Basseterre, St. Kitts
Ain’t it grand?
Now in case you do not know Kittitians and Nevisians, there is a Bacchanal brewing in Bermuda. A few days ago, I told you about the fight between cousin Christopher Famous and his fellow columnist Elaine Murray. That fight was well documented in my earlier piece “Rumble in the Caribbean.” Well, last time Christopher got himself beaten up black and blue, but I never knew Elaine was a white gal. Imagine that, a white gal and a strong and handsome black man fighting over St. Kitts-Nevis. Now I ain’t a bigot or anything, but I really expect the black man to win. It just goes to show, however, that I’m not the right corner man for cousin Christopher. Big bacchanal going down in the Caribbean and I have to Google the fighters to know who is who. Stupid me.
Still who among us Caribbean people don’t like “Neagar Business” and don’t jump up and down when we hear “Bacchanal.” Even me, now a Kit-Yankee up in America, still jump up and down when I hear the word Bacchanal… and I love to get a piece of every Tom, Dick, and Harry’s Neagar Business too. Now you know that with Neagar Business only part of it is true so take some of what I say with a grain of salt. Still here is what is happening.
Cousin Christopher is a Bermudian whose family came from St. Kitts. They have invested in the Bermuda economy for 120 years. Elaine is a white gal who loves everything Boston. She loves Boston Red Sox. She loves Boston Celtics and I bet she loves Boston Chicken too. Now I am impartial to everything Boston because that is where I went to college, but how dare Elaine Murray lecture cousin Christopher against investing in nice Caribbean islands like St. Kitts and Nevis? Ain’t St. Kitts-Nevis his roots? His family comes from here, and the man loves the country. Didn’t Elaine read how he kissed the land of St. Kitts when he arrived at Robert L Bradshaw airport? When was the last time a born Kittitian do that? Tell me which one of you?
Well cousin Christopher came back strong and bust up that white gal. He must have been mad when a fellow Bermudian trashed his column about investing in St. Kitts, and said Elaine Murray had called “a spade a spade.” Christopher socked it to them. He said a whole swart of Bermuda was developed by people from St. Kitts-Nevis. That he too was an entrepreneur that had invested like his family before him in Bermuda. Now he was diversifying to St. Kitts Nevis. Who the hell was Elaine Murray from America to talk about money going out of Bermuda? Elaine wasn’t stopping the British, Canadians and Johnny-come-lately expats in Bermuda from shipping boatloads of money out of Bermuda, was she? Does that sound familiar to you people? The Caribbean is for them but not for us. A guy can’t even drink his white rum and sugar cane juice in peace without them making mischief out of it.
I think Elaine lost the second round. No seriously, cousin Christopher bus’ her backside. I really want to say he bus’ a three letter word starting with “a–” but I’m too ashamed to say it. The Editors might not allow me. You know how they want us to be nice.
Now people don’t take my word for it. You need to know how the fight is truly going. A corner man is bound to get things wrong if most of what he tells you he gets on Google. It’s not like Google is the Gospel according to Saint John. You need to work things out for yourself.
Go and read Christopher Famous article in the Bermuda Sun. It is called, “FYI Elaine – My family has invested in Bermuda for 120 years.” Methinks cousin Christopher is going to follow through and bring his hard earned Bermuda dollars back home to St. Kitts-Nevis. The least we can do is encourage him. Talk to you all later. I have to go now and shovel snow.
