Republican Reflections

My patriotic, festive TV stand, Christ Church, Barbados, December 2021.  Photo Copyright © 2022 by Robert Edison Sandiford.

 

IT’S BEEN YEARS I’ve been doing this. Started sometime around when my daughter, Aeryn, was born in 06. Fifteen years ago. Possibly longer. A more hopeful time by any current estimate, though we were about to become mired in the Great Recession (2007-2009). I would have been seeking to inspire my students, then as now.

Dear Mia, come lewwe talk…

Table talk, everything in one. Illustration Copyright © 2021 by Izora Devonish.

 

DEAR MIA,

May I call you Mia? Madam Prime Minister? PM? Not Aunty Mia. I know who my aunts are and have been, and that would confuse our relationship, or what it is supposed to be.

How to begin?

Barbados a Republic: Three Times a Charm?

Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaking at the United Nations in 2019.  Barbados' first Prime Minister, Errol Barrow, declared in a December 1966 address to the UN that the newly independent country would be "friends of all, satellites of none." Photo Copyright (c) 2019. 

 

"Beware....  He'll pour a honeyed potion in your ear, and you'll wake up one day and all you'll say is 'Republic!  Republic!  Republic!'"  Gladiator