Latest posts by Janine Mendes-Franco from June, 2008
Trinidad & Tobago: Wave of Change?
Trinidadian blogger Attillah Springer believes in Barack Obama's wave of change: “This is one wave I want to arrive at our shores and wash away the apathy and the lack of political substance. Yes we can too. We too can change our politics.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Literary Sparring
Trinidad and Tobago based lit-bog Antilles continues to examine the Walcott/Naipaul feud, while Tattoo wonders where his literary role models have gone: “Who will inspire the next generation of writers in a positive way?”
Cuba: Media Morph?
Blogging from Havana, Circles Robinson says that “Cuba’s journalists are gearing up for a major congress on July 3-5 that could reshape what Cubans see on TV screens, in newspapers and on the radio, as well as the way the island reaches out to the world.”
Bermuda: Women & Children First
Crushing Fools says that the recent murder of 14-year old Bermudian student Rhiana Moore represents “a visible threat against women and children.”
Bermuda: Ban Reversed
Bermudian bloggers are abuzz about the Speaker of the House reversing his ban on questions to Ministers from an old Parliament. Vexed Bermoothes: “In doing so he lays bare the tampering being undertaken in Bermuda’s institutions to avoid transparency and accountability in our Government”; A Radical In Bermuda: “We have...
Bahamas: Thinking About Trees
“What is it about us and trees? It would appear that beauty — and oxygen and serenity and shade — are not a premium in our city any more”: Nicolette Bethel beseeches her fellow Bahamians to think about living in an environmentally responsible way.
Puerto Rico, U.S.A.: Black & White
Gil the Jenius thinks that Puerto Rico stands to learn a lesson or two from the accomplishments of Barack Obama: “Of course there's racism in Puerto Rico. Of course it affects politics. But if you pretend it isn't happening, that it simply doesn't exist, then of course We're going to...
Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica: Calabash Highlights
Nicholas Laughlin at Antilles blog does a retrospective of the recently-concluded Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica.
Jamaica: Losing My Religion?
“Here in Jamaica there are a lot of people being right about a lot of things, and spending a lot of energy making other people wrong”: Francis Wade blogs about religion in the context of Jamaican culture.
Guyana: Who's The Boss?
“Aiye, mummy, imagine what can happen to poor li’l countries that have role models and leaders like Big Boss Man”: Guyana-Gyal tells the story of an abuse of power and says that “some things are just too hard to understand, especially in the pre-rain, sticky heat.”
Bahamas: Women's Rights
Amnesty International‘s 2008 report reminds Bahamian blogger Lynn Sweeting “that women’s rights are human rights and that human rights are in peril the world over.”
Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Colombia: Duppies
“The silk cotton tree…is traditionally associated with duppies and jumbies, spirits who inhabit its vast, buttressed trunk, and who exact their revenge on anyone foolish enough to take an axe to the tree, or otherwise inflict damage”: Trinidadian blogger Nicholas Laughlin is a duppy for a day.
Trinidad & Tobago: Hurricane Season
Caribbean Beat Blog has the 411 on this year's hurricane season.
Cuba: Prison Protest
Uncommon Sense blogs about the reported quelling of a protest by guards at Cuba's Combindado de Guantánamo prison “that started after a political prisoner tried to inform a human rights activist about abuses at the prison.”
Barbados, Bermuda, U.S.A.: What Now?
“Now that Obama has the nomination…comes for me the real test. If Obama becomes president he will be plunged into real politics and the needs of national and international balance”: Living in Barbados wonders what happens next, while Bermuda's Breezeblog is feeling “hopeful about American politics for a change.”
Bermuda: Capital Punishment
“There is a group on Facebook who want Bermuda to put Capital Punishment back on the books”: IMHO.bm weighs in.
Bahamas: Hope Sells
“Apparently, hope is a marketable service and bankable commodity”: Simon at Bahama Pundit blogs about the business of selling hope, saying: “Like food and energy prices, the cost of hope continues to escalate.”
Dominica, Trinidad & Tobago: The New Cricket?
Dominica Weekly links to a BBC Caribbean interview with FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner on the future of football in the Caribbean: “Mr. Warner feels that football has taken over from cricket and that it has a more promising future.”
Bermuda: Cry for Justice
Breezeblog calls for justice in the murder of a 14-year-old Bermudian student: “I can’t even begin to think about what sort of person decides to rob such a young girl of her life.”
Guyana: It's Not Easy Being Green
Guyana-Gyal was trying to get into the spirit of World Environment Week – until she encountered a frog.
Bermuda: Image Matters
The Bermudian blogosphere has been talking this week about the decision by the island's Premier to hire a Public Relations firm to tweak Bermuda‘s international image, which has been recently sullied by everything from the ruling party's attacks on the free press to the lack of transparency with electoral reform...
