Latest posts by Georgia Popplewell from July, 2006
Belize: Work ethic
Karen expresses admiration for the Belizean work ethic.
Barbados: PM backs Venezuela's UN bid
Linda Thompkins quotes a RadioJamaica.com report stating that Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur has decided to support Venezuela's campaign for the vacant UN Security Council Seat over Guatemala's. Among the reasons quoted: “He says it would be unethical for Barbados to side with a country that has fiercely opposed the...
Canada, Caribbean: West Indian restaurants
Barbadian blogger Jdid writes at length, and with great humour, about his experiences of West Indian restaurants in Toronto.
Barbados: Senator launches web site
Both Barbados Free Press and the Barbados Labour Party blog report on the launch of Senator Lynette Eastmond's web site.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Vincy Carnival
Abeni reports briefly, but not uncritcally, on some of St. Vincent's Carnival activities.
Trinidad & Tobago: Baptising a window
Trinidadian artist/activist Elspeth Duncan “baptises” one of her artworks in the ocean, with interesting results.
Canada, Caribbean: Carifiesta photos
Caribb has a Flickr photoset devoted to the 32nd annual Carifiesta, Montreal's Caribbean street festival, which took place on July 8.
Barbados: Concerns about regional police team
Barbados Free Press sees the usefulness of the regional police team that is being formed among Caricom nations to provide security for the Cricket World Cup and will become a permanent fixture in the region thereafter, but cautions against the potential misuse of the force by Caricom countries less “stable”...
Caribbean: New series of news blogs
Online newsmagazine Caribbean360.com announces a series of blogs by writers and columnists.
Guyana: Government ignores Caricom?
Demeraralighthouse sees the non-attendance of Guyana's President and Security Minister at two key Caricom meetings as a sign that “the Guyana government has apparently embarked on a policy-position to ignore the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom), sacrificing the regional organisation for its own partisan domestic political agenda . . . .”
Guyana: Is the fridge male or female?
Guyana-gyal's doubts about her refrigerator's gender leads to more general confusion about non-sexist language usage — all in a tongue-in-cheek way, of course.
Puerto Rico: Cycle of violence
For Gil the Jenius, an incident involving the shooting of four young men by the father of a 17-year-old girl underscores the cycle of violence that is becoming more prevalent in Puerto Rico.
Trinidad & Tobago: Conversations about home
“Kamla”, a Trinidadian resident in London, joins the conversation taking place between Trinidad-based Jeremy Taylor and his US friend “Roger”
Barbados: Celebrating Rihanna
Titlayo celebrates the success of young Barbadian hip-hop star, Rihanna.
Caribbean: Reimbursing US travellers
Simone Champagnie reports that, in light of the implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative on January 1, 2007, the Caribbean is “looking at implementing a program by which the destinations will offer to reimburse Americans visiting them for the cost of the passports required to reenter the US.”
Guyana: With new eyes
A new pair of glasses highlights the interesting domestic dynamic of an Amerindian couple, as witnessed by Guyana-Gyal.
Jamaica: At the US Embassy
Scratchie is displeased with the way the US Embassy in Kingston treats those awaiting appointments, but acknowledges “the roaring business opportunities that have been created surrounding the rules that one must abide with when visiting the Embassy. There are cellphone holders and baggage handlers and. . .”
Jamaica: A reggae novel
“I would write a reggae novel, and I would call it, Benjamin, My Son,” writes Geoffrey Philp in his two-part account of the genesis of his first novel.
Jamaica: The day Bob died
Geoffrey Philp remembers the day Bob Marley died.
St. Lucia: Political meeting
Matthew Hunte attends a meeting launching the campaign of a political candidate in Choiseul in rural St. Lucia.
Suriname: Photos
Vanessa Decort publishes a series of recent photos from Suriname on Flickr.