Posted by George Major on June 27, 2001 at 07:45:08:
Wednesday 27th June 2001
Weather
Lastnight for the first time in a while it rained. A small shower never the less appreciated as a step in the right direction for local farmers along the island of Eleuthera and in Tarpum Bay. Rain brings with it cool relieving breezes and relief from the long drought and warm weather cycles during the summer in the tropics.
News
What a wonderful day Tuesday was. Mid day a friend and I set out from Tarpum Bay with the goal of further marketing and distributing the book, ":Romance, Kalik and Conch Salad," written by freelance writer George Major, Myself here in Tarpum Bay. We distributed the book in electronic book or CD-rom form to gift stores along the Island of Eleuthera from Rock Sound in the south to Harbor Island in the North Eleuthera area with plans to distribute the book to gift shops in Spanish wells Eleuthera in a short while.
Our Island tour was both successful and fun. Not only did we get to meet all the wonderful people having the great lives owning and operating these gift stores along the beautiful Island of Eleuthera but we got the chance to show my friend from the Ozarks in Missouri some of the local tourists sites along the island on up to Harbor Island. Not only were new friendships made but a great time promoting the book was had by all of us involved.
You can purchase copies of the electronic ebook at many of the gift stores on the island of Eleuthera. Just ask for it and get copy as soon as you can to read the exciting adventurous life that can be had on the Beautiful Island of Eleuthera, Bahamas.
We stopped along the way during the long drive at tourist sites like the Cliffs in James Cistern and the Caves just outside of Hatchet Bay and at the Purple May resturant in Upper Bogue for some wonderful lunch. My friend wanted to see some construction worker friends of our from Tarpum Bay temporarily residing on Harbor Island doing some construction work for the local population and foreign investors while they are staying there. In the process of doing this we had a very wonderful unexpected time as one can have when visiting the wonderful Island of Harbor Island impromtue. Once there we met a beautiful local gal living on Habor Island, residing there for seven years now after buying a home and making the move from South Carolina some seven years ago. The stay was excellent.
We met new friends through our new friend from the Carolina's and the construction workers all of whom have a great sense of humor, a desire for hardwork and a love for great friendships and great people like those we have the opportunity to meet here in Tarpum Bay many of the times when we meet foreigners and travelling Bahamians visiting ou lovely shores. What a wonderful time just sitting chatting, further promoting my electronic ebook, "Romance, Kalik and Conch Salad,' what a wonderful time conversation, good friends, beer and brandy can bring. I salute the hardworking men of the village of Tarpum Bay, wonderful friends and women with a good taste for the right relationships in friendship and love among we the kind hearted local Bahamians we were taught to be while growing up into the men we are today. Hip, Hip, Hooray for wonderful love and friendships. Long live love and friendship forever, and ever. Wonderful people don't go lonely in the Island of freedom, Eleuthera, Bahamas. They return for more and more and more…
More news from Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, Bahamas tomorrow
Tuesday, 26 June 2001
Weather
This morning the Weather in Tarpum Bay is light and cool. The skies are slighty overcast with some chance of rain today. The temperature right now is 87 degrees, soon to reach the low to mid nineties, with a cool light breeze drifting over the island from
Tuesday coast to coast. It's a wonderful day for beaching and suntanning, perfect weather for a fishing trip or some beaching and outdoor activities. South Eleuthera can use some rain as it has been very dry over the past few months
News
Politics are in the air in Eleuthera and Tarpum Bay. At every street corner and gathering of people along the roadways there are discussions and arguments going on concerning government policies and the decision the Prime Minister has to make in accepting to run for another five year term against his own best wishes. Debates among locals also center around the hotly debated issue that not registering to vote, as threatened by many Eleutherians, is an act of cowardice and should not be an option taken as suggested by many Eleutherians. Many are so frustrated by the leading majority elected party, the FNM that they are threatening not to vote. They do not wish to vote for the opposition so they are caught between what we call a rock and a hard place without an option. However Eleutherians strain to suggest that no vote no voice.
"If you don't stand up like a man, register and vote don't have anything to say", they say. They emphasize strongly in a high voice that if one does not register to vote and vote that behaviour is a lost cause that the people of Eleuthera will not tolerate. They must register and vote in order to further at lease realize and exercise their democratic right to vote for whom they choose. Therefore democracy is at the forefront of debate in Tarpum Bay and Eleuthera and everyone is talking and getting involved. A more perfect democracy is the goal and aim of all. The question is how will the more perfect democracy be achieved without the pain and suffering which occurs in other democratically controlled areas of the world we view on Cable TV or Satelite? The Bahamas is a peaceful nation, perhaps the most peaceful nation on the globe and any move to disrupt that near perfect balance and peace is seen as a strong threat toward the one of the most beautiful treasures the Bahama Islands have to offer, peace, democracy, love and a long tradition of tranquillity.
Eleutherians, along with many other Bahamians see the need for much more than the basic need for infrastructure and are calling on the government and investors, private and international for more opportunity for development and jobs for its citizens. This once proud island especially the Southern had been humbled in the most visible way having to turn its sons and daughters out to the world in a mass exodus for generations now for survival. These seemingly light political discussions being held in the local atmosphere of Eleuthera Island hold the potential out come and influence for the very essence of what is at stake in Eleuthera, the turn around and re-awakening of an entire community of neglected ambitious people. A generation in waiting, relying only on news and promises for the survival of its continued plight and life as time moves on and other similar communities in the country of the Bahamas prosper to no untold limit.
Eleutherians are settling with hurt and neglect that has been their prize from the political fall out of the last twenty years and for several generations now. This bitter acceptance of a dying economy and a stagnant economic atmosphere is the greastest tradgedy to befall our Eleuthera and South Eleuthera and is almost an unthinkable concept for many of us in Eleuthera and Tarpum Bay. We refuse to see the poverty befalling us as we are left along by central government to gradually die a slow death, disappearing out of existence with as much as the quiet loving whimper we are so casually known by ever stranger visiting South Eleuthera and Eleuthera knows us for.
We are generally a disenfranchised, happy loving people, hanging in the wings with a great sense of the political tradgey that has befalled us. Eleutherians are now talking about this travesty and gross miscarriage of national economic planning and justice.
More news from Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, Bahamas tomorrow