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September 12th, 2006

Five years on from 9/11, the world remembers

A small portrait of the translator Rachel Rawlins · 18:50 · Cyber-Activism , Disaster
The mainstream media in many countries have been preoccupied with events in the United States to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon on 9/11 2001. But the repercussions of these events have spread across the globe and people far beyond New York ... 4 comments  · read »

June 18th, 2006

Haiti: Telecom Wars

A small portrait of the translator Alice Backer · 21:54 · Business , Development
Digicel billboard, Martinique. By blogger Greg at InternetRapide.com. Jamaica-based Caribbean telecom giant Digicel has a presence in over a dozen countries in the region. Digicel officially launched operations on the Haitian market in May to much resistance from local private telecoms Haitel and Comcel but bloggers and other web commentators ... 19 comments  · read »

June 6th, 2006

Global Voices, Caribbean Accents: report on Caribbean blogging roundtable

A small portrait of the translator Nicholas Laughlin · 00:15 · Cyber-Activism , Education
THE CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (CSA), one of the major assemblies of scholars of the history, culture, and society of the Caribbean region, held its annual conference in Port of Spain, Trinidad, last week, with the theme "The Caribbean in the Age of Modernity: the Role of the Academy in Responding ... 4 comments  · read »

April 28th, 2006

West Indian literature online

A small portrait of the translator Nicholas Laughlin · 14:51 · Arts & Culture , Literature
One of the crucial elements in the rapid development of the literature of the Anglophone Caribbean in the 1940s and 50s was a weekly radio programme called Caribbean Voices, broadcast from London on the BBC's Caribbean Service and produced by Henry Swanzy. Caribbean Voices featured stories and poems by West ... 17 comments  · read »

April 15th, 2006

Don't go near the sea on Good Friday, and other Caribbean Easter traditions

Georgia Popplewell · 11:31 · Arts & Culture , Food
The Easter Weekend in the Caribbean arrives at the height of the dry season, with gorgeous weather and Christian traditions conspiring to make it a time both solemn and fun-filled. A popular Easter weekend activity is kite-flying, and a number of bloggers did just that on Good Friday. Barbados Free ... 6 comments  · read »

February 14th, 2006

Costa Rica vibrates with the Central American Music Festival

Juliana Rincón Parra · 23:01 · Ethnicity , Indigenous

Feet are fiddling and fingers are drumming as many Costa Ricans wait for the PapayaFest, Papaya Music's tribute to San José as the 2006 Latin American Culture Capital, to begin on February 16th. Papaya Music is a Central American effort to unite musicians, researchers and producers who wish to bring traditional and popular composers into greater visibility and younger generation's attention.

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