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11 March 2009

Dominican Republic: Upset at World Baseball Classic by Dutch Team

Written by Eduardo Avila · Sport, Citizen Media

The 2nd edition of the World Baseball Classic tournament is underway and features Major League baseball players representing traditional baseball powers like the the Dominican Republic whose roster was filled with professional All-Star talent. The tournament also features countries with less tradition playing this sport, such as the Netherlands, who pulled off two improbable victories over the Dominican team eliminating them from the competition.

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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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31 January 2006

The Caribbean Single Market

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Development, Governance

It's rare to find Caribbean bloggers across different islands talking about the same issue at the same time, but one would have thought that yesterday's historic signing in Jamaica of...

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Updates about Curaçao

2 February 2012

English

More Than A Ruby visits Curacao and writes an interesting post about the dynamics of the African diaspora, calling the country “a global village that's kind of held together by a shared language, the Catholic religion, and Carnival, but otherwise people stay in their own huts.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

7 November 2011

English

Creative Commess hosts a blog symposium “about Caribbean people, about West Indian people, about our contemporary experiences … ranging through race & identity to culture, mental health to constructs of beauty and more,” with contributions from seven Caribbean bloggers.

• Nicholas Laughlin

2 November 2011

English

TRIUNFO DI SABLIKA blogs about the Dutch royalty's visit to Curacao, explaining why some of the public reaction has “queen Beatrix feeling a bit chilly up in the tropics.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

11 October 2011

English

A year after the dissolution of the Dutch Caribbean federation formerly known as the Netherlands Antilles, TRIUNFO DI SABLIKA examines the fallout: “They still whipping us with a refurbished copy paste Dutch colonial constitution. Same old problematic political coalition system. New government old tricks new business elite same greediness as their predecessors. Media needs a restructuring…justice system still oppressive just like education for our youths.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

7 October 2011

English

TRIUNFO DI SABLIKA calls a comedy show that is in town for five performances “Afro-Curacaoan mockery disguised as comedy”, saying: “The moment we stop legitimizing everything that destroys our self image or stagnates it from growing will be the moment we win. The moment we smile.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

English

A Netherlands-based Curacaoan blogger shares his impression of the debate on the television series “De Slavernij” (The Slavery): “It seems…that the production team (I’m excluding the historians and experts for now) has put little to no thought in how to structure the complex narratives surrounding the subject of slavery.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

4 October 2011

English

TRIUNFO DI SABLIKA remembers the day in 1795 when “Tula and the rest of our liberation warriors [were] executed after they revolted against the Dutch slavery system”, saying: “One of the main reasons you forget about the killings of our freedom fighting warriors easily is because we have a cultural self-esteem deficient media.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Comments on "Curaçao"

Dominican Republic: Upset at World Baseball Classic by Dutch Team

Buen post, Eduardo. Felicidades, para nosotros los dominicanos esto ha una barbaridad. Saludos

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Is it possible to meet Denis O'Brien? I am interested in the history of Digicel in the Caribbean and would...