Janine Mendes-Franco · January, 2012

Latest posts by Janine Mendes-Franco from January, 2012

Jamaica: Bogle, Rastas & Dons

“It may be unseemly to some folks to see a commonality between Jamaica’s national hero Paul Bogle, the Rastafari and the dons who rule the island’s so called politically defined...

24 January 2012

Haiti: Leadership Triangle

“There they were, at the official ceremony: the living, breathing banes of Haiti’s existence”: The Haitian Blogger republishes an article which suggests that Martelly, Clinton and Duvalier's “rubbing shoulders” at...

23 January 2012

Cuba: The Loss of a Decent Man

“We are 11 million common criminals, whose misdeeds range from buying milk on the black market to having a satellite dish”: Generation Y says that “now, with the death of...

23 January 2012

Barbados: Excuses for Crime?

Barbados Underground thinks that “it is time to see crime in a different light. It is not only the victim’s problem, it is society’s and it cannot be solved by...

23 January 2012

Puerto Rico: Levels of Crime?

In response to an editorial suggesting that the citizenry “may have been complicit in the senseless murder of Karla Negrón, the latest victim of a stray bullet on New Year's...

20 January 2012

Guyana: First Female Colonel

Repeating Islands notes that “in a history making moment, the promotion of Guyana’s first female Colonel was today announced. She is the region’s first serving female colonel.”

20 January 2012