The Bahamas is in a dangerously uncertain position. Hurricane Dorian caused immense damage to the physical landscape of The Abacos and Grand Bahama and the mental landscape of the entire nation during its 3-day rampage. Surrounding the topics of creating strategies to recover from these losses, a fashionable buzzword pops up frequently: resilience. The survivors …
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Hurricane Dorian blindsided me. As the monster storm traveled in the Atlantic, I was in the Solomon Islands, a small archipelagic country in the Pacific. I was, quite literally, on the other side of the world – and utterly oblivious to the seriousness of what The Abacos and Grand Bahama were about to encounter. Historically, …
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This story is without question the most important story I have ever told. It is the story of Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas. But even more so, it is the story of the Bahamian people—my people. I am a storyteller. I probably got it honest—in part, from my great-grandfather, the legendary Biminite and musician Nathaniel …