Straw Market has become a ghastly, national blemish

Fri, Sep 24th 2010, 01:00 PM

By ADRIAN GIBSON ajbahama@hotmail.com ALTHOUGH our culture is what makes us Bahamian, our creativity is buried by our knack to copy everything that's foreign, as we have little or no appreciation or recognition for what we have already created - our architecture, our relation to the sea, our music, our dances, the truly Bahamian form of junkanoo, our straw and craft/art works, etcetera. Since independence, we have grossly neglected our culture! Nassau's flea market--I mean straw market--has become a ghastly, national blemish that has irrefutably become a liability to our country's tourism industry. Our declining tourist numbers indicate that the Bahamas' tourism produ ...

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