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PM Owen Arthur (Barbados) This weeks Dialogue

I invite you to come and jam with us at the Caribbean Dialogue this Thursday evening at WBAI FM 99.5 120 Wall St - 10th Fl, NY, NY, 10005 where I want us to give a listen to the Barbadian Prime Minister, Owen Arthur who was in NYC last week talking to his peeps over at Fluer De Lis in Ridgewood Queens.

It was a powerful and wide ranging address dealing with among other things:

Effects of 9/11 on Barbados
Intergenerational transformation of Barbados
the Barbadian Government as entreprenuer
Barbados' rank on the UN Human Development Index
Cricket World Cup preparations
The PM's defence of Barbados' position on Petrocaribe and Haiti.
Returning Nationals
The Bajan/Caribbean relationship with the United Snakes of America.
Relations with the Hemisphere
the policy on Guyanese Nationals
An export promotion fund which seeks to engage people in the diaspora to partner with Bajan producers to get more goods out of B'dos and into the Diaspora....with people other than the Koreans and others selling our goods to us.
My respect for the little short man grew after hearing him last Wednesday....From the time of the Ship rider agreement when he stood with Jamaica in opposing the US' desire to just come and do as they willed in the fight against drugs, wanting to treat our waters like they were really their backyard (which we always knew them to be...but just more blatantly so).

Hearing PM Arthur outline what he and his government was all about was refreshing....don't have to agree but at the end of the day, you respect a brother who can stake out his argument with logic and defend it when needed.

But then you always knew me to be a sucker for a bredren who could reason and reason with intelligence, you might disagree....nonetheless it does not take away the gravamen of what the issues he raised...and failed to raise are.

So I recorded that and will have it for us to play and to talk about if you come forward to the dialogue this Thursday October 6....tomorrow, at WBAI FM 99.5 120 Wall St. 10th Fl, NY, NY, 10005

Till then the word is as the word always was....love. Any questions feel free to holler.

Ian Forrest

Founder/Host

Caribbean Dialogue

917 202 2859

caribbeandialogue@yahoo.com

www.caribbeandialogue.org

By the way do you have an interest in doing radio or know anybody who does....I am looking for a few good teachable people...and if you have the skills already then you are more than welcome to participate with me and Kyron Parris in a new project we have going over at Brooklyn College Radio called Connections, it airs Monday Mornings at 9-10.

Ofcourse too if you have materials you believe the community should know about then feel free to send them to me here caribbeandialogue@yahoo.com .

Caribbean Dialogue Topics for Discussion at the Brooklyn Public Library

Period Beginning July 2005 running till December 2005

Proposed By Ian Forrest

Director and Host of The Caribbean Dialogue.

 

Human Rights in the Caribbean; The Case of Jamaica

What perspectives does this society, (one of the hemispheres leaders in murders per capita) offer on human rights/crime and violence that bears any relevance/commonality with the rest of the region.

 

 

A Diaspora in self examination.

What of our role and responsibility to ourselves and to our community both here and there?

 

 

Are we getting the biggest bang for the buck with the West Indian Day Parade?

Brooklyn in particular and the NY tri-state in general comes alive every labor day with the holding of one of America’s biggest street parties. But in all these years since its conception what does a community have to show for it? What has it done for the community….unfairly or otherwise, has it stereotyped us as party people whose seriousness, politically, economically and socially remains a question?

 

 

Perception or reality, Governments of the Caribbean view the Diaspora mainly as a Cash Cow.

Are we anything more to the governments and people of the Caribbean, than a big fat dollar sign, representing for them a secure and growing source of foreign direct investment, one to which they have little or no responsibility.

 

 

US immigration policy and its impact on the Caribbean.

Post 911, the world has been plunged into a security crisis which seems to explain every draconian measure taken insofar as immigration policy and cross border transfers are concerned….the Caribbean however seems to suffer like nowhere else in the world from the consequences of the last 10 years of US immigration policy. Could it be argued that by making itself safer, America is making us, its citizens and green card holders, documented and undocumented aliens safer too?

 

 

On Christmas’ Past….A Diaspora’s reflection and longing.

Can the bright and shimmering lights at Christmas time in America compare to the light of fireflies in our native homelands? Are the traditions here of such that we look not with longing and regret about being home but have adapted to our current experience and will make a Christmas of anywhere we are in the world.

 

  
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