August 27, 2008
As Jamaican Annie Paul waits for Hurricane Gustav “to huff and puff and blow our house down”, she blogs about everything from Usain Bolt-inspired dance moves to Michelle Obama: “(She) was impressive, wasn't she? Neither pale, nor male–i can identify with that…”...
go to article »July 29, 2008
“I remember learning not to try to hold on to people after moving to the U.S. After all, the chances were good that I would never see them again. In Jamaica, the opposite is true”: Francis Wade blogs about the feeling of connectivity he enjoys in Jamaica. ...
go to article »July 25, 2008
“As the days, weeks, and months have gone by, it has become increasingly clear that Barack Hussein Obama…has been stepping into this role of the 'selfless superhero'”: Jamaican Geoffrey Philp says time will tell if the Democratic US Presidential candidate can fulfill the “...
go to article »July 3, 2008
Jamaican Geoffrey Philp remembers Juneteenth, “the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.” ...
go to article »June 23, 2008
Living in Barbados comments on the fortunes of regional football teams, as qualification matches begin for World Cup 2010. ...
go to article »June 13, 2008
This article was published in Dominica Sun Newspaper. Mon, 09 Jun 2008. For the first time in history the president of the United States of America could be a black man. After a bruising primaries campaign, last week Tuesday night Barack Hussein Obama won the number of delegates he required to be...
go to article »
Bob Marley and Barack Obama are the absent heroes of the 8th annual Calabash literary festival in Jamaica: Marley, because his music and poetry incarnate the living “reggae aesthetic” (with the pan-African, Judaeo-Christian, sexual, political and celebratory overtones which the poet and Calabash...
go to article »May 13, 2008
Kadene Porter at Jamaica's Abeng News Magazine comments on the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination: “In her Darwininan dash for the White House, she (Clinton) may just plan to kick, claw, bite or scratch her way to victory.” ...
go to article »April 17, 2008
Jamaican Geoffrey Philp links to Guyanese poet Fred D’Aguiar's poem for Virginia Tech on the one-year anniversary of the shootings. ...
go to article »April 10, 2008
YardFlex.com reports that a popular Jamaican singer has composed a song honouring Barack Obama. ...
go to article »Voices Without Votes is a Global Voices project commissioned by Reuters. Original content 
