Latest posts by Janine Mendes-Franco from June, 2007
Bermuda: BHC Scandal Hits International Financial Press
Politics.bm is concerned that the Bermuda Housing Corporation scandal has caught the attention of the international financial press, while IMHO.bm asks, “Who needs The Young and the Restless when you have this mess to follow?!?”
Barbados: Drilling for Oil
Twenty-five companies are in a bid to drill for oil off the coast of Barbados. Barbados Free Press puts forward its opinion about which firms should be disqualified based on their environmental records.
Bahamas: Election Over; Back to Work
“This country is facing some huge home-grown problems, together with a multitude of challenges presented by a rapidly-changing world.” Sir Arthur Foulkes, guest authoring at Bahama Pundit, thinks that it is time for the PLP to “get over their frustration and settle down to the job the people elected them...
Guyana, Barbados: Living Legends
Living Guyana laments the fact that the majority of Guyanese cricketing heroes choose to live elsewhere.
Trinidad & Tobago: Happy Labour Day
The 5Rivers Kid acknowledges the celebration of Labour Day in Trinidad and Tobago.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada: The Grenada 13
Abeni weighs in on the re-sentencing hearing for those convicted of murdering Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and others in 1983.
Guyana: Seeing is Believing
Guyana-Gyal will not believe she has a rodent problem until she sees it with her own eyes - but she's setting down a few traps just in case.
Dominica: The Scent of an Island
“Whether it is bay leaf and ginger in the Southeast of the island, the flowers in the rain forest, or the frangipani, plumeria and night blooming jasmine planted in gardens, Dominica smells like nowhere else on earth.” Living Dominica breathes in the beauty of the island.
Cuba: New Rules for UN Human Rights Council
Even as members of the European Union seek “to forge a fresh relationship with the government in Havana”, the United Nations announced that it has dropped independent expert monitors of alleged human rights abuses in Cuba. Uncommon Sense shares his perspective.
Bermuda: Government Appeals Gag Order Decision in BHC Scandal
Both IMHO.bm and Politics.bm blog about the latest developments in the Bermuda Housing Corporation scandal.
Barbados: Accountability in Construction Sector
“Recently Barbadians witnessed the sanitizing of a ‘list’ of 300 companies which were previously approved by government to benefit from building contracts.” Barbados Underground wonders whether the inefficiencies of the construction sector make it an easy vehicle through which taxpayers’ money can be misappropriated.
Trinidad & Tobago: Picture-Perfect Promenade
Elspeth at Now is Wow snaps a few photos and tells interesting stories on her way to get the morning paper…
St. Vincent & the Grenadines: High Airfares
Abeni is frustrated with the high cost of regional travel in the Caribbean: “LIAT has been getting on my last nerve with their ridiculously high fares…I wish they would just disappear or hopefully realise that their price structure is making them even less relevant.”
Guyana: Pest Problem?
“Instantly, a series of nervous breakdowns hit me, biff bang thud, bradaps, just so they take me down, piece by piece, ow, somebody hold me, hold me and sop me head with cooool Limacol before I faint.” Guyana-Gyal does not suffer pests lightly.
Trinidad & Tobago: Film Director gets CBE
“Horace Ové, the Trinidadian film director…becomes a CBE, or a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for ‘services to the film industry'”. The Caribbean Beat Blog recognizes his achievement.
Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago: Globalization
As Caribbean nations deal with the challenges of globalization, Barbados Underground is “not convinced that we are headed in the right direction. The sad reality is that globalization by its design will change the traditional way countries have to interact; national boundaries will become blurred.”
Barbados, Venezuela: The Arms Race
“The ‘new Cuba’ in the Caribbean is using oil revenues to arm itself in ways that Castro never could.” Barbados Free Press reports on Venezuela's purchase of weaponry from Russia.
Jamaica: Homophobia and Tourism
Francis Wade wonders whether the signals Jamaica is sending to the international community about its position on homosexuality is having an adverse affect on the island's image.
Jamaica: Imagination
“Our imaginations determine the quality of our lives. Change, personally and nationally, occurs when the imagination is engaged in purposeful activity.” Geoffrey Philp muses about charity, imagination and risk.
Dominica: Health Care Ranking
“When the world's wealthiest country, the U.S, ranks behind our small island, we must be doing something right.” Chris at Dominica Weekly is proud to learn that the World Health Organization ranks Dominica 35th in health care.
Barbados, Antigua: CARICOM Journalists Deported
In the wake of the deportation of two CARICOM journalists from Antigua, Barbados Free Press writes: “Many Caribbean governments carry a veneer of civilized behaviour and adherence to democratic principles but quickly show near-despotic roots when the media actually does its job.”
