Sylvia Wynter's Dream

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  • Nora’s Atoll

    by Blaire Santos | December 21, 2023 | Hib Ahn Lang Shoa Cop Slayer By Blaire Santos June 4, 1963 That night, Pinita kept vigil outside the execution yard. She and at least two hundred others had followed Nora Parham’s eight sons into the narrow belly of Gabourel Lane outside Her Majesty’s Prison. As Pinita…

  • The Belize Enterprise for Sustainable Technology (BEST)

    by Blaire Santos | December 21, 2023 | Hib Ahn Lang Shoa BEST is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation managed and operated by Belizeans. It was founded in 1985. The organisation helps to create economic benefits for the poor and strengthens the ability of community-based enterprises to sustain their own development. It fulfills this goal by…

  • Bernard’s Atoll

    by Blaire Santos | December 21, 2023 | Adapted from Pictures of My Father During the tender but rather extensive reflection that was the eulogy for Uncle Mike, Daddy leaned over and whispered, “Blaire, noh mek mine so l-lang. Me noh want no lang b-boring eulogy. Seh ‘ih mi love ih daughter and ih farm,’…

  • Brodam’s Atoll

    by Blaire Santos | 20th December, 2023 | Extended version of the short story, Blair Atoll “Grandma, me an Blaire wahn si Daddy.” “Aarait, Brods. Blaya!” she yelled, unable to pronounce my name. “Go bring di foan.” I stretched coiled wire ringlets until the house phone reached Grandma’s hand, then went back to the base…

  • Hib Ahn Lang Shoa

    by Blaire Santos | December 21, 2023 | Final Project All right, this lick down ketch we, how we wa move on from ya? Silvaana udz Hib Ahn Lang Shoa is an ongoing project aimed at continuing the stories those gone before us and drawing connections between their deaths and social amnesia. “Hib ahn lang shoa”…

  • MY WEEKLY WRITINGS

    By Kelli-Rae Francis For my “Creative Non-Fiction Writing and Digital Media” course, we are encouraged to write weekly blog posts using prompts provided by our lecturer. As a lover of writing, this was one of my favorite parts of the course. Go on….give them a read below. MY STORIES LOST DREAMS MAKE SPACE FOR NEW…