendar 19 Things to do around town this weekend

Books 20 - 21 A guide to Fall’s most anticipated novels

Forgotten Facts 22 A brief history of policing in the Bahamas

Literary Lives 23 - 25 The songwriting king who composed ‘Hallelujah’

Puzzles 26

Animals 27 An animal rescuer’s world; plus Pet of the Week

Cover | Art by Rashad Cash

“Saturday breakfast. I absolutely love sheep tongue souse and hot grits.”

: Wine, Kalik, rum or cocktail?

“I am a red wine lover.”

: Beach or sofa?

“My sofa, just relaxing with my wine and music.”

: What could you not do without?

“OMG, definitely my cell phone; it is my life, literally.”

: Weekend away: where would you go?

“Weekend getaway is to my home away from home: Atlanta, Georgia.”

This weekend in history September 6 • In 1909, American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbour, Labrador, announcing that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.

• In 1972, the Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that claimed the lives of eleven Israelis and five Arab abductors.

• In 1997, a public funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London, six days after her death in a car crash in Paris.

In Calcutta, India, weeping masses gathered to pay homage to Mother Teresa, who had died the day before at age 87.

Today’s birthdays: Actorcomedian Michael Winslow is 61. Actress Rosie Perez is

55. Rhythm and blues singer Macy Gray is 52. Singer CeCe Peniston is 50. Actor Idris Elba is 47. Actress Anika Noni Rose is 47. Actress Naomie Harris is 43. Rapper Foxy Brown is 41.

September 7 • In 1940, Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London.

• In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.

• In 2007, Osama bin Laden appeared in a video for the first time in three years, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they wanted the war in Iraq to end.

Today’s birthdays: Singer Gloria Gaynor is 76. Actor Corbin Bernsen is 65. Actor Michael Emerson is 65.

Singer/songwriter Diane Warren is 63. Actor Toby Jones is 53. Actress-comedian Leslie Jones is 52. Actress

Evan Rachel Wood is 32.

September 8 • In 1565, a Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at presentday St Augustine, Florida.

• In 1664, the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York.

• In 1941, the 900-day Siege of Leningrad by German forces began during World War II. • In 1974, President Gerald R Ford granted a “full, free, and absolute pardon” to former President Richard Nixon covering his entire term in office.

• In 1986, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” began the first of 25 seasons in national syndication.

Today’s birthdays: Bernie Sanders is 78. Singer P!nk is 40. Actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas is 38.

Rapper Wiz Khalifa is 32.

Actor Gaten Matarazzo (”Stranger Things”) is 17.

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interview

Across the country, people are answering the call to provide assistance to the thousands who were displaced and otherwise impacted by Hurricane Dorian. A group of volunteers speaks with Cara Hunt about what motivates them to give their time and efforts to help others.

The heart of a volunteer

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s Hurricane Dorian ravaged the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco, the rest of the country could do little but pray the stubborn Category 5 storm would finally depart so that the rescue and recovery efforts could begin.

Initial communication hinted at the widespread destruction that was to be revealed, so relief efforts started long before the allclear was given.

Organisations such as HeadKnowles, the Bahamas Red Cross and the New Providence Community Church immediately sent out calls for donations and volunteers, and like in previous years, during Hurricanes Joaquin and Matthew, hundreds of people came forward.

Tribune Weekend spoke with several individuals to find out what prompted them to answer the call, exemplifying what Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis called the courage and fortitude of the Bahamian people during this time of national crisis.

Krystal Bodie said that she was inspired to volunteer after being in contact with a friend who was trapped in rising floodwater on Grand Bahama.

“I was in contact with her throughout the storm, basically until we lost communication. She had told me how she was in water up to

Teenage relief effort volunteers: Peaches Marshall, 17 (left), and Lyric Lightbourne, 16

A Miami Fire Rescue official carries donated supplies at a fire station in Miami for those affected by Hurricane Dorian in the devastated Bahamian islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

her waist with her niece and I was frantically trying to find someone who could assist with her rescue. I sent e-mails and made calls. I even did an interview with a US media station,” she said.

Fortunately, her friend was located and is now safe, but Krystal knows there are still people missing and she is posting photos to help locate them.

“After my experience with my friend I knew that I had to do something and I knew I wanted to volunteer and get donations.”

Krystal started her own donation drive through her company, K-Bee’s Bootcamp, and has since received cash donations from local people as well as from Alabama, Georgia and Michigan.

She is also asking for donations such as clothing and household items and emergency supplies.

“We just need all the help we can get, whether it be cash or physical donations,” she said. “We need to give every item you can think of, people aren’t able to take a shower or have proper sanitisation, so all these items are important.”

Ari Burrows is no stranger when it comes to hurricane relief. He also worked with HeadKnowles during their other hurricane relief efforts and immediately cleared his schedule for the next week.

He owns a trucking company and has volunteered his

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equipment for the clean-up work.

“I volunteered with my family, Gina and Andrew Knowles (Gina is the cofounder of the HeadKnowles group) during the last hurricane, and honestly we are just doing God’s work,” he said.

“It is informed chaos,” he said of relief efforts, “but all the volunteer efforts are running like a well-oiled machine.

Everyone is in good spirits and is in a good mental state.”

He conceded, however, that the magnitude of devastation caused by Dorian makes this volunteer effort very different from those in the past.

“Honestly, there is no comparison; the sheer devastation is off the charts,” he said.

Teenagers Peaches Marshall, 17, and and Lyric Lightbourne, 16, were deeply moved by the stories emerging from the storm and immediately got together to launch Bahamas Strong.

“It was organised after we saw the impact and damage that Hurricane Dorian left in both Grand Bahama and Abaco after watching the news, a few videos via Facebook and WhatsApp,” said Peaches.

“Reality had set in for the both of us and the fact that there were families who were suffering. Husbands were losing their wives, children were losing their mothers and fathers, families were literally being torn apart, that’s when we knew we had to try our very best to put this clothing drive and bake sale together. We just couldn’t imagine what those people had to experience and we wanted to give back.”

In addition to the clothing drive, they will be partnering with local bakeries for a fundraising bake sale on Saturday at the Southwest Plaza from 12noon to 6pm.

And while many individuals and companies are looking at the immediate needs of survivors, some are already looking a bit further down the recovery road.

Volunteer Krystal Bodie of KBee’s Bootcamp Ryan Smith, 60, left, and Hiram Williams, 71, stock an auditorium with goods slated to be sent to the Bahamas at Christ Episcopal Church in Miami, Florida. (AP Photo/Ellis Rua)

Members of the Royal Caribbean GoTeam help offload supplies from the Empress of the Seas cruise ship at Freeport

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We believe that we are our brother’s keeper, and while it is difficult for us to even imagine what the residents of Grand Bahama and Abaco are going through, we know that we must do all we can to help.”

Struckum Commercial Pest Services Ltd has already assembled teams to travel to the affected islands to assist with the pest control that is sure to be needed.

“We believe that we are our brother’s keeper, and while it is difficult for us to even imagine what the residents of Grand Bahama and Abaco are going through, we know that we must do all we can to help,” said Jaychelle Hanna, the company’s director of human resources and marketing.

“We were blessed to be able to partner with a number of businesses during the last hurricane which devastated Andros and we have been blessed to partner with them again after Dorian. We are aware of the clean-up efforts and sanitation efforts that will be needed over the coming months and we are sending a team and vehicles to both islands to aid in those effort.”

She added: “While we’re happy to have been able to donate the basic necessities and raise funds for the donations, we know that our area of expertise is of equal value, especially as it relates to rebuilding and restoring both Abaco and Grand Bahama.”

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celebrity

Celebrities pledge to assist in hurricane relief

By JEFFARAH GIBSON | Tribune Features Writer | jgibson@tribunemedia.net

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he outpouring of love and support for the Bahamas in the wake of the catastrophic Hurricane Dorian continues, with celebrities like superstar entertainer Rihanna, Atlanta-based filmmaker Tyler Perry and rapper Ludacris pledging their assistance to help rebuild the devastated islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama.

“To all the incredible people of the Bahamas who have welcomed me an adoptive son,” said Tyler Perry, who posted a heartwarming message on his social media.

The superstar filmmaker who has close ties to the country – he is the owner of White Bay Cay in Exuma and used Eleuthera as the backdrop of his film “Why Did I Get Married Too” – assured Bahamians he will jump in to assist as soon as his schedule allows.

“I want you to know that I am watching this closely. As soon as I can, I will be there to do whatever I can to help you rebuild stronger and better.

You’re not only in my heart and my prayers, you’re in my blood. God bless you. Stay Bahamas strong. The sun will shine.”

As first-hand reports, images and videos of the devastation left behind

by Dorian made it rounds on international media sites and social media, Rihanna was one of the first to show her support.

“It truly breaks my hear to see the complete devastation that #HurricaneDorian is having on the Bahamas,” she tweeted. “You are in our prayers and @ClaraLionelFdn is already figuring out how best we can help”.

The Clara Lionel Foundation was founded by Rihanna in 2012 to honour her grandparents. CLF supports and funds groundbreaking and effective education and emergency response programmes around the world.

Atlanta rapper, actor, restaurateur and philanthropist Ludacris announced on Wednesday that the $100,000 raised from his annual Labour Day weekend event “LudaDay” will be donated to hurricane relief efforts in the Bahamas.

“LudaDay” was recognised as an official city-wide event in Atlanta in 2011, with money raised from the

Bethenny Frankel and her #BStrong team have raised more than $750,000 so far.

Rihanna has pledged the support of her foundation. event going to the Ludacris Foundation and other charities benefiting children.

On his Instagram, singer Lenny Kravitz, who has a home in Eleuthera, posted a video to give his 2.8 million followers a look at the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.

Kravitz promised as soon as the storm cleared “we are going to do everything we can.”

“Real Housewives of New York” star Bethenny Frankel immediately began asking supporters on social media to donate supplies and money to her #BStrong initiative. According

Ludacris has pledged $100,000 to Frankel, they have raised more than $750,000 in just three days.

“This damage is worse than what I witnessed in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria,” she posted on Instagram.

Other close Caribbean friends including artists such as Buju Banton, who performed in Nassau in March as part of his “Long Walk to Freedom” tour, and Trinidadian soca star Machel Montano, who has been performing in the Bahamas consistently since 2015, offered their sympathy to the country and those affected by this natural distance.

Banton said on Instagram: “My heart and prayers goes out to Bahamas

Lenny Kravitz has promised all in his power to assist. (AP Photo) during these times. I stand with you and continue to pray for the entire island. #PrayForBahamas”.

Machel posted: “Sending out love and support to the Bahamas in this challenging time. We are all with you and may you be comforted through this storm, knowing the strength and will to rebuild is for certain.”

Celebs who have also posted heartfelt messages to the Bahamas include rapper and actor T I, DJ Khaled, hip hop artist Plies, singer Pharrell Williams, entrepreneur Russell Simmons, Jamaican singer Spice, the Trinidadian band Kes, and others.

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uncertainty you really need something to hold onto during. And this piece really helped.”

Jamaal said while none of his immediate relatives have been impacted by the calamity, Hurricane Dorian as touched everyone.

“I don’t think there is anyone who this storm hasn’t affected,” he said.

“I have had so many people reaching out to me internationally. Some of my supporters, clients and people from China have reached out to me to find out how I am doing.

“I just want to extend my condolences to the families and the country as a whole. I am here to offer my assistance in anyway I can.”

Jamaal has created portraits for some of the world’s most recognisable and influential figures, including the Prince of Wales, entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey, the first black Academy Award winner and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Sir Sidney Poitier, NBA legends like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Lebron James, Grammy Award

winner Taylor Swift, and civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton, just to name a few.

Meanwhile, Rashad Cash of Think Light Studios also turned to art to express his feelings in this difficult time. His piece shows a person, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Hope” across the chest, wrapped in the Bahamian flag. Tears are running down their cheeks in the shape of the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama. In the background, in black and white, Rashad depicted some of the scenes of people battling the storm.

“I have created this piece in honour of those who perished during this terrible hurricane called Dorian, and for all those survivors. God bless. Forward, upward, onward, together,” he said.

Numerous other artists and graphic designers have also utilised their skills to express their support of those affected by the hurricane, posting images that reflect hope, unity and strength.

Images by unknown artists spread messages of hope and resilience on social media.

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gardening

Hot pepper September

This is the month to decide how hot you like your peppers, says Jack Hardy, and also to start your cabbages, tomatoes and cucumbers

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ne of the primary chores of early September will be to clear up the debris left

by Hurricane Dorian, but it would be a good idea to make time to establish your new season crops during the month.

Tomatoes are best established in pots and then transplanted to the garden in late October. Gallon-size pots are ideal for this. The transplant should take occur when the vines are budding and about to flower.

The best first tomatoes are vigorous hybrid types that produce fairly quickly, within four months, and you can expect your first pickings of ripe fruit in early January. I have used Celebrity tomatoes mainly because they are nematode resistant as well as strong and dependable. I also have Early Girl on the way. Grow your tomatoes in gallon pots in full sun and water daily. Feed them with Osmocote timerelease fertilizer just once and maybe a spray or two of Miracle-Gro tomato special or general purpose liquid fertilizer as they develop.

Pepper seeds take longer to germinate than tomato seeds but usually produce fruit about a month quicker. The

standard bell pepper is California Wonder but there are no bad ones on the market.

Size is not important. How many times do we wrap half a pepper in plastic and store in the refrigerator. Colour, however, is significant. The standard trio of colours is usually called Stoplight, being green, orange and red, the orange representing the amber of a stoplight. Green peppers turn red eventually but if you like red peppers you should buy those labelled red.

Hot peppers are a matter of taste but it is unthinkable to have hot peppers growing and not have bird peppers. Bird pepper seeds are not usually on sale in nurseries and have to be obtained from other gardeners – or from a restaurant that serves boil or stew fish. Make your order and ask for extra peppers. Enjoy your meal and stick a couple of peppers in your pocket. Ready to go.

I think it fair to say that habanero peppers have largely replaced goat peppers in Bahamian cuisine as they are much easier to obtain. They are sturdy and very easy to grow. Habanero plants grow very large and if you raise them in pots you should think about 10 or 15 gallon pots instead of four or five. The

hottest habanero is the Peruvian white or ghost pepper.

It has a different shape from the regular habanero and is smaller, but very potent.

For many gardeners, hot pepper means jalapeno. It is by far the most popular of hot peppers, grows quickly, and is very productive. Jalapenos can be used when full-sized green or ripe red. Start you peppers in small pots and transplant them when they bud.

Cabbages are heat tolerant and can be started in September. Choose a variety that is densely headed and large. I notice miniature cabbages on sale but these are just a novelty. Plant them and visitors to your garden will assume you are not treating your cabbages correctly. Slaw is the main reason for growing cabbage in The Bahamas and bigger is better.

Cabbage seed can be started in pots and transplanted later or you can sow directly. Cabbages are heavy feeders and need substantial fertilizer right from the beginning. If you sow directly into your garden the soil should be prepared with enough fertilizer to maintain steady and uninterrupted growth. Regular and even watering is essential to optimum growth but watering

should be stopped or reduced once the head becomes full.

Another member of the cabbage clan that can be started in September is broccoli. Buy a variety that not only produces a large flower head but provides masses of florets once the head is cut.

Sow as for cabbage.

Cucumbers are also heat lovers and can be started as soon as you are ready. They are best started in the ground in what are called hills, an area of the garden that is round and has had soil added to raise the hill a few inches above the rest of the garden. Hills provide good drainage for cucumbers, as well as summer and winter squashes. The usual procedure is to sow three or four seeds in each hill and then pull up all but the largest and healthiest looking specimen.

Cucumbers are vines and like to climb. A sturdy trellis will give good service for long vines but if your garden is fairly small you should consider growing Patio cucumbers, The vines only grow to three or four feet but the cucumbers are of regular size.

Place a tomato tower over the hill and your cucumbers will be held above the ground and away from the most dangerous of insect pests and snails.

Summer squash, zucchini, and

winter squash should all be grown from direct sowing in hills.

Bulbing onions are usually started in November and December and we must take care to use short day varieties. Green onion – scallions – can be started in September because they do not form bulbs. Scallions are a valuable addition to any garden because they are sweet and very handy for salads, particularly chicken salad. They grow just 2-inches apart and are ideal for containers as well as in garden soil. When you buy a packet from the nursery, sow the whole kit and caboodle.

Beets can also be started in September. The seed capsules should be directly sown into the garden three-inches apart in rows or blocks. One of the pleasures of growing beets is to have the delicious greens once the plants have been pulled. Chard is a close relative of beets and the chard leaves have a taste close to that of beets. Sow them at the same time, remembering that chard grows much larger and needs more space.

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

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theatre

Local playwright to give Audiences another slice of ‘Haven’

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hit stage play that shines a spotlight on Bahamians’ everyday struggles in a comedic, tongue-in-cheek way is returning to the Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts this Fall.

In November, Shavanti Smith, a local playwright and producer, will bring “Haven” back to the stage.

It’s a comedic play that could best be described as a hybrid of Ice Cube’s “Barbershop” and Tyler Perry’s “Big Happy Family”.

The faith-based production is set in a barbershop/ salon where regulars come to enhance their outer appearance, but end up getting much more than what they came for.

It stars Tyrone “TJ” Burrows Jr as Benjamin Haven, the head barber who owns the salon with his wife, Michelle Haven, played by Rudina Miller.

“The name ‘Haven’ is threefold. It’s the surname of the main protagonists in the story, it’s the name of the barbershop/salon where people go, which also turns out to be their safe place, and the Havens are who these people turn to for sound advice. They get that patriarchal and matriarchal warmth that I think a lot of us are searching for,” said Ms Smith. “ ‘Haven’ is special because it shows the complexity of the familial relationship of co-workers and persons we encounter every day. We all, in some way, try to enhance our appearance whether it’s through makeup, hairstyles or some sort of grooming. That entire process gets us comfortable with the people who provide those services to us – our barbers, our hairdressers,

“Barbershop” meets Tyler Perry in the hit Bahamian play “Haven”

“Haven” playwright Shavanti Smith our nail techs, even the radio personalities that we listen to every day. They all receive a piece of our inner thoughts.”

Ms Smith is no stranger to theatre. Her first play, “Judge Linda: In Da Brethren Court”, which presented two court cases: Adam & Eve v The World and Samson v Delilah, was well received by audiences. That success led her to create “Haven”, an idea that

she said came to her from a higher power.

“In 2014, God inspired me to do ‘Haven’. I know it sounds unusual, but literally the idea was placed in my spirit. I immediately wrote it down and began fleshing out the possibilities. I did a lot of research,” she said.

“I was especially encouraged because my first play did so well. The turnout was more than we expected considering the little promotion we did. To this day we still have persons speaking about the stage play with anticipation of an encore and the actors are still quoting a lot of the lines. When you get over the hump of the first it gives you the hunger to do more and to level up.”

‘Haven’ was co-written by Georgette Smith and features many familiar faces, as well as some new actors, including Kirshon Smith, Shakara Green, Anishka Johnson, Jamero Pinder, Niaya Moss, Jametria Pinder, Anthonique Bowe, Englebert Pickering and Aaron Munnings.

Michelle Bassett serves as the director; she was assisted

by Shakara “Chia” Green.

Charles Tucker and Niaya Moss served as the music director and choreographer respectively.

“The chemistry amongst the cast and our team is phenomenal. The audience will be able to relate to more than one character – we’ve got sassy characters, prissy characters, of course nosy characters.

Basically, all of the people you would find in a barbershop/ salon,” said Ms Smith.

“The storyline hones in on love among a group of people who have funny interactions in a confined spot. It’s filled with laughter, self-reflection and also features original music.

We have new additions and the main cast came back to do our second showing of this play, so if they believe in this stage play enough to return I can guarantee you that this is the one to see. They’re going to show off and show out.

Ms Smith said she was influenced by Tyler Perry, who is one of her favourite producers.

“I’ve watched and analysed a lot of his stage plays, keeping a close eye on his stage design, the lighting, even the way he

uses music and how he weaves in and out of the lines to make himself, his cast and even the audience more comfortable,” she said.

“His use of ministering through this form of entertainment took him to the next level. His stage plays deal with real life and have real lessons, not to mention a lot of laughter. I want to do the same with my plays.”

‘Haven’ will run from Friday, November 29, to Saturday, November 30, at the Dundas Theatre. The running time is two hours. Doors open at 6.45pm and the show starts at 7.30pm.

Tickets are $30 for advance purchase, $35 at the door and the VIP experience is $50.

Tickets are on sale at the Family Matters Supermarket on East Street South, Odav & Co on Rosetta Street. Theatregoers may also call 477-7075 to have tickets delivered.

For more information and to see the cast, visit “Haven Stageplay” on Facebook or e-mail havenonstage@gmail. com.

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film

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racefully Broken” is the name of Antwuan Dean’s international award-winning short film. It is also the descriptor he uses for someone who overcomes hardship to be shaped for a greater purpose – in other words, those placed in a broken state in order to be brought to a higher level by the grace of God. In his short film, Antwuan tells the story of a young man whose life is changed after he is kicked out of his mother’s house for keeping drugs in his room.

With the film he wants to show that sometimes in life people experience things and encounter circumstances they may consider “bad”, however, these are actually necessary for the greater good.

“The Bahamas, in spite of being a Christian nation, is experiencing much brokenness as a country. God is sovereign, so it is possible that we are sometimes placed in difficult situations as individuals or as a nation for an important reason. Perhaps we are being taught and changed in the way the film’s main character is,” the filmmaker told Tribune Weekend.

The 18-year-old University of the Bahamas student and aspiring film director said the experience of creating “Gracefully Broken” has been like a door opening for him. After completing the film he came to the realisation that he is able to touch other people with his message.

“I am the director, writer and editor of this film. I am also the camera operator capturing every scene. Being a part of this production has given me the opportunity to meet individuals and touch hearts around the world. It also has provided an opportunity to refine my craft and to share my gifts with others,” he said.

The project was entered in the Church of God International Teen

Teen filmmaker sees the beauty of being broken

By ALESHA CADET Tribune Features writer acadet@tribunemedia.net

Talent 2019 competition in Tennessee and won first place for Best Short Film.

The seven cast members of the film are Anthonique

Bowe, Jose Etienne, Wanterro Miller, Daniel Hall Jr, Antonio Dean, Anthony Dean Jr, Brendalee Martin and Catherine Gomez.

Scenes from the short film “Gracefully Broken” “Since its release I’ve received many great responses on how well the film was crafted. Many people have reported that its message is an important lesson for teenagers, young adults and parents alike. I have been very pleased

with audience’s response,” said the young filmmaker said.

Antwuan’s production company AD Visual covers a host of media-related services and can be engaged for photography, videography and promotional/advertising needs.

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The Weekend Fashion Report Venice Film Festival 2019

Photos/Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

With Karin Herig and Cara Hunt

HIT

HIT

SPLIT

HIT

Zazie Beetz ”Joker”

Cate Blanchett ”Where’d You Go, Bernadette”

Kristen Stewart ”Charlie’s Angels”

Penélope Cruz ”Wasp Network”

Karin says: “Hideous! She’s one of the faces of Chanel, so of course this dress is a haute couture design for Chanel.

That doesn’t make this metallic fuchsia lace frock any more attractive.

It’s just too much material...the long sleeves, I dunno. And I don’t know if her current ‘punk’ hairdo really suits this look.”

Cara says: “Kristen’s fashion choices can be a bit random and ‘off’, but this dress is actually not bad, if a bit too old for her. Still, I’ve seen her look worse, so I will give her a pass (I know, the bar is set really low with her.)”

Karin says: “Penny looks like she’s about to perform in ‘Swan Lake’. But I love this Ralph & Russo design. It’s so big and frou-frou with all those tiers of chiffon. And I adore that one little sheer strap that’s not really doing anything except looking pretty.”

Cara says: “OK, so I am trying to figure out if I like this one little strap on the dress or if it makes it look crowded, and I am leaning toward it being a bit too much, but the dress itself is really cute, if a bit bridal/ prom-esque.”

Karin says: “She had several looks for this festival, but this is my favourite.

It’s just so colourful and different from what all the other actresses were wearing. And I love the hair, hoop earrings, and especially the shades.

It’s just all works and comes together beautifully.”

Cara says: “Wow, what a cute and fun look! She looks amazing. She is rocking this dress. It’s not something that would work for everyone, but she pulls it off. Love the hair and hoop earrings which add the perfect final touch to outfit.”

Karin says: “In a way, she looks like a black velvet Christmas tree. But it’s pretty (even for being all velvet).

Nothing too spectacular, but she looks good. I really like the asymmetrical hairdo with the jagged edges.”

Cara says: “Now this dress I really love. I like the way it gradually gets wider and wider, fanning out from her tiny, tiny waist. I think Cate looks really nice, but then, when doesn’t she? I love the messy hair as well.”

See page 16 for more Venice Film Festival fashions

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With Karin Herig and Cara Hunt

Photos/Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

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Meryl Streep ”The Laundromat”

Ruth Negga ”Ad Astra”

Scarlett Johansson ”Marriage Story”

Laura Dern ”Marriage Story”

Karin says: “Meryl did not care; all she wanted was to be comfortable... (and maybe look like a peacock). And that she achieved, by the looks of things. It’s basically a fancy muumuu.

The print is actually quite nice, but I can’t get on board with that collar and those big, long sleeves.”

Cara says: “This outfit is very much her style and I think it suits her. I agree, these days it seems that she just wants to be comfortable, so this one is a win in that respect. And you know what, she’s earned that right.”

Karin says: “I love this little number.

I’m always excited to see a belted dress on the red carpet. I especially like the embroidery on this strapless gown. And little short-sleeved jacket and Louis Vuitton clutch are just the perfect icing on the cake.”

Cara says: “Sometimes less is more, especially if the more is a belt and jacket which cheapens an otherwise perfectly lovely dress. I like everything else about her look, particular her hair. Love the short, 1920s finger wave look on her.”

Karin says: “The red metallic dress is actually really pretty and the colour definitely suits her. I love the neckline with the clever folds on the side, and also the waist. It’s really well cut.

What ruins this overall look, however, is the slicked back ‘wet’ hairdo. It doesn’t suit her face shape and ends up making her look greasy.”

Cara says: “Let’s start from the top: I’m not feeling the ‘just out the shower hair’; it’s very severe. And I’m not feeling the dress to be honest; its looks both a bit shapeless and too tight, especially around the tummy.”

Karin says: “Stunningly ugly. This is a jewel-encrusted green monstrosity!

Remember what I said about belted gowns? Yeah, I didn’t mean like this.

The material looks cheap, the sleeves are atrocious, and what in the name of the fashion gods is that red velvet border at the bottom of the dress?”

Cara says: “I actually think this is super cute. The colour is really pretty and flatters her. I love the peacock detailing on her dress, although I feel like the red hem is trying to push Christmas a bit early.”

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film

Review: ‘It Chapter 2’ is a big-screen funhouse it chapter 2 | 169 minutes

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t can be a cheesy thing when a novel is split up and spread out over a handful of films, but Stephen King’s “It” is not one of those books.

Andy Muschietti’s first crack at King’s 1,100-page doorstop, 2017’s “It,” dealt with the first half: the Losers Club, a band of “Stranger Things”-like adolescent outcasts, battling the shape-shifting demon clown Pennywise (a wonderfully gangly Bill Skarsgard) in the Maine town of Derry. “It Chapter Two” takes up the book’s second half when those kids, now grown, are called back 27 years later to Derry after Pennywise returns.

That timespan gives Muscietti’s “Chapter Two” some deeper meanings to play with: how many of our darkest fears don’t change so much from childhood, how the brutalities of life bring new horrors, how fun it is to imagine Finn Wolfhard growing up to be Bill Hader.

Made with the same visual flair as the first movie

by Muschietti, “It Chapter Two” is likewise a big-screen funhouse full of vivid setpiece thrills animated by each character’s fears. Some are better than others but they are consistently imaginative. In one, a giant Paul Bunyan statue turns menacing and careens through the town square.

It’s stuff like this, I think, that made “It” such a sensation and “Chapter Two” such a satisfying, if overstuffed, sequel. It has less to do with the scary clown and more to do with its maximalist nightmares. Hallucinatory but familiar visions come alive.

One ill-advised peek into Pennywise’s sewer, in a scene worthy of Dali, culminates in a swarming hive of hands clawing at the interloper.

Time has done some funny things to the Losers Club.

Richie Tozier (Hader) is now a stand-up comic. Bill Denbrough (James McAvoy; Jaeden Martell as a boy) is novelist whose book is being adapted into a movie. Beverly Harsh (Jessica Chastain;

Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) Sophia Lillis as a girl), having been abused as a child by her father, has fallen into an abusive marriage. Eddie Kaspbrak (James Ramone; Jack Dylan Grazer as a kid) is a successful New York businessman.

Ben Hanscom (Jay Ryan; Jeremy Ray Taylor as a boy), overweight as a youngster, has somehow hit the jackpot.

He’s thin, handsome and an architect.

Once Pennywise is again on the loose and red balloons start ominously floating through Derry, each receives a phone call from Mike Hanlon (Isaiah Mustafa; Chosen Jacobs as a kid), the lone Losers Club member to remain in their Maine hometown. They return to fulfil a blood oath sworn as kids to come back to defeat Pennywise again, if he ever reappears. But travelling away from Derry has somehow made their memories foggy, and they come back with only a faint idea of why they’re back.

Just as the first “It” was a coming-of-age tale, “Chapter Two” is a homecoming. It’s a reunion movie, just with some dead kids here and there. Part of the appeal of both films is in how they balance dark and light. “Chapter Two,” especially, is funny thanks in large part to Hader (who slides in a Jabba the Hutt impression) and Ramone, the likably frenetic actor who played Iggy in the second season of “The Wire.”

“It” also tips the other way, and as clever as some of the movie’s nightmare scenarios are, a handful derive cheap scares out of terrible fates befalling children in scenes drawn out for suspense. It’s an easy route to getting an audience’s adrenaline up, and a dubious method of moviemaking. Hitchcock did it once and later called it “a grave error.” There is less evidence of contemplation behind the violence in Muscietti’s film.

But the “It” movies— a kind of pop-horror with ghastly scenes you can eat

popcorn to — have a way of dealing both seriously and blithely with such terrors. Our fears are both terrifying and ridiculous in “It.” They’re rendered impotent only by our own insistence of their powerlessness.

The group dynamics of the (very good) cast propel the film as each Losers Club member faces down his or her personal demons. (Chastain especially gives the material a lift.) Taking each storyline at a time, all accompanied by flashbacks, gives each character some depth, even as the crowded film — at nearly three-hours long — verges on turning into a clown car.

That sheer much-ness is in the spirit of King’s massive book. “Chapter Two,” for better or worse, is a horror carnival.

JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

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education

BETA campers celebrate STEM, promote maritime industry

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he Bahamas Engineering and Technology Advancement’s (BETA) sixth annual STEM-based summer camp came to an end on Saturday, August 3, with a closing and award ceremony on the grounds of Aquinas College at Loyola Hall. The commemoration honoured the works and achievements of this year’s campers and camp facilitators during its oneweek programme.

Of the camp itself, camp facilitator and civil engineer Deshinka Bostwick said: “This year’s camp was extremely impressive with Family Island student participation. We tried, in the civil engineering stream, to have corporate engagement and this year was no exception. We had participation from Integrated Building Services Limited, Caribbean Coastal Services Limited, Atametrics Limited, and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport.

“Students were able to make the connection from the STEM fields being taught, to the actual careers that use these principles. We tried to engage the students in problem solving activities that would foster their creativity and build their soft skills through team projects. This year’s BETA Camp was exciting, interesting, and full of personality. I hope the students took it all in, processed it, and use it during their academic year.”

STEM, which stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics based learning, is a major proponent of why the non-profit organisation BETA decides to host this camp yearly, according to web developer Edison Hanchell, BETA director and camp instructor. He said it is important that students see there are careers in STEM and that studying any form of the disciplines will not be time wasted or spent in vain.

“It can be discouraging not seeing that representation in the field you’re passionate about, as I’m sure my colleagues would agree. So for us, forming BETA was essential to eliminating that void,” he said.

“I am very proud of the outcome of this year’s camp, especially with

the number of Family Island students who showed up and out for the one-week programme. This year, we tried to shake things up a bit by

introducing a new stream apart from the regular elements of civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical and software engineering. With our theme for the year being: ‘Cruise Control: Innovating the Bahamian Maritime Industry’, we decided to offer coastal engineering as an elective for students and partner up with Caribbean Coastal Services Limited to do so. It was interesting to see what students came up with, but I’m certain these projects fuelled them to think outside the box and that is what engineering, in fact, BETA Camp, is all about.”

The success of BETA Camp 2019 could not have been made possible without the generous donations of all their patrons, he added.

BETA Camp’s platinum sponsor for this year said: “RBC Royal Bank is proud to lend our support as a platinum sponsor for 2019 to the Bahamas Engineering and Technology Advancement Camp. Part of our commitment to helping our communities prosper includes making important investments in the next generation of Bahamian entrepreneurs, job creators, and leaders. That is why we are thrilled to be part of this special event.

“Our signature education programme, RBC Future Launch, is built on the need to prepare students and young people for a changing world of work and the new digital economy in which we all live. BETA Camp aligns with RBC Future Launch by bringing together some of the country’s best and brightest young minds to come up with tangible solutions to some of the real-world issues facing The Bahamas today. BETA Camp encourages critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork all while connecting young people to the networks and resources they need to succeed.”

Esther Blair, administrator and Bahamian programme officer of The TK Foundation, diamond sponsor for BETA Camp 2019, said: “The TK Foundation is pleased to support young students from the Family Islands to attend the BETA Camp and expand their horizons for science, technology, engineering and math. We further encourage all participants to embrace their challenges, push beyond the inevitable failures, reach back and pull their peers forward.”

BETA also continues to cultivate the next generation of STEM leaders through initiatives like its Youth Hack-A-Thon held earlier in the year. Its hope for next year is that the programme will be expand further and seek to introduce a new stream to one of its other disciplines within the realms of science, technology or mathematics.

To keep up with BETA, follow them on Instagram @wearebetabahamas and Facebook: BETA Camp and visit their website: www.wearbeta.co.

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FRI 9/6 • Da Yard Restaurant Grand Opening Time: 12noon - midnight Venue: Da Yard

Da Yard is having it’s grand opening, with lots of food and drinks, including tropical smoothies, to choose from.

The pop-up shot bar for adults only makes its debut.

The launch event includes food, drinks, endless shots and drinking games for prizes. Space is limited, so RSVP at 525-2849.

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• Sand Wars Invitational – Day 1 Time: 7pm Venue: Beach Soccer Stadium

Sand Wars Bahamas is the organisation that introduced beach flag football to the country in and attempt to increase the exposure of the sport to the general public.

The invitational will feature 5 v 5 matches with both male and female teams. Tickets are $8 for adults and $3 for kids under 12.

• Take a Shot Launch Time: 8pm Venue: Westridge Castle

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The route for the 5K run/ walk starts at the West Campus, onto Prospect Ridge, Sanford Drive to Marlin Street, to Dolphin Drive, then onto John F Kennedy Drive then back to the church. Registration is $20. For more information, contact 242-364-6266

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The Rotary Club of Nassau Sunrise is having its annual race. Registration is $20 and the first prize is $500.

Donations will be in aid of building an autism classroom at the Sister Anne Russell Preschool on Kemp Road.

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• Junkanoo Aerobics with Jay and Tavette Time: 7am - 8.15am Venue: Solomon’s Yamacraw Stores

Enjoy Junkanoo aerobics with Jay from Jay Fitness and yoga with instructor Tavette Darville. The event is free, just bring a yoga mat.

• Sand Wars Invitational – Day 2 Time: 8am Venue: Beach Soccer Stadium

Sand Wars Bahamas is the organisation that introduced beach flag football to the country in and attempt to increase the exposure of the sport to the general public.

Sat Sept 7 Nassau Night Market Time: Saturday 2pm - 10pm Venue: Market Slope, Downtown

The relaunch of the outdoor street festival celebrates Bahamian culture and entrepreneurship through offering entertainment, flavorful foods and precious products. It is a family-friendly event which seeks to enliven Downtown’s dead hours.

The invitational will feature 5 v 5 matches with both male and female teams. Tickets are $8 for adults and $3 for kids under 12.

• Bring Ya Stuff Market Time: 9am Venue: Old City Market parking lot, Village Road

• Rotary Club of Nassau Sunrise Annual Fun Run/Walk/Ride Time: 5.30am - 10am Start: Arawak Cay

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• The Golden Walk for Pastor Mario’s 50th Time: 6am Venue: Bahamas Harvest Church West Campus (formerly Galleria Cinemas)

The best place to sell your used goods, from kitchen and décor items to children’s toys. Buyers can browse gently used second-hand items to see what they want

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floaties ready for the popular Floatilla party. Harbour Safaris will be providing shuttles for the day. Tickets will need to be purchased in advance and space is limited, so call 394-8687. The beach, Jack Daniel’s and Bacardi cocktails await guests.

• Domino’s Neighbourhood Pizza Crawl Time: 3pm - 6pm Venue: Carmichael Road location

This is the last stop on the Neighbourhood Pizza Crawl for the Summer. Enjoy backto-school giveaways and pizza specials.

• Tea Talk with Bay Teas Time: 4pm - 6pm Venue: Gypsy Books & Tea, Parliament Street to take home.

• Floatilla – Rose

Island Edition Time: 12noon - 6pm Venue: Rose Island

End Summer with a splash and get your biggest

This is an open, sit-down discussion on beneficial and toxic gender roles. “We are all experts at living” is the motto of the monthly event. Each month a poet or author will be featured.

Bay Teas unique blends will also be available.

Live performance by Jah Doctrine.

• Beginner Wine Tasting Time: 8pm Venue: Silver Thatch Company, Pompey Square

Swirl. Sip. And fall in love with wine at this tasting event designed especially for new wine drinkers. The event is free but participants must register by calling 376-0832.

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• Salsa Saturdays at Fusion Time: 10pm Venue: Fusion Superplex

Dance the salsa, the language of the soul. Admission for the weekly event is free.

Food and drinks will be on sale.

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books

Atwood, Rushdie novels among Fall highlights NEW YORK (AP) — This Fall, some of the timeliest and most topical books will be found in the fiction section.

From Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments,” her sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” to Lucy Ellmann’s epic “Ducks, Newburyport” and Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte,” novelists and short story writers are addressing the news of the moment through imagined narratives. Some are set in the present, others in the distant past and others in the undetermined future.

“Fiction at its best is a journey toward the truth by an indirect route,” said Rushdie, whose novel brings the tale of Don Quixote into the age of YouTube and reality television. “If done properly,

(it) can capture a moment in such a way that readers in the present can gain ‘recognition pleasure’ — ‘Yes, this is how things are.’”

Atwood has said the rise of Donald Trump helped convince her to write “The Testaments,” which returns readers to the ruthless patriarchy of Gilead and to those resisting it. “Ducks, Newburyport” is a 1,000-page journey through the worried mind of an Ohio housewife who makes pies and despairs about Trump. Jeanine Cummins’ highly anticipated “American Dirt” tells of a bookseller in Mexico who is threatened by a drug cartel and attempts to flee to the United States. Rob Hart sets his thriller “The Warehouse” within a giant

tech company called “The Cloud,” a story billed as “Big Brother meets Big Business.”

“Journalism is incredibly important, and data is great at making people angry, but a story sits with you the way data doesn’t,” Hart says. “Stories are about empathy. I think we’ve collectively decided our comfort is more important than someone else’s discomfort, and putting people in someone else’s shoes for a bit seems a good way to counter that.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel, “The Water Dancer,” is the story of a slave’s external and internal journey; the author has called the work a “myth” to counteract the racist beliefs of the present, explaining during last spring’s

booksellers convention that fiction can change minds by taking us to a “bone-deep level.” New fiction also will come from Ann Patchett (”The Dutch House”), Stephen King (”The Institute”) and Zadie Smith (”Grand Union”) and Monique Truong (”The Sweetest Fruits”).

Stephen Chbosky’s “Imaginary Friend” is his first novel since his million-selling debut, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and Andre Aciman’s “Find Me” is a sequel to his novel that was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie, “Call Me By Your Name.”

Prize-winning poet Robert Hass will release his first new collection since 2010, “Summer Snow.” Poetry also is coming from Sharon Olds, Nick Flynn, Anne Simpson, Daniel Poppick and the country’s new poet laureate, Joy Harjo.

“Cutting Edge,” a crime and mystery anthology edited by Joyce Carol Oates, features poems and stories from Atwood, Edwidge Danticat and Aimee Bender, among other women.

“In noir, women’s place until fairly recently has been limited to two: muse, sexual object,” Oates writes in the introduction. “The particular strength

of the female noir vision isn’t a recognisable style but rather a defiantly female, indeed feminist, perspective.”

Current events will be addressed directly in such nonfiction as Ibram X. Kendi’s “How To Be an Antiracist,” Naomi Klein’s “On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal” and Stephen Greenhouse’s “Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.” Edward Snowden, the former government employee famed for leaking documents that revealed a massive government surveillance system, has written the memoir “Permanent Record.”

Jonathan Safran Foer, known for such novels as “Everything is Illuminated,” offers a daily approach to climate change in “We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast.”

He says the book came out of a conversation with an environmental philanthropist about an expression both had heard too often, “We have to do something.” Foer said the most direct and tangible action is cutting down on meat consumption, a point he felt he couldn’t make through fiction.

“I was aiming to make some quite specific factual claims,”

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art

Artists share pictures of hope in wake of Hurricane Dorian

By JEFFARAH GIBSON | Tribune Features Writer | jgibson@tribunemedia.net

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n response to the heartwrenching images and videos that flooded his social media of those impacted by Hurricane Dorian, Tribune cartoonist Jamaal Rolle chose to express his feelings of helplessness by creating a piece of art which reflects a message of hope.

Like many others, Jamaal, who is also known as The Celebrity Artist, felt powerless as the catastrophic storm hit Abaco and Freeport, leaving devastation in its wake. To cope with the whirlwind of emotions he was experiencing, he did the only thing he could at the time, which was to create art.

Jamaal’s piece was published on social media earlier this week.

It features two hands strongly gripping one another, signifying unity. He called it “Together We Rebuild!”

“It was a drawing I had worked on for a while that was unreleased.

I found it to be appropriate for a time like this,” he told Tribune Weekend. “In times like this artwork plays an important role because it can uplift us when we are feeling down,” he said.

Jamaal’s painting received an overwhelming response from people who said they felt uplifted when they saw the image.

“I just really wanted to contrast all of the negative images. It was just so crazy and overwhelming so I wanted to post something that offered people a little bit of hope,” he said. “This painting uplifts one’s spirit, and being in such a time of

Art by The Celebrity Artist, Jamaal Rolle

I just really wanted to contrast all of the negative images. It was just so crazy and overwhelming so I wanted to post something that offered people a little bit of hope.”

– Jamaal Rolle

Art by Rashad Cash

“I have created this piece in honour of those who perished during this terrible hurricane called Dorian, and for all those survivors.”

– Rashad Cash

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he says. “I wanted to make a point about how we can make a huge dent in the environment by some relatively small changes in how we eat.”

The Pulitzer Prize winners who helped relaunch #MeToo have books out: The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow has written “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators” and Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey reflect on their New York Times coverage in “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.” The woman sexually assaulted by

Stanford University student Brock Turner, her name still unknown to the general public, has a memoir out in September.

Memoirs also are coming from former UN Ambassadors Susan Rice and Samantha Power, Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, actresses Julie Andrews and Demi Moore, and chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s “A Republic, If You Can Keep It” collects speeches and essays and is expected to touch on his contentious confirmation to the court in 2017. Former

Defence Secretary Jim Mattis looks back on his career in “Call Sign Chaos.”

Music lovers again can look forward to a new round of memoirs. Elton John’s “Me” is expected this fall, along with Debbie Harry’s “Face It,” Flea’s “Acid for the Children” and Andrew Ridgeley’s “Wham!: George Michael and Me.” Prince’s “The Beautiful Ones” is built around a manuscript he and co-author Dan Piepenbring were working on at the time of his death.

A former Prince collaborator, Morris Day, tells his story in

“On Time: A Princely Life in Funk.”

Liz Phair’s “Horror Stories” is less a rock star memoir than a memoir that happens to be written by a rock star. It’s a collection of personal essays reflecting on everything from divorce to the birth of her son to climbing trees on her grandparents’ property. The singer-songwriter known for her classic “Exile in Guyville” album told The Associated Press in a recent telephone interview that Prince’s death was one reason she decided to write the book.

“When these great music legends die, you realise how much they meant to you and how much they shaped your career. ... And it gets you thinking about your own legacy,” she said, adding that her book also was a way of confronting the “horror” of the daily headlines.

“I believe there’s a power to being open and connected to your emotions, acknowledging what’s happened to you. I don’t think it shows weakness.

I think it fortifies you against a whole lot of hot air.”

HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer

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history

A brief review of policing Forgotten facts | Paul C Aranha

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am grateful for the book “A History of the Royal Bahamas Police Force”, published in 1990 to mark the 150th anniversary of the force. It is filled with interesting and valuable details of our police force.

The name Royal Bahamas Police Force gives a cachet of respect to the organisation and to its members, especially when they are dressed in their brightest uniforms.

For a century or so before the Bahamas Police Act of 1840, Nassau had a constable who did little, if any, police work and there were night watchmen to protect the town.

Any uprising would have been put down by soldiers of West India Regiment stationed here.

The Bahamas Police Force came into existence on March 1, 1840, under the command of Inspector General John Pinder. There were only 16 policemen, all former slaves.

Their duty-day started at 10am and lasted 24 hours. During each shift they performed foot patrols – two hours during the day, followed by a two-hour rest; four hours at night, followed by four hours of rest.

From 1851 until 1921, when today’s Central Police Station on Bank Lane opened, the HQ had been in a building on the east side of Parliament Street.

From its inception the force had always been commanded by non-Bahamians. One of these, R A Erskine-Lindop, who was the first to have the title Commissioner of Police, arrived in 1936 and became a household name after Sir Harry Oakes was murdered, specifically because he was whisked off to Trinidad without having been called to give evidence in the Harry Oakes murder trial.

Erskine-Lindop was succeeded by F G Lancaster, and

A vintage postcard featuring the Royal Bahamas Police Force

Does anyone remember this uniform? it was not until Edward Sears joined the force that the post went to a Bahamian. Sears retired in 1955, to be followed

by E J Colchester-Wemyss.

During this period, 41 policemen were recruited from Barbados. In 1964, women were invited to join the force; 122 applied and six were accepted.

The police got their first boat in 1958, but another 13 years passed before the Marine Division was established. There is also an Air Wing and the very essential firefighters.

One of my favourite public entertainments is to watch the police band beat the retreat, something they do so very well. The drum major, with his inevitable mace, reminds of when I was drum major in the band of the Woodbridge School Combined Cadet Force.

A police band is first mentioned in 1893, with a complement of only 14 members. Under Colchester-Wemyss, a number of specialists were brought in to improve the force and the band. Dennis Morgan, one of this group, served as the

Captain Eddie Sears (From the collection of R G Lightbourn)

conductor and musical director until 1977. He and the band made frequent flyers on Bahamas Airways’ DC-3 aircraft, piloted by a Bahamian crew, usually Captain Philip Farrington and me.

In 1964, the band became a separate branch of the police force and, except in emergencies, its 32 members became full-time musicians.

As would be expected, the post of commissioner is now always occupied by a Bahamian: Salathiel Thompson, Gerald Bartlett, Bernard Bonamy, Paul Farquharson, Reginald Ferguson, Ellison Greenslade and Anthony Ferguson. For several years, my sister, Elizabeth Strachan, chairperson of the Public Service Commission, was also chair of the Police Service Commission and the Defence Force Commission.

American TV news programmes are full of reports of alleged police brutality and this has become an almost daily factor in our Bahamian media, which reminds me of the age-old adage: “Not only must justice be done; justice must also be seen to be done.”

When Bahamian policemen shoot and kill random members of the public, and tied-up Bahamian dogs, that “cachet of respect” is tarnished.

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

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literary lives – leonard cohen

The songwriting king who composed 'Hallelujah' Leonard Cohen (1934 – 2016)

Sir Christopher Ondaatje reveals the quixotic life and musical career of the Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist responsible for cult musical songs of the late 1960s and 1970s, and who made a remarkable recovery after a 15year hiatus.

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eonard Cohen was born into a middle class Jewish family in Westmount, Quebec on September 21, 1934. His mother was the daughter of a Lithuanian Talmudic writer who had emigrated to Canada in 1927. His father owned a substantial clothing store in Montreal but died when Cohen was nine years old. He studied music

and poetry at Westmount High School, was heavily involved in the school’s theatre programme, taught himself to play the acoustic guitar, and formed a country-folk group called “The Buckskin Boys”. Cohen spent his nights on Saint Laurent Boulevard where he “watched the gangsters, pimps, whores, and wrestlers dance around the night”.

The seedy night-club atmosphere

infected the young student, and he would read his poetry at nearby clubs and restaurants. He wrote the lyrics to some of his best known songs in those early years.

In 1951, Cohen enrolled at McGill University where he became president of the McGill Debating Union, and won the Chester MacNaghten Library Competition for his poems “Sparrows” and “Thoughts of a Landsman”.

He also published poems in the 1954 Magazine CIV/n which included poems by his literary professors Irving Layton and Louis Dudek. Cohen graduated from McGill University with a B A degree in 1955. He published his first book of poetry Let Us Compare Mythologies in 1956 which contained most of the poems Cohen had written between the ages of fifteen and twenty.

After finishing his undergraduate degree, Cohen spent a term in the McGill Faculty of Law before spending a year at the Columbia University School of General Studies. He described his graduate school experience: “Passion without flesh, love without climax.”

He left New York, returning to Montreal where he survived with the proceeds from a small trust income set up by his father. His subsequent book, “The Spice-Box of Earth” (1961),

although not a huge financial success, helped expand Cohen’s field of contact and glean some critical recognition as a new voice in Canadian literature.

But funds were running out. Cohen survived in quasi-reclusive circumstances and bought a house on the Greek island Hydra in the Saronic Gulf. There he wrote “Flowers for Hitler” (1964), “The Favourite Game” (1963) and “Beautiful Losers” (1966) – which contained a number of sexually graphic passages. Disappointed with his lack of success as a writer, Cohen moved to the United States to try his hand at songwriting. His books “Death of a Ladies’ Man” and “Book of Mercy” got good critical reviews but gave him little financial reward.

In the early 1960s Cohen lived in rural Hydra in Greece, in an apartment with intermittent electricity that he was renting for $14 a month. He lived there with Marianne Ihlen, with whom he was romantically involved for most of the 1960s. Ihlen was then 25 years old, a year younger than Cohen, with a son and an unfaithful husband.

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directed Cohen in those early creative days which she would later describe as “filled with writing and lovemaking”.

Cohen would write at least three pages during the day, and the evenings would be devoted to “drinking, dining and discussion”. Instinctively, she seemed to know what an artist needed. He often had dark moods through which she would nurse him. For the sake of his career Cohen realised that he had to spend some time in New York if he was ever to get his songs published.

“At the age of 33 the Canadian singer-songwriter ... had just released his first album. He is in New York, staying in the Chelsea Hotel, which is his kind of place. “I love hotels to which, at 4am, you can bring along a midget, a bear and four ladies, drag them to your room and no one cares at it at all.

At three in the morning, Cohen returns to the Chelsea. So far it has been a dismal evening. He ate a cheeseburger at the Bronco Burger, but found it “no help at all”. Then he wasted time in the White Horse Tavern.

He presses the button to summon the unusually small lift, and gets in. But before he has had time to pull the door closed, a young lady with wild hair has entered. It is Janis Joplin, who is resident in Suite 411. Aged 24, she too has just released her first album, and her career is taking off.

Travelling up in the lift with Janis Joplin, Cohen asks her if she is looking for someone. ‘Yes’, she replies, ‘I am looking for Kris Kristofferson.’

‘Little Lady’, says Cohen, making his voice gruffer, ‘you’re in luck. I am Kris Kristofferson.’

‘I thought he was bigger.’

‘I used to be bigger, but I’ve been sick.’

By the time the lift reaches the fourth floor, it is clear to both of them that they will be spending the night together. ... this is after all, the Chelsea Hotel, and as he observed some decades later, ‘Those were generous times.’ “ – One on One, Craig Brown, 2011

Three years later, Cohen hears that Janis Joplin has died from a heroin overdose in the Landmark Hotel in Los Angeles. Feeling sad but inspired, Cohen scribbles the words of “Chelsea Hotel”, one of his most famous songs, on a napkin:

“I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, You were talking so brave and so sweet;

Norwegian Marianne Ihlen was Cohen’s longtime love and muse.

She was the subject of Cohen’s 1967 song “So Long, Marianne”.

A scene from the new documentary “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love”

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Giving me head on the unmade bed, While the limousines wait in the street

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel.

You were famous, your heart was a legend.

You told me again you preferred handsome men, but for me you would make an exception.

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, You fixed yourself, you said: “Well never mind, we are ugly, but we have the music...”

Marianne Ihlen followed Cohen to New York. They both had other

relationships. Neither was faithful. There were many lovers. Ihlen remained in love with Cohen after the relationship ended at the end of the 1960s. She returned to Norway where she married an engineer with children from a previous marriage. Decades later the feature documentary “Marianne & Leonard: Words & Music” would be made by Patrick Broomfield featuring the song’s chorus:

“Now so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”

Cohen was a fringe member of Andy Warhol’s “Factory” crowd. He tended to write songs about his personal relationships. His song “Suzanne” became

a hit for Judy Collins who recalled that when she first met him he admitted that he couldn’t sing or play the guitar, nor did he think “Suzanne” was even a song.

“And then he played me ‘Suzanne’.

I said, ‘Leonard you must come with me to this big fundraiser I’m doing.’ … He’d never sung in front of a live audience before then. He got on stage and started singing. Everybody was going crazy – they loved it. And he stopped halfway through and walked off the stage. Everybody went nuts ...

They demanded he come back. And I demanded; I said, ‘I’ll go out with you.’

So we went out, and we sang it. And of course, that was the beginning.”

Judy Collins first introduced Cohen to live television audiences in the 1960s, where they performed duets of his songs. Joan Baez later performed “Suzanne”. Cohen said he was duped into giving up the rights for the song – but said it would be wrong to write a song that was so well loved that you would get rich from it. After performing at a few folk festivals he was seen

by Columbia Records representative John R Hammond who signed Cohen to a record contract. Cohen’s first album was Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) – which became a cult favourite in the US, as well as the UK. In 1971, film director Robert Altman featured the songs “The Stranger Song”, “Winter Lady” and “Sisters of Mercy” from the album “McCabe & Mrs Miller” – now considered a masterpiece.

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In 1970, Leonard Cohen toured for the first time in the US, Canada, and Europe. He was becoming increasingly popular as a cult songwriter and performer, and with pianist John Lissauer they created a new sound – praised by the critics – and continued to tour together in 1974 and early 1975 in support of his record “New Skin for the Old Ceremony”. During the 1970s he also toured with singer Jennifer Warnes as a backup singer – even though her career was in much better shape than his was. She would eventually become a fixture on Cohen’s future albums – receiving full credit for covocals. Many years later she recorded an album of Cohen’s songs Famous Blue Raincoat. He said: “So this is a true friend – someone who in the face of great derision, has always supported me.”

Warnes’ recording helped restore Cohen’s flagging career in the US. Cohen’s famous song “Hallelujah” was first released on Cohen’s studio album Various Positions in 1984 – but had limited initial success despite his 1885 European tour. It received much greater popularity after a 1991 album cover by John Cale which formed the basis for a later cover by Jeff Buckley.

“Hallelujah” has been performed by over 200 artists in several languages, and is the subject of a book “The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah’ “– now one of the most often performed songs in American musical history.

In 1994, Leonard Cohen retreated to the Mount Baldy Zen Centre near Los Angeles beginning what became five years of seclusion at the Centre. In 1996, he was ordained as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and took the name Jikan, meaning “silence”.

Although there was expectation that Cohen would not resume his recording or publishing career, he returned to Los Angeles in 1999 and began again to contribute to “The Leonard Cohen Files”. After two years of production Cohen returned to music in with the release of “Ten New Songs” which included the song “Alexandra Leaving”. The album was a major hit for Cohen in Canada and Europe and he supported it with another hit single “In My Secret Life”.

In late 2004 (according to a 2012 biography of Cohen by Sylvie Simmons), Kelley Lynch, Cohen’s longtime manager, “took care of Leonard’s business affairs ... and was not simply his

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manager but a close friend, almost part of the family.”

Simmons notes that in 2014 Cohen’s daughter Lorca began to suspect Lynch of financial impropriety, and when Cohen checked his bank accounts, he noticed that he had unknowingly paid a credit card bill of Lynch’s of $75,000, and also found that most of the money in his accounts was gone – including money from his retirement accounts and charitable trust funds.

Cohen discovered that this leakage had begun as early as 1996, when Lynch started selling Cohen’s musical rights without Cohen’s approval. In October 2005 Cohen sued Lynch, alleging that she had misappropriated over US$5 million from Cohen’s retirement fund, leaving only $150,000. Cohen was sued in turn by other former business associates, which put him back in the public spotlight. Maclean’s magazine in Canada ran a cover feature article entitled “Devastated”. In March 2006 Cohen won a civil suit against Lynch and was awarded $9 million by a Los Angeles County Superior Court. Lynch ignored the suit and did not respond to a subpoena for financial records.

As a result it was widely reported that Cohen would never be able to collect the awarded amount.

Leonard Cohen’s so-called world tour – the first in 15 years – began in Fredericton, New Brunswick on May 11, 2008 and was extended until 2010.

It encompassed Canada and Europe and included the Glastonbury Festival where his performance of “Hallelujah” was the highlight of the entire event.

He also played London’s O2 arena, and an open-air concert in Dublin. He then toured New Zealand and Australia before playing his first American concert in 15 years at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. On September 18, 2009 the 75-year-old collapsed on stage in Valencia, Spain while performing “Bird on the Wire”. He was taken to hospital but performed again in Barcelona three days later. He returned to the US with 15 shows earning a reported $9.5 million, putting Cohen as one of Billboard magazine’s top musical money-makers of the year.

Leonard Cohen’s 12th studio album was released on January 31, 2012. The lyrics for the song “Going Home” were published as a poem in The New Yorker magazine. The New York Times reporter said of Cohen and his album that “mortality was very much on his mind and in his songs”. He characterised the recording as “an autumnal album, musing on memories and final

The death of legendary rock and blues singer Janis Joplin inspired Cohen to write “Chelsea Hotel”, one of his most famous songs, on a napkin. It is named after the place where they first met.

Cohen in the 1970s

reckonings ... It grapples once again with topics Cohen has pondered throughout his career: love, desire, faith, betrayal, redemption. Some of the diction is biblical; some is drily sardonic.”

Cohen embarked on yet another world tour in 2012 and performed one of his last concerts in Oslo, Norway.

His former lover Marianne Ihlen attended the concert and Cohen sang again:

“Now so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”

Three years after the concert Jan Christian Mollestad who had filmed the feature documentary “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love” received a text message from Marianne that she was in hospital and was going to die.

She asked Mollestad a favour: “Could you please tell Leonard.”

Mollestad did just that and received a letter from Cohen.

“Dearest Marianne, I’m just a little behind you, close enough to take your hand. This old body has given up, just as yours has too, and the eviction notice is on its way any day now. I’ve never forgotten your love and your beauty. But you know that. I don’t have to say any more. Safe travels old friend. See you down the road. Love and gratitude.

Leonard.”

On July 26, 2016, two days after receiving the letter, Ihlen fell into a coma and died. She was 81. For her funeral Ihlen had requested Cohen’s song Anthem be played.

“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There’s a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.”

Cohen died, aged 82, in Los Angeles three months later.

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He acknowledges that he has quoted liberally from Wikipedia; I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons; and Sarfraz Manzoor’s The Times review: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love.

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An animal rescuer's world A Animal matters | KIM ARANHA

ngry, disgusted, despondent and crestfallen – these are but four adjectives that describe how I frequently feel about my fellow man and what we, who love animals, are up against every single day of the year.

A few weeks ago a lady posted a photo on Facebook of a mother dog and a few puppies. She explained that the mother gave birth to the puppies in the neighbour’s yard. She went on to explain that the neighbour had been planning to throw the puppies in the garbage, but the writer was reaching out for help from the Bahamas Humane Society because she couldn’t bare the thought of the puppies being put in the garbage…. PUT IN THE GARBAGE! How can any living, breathing, thinking human even consider that as an option? Are they unable to relate to the fact that these puppies are creatures with a heartbeat, who know hunger, thirst and pain? I simply am unable to understand how that could have ever been an option. Thank God for the good neighbour who called the shelter. The pups are safe with us and have been fostered.

Every day, every hour, we see and hear of this callous, uncaring approach to animals. It is enormously prevalent in the Bahamas, but the world over there are countless examples of the atrocious way animals are treated.

I wrote recently about the group of unnamed teenagers who got such a kick out of beating a beautiful Iguana to death in Florida. Of course, the Florida officials encouraged that kind of behaviour by inviting the general public to kill iguanas because there are too many of them in South Florida. Talk about asking for trouble and inviting disaster.

I am, of course, very concerned about the entire world, yes, but I have to channel my greatest concern towards this country of ours. In size we are not

even as big as the average small city in other parts of the world. We have yet to reach the milestone of half a million inhabitants.

We are small, with enormous potential, and yet we do not appear to be capable or tremendously interested in turning this place into the utopian paradise it should be and could be for man, animal and tourist alike.

The lady who was going to throw the puppies in the garbage, how do you think she views fellow humans? Do you suppose she loves and nurtures? Does she care if she sees a fellow human suffering? What was her history? Was she mistreated and abused as a child and does not know empathy? How do you get to the mental state that pain and suffering of a warm, cute little puppy is of no consequence?

Not a day after that depressing report came another, of a female pit bull running down the road dragging a chain, shockingly thin and with a huge and painful tumour. A friend of mine went out to catch her and was able to do so just as a lady driver aimed her car at the dog and my friend and tried to hit them. She almost succeeded. What was she thinking? Why would you aim at a dog and the person trying to save it?

The poor pittie, overbred and suffering, was rescued and shown kindness, but eventually had to be put to sleep because she was in an incurable state.

Sometimes I just want to climb up on a cloud and fly away to a land of kind compassion, and world of gentleness and consideration. Far away from all this horror and unkindness.

The only saving grace are those amazing videos that we see on Facebook of the positive side of humans with their animals. They come from far away, but land on my Facebook page frequently. There are beautiful stories of rescue and kindness, of convalescence and compassion. These animal videos are a beacon of light in the middle of a swamp of neglect and apathy: that dark and sad world of helplessness that animal rescuers know only too well, and many others find themselves all too capable to ignore.

If I were to show these uplifting videos of kindness in the Bahamas many would laugh, or worse still, be disgusted that a human would allow their dog to lick their nose or snuggle up to them in bed.

There is a frightful disconnect between the people who really do care and who get it – they see that kindness to all, man and animal is essential for a harmonious world – and those other poor souls who simply don’t get it; animals don’t matter to them. They do not understand that animals can feel emotions similar to humans, they don’t know, and they don’t want to know. They simply don’t care!

I hang my head in shame.

(PHOTO/PATRICIA VAZQUEZ)

‘LOOK INTO MY SOULFUL EYES...’

By THE BAHAMAS HUMANE SOCIETY

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pike looks very worried in this photo, but is less so now that he’s outside and sharing space with a lovely female dog. Spike is about five years old and is looking for a calm compassionate home so he can show off his playful side. He’s had a rough start to his life and hopes for something better.

If you are the perfect fit for Spike, please 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. Spike looks forward to meeting you!

• The BHS Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 25, at the shelter at 6.30pm. Everyone is allowed to attend, but only registered members are able to vote. Are you a BHS member? If not, become one today!

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