· October, 2010

Stories about Travel from October, 2010

Bermuda: Runaround?

  13 October 2010

Breezeblog comments on the media roundtable hosted by the outgoing Premier: “More like the media getting the runaround.”

St. Maarten: Garden Isle

  12 October 2010

“Citizens of St. Maarten have been urged to mark their new political status…by taking practical steps to transform the new Dutch Caribbean nation into a ‘Garden Isle,’ with a view to protect the environment and to boost tourism”: Repeating Islands has the link.

Russia: Bloggers Meet With Iranian Ambassador, Avoid Sensitive Topics

RuNet Echo  7 October 2010

The meeting of Russia's top-bloggers with the Iranian Ambassador in Moscow three days after Hossein Derakhshan had been sentenced to 19.5 years of imprisonment for "anti-government propaganda" highlighted the clumsy attempts of the Iranian online diplomacy in Russia. It also showed commercialization and excessive cynicism of some of the popular Russian bloggers.

Trinidad & Tobago: Eighth Wonder

  7 October 2010

“Does the Wonders of the World list go past seven? If so the Pitch Lake would definitely be included”: MEP Caribbean Publishers visits La Brea.

Trinidad & Tobago: Easy & Lazy?

  6 October 2010

Do Trinbagonians take the easy way out? KnowTnT.com‘s Edmund Gall cites three instances in which he thinks “it's a case of doing what's easy and wrong rather than doing what's right and difficult.”

Philippines: Dancing flight attendants

  6 October 2010

A plane flight safety demonstration danced to pop tunes by the flight attendants of a Philippine-based commercial airline is a recent a hit on YouTube. Netizens debate whether the gimmick is entertaining or sexist.