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Who rang the Bell?

By Lamoure

The City sleeps in darkness.
Mothers hold their babies to their breasts
Fathers are restless, sleepless
What will tomorrow bring?

Grenada, Grenada, Land of Ours!

Where our parents and fore-parents laboured
for many long and painful hours
the Land of our forefathers
the Land that keeps striving
with vibrant , beautiful colors
with only rain and sun to help
grow such beautiful flowers

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NOW THE FESTIVAL OVER....................”

It is February 8. It is a new day in Grenada. It is the proverbial “first day” in the rest of our individual and collectives lives. The Independence festival over and it is time to get back to the bruising job of building our country. We are now 37- years- old; yes, we have travelled this far since we pioneered the march of the Caribbean’s smallest states to political independence and nationhood. On that fateful day- February 7, 1974, the Statehood flag was lowered and in its stead we hoisted the radiant gold, red and green with the nutmeg on a red disc in the middle.

NATION FOOD AND NATIONHOOD: A REVIEW OF MERLE COLLINS’S “SARACCA AND NATION”.

Caldwell Taylor

“The whole of nature”, wrote William Ralph Inge, “is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive” . We eat to live and if Brillat-Savarin the eighteenth century French gastronome is to be believed, “we are what we eat”. Of course the idea that there exists a relation between food and character did not originate with Brillat-Savarin: the Old Testament anticipated him by more than 3,000 years. Now in addition to being what we eat, can it also be said that we are how we eat, the how calling attention to the rites, customs and conventions that attend our ceremonial and other eating? I believe it is so.