Stories from 12 January 2007
Bermuda: Bloggers featured in local paper
Bermudian Christian Dunleavy links to a Royal Gazette article entitled “Have you joined Bermuda's blogosphere,” which features four of the island's most popular bloggers (himself included). Philip Wells, one of the bloggers, posts the photo which accompanies the article on his blog and runs a caption competition. “Go on, make...
Bahamas: Governor General's Youth Award
Larry Smith outlines the history of the Governor General's Youth Award scheme, which teaches young people “skills outside of the classroom such as leadership, self-confidence and teamwork.”
Cuba: Chino-Cubano
Following on a post in which she wondered about the existence of an authentic Caribbean-Chinese cuisine, TriniFood learns of the existence of “Chino-Cubano” (Chinese-Cuban) cuisine.
Cochabamba in Mourning – Bolivian Bloggers React
Paz (Peace)Photo used with permission by Flickr user Miskifotitos. “Pueblo vs. Pueblo” (People vs. People) is how the blogger at Voz Boliviana [ES] described the clash between citizens in Cochabamba, Bolivia’s fourth-largest city and left many lamenting and angry at the course of events, which left 2 dead and close...
Russia: Indigenous Peoples of the North
Den’ Olenevoda (Reindeer-Breeder's Day), celebrated in March 2006, in Kazym (Ugra, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) – a photo set by Flickr user ugraland/Irina Kazanskaya While Moscow is braving an atypically snowless and warm winter, and St. Petersburg is about to drown in its 302nd flood, the rest of Russia continues to...
Cameroon: meaningful elections?
Blogging at the sub-Saharan Africa Roundtable, Evan Weinberger wonders whether Cameroon is about to have free and fair elections, “After two more seriously flawed presidential elections, the last in 2004, Cameroon is getting set for parliamentary elections later this year. Civic groups, led by the Catholic Church, have pushed for...
Nigeria: what politicians really mean
Ijebu Man plans to writes a series of posts on the 2007 Nigerian elections. Here is the first one: “Its Election time in Naija in a couple of weeks and our politicians are in overdrive. Naijas must be suffering from an overload of political bullshit as the politicians try to...
Nigeria: debating census results
Akin joins the debate about the Nigerian 2006 census, “The Nigerian blog boards have been rife with disputing about the validity of the 2006 census as many are derisively rejecting the returns as both a waste of money and a fantasy of figures.”
USA: Dinged for accepting Pesos?
Ricardo Carreón and Greg of Two Weeks Notice come to the defense of a Texan pizza chain under fire for accepting Mexican pesos.
Mexico: News Summary
Ana Maria Salazar has a useful roundup of the day's news in Mexico to send us into the weekend including a note on a private meeting between Eduardo Medina Mora, the Mexican Attorney General and his U.S. counterpart, Alberto Gonzales.
Honduras: Hondutel Scares Away Competition
Honduras Daily News has put together a bilingual post (Spanish) which accuses former state-owned telecommunications monopoly Hondutel of breaking “into TTI (Tropico Telephone and Internet) offices, in the center of downtown La Ceiba, with an army of M16’s, multiple trucks and an RPG for good measure.” There's one way of...
Guatemala: New Micro-Hydroelectric Project
The Guatemala Solidarity Network details a new micro-hydroelectric Project in El Palmar built by the non-profit-backed renewable energy company, XelaTeco.
Costa Rica: Talk of crime
Noting the big increase in expat talk about crime in Costa Rica My Dos Colones links to some recent (and depressing) stories about just that.
Chile: Pork Sandwiches, Rising Rates, and Political Scandal
Beginning with a description of “the best real food I have eaten in Santiago de Chile in my three years here” and ending with the varied political obstacles facing President Bachelet and her corruption-plagued ruling party coalition, la Concertación, Tomás Dinges has put together a beautifully comprehensive look at Chile...
Bolivia: “Walking the Battle Zone”
Jim Shultz, Miguel Buitrago, and Boz on the escalating violence in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Bolivia Rising translates a note seeking an end to the conflict from the MAS website.
Guinea-Bissau: Former PM seeks asylum after accusing the nation's president of murder
Assata Speaks reports that Guinea-Bissau's interior minister had issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr. earlier Wednesday. The arrest order followed allegations by Gomes that President Joao Bernardo Vieira was behind the assassination of an ex-military commander last week. Gomes sought asylum at the local U.N....
Cicarelli Case: Censorship and Boycott Dialectics in the Brazilian Blogosphere
Almost everybody with an Internet connection in Brazil has already seen Daniela Cicarelli's steamy video on the web since it first appeared four months ago and got linked on the first page of the main news portals. Funny as it is, the recent blocking of YouTube to many internauts in...
Jamaica: 30 years on, critique still holds water
The latest installment in Geoffrey Philp's “In My Own Words” series, which focuses on Caribbean writers, is a critique of the Caribbean's failure to give recognition to the arts written 30 years ago by Jamaican poet/playwright/screenwriter/journalist Olivier Stephenson. Geoffrey kicks off the comments with the words: “Although it’s sad that...
Iran:News in country and outside country
Mohammad Ali Abtahi,reformist politician says outside country,news about Iran are on the first page of newspapers.News talks about sanctions againts Iranian banks and UN resolution about Iran.The blogger adds inside country there is no such news in media. He adds in information age, it is not possible to stop people...
Iran:My blog was about movies and it was filtered
Amir Ezati,movie director and blogger says his blog was just about cinema and movies, but it got filtered. The blogger says he lost 90 percent of its visitors[Fa].
Iran:A Boxing Match Between USA and Iran
Digital Klechinkof says the best way to impersonate the situation with Iran’s nuclear affairs is to consider a box-ring[Fa].Then, Iran and America will be two boxers (obviously with different gestures and weights!) who are the main actors of the story. Other players of the Iranian nuclear equation, namely, Russia, China,...
