Ian Fleming’s James Bond Based on Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa
Rubi makes so much sense as the true inspiration for Bond. James Bond.
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BySoyini‘Tell Desperadoes when you reach that hill I decompose, but I composing still.’ ” Derek Walcott A statement so timely on the rot that pervades Trinidad that I had to double check the year it was written because I thought he was talking about our current state. We’ve been doing this nonsense for years.
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BySoyiniThis is quite an interesting call for papers. I’ll try to monitor it.
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Danielle Boodoo-Fortune 2016 Wasafiri New Poet
Talented artist Danielle Boodoo-Fortune is the winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize- Poetry for her poem Portrait of my father as a grouper. Wasafiri is a UK-based international magazine on contemporary writing. It is published quarterly. The name comes from the Kiswahili word for ‘travellers’.The magazine was formed out of a deliberate initiative to…
Dominican Republic’s Botanical Gardens launch endangered plants “Red List” — Repeating Islands
BySoyiniA total of 813 out of 1,388 plant species in the Dominican Republic researched over a five-year period are critically endangered, 249 are endangered, 268 are threatened, 45 are of moderate concern and 13 did not yield sufficient data. The data is contained on a newly published Red List of Vascular Flora in the Dominican […]…