Stories from 14 February 2006
Venezuela: Leones de Caracas win the Caribbean Series
Daniel Duquenal reports that Caracas’ baseball team, the Leones, won the Caribbean baseball series.
El Salvador: Interview with Leslie Schuld
Tim Muth recommends to his readers that they listen to an interview with Leslie Schuld, executive director of the Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad.
Uruguay, Argentina, Chile: Environmental Paradox
Bob Row explains an environmental paradox facing three populist heads of state in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina with his typically clever caricature and bilingual description.
Jamaica, Trinidad: Curry goat & oxtail
“What’s a Sunday dinner without a some Rice & Bean and Curry Goat?” asks Iriepeople.com in its brief rhapsody on the Jamaican dish, which includes a recipe. And on Saturdays in Trinidad Can Cook, Must Cook says “you'll find a lot of people making soup, usually fish broth or oxtail...
Cape Verde: elections
Yebo Gogo reports on the “too close to call” elections taking place in Cape Verde.
Trinidad & Tobago: Hip-hop meets Carnival
Caribbean Free Radio posts a humorous tale about a rap video crew's attempts to shoot a music video during Carnival
South Africa: floods destroy houses
African HouseIT has three stories on housing crisis in South Africa as floods cause extensive damage to mud houses and shacks.
Ghana: Art and Valentines Day
Koranteng's Toli writes on the creation of Valentines Day in Ghana and points to a painting by one of Ghana's top artists, Wiz, or Wisdom Kudowor.
Barbados: Coral reefs & racism
Titlayo reports that a yacht owned by US billionaire J. Paul Getty III has destroyed a portion of the coral reef off the west coast of Barbados, but she's even more dismayed at this comment: “Well, man, he got a lot o’ money. He could afford to build back that...
Racial diversity in London
Soul on Ice discusses racial diversity in London……….”Pakistanis hate Indians for some obscure reason. Jamaicans dislike Nigerians who have nothing good to say about them. People of Jewish extraction are always looked upon with some senseless suspicion. But still we cross-pollinate and a run to my local market in Deptford...
St. Lucia: Tech Institute visit
Matthew Hunte vists the Vieux Fort Technical Institute in southern St. Lucia, “in an attempt to understand a bit more about that nature of this unique school and to truly find out where their students are coming from”.
Africa: women blogging
New blog Ethnic Loft, comments on the numbers of African Women Blogging and points to a roundup on Black Looks “Who says African Women cant blog?” – He also has an excellent photo from Nigeria's Durbar festival in Zaria.
Caribbean: Racism in cricket?
Trinidadian journalist Vaneisa Baksh joins the debate on racism in cricket going on at the Cricinfo – Wicket to Wicket blog with a susbstantial article which concludes that, while racism certainly exists in the Caribbean, it rarely manifests itself these days in the context of West Indies cricket.
Africa; politics v entrepreneurship
Africa Unchained points to an article by Pat Utomi of the Lagos Business School on the “disproportionate focus on politics within Africa and the relatively tepid interest in entrepreneurship and wealth creation”.
Bermuda, USVI: At the Winter Olympics
The Caribbean Beat Blog notes the presence of Bermudian Patrick Singleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino and also the absence the USVI's 52 year-old luge competitor Ann Abernathy, who had to pull out of the games because of an injury.
Ethiopia: Message to the youth
Ethiopian Politics writes a message to Ethiopian youth asking them not to make the same mistakes as older generations…..”These are the pitfalls my generation has fallen prey to, but you the hope of our new Ethiopia, must avoid at all cost: · Ethnocentric jingoism, Intolerance for political dissent, Cultural insensitivity
Ethiopia: trafficking of children and women
Ethiopundit reports on the plight of orphan and street children in Ethiopia…
Zimbabwe: white farmers not wanted
Eddie Cross writing in Zimbabwean Pundit comments on a recent remark by ZANU-PF that rather that allow white farmers to return under a leasehold agreement, the state was bent on taking over the white farms. He concludes that by denying white farmers their rights, the government undermines the rights of...
Africa: football
Black Star Journal commenting on the state of African soccer writes that it is not the quality of players that is preventing success at World Cup level but the poor quality of organisation...”From governments meddling in the affairs of soccer federations, to federations meddling in team selection, to often lamentable...
African Music Roundup #3
It's been a fun few weeks with the festival of football that was the African Cup of Nations (congratulations to Egypt the host). Watching all the footballing talent on display made me proud to be an African. So we look forward to Ghana '08 and all the beautiful things the...
Indonesia: Judging Kalla
Jakartass tries to figure out Indonesia's vice-president Josef Kalla.
