Election celebration!
It was a packed house at the United States Embassy's atrium on Tuesday, but it wasn't for July 4; it was all about November 4. The US Ambassador Brenda LaGrange Johnson hosted anelection-night party to see history in the making. Either it was going to be the first African American...
A frighteningly good time!
Western Bureau: Walking through the cobweb-enshrouded darkness with an eerie mummy, your only companion and a jack-o-lantern the only light, even the least superstitious among patrons may have been a bit spooked. And fittingly so, because the occasion...
Smooth sailing Aloysius!
So the J.A. stands for Joseph Aloysius; okay then! That was the statement that arguably got the most laughs at the farewell party for J.A. Lester Spaulding at the Liguanea Club last Friday. It was appropriate that the man to let the puss out of the bag was Spaulding's...
Obama to the world
And so it is, after much agonising and angst, the African-American senator from Illinois, has emerged victorious and is the president-elect of the United States.The decision was not only greeted with relief globally, it was done with gusto. For many, in and out of the US...
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