Stories about Ideas from April, 2008
Bahamas: Waste Disposal
“The biggest problem with garbage is that it never really goes away,” writes Larry Smith at Bahama Pundit, as he blogs about possible solutions to the Bahamas’ waste disposal woes.
Trinidad & Tobago: Sticker Shock
KnowPRosE.com “was pleasantly surprised to find that the Trinidad Guardian subscription is available on Amazon.com” – and then he saw the price: “I suppose Trinidad and Tobago media just doesn't want to compete at a global level…They need to figure out the Internet, which probably means that they should use...
Jamaica, Guyana: Evolution
Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp features a poem by Guyanese writer Cyril Dabydeen.
St. Lucia: Oil and Food Prices
As oil prices hit US $120 per barrel, Looshan Ramblings says: “The…continued rise in oil prices will negate any efforts by Caricom governments to reduce food prices as we are so heavily dependent on imported food.”
Guyana: Who Let The Dogs Out?
Guyana-Gyal‘s neighbourhood could do with a dog whisperer.
Brazil: On the food crises
Matheus Pacini makes available in Portuguese [pt] a translation of The silent tsunami, from The Economist, to support his post about the food crisis.
Trinidad & Tobago: Official Graffiti?
“On an abandoned wall in Port of Spain, a graffiti artist declares the right for public art”: Thebookmann explains.
Bermuda: Road Safety
Bermuda Longtail blogs about legislating road safety.
Iran: A mysterious explosion in mosque
In south Iran, an explosion at a mosque in the city Shiraz killed at least 12 people and wounded about 200 people on April 12. Fars, a semi-official government news website reported that the blast was caused by a bomb. Later, several Iranian officials insisted the blast was the result...
Syria: Safita and Chastel Blanc Photo Tour
Abd from Syria Winks takes us on a photo tour in the ancient city of Safita, and its crusader tower, Chastel Blanc.
Jamaica: Earth Day
Jamaican Geoffrey Philp says: “Today is Earth Day, a time to pause and think about the environment and the impact that we are having on our ecosystem.”
Lebanon: The Lebanese Leftist
Bassem Hassan explains the “simple” things that qualify someone as a Lebanese leftist.
Lebanon: Sunnification of R. Hariri?
“When religion sleeps with politics, the outcome is an ugly bastard,” declares Tantalus while suspecting the beginning of the “Sunnification” of the late Rafic Hariri, who was previously dubbed as “Pan-Lebanese.”
Syria: Chocolate Thief
Wouldn't you hate it if someone waited for you to go pray, to steal your… chocolates?! Kinan from Jar of Juice, shares his “bitter” experience with a co-worker.
Brunei: Making a bank bag
Spiritual Garden shows how she made a bank bag using a used envelope wrapped with papers torn from a fashion magazine.
Bahamas: Tax Write-Off?
Sidney Sweeting at WeblogBahamas.com was shocked that “the ex-Minister of State for Finance said that Government should write off the almost $410 million (that figure is not a misprint) owed to the Government for Real Property Tax.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Eating Less Meat?
Trinidadian blogger Nicholas Laughlin implores us to eat less meat.
Jamaica: Calabash 2008
Geoffrey Philp blogs about the 2008 Calabash literary festival in Jamaica and says that “Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott is delighted about his upcoming appearance.”
Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad & Tobago: Lighting the Way
Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp is still processing the news of Aimé Césaire's death: “For if the goal of any life is freedom, then Aimé Césaire was a light”…while Caribbean Free Radio remembers a podcast she did with “Césaire intoning, in his impeccably enunciated French, against a musical background, the first...
Taiwan and China: Scary Populism
Summer from Coolloud comments on the recent nationalistic protest in China and finds the populist sentiment very scary [zh].
Damascus: The Destruction of The Old City
Damascus prides itself on being the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. The history of Damascus goes back well into the 8000BC. In every corner of its ancient alleys there's a taste of every historical era there was to be found. The city that had withstood everything from earthquakes to invasions for nearly 10 millennia, is now crumbling under the threat of... "Modernism", writes Yazan Badran, who brings us the reactions of a Syrian blogger.
