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12 September 2006

Five years on from 9/11, the world remembers

Written by Rachel Rawlins · Disaster, Education

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...

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18 June 2006

Haiti: Telecom Wars

Written by Alice Backer · Development, Governance

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...

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6 June 2006

Global Voices, Caribbean Accents: report on Caribbean blogging roundtable

Written by Nicholas Laughlin · Education, Technology

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,...

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28 April 2006

West Indian literature online

Written by Nicholas Laughlin · 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...

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15 April 2006

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

Written by Georgia Popplewell · 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....

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14 February 2006

Costa Rica vibrates with the Central American Music Festival

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Indigenous, Music

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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Updates about Belize

12 February 2010

English

Belizean reports that the country's Prime Minister “has urged caution on the part of Belize Defense Force army activities on the southern border with Guatemala” in the context of an ongoing border dispute.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

4 January 2010

English

Caribbean bloggers bid 2009 farewell - BeachLime says: “The only sure thing that's going to happen in 2010 is that it will prove to be a challenging one for Bermudians”; Belizean provides a comprehensive end of year review and Caribbean Free Radio tells the story of her year in pictures.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

26 August 2009

English

The threat of rising sea levels is of concern to CARICOM [the 15-nation Caribbean community]. Repeating Islands explains.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

29 May 2009

English

Belize-based blogger As The Coconuts Drop recounts his experience of yesterday's strong earthquake.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

4 May 2009

English

Belizean reports that “there are no confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu virus” in the country.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

1 May 2009

English

Regional bloggers on the Swine Flu outbreak: Repeating Islands speculates about possible Caribbean cases of the disease, while Jamaica's Girl With a Purpose and T&T's This Beach Called Life put a humourous spin on the situation.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

5 December 2008

English

Belizean and Barbadian blog Keltruth Corp. are all over the story of the former Belizean Prime Minister being charged with the misallocation of public funds.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Comments on "Belize"

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

It was a religious time with Good Friday being served fish. The day was a holiday for the country...

No matter what happens i think it is utterly important to be prepare for what this flu may bring. This report...
It seems to me that the whole flu is being blown out of proportion. I'm not alone, More people die...
How many times have we all heard in the last few weeks of continual swine flu news: WASH YOUR HANDS?...