Stories about Caribbean from March, 2010
Bahamas: Natural Energy?
Bahama Pundit‘s Larry Smith wonders whether natural gas can solve the country's power problem.
Trinidad & Tobago: Untouchable?
Trinidadian bloggers discuss the Prime Minister's behaviour during a recent “walkabout”.
Bermuda: Coming to Term
Bermudian bloggers comment on term limits. Politics.bm: “The requirement to prove Bermuda status for entry is draconian and unnecessary…”; Vexed Bermoothes: “I believe that term limits are very dangerous, particularly combined with all the other mixed messages sent by this Government towards international business.”
St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Here Comes The Rain
St. Vincent and the Grenadines has finally got a touch of rain – and Abeni is rejoicing!
Trinidad & Tobago: Issues with the Academy
KnowTnT.com links to “a report entitled The Tragedy & The Hidden History of NAPA” and comments: “I'm hoping that the accusations are fully investigated and that, if they are true, that the powers that be are stung into changing their reprehensible treatment of our artists.
Trinidad & Tobago: Green Fund Gives Green Light
Trinidad and Tobago's environmental Green Fund is supporting two worthwhile projects – a reafforestation initiative and a plastic recycling drive. Greenlight Network has the details.
Bermuda: Taking a Gamble
“I am generally ambivalent on gambling, I don't see it as a tourism silver bullet or a social death knell, and while I have little interest in it myself I do have some serious affiliated concerns”: Politics.bm thinks that Bermuda needs to “reform first. Gambling might follow.”
Trinidad & Tobago: New vs. Traditional Media
“Without newspapers, local blogs would be dead in the water. Try as I might to disagree, a poll of Trinidad and Tobago blogs reveals that this is fairly true”: KnowTnT.com examines the relationship between social and mainstream media.
Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago: Water Shortage
Water issues continue to plague the Caribbean region.
Trinidad & Tobago: More on Hart
Trinidad and Tobago bloggers weigh in on the Calder Hart scandal.
Jamaica: Extradition Issue
Jamaican bloggers take on the issue of the United States’ extradition request regarding Christopher “Dudus” Coke.
Guadeloupe, Martinique: From dry season to drought
As some posts on GV have shown recently [Eng], the Caribbean has been going through a severe drought for the past few weeks. In the French West Indies, bloggers react to this natural disaster which influences their everyday life and affects even politics.
Guadeloupe: Mainstream media biased?
On March 14th and 21st, French people (including Overseas residents) will be asked to vote for the “Regional elections”. In Guadeloupe, blogger Gwakafwika condemns [French Creole] the local press, which he sees as a vehicle of propaganda for the current President, Victorin Lurel.
Haiti: Two Months Later
Today marks two months since the January 12 earthquake devastated Haiti - and even in the midst of other natural disasters, bloggers still seem to be struggling to come to grips with what this tragedy actually means for the people of a nation that is often referred to as "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere."
St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Drought
From St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Empath says: “This drought is the longest in my memory.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Hart to Hart
Bloggers continue to comment on the latest woes of the Trinidad and Tobago government.
Bahamas: Staying Power?
Bahamian Nicolette Bethel questions the staying power of a Ministry of Tourism marketing campaign which commissioned 14 films from British filmmakers. Here's what peeves her: “It’s the idea that lies at the heart of the way in which the Bahamian government spends its money: ‘their output is likely to be...
Trinidad & Tobago: Inertia
KnowTnT.com feels “compelled to write about the elephant – or in T&T, the Manicou – in the middle of the room. Inertia.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Thought Bubbles from London
Trinidad and Tobago's fake Prime Minister blogs from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, here and here.
Jamaica: Remembering Watson
The blog of the National Gallery of Jamaica pays tribute to the late painter and sculptor Osmond Watson.
Barbados: Murder Charge
Barbadian bloggers report that three men have been charged with the recent murder of a retired senior police officer.
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