About Dennis
Dames, Bahamian Webmaster, Online Publisher, Blogger, Writer and Poet
The Bahama Webmaster and poet
provides Internet opportunities and poems from the islands of The Bahamas, with the native flavored touch.
Many throughout our world enjoy the Bahamian thing via entrepreneurship or songs, and it is the pleasure of the
island's Webmaster and poet himself to be along with others- displaying to the universe, what
The Bahamas and its people are like through Networking, Business and odes for the heart and soul.
Some of the
Bahamian Poet's sites are: Dennis Dames Love Poems Domain
- Dennis Dames' Island Poetry Domain - plus more.
Check them out and have the experience you really deserve. We appreciate your
visits, and look forward to your returning every time. Enjoy!
Few of the
Bahamian Webmaster's sites are: DAD Ads
- DAD Network - DAD Classifieds - and more.
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Couple of the
Bahamian Blogger's sites are: Bahamas Political Blog
- Caribbean Blog International - and the list goes on.
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Exactly who is the Webmaster and
poet from Mount Pleasant Village, Nassau- Bahamas? He is Dennis Arthur Dames,
born: January 17, 1966 to Wilmore and Shirley (nee Beneby) Dames. He is the 6th
of 12 children, and was educated like most of his siblings- in the public
school system of The Bahamas.
The poet has an
active history of political and social activism in the islands. He is well
known and appreciated for his leadership and efforts as President of the
Student National Action Party (SNAP), at C.C.Sweeting Sr. High School in
February of 1983 and months later, for better working and learning conditions
for teachers and students alike. The human plight of the students at
C.C.Sweeting Senior High at that time, and the intense demonstrations that were
instigated as a result- are viewed as possibly the greatest students' revolt in
the history of The Bahamas.
Since the students'
uprising of 1983, the poet has been more of a politician than anything else,
and was deeply involved in every general election since then: the 1987, 1992,
1997 and 2002 elections. Prior to the 1983 years, the poet as an unqualified voter-
assisted in the 1977 and 1982 elections for the opposition candidate: Frank
Watson- Carmichael constituency- who later became Deputy Prime Minister in two
Free National Movement's (FNM) administrations. His new constituency became
Adelaide due to boundary changes for the 1987 election.
In the 1987 polls
in The Bahamas, the poet was a 'general' in the camp of the party leader at
that time- Kendal G. L. Isaacs (FNM) who was later knighted. The constituency
was Delaporte, and changes in the lines sent the poet's polling division
aligning to the northwest rather than the previous southwest. Our opponent was
Mr. Neville Wisdom, a Progressive liberal party faithful, and a master of the
race card. In Delaporte, the FNM won the seat by a very narrow margin, but
against the odds of racial scare tactics that almost worked.
By the 1992
election, the poet was chairman and campaign manager of the Free National
Movements' election campaign in the Delaporte Constituency, and Kendal Isaac's
last branch chairman as a Member of Parliament. The new party candidate was a
political newcomer by the name of Mr. Floyd C. Watkins who served for ten years
as the Member of Parliament (FNM) for the Delaporte constituency. Mr. Watkins
was severely defeated in 2002 by no other than, Mr. Neville Wisdom (PLP). It
was shocking to see a safely considered party seat go down in such a way. Mr.
Floyd Clinton Watkins (FNM), enjoyed great victories in 1992, and 1997
respectively, beating all opponents by some of the greatest margins in those
polls. Somewhere along the way, he lost touch, and a great party seat.
In 2002, the poet
found himself with others aligned back to the southwestern end of New
Providence island- Nassau, Bahamas- and in the Adelaide constituency. The FNM's
candidate was no other than the Hon. Frank H. Watson, who was seeking a fifth
term as the Member of Parliament for the great southwest Nassau. Mr. Watson
lost to a newcomer, Mr. Michael Halkitis- a young and new bright PLP.
During the
non-election years between 1983, and 1989 in The Bahamas- there were a number
of vocal and powerful fringe political parties in their own right. There was
the Rodney Moncur and Philip Miller's Workers Party (WP) that played an
instrumental, and inspirational role toward the C.C Sweeting students' revolt
on February 03. 1983. From that experience with Messrs Moncur and Miller in the
front line of the students' effort, many of C.C. Sweeting Sr. High School and
The Bahamas generally, are now more liberated and inspired than ever before.
The friendship and connection with Messrs Moncur and Miller are continuous.
Then there was the
Hubert Ingraham and Perry Christie's Third Force that was made out of their
firings from The Pindling's Cabinet in 1984. Last, there was the Fred
Mitchell's People's Democratic Force (PDF), that was created out of Perry
Christie's return to his 'vomit' in 1989- and Hubert Ingraham taking the
preponderance of the force with him to the FNM that year.
In all the
foregoing political gatherings and experiences - plus many more that followed, Dennis Dames was present,
and contributed to their good causes respectively.
Now, the Webmaster, Online Publisher, Blogger, Networker, Writer and Poet's
focus is the advancement of all things Bahamian on the Worldwide Web through useful links and connections; via poetry and culture throughout the global
and cyber villages of our planet. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy...