Stories from 10 August 2009
Bahamas: Making Marital Rape a Crime
Weblog Bahamas‘ Sidney Sweeting and Womanish Words throw their support behind a proposed amendment to the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act that would outlaw marital rape in the Bahamas.
Trinidad & Tobago: Gay Pride
As 2009 gay pride season winds down, Trinidad and Tobago's gspottt clearly reiterates its goals: “It’s an issue of openness, acceptance and equality…it’s about having the right to be…no more,...
Dominica, Haiti: Hurricane Preparedness
Dominica Weekly wonders if the island is prepared for the 2009 hurricane season, while Konbit Pou Ayiti fears that “Haiti is not ready for the rain.”
Antigua & Barbuda: Lessons from Working Girls
“For hundreds of years the feminist movement has been divided on the question of prostitution,” writes Antigua-based playing with ink, who thinks that “feminists…could learn a lot from sex workers...
Barbados: Call for Inquest
As the government announces that it “will be demolishing three properties at Archcot Terrace…as it moves to get the area to return to normalcy,” Barbados Free Press maintains that not...
Bermuda: Choosing a Path
“Another day, another shooting”: 21 Square says that “some of the largest issues we face in Bermuda today are the inability for disadvantaged youth to see nor understand a path...
Armenia-Azerbaijan: Peace
Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines comments on the prospects for peace in the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and says that the same approach needs to be applied to the long-running dispute...
Dominican Republic: Fire at the Autonmous University of Santo Domingo
In the Dominican Republic, Duarte 101 [es] has images and twitter updates from the fire at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.
