Barbados: Caribbean Football Falters
Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.
Living in Barbados comments on the fortunes of regional football teams, as qualification matches begin for World Cup 2010. ...
go to article »June 23, 2008
June 11, 2008
Trinidad & Tobago: Wave of Change?
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Trinidadian blogger Attillah Springer believes in Barack Obama's wave of change: “This is one wave I want to arrive at our shores and wash away the apathy and the lack of political substance. Yes we can too. We too can change our politics.” ...
go to article »June 4, 2008
Caribbean: Reactions to Obama's Nomination
Barack Obama has secured the Democratic Party's nomination. Caribbean bloggers were online with immediate reactions to the history-making news that a black man actually has a chance of winning the race to the White House.
May 13, 2008
Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago: Meeting With Castro?
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Cuban blogger Babalu takes issue with an article in the Trinidad Express that alerts readers to an Obama-Castro meeting, should Obama become president. ...
go to article »May 12, 2008
The politics of aid
Aggregated from: Notes from Port of Spain
There is nothing astonishing or even surprising about the way the brainless generals of Myanmar are dithering over international aid after last weekend's typhoon. The "international community" can jump up and down all it wants with frustration and exasperation and moralising, but it won't do any goo...
go to article »May 8, 2008
Trinidad & Tobago, USA: Victory or Defeat?
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“I found myself watching Air Force One last night on TV, while waiting to see which of the US Democratic presidential candidates would give the most stupid victory speech”: Trinidad and Tobago blogger Jeremy Taylor bestows that dubious honour on Hillary, while One Tribe, Many Voices says...
go to article »May 7, 2008
Get off the plane
Aggregated from: Notes from Port of Spain
I found myself watching Air Force One last night on TV, while waiting to see which of the US Democratic presidential candidates would give the most stupid victory speech.Air Force One is the 1997 movie where Harrison Ford, playing the US president, single-handedly combats a pack of ruthless Khazak t...
go to article »May 1, 2008
Just a wee bit out of balance, maybe
Aggregated from: Notes from Port of Spain
According to the US State Department’s annual country reports on terrorism, al-Qaeda is still the biggest terrorist threat to the US and its “allies”. It has regained much of its pre-9/11 strength; terrorist-related deaths increased last year by 8 per cent to 22,000. A separate report from the...
go to article »April 20, 2008
Talk!
Aggregated from: Notes from Port of Spain
• To reach an agreement or an understanding with someone, you have to talk to them. Abusing them, threatening them or bludgeoning them is not a path to trust.In the Middle East, Israel and Hamas and Fatah desperately need an agreement that will produce a new order. But all three have lost sight o...
go to article »April 18, 2008
U.S. Papal Visit: The World Reacts
As Pope Benedict XVI makes his first papal visit to the United States this week, the media and blogosphere are in a frenzy - primarily due to the sexual abuse scandal that shook the foundation of the American Catholic church six years ago. The Pope addressed the issue in Washington D.C. on Thursday, speaking with victims of sexual abuses, which pleased some bloggers but for others was too little too late.
