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Curacao: Diaspora & Development

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:49:43 +0000

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.”

Caribbean: the meaning of identity

Nicholas Laughlin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:59:53 +0000

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.

Curacao: Royal Visit to Curacao

Janine Mendes-Franco — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:26:06 +0000

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.”

Curacao: Triple 10 - Fooled Again?

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:30:49 +0000

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.”

Curacao: Comedy or Mockery?

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:50:15 +0000

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.”

Curacao: Inadequate Narrative on Slavery

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:39:31 +0000

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.”

Curacao: Remembering Our Heroes

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:07:08 +0000

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.”

Curacao: Changes Needed in Court of Justice

Janine Mendes-Franco — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:06:01 +0000

“A Dutch European lawyer indiscriminately lambasting a prime minister and a party leader in front of four innocent new judges…indoctrinating them from day one how to judicially digest post-colonial power struggles from a sole Dutch white privileged position is borderline dangerous”: TRIUNFO DI SABLIKA thinks it's time for “this constant deep rooted Dutch European naivety blended with superiority feelings [to be]…corrected and replaced with a new historically mature understanding.”

Curacao: Financial Reality

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:09:56 +0000

“Yesterday an IMF delegation presented their 2011 Article IV Consultation Discussions: Preliminary Conclusions with the usual rhetoric, cut, reform, kill mantra”: TRIUNFO DI SABLIKA posts a poem intended to show “that these programmed Washington DC economists are not gods.”

Curacao: Images of Slavery Inappropriate

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:38:13 +0000

TRIUNFO DI SABLIKA takes issue with certain images on the Golden Coach, which has become the symbol of the Dutch monarchy: “The sidebar ‘Tribute of the Colonies' activates great resistance from us. On that side are half-naked black men and women who offer their riches to the royal king. In the colonial era and the aftermath of slavery this seemed like a very ordinary picture. Now it reminds us of a horrible period in Dutch history.”

Curaçao: “The re-enslavement of Tula”

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:28:33 +0000

Controversy is brewing over a film about Curaçao's “liberation warrior Tula” - read why, here.

Aruba, Curacao: Eloquent Arguments

Janine Mendes-Franco — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:15:13 +0000

The lawyer as orator? Karel's Legal Blog discusses “a sensitive subject.”

Curacao: Attorneys' Image

Janine Mendes-Franco — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:41:04 +0000

Karel's Legal Blog looks at the image of lawyers.

Latin America, Caribbean: Increase in Food Prices

Silvia Viñas — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:53:26 +0000

Bloggings by Boz writes: “The FAO reports that February 2011 was a yet a new high on food prices. This has led to several warnings from organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean including ECLAC [Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean] and the IICA [Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture] that commodity markets are volatile and several countries are very vulnerable to price swings and food insecurity issues.”

Curacao: Netherlands Antilles is no more

Janine Mendes-Franco — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:14:03 +0000

“A new journey has started on a route never taken before. Let us all take pride in our heritage and let us embrace our new country and mix the two with love and respect”: Karel's Legal Blog congratulates Curacao on its new country status.