Global Voices Online

The Bajan Reporter is all over the story of telecommunications giant Digicel taking Allen Stanford to court “in order to protect its sole and exclusive rights as primary sponsor of West Indies cricket”. The West Indies Cricket Board insists “that the team that will play England on 1 November represents Stanford, and Stanford alone.”

Barbados Free Press is not convinced that the CARICOM arrangement is beneficial, referring to an article about the recent double-murder in Antigua to make their point: “The ‘Caribbean Brand' for tourism…was a disastrous policy created…as part of the effort to prop up the pretense and phony benefits of CARICOM. According to the article, we’re all the same in Caribbean - violent, bloodthirsty savages - and that includes Barbados.”

Following news of the murder of a honeymooning British couple in Antigua, Danielle Jones at Dominica Weekly says: “While some of us may be inclined to brush this incident off as an Antiguan problem, in reality it has implications for the wider Caribbean. It comes just weeks after our CARICOM leaders decided to market the region jointly as part of a ‘One Caribbean’ marketing campaign.”

Bajan Global Report takes a look at how rising food prices are affecting various Caribbean territories.

“It is hard to believe that this is a country which spent US54 million dollars to prepare for Cricket World Cup 2007. It just makes us shake our heads and ask, where are our priorities”: Barbados Underground blogs about the crime situation in Antigua and Barbuda.

Blogging from Barbados, Notes From The Margin reports that Eastern Caribbean territories are bracing for large waves as a result of “a deep low pressure centre that spawned tornadoes and thunderstorms across the US earlier this week.”

Discover TnT Blog reports that “the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket team…last night captured the Stanford 20/20 Cricket Tournament in Antigua.”

Dumani, a ten-year-old Antiguan boy, is live blogging the Stanford 20/20 Cricket Tournament in Antigua.

“This victory is so huge given the history of South African tours”: Abeni is thrilled that the West Indies cricket team have finally won a test match.