Category: Cultural Xpression Newsletter
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CX March 2024 – Get up and Stand UP
Its truly been awhile since covid that my writers block would not seem to vanish. Just the circumstance at times allow you to drift into a state of mind that if your not careful, you can loose your path along the way. Not that I have lost my path, but really lost the motivation to…
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CX June – Dec 2022 | Just could not get the words out
Well pasted 2 years have been the hardest for me when it came to my consistency in writing.. Just could not get the words out the way they usually flowed. At times I thought, hey just throw in the towel on this publication, but for some reason something just keeps pulling me right back to…
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We brought some Cakes Back, but Where the Lights Gone ?
Man it really crazy, last year I wrote an article about the decreased baking activities that usually take place around Christmas time.. This year I could not help to notice the decrease in community members participating in lighting up there houses around this time of the year… I started think, damn even though I am…
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Cultural Xpression May 2022 Edition | Small Islands with Big Covid Impacts
This months edition of Cultural Xpression is a continuation of Dec 2021 Edition as we get our content organize to share with you guys. Over the next few weeks your can expect to see the release of June and July 2022 edition of CX It has been a journey mentally to get the ball rolling…
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Way the Cakes Gone ? | Cultural Xpression Dec 2021
Sitting by the roadside location in St Peters this year was a bit different during Christmas season. It was not the first time I really notice it, but this year it was really evident. The air lack the beautiful aromas of what usually came out from our surrounding neighbors kitchens, the smell of delicious treats…
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Cultural Xpression | Recovery and the Pandemic – Jan 2021
It’s been awhile since I got behind the pc to actually get Cutural Xpression back on track.. It’s challenging to not have a stable income, while the economical challenges become over whelming, not only for myself and family, but for many others who today may still are out of work.. I am truly grateful…
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Cultural Xpression April 2020 | Celebrating 6 years during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Perhaps it just A Natural Mystic IN April that COVID-19, influenced St. Martiner’s to turn to Home-growing. As the COVID-19 pandemic starts to settle in and get a hold on the masses, there is a major shift in the atmosphere. Farming and back yard gardens have seem to be taking over world wide, even more…
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The COVID-19 pandemic: An opportunity to break with our past
By Antonio Carmona Báez For decades now, the search for economic diversification and drive to overcome the tourist-based, single pillar economy has been on the agenda of some political leaders, scholars and critics of unsustainable market practices. The main arguments: mass tourism, accompanied by cruise ships and holiday resorts, benefits only a few; it does…
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A Natural Mystic April: COVID-19 and St. Martin’s Turn to Home-Growing
By Dr Antonio Carmona Báez On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of the novel coronavirus and its subsequent disease COVID-19 a pandemic; meaning that it is highly contagious, affecting all countries and societies globally. Within days countries came under lockdown, schools were closed and much of the economic activity requiring…
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Cultural Xpression March 2020 | Giving Purpose to the Intangible
This month was quite a journey and it seem to have just begun. From the new Corona Pandemic that will seem to reshape the way we do things in our daily lives, to taking a trip to Saba and Statia with a group of researchers seeking to address the catastrophic environmental challenges facing Caribbean islands…