Stories about Trinidad & Tobago from July, 2009
Trinidad & Tobago: Voting for a Delay
Trinidadian diaspora blogger Jumbie's Watch is unimpressed with an Independent Senator's vote in favour of postponing local government elections, saying: “It is most enlightening to hear her say that the role of the Independents is not to ‘thwart government policy’. Is it then the role of Independents to support government...
Trinidad & Tobago: Film on Minshall
Keith in Trinidad is excited about a soon-to-be-released film on “Peter Minshall, the greatest band leader in modern Carnival. Ever.”
Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada: Happy Birthday “Birdie”
Repeating Islands marks the occasion of “the King of Calypso Mighty Sparrow’s 74th birthday.”
Trinidad & Tobago, U.S.A.: Michael Memorial
Trinidadian blogger Tattoo lists his “Top Five Michael Jackson Funeral Moments”, while Coffeewallah was touched by “Paris Katherine talking about her daddy being the best in the world and the love he had for them.”
Trinidad & Tobago: So Long, Facebook
“I don’t know what prompted me yesterday to deactivate, maybe it was the full moon”: Trinidadian blogger Attillah Springer kicks the Facebook addiction and is “enjoying not being caught up in the noise of other people’s lives.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Music Piracy
Blogging from Trinidad and Tobago, This Beach Called Life makes the connection between the King of Pop and ethics: “While people mourn Michael Jackson’s death they illegally download his music. We in the dotty Third World crave to be First World and use any means possible to appear to be...
Trinidad & Tobago: Alutrint Accounts
“We badly want to see…what the State has spent on Alutrint, what it will spend, and what it will gain”: A Trinidad and Tobago-based anti-smelter blog is concerned that “the citizens of the Republic will be paying Alutrint’s costs…this will amount to tens of billions of dollars, not even taking...
Trinidad & Tobago: Now What?
As the Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General refuses to resign, diaspora blogger Jumbie's Watch asks: “So what does a vote of no confidence mean, if you can’t get rid of the person in question?”
Trinidad & Tobago: Taking Courage
Survivein’ Trinidad gets to thinking about the bravery of murder victim Camille Daniel-Nottingham: “It must have taken IMMENSE courage for her to drive her car onto that police compound even while being held at gunpoint.”
Trinidad & Tobago: This and That
Diaspora blogger Jumbie's Watch comments on news coming out of Trinidad and Tobago – including a vote of no confidence in the Attorney General and the Prime Minister's refusal to apologize for “insensitive remarks he made on the murder of a 10 year old girl.”
Caribbean: On the Honduran Coup
Writing at Havana Times, Guillermo Fernandez Ampie examines the Honduran coup d’état, while Repeating Islands reports that “heads of state throughout the Caribbean region have expresses their condemnation of the military coup in Honduras that has removed President Manuel Zelaya from office.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Neverland
This Beach Called Life compares Trinidad and Tobago with Neverland: “In our Neverland, criminals will never be caught, our economy will never prosper without high oil prices, our money never stop being wasted on nonproductive ego-trips and our leaders will never stop climbing on the back of democracy to become...
