Georgia Popplewell · January, 2006

Latest posts by Georgia Popplewell from January, 2006

Haiti: Like a Dan Brown novel

  12 January 2006

“My return to Cap Haitien began like a Dan Brown novel,” says Baturrico (ES), relating the news of the death of General Urano Teixeira Da Matta Bacellar, military commander of the UN security force MINUSTAH and the increasing mystery surrounding its cause.

Guyana: Reveal their names!

  12 January 2006

In a post entitled “Hideous Bloodsucking Crooks”, MediaCritic demands that the Guyana Press Association reveal the names of the senior media personnel who refused to take part in a training exercise for junior members of the media unless they were remunerated.

Belize: First export of oil

  12 January 2006

Melody reports that, following the discovery of oil in commercial quantities late last year, Belize will make its first export of crude oil to the USA later this week.

Trinidad & Tobago: Arresting developments

  11 January 2006

Christopher Yee Mon scoffs at the claim by Trinidad & Tobago's Opposition leader Basdeo Panday that members of his own party were treated more harshly when warrants were obtained for their arrest than members of the ruling PNM. Mr. Panday, who was slapped with a corruption charge in 2005, made...

Caribbean: Wayback when

  11 January 2006

The Caribbean Beat Blog has some fun with the Wayback Machine, linking to early – and in a few cases embarrassing – incarnations of a few Caribbean web sites.

Bermuda: Substance v. perception

  11 January 2006

The Limey takes issue with a newspaper columnist's perceptions of Bermuda's two political parties. One, he says, has “problems of substance”, while the other has “mostly problems of perception.”

Jamaica: The size police

  11 January 2006

The latest addition to the Jamaica Photo Project photoblog is an image of a craft stand in Fern Gully featuring a sculpture of an impossibly well-endowed rastafarian. “The owner of the artwork has been selling these for ages now and recently was in some hot water with the police,” says...

Puerto Rico: A model for a new world order?

  11 January 2006

Lowatel calls for morality-based decision making in the Puerto Rican political process and advances the idea of the country as an “independent sovereign country” within an economic bloc or association of nations. “Perhaps,” writes Lowatel, “Puerto Rico's plight and challenge holds a prophetic promise for a new world order to...

Guyana/T&T: Send in the clones

  11 January 2006

Nicholas Laughlin links to a Stabroek News news story about a Guyanese scientist's apparently successful attempt at the cloning of a politician. Laughlin goes on to reveal the existence of a similar, though less successful, program in Trinidad and Tobago.

Dominican Republic: Baseball & hip-hop

  10 January 2006

Beisbolblog.com, a soon-to-be-launched blog dedicated to Dominican baseball, is seeking an Executive Editor, contributors and photographers. And a music video for the song “Ha lo Que Tu Quiera” by R-1 is available for download at r1hiphop.com

Trinidad & Tobago: Would Naipaul get published today?

  10 January 2006

Caribbean-born sci-fi writer Tobias Buckell links to Cheryl Morgan who links to British sci-fi writer Neil Gaiman who picks up on the stunt pulled recently by the Sunday Times’ which involved submitting a slightly altered version of the opening chapter of Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning novelist V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize-winning...

Bermuda: Manadatory GPS

  10 January 2006

Judging from the local press, stakeholders seem divided on the issue of mandatory GPS systems for Bermuda's taxis, says the Limey.

Guyana: Amazon women

  10 January 2006

On December 31st, 2005, a team of seven women set out on a 650km expedition whose aim is to map what they believe to be a new route through uncharted virgin jungle in Guyana, writes Amazon Rainforest. According to the expedition web site, this effort is in support of The...

Caribbean: What does the word before the colon mean?

  10 January 2006

“What does “Caribbean” mean? What a vast weight of confusion & possibility & debate those four little syllables have to bear,” says Nicholas Laughlin in a thoughtful post inspired by a long-gone writing deadline, by the debates around the restructuring of the Global Voices “Americas” region, and by Taran Rampersad's...

Dominica: Flickr photoset

  10 January 2006

Yaxbalam has a lovely Flickr photoset devoted to the island of Dominica, comprising scenes of Roseau, the capital city, landscapes, historical sites and local flora.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Colonial Awards

  10 January 2006

In the absence of a British Empire, do titles like OBE, MBE etc, really have meaning? Abeni raises these and other questions on the occasion of knighting of St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Deputy Prime Minister. “Isn't it time that countries like mine come up with their own national awards...

Haiti: Monday protest strike

  9 January 2006

Yon ayisien posts photos and a short report (FR) on a strike taking place in Haiti today, and doesn't miss the opportunity to take a swipe at MINUSTAH, the UN Security Force. The strike, he says, is “to protest the kidnappings and the overall lack of security and non-punishment of...