Global Voices Online

This Beach Called Life writes an entertaining post about the fact that “the largest appliance parts store in Trinidad and Tobago discriminates against vacuum cleaners.”

Vexed Bermoothes says a heartfelt “thank you” to the Vesey family, who has donated seven and a half acres of land for a new biodiversity Nature Reserve with public walking trails: “That is a remarkable gift to the future generations of Bermuda!”

Trinidad and Tobago-based blogger Ramblings and Reason takes the “best taxi ride ever”.

“How did we get here? Where have these savages come from? Where is the Jamaica we once knew?”: Kadene Porter at Abeng News Magazine not only has the answers, she has a few solutions.

Living Guyana says that his countrymen should not feel smug over the US financial crisis “for a simple reason: The great pillar of this economy is not sugar, rice or gold. It's remittances…”

Inside-Out China compares the culture of mischievous dubbing in the U.S and China.

Muna posts an anonymous parable she says is the perfect analogy for the stock market nowadays. It explains the Wall Street Crisis with monkeys, and can be found both in Spanish and in English.

“If elected president of the US, senator Barack Obama would not trade eastern European security for Russian help on Iran,” reports Transatlantic Politics.

Will, from American Palestinian Kabobfest, lists 10 clues of what he describes as the end of the American Empire.