Stories about Caribbean from September, 2006
Guyane: Cruelty to Iguanas
Cafe Creole is upset (Fr) that people are eating iguana stews in French Guiana and posts a picture of live iguanas destined to end on someone's plate. The author goes...
Trinidad & Tobago, Bahamas: The Bahamas at Carifesta
Nicolette Bethel has a series of posts (1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5), reporting on the experiences of the Bahamas contingent at Carifesta, the Caribbean arts festival...
Barbados: Land sale
Barbados Free Press employs a bit of allegory to highlight possible flaws in the logic behind the government's decision to sell the island's lands to foreign investors.
Barbados: Piggy awards judging panel
Barbados Free Press responds to a query from a member of the Barbados Senate and adds a member of each of Barbados's three main political parties to the judging panel...
Barbados: Concorde museum
Linda Thompkins questions the validity of establishing a “Concorde Visitors Centre” in Barbados: “When will we ever face the fact that Concorde was merely a fast, uneconomical passenger plane with...
Jamaica: When Yardies rock
Marlon James explains why Jamaicans can't rock.
Jamaica: “Calabash poem”
Geoffrey Philp writes about a poem of his that's been “roundly rejected” by several publishers, and offers us a chance to read it.
Bahamas: State television
Larry Smith questions whether the Bahamian state television channel is still relevant or required.
Martinique/Guadeloupe: Segolene Royal to Visit
Bondamanjak announces (Fr) that French presidential candidate Segolene Royal will visit Martinique and Guadeloupe at the end of October and that former mayor of Fort-de-France and local literary legend Aime...
Guyana: Message from the Cold
The common cold guest-posts on Guyana-Gyal's blog: “So all you people who go around maligning me, saying things like, “Man, I got a Miserable Cold,” or “Man, I ketch a...
Trinidad & Tobago, Belize: Carifesta
Only the Belize booth holds any interest for Caribbean Free Radio, on a visit to the “village” of the Caribbean arts festival Carifesta. Carifesta takes place this week in Trinidad...
Martinique: Looking Out for the Tomboy
Le Blog de [Moi] (Fr) tells of eyeing a teenage schoolgirl dressed like a tomboy at the same spot every morning on her way to work and seeing her young...
Belize: Independence Day photos
Lee Vanderwalker posts photos of the colourful Independence Day celebrations in Belize.
Barbados: Karl Brodhagen
Linda Thompkins highlights the career of Guyana-born Barbados artist Karl Brodhagen, sculptor of one of Barbados's most famous public artworks.
Barbados: Piggies At The Trough Awards
Barbados Free Press announces that nominations are open for the 1st annual Barbados Piggies At The Trough Awards: “the winner will be the Barbados politician or civil servant who, in...
Barbados: Lessons from Cayman
Barbados Free Press sees lessons for Barbados in the Cayman Islands’ current debate over immigration rules regarding ex-patriates.
Bahamas: Doing what you love
“. . . the humanity of the Bahamian citizen has been compromised. We allow ourselves and our reality to be defined by other people, because we have made it difficult,...
Guyane: Lunar Eclipse
Cafe Creole posts (Fr) pictures of Friday's lunar eclipse as seen from French Guiana as well as shots of the eclipse watchers who flooded the beaches.
Trinidad & Tobago: Blogging the Arts
AS THE Anglophone Caribbean blogosphere grows, so does the number of specialist blogs devoted to specific subjects. For two decades now, Trinidad has been a major site for contemporary art...
Jamaica: Dub poet
Geoffrey Philp posts the latest in his series of “Five Questions” interviews with Caribbean authors. This week his interviewee is Jamaican dub poet Malachi.
Barbados: Road signs
Photoblogger Barbados in Focus posted this image of a sign at a crossroads in rural Barbados. “No matter where in the world you are you still have the make a...
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