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24 December 2010

Caribbean: Defining Moments of 2010

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture

Many landmark events happened in the Caribbean this year, prompting reactions from the regional blogosphere. Here's a look back at some of the most important stories of 2010...

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16 September 2010

Caribbean: Farewell, Arrow

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Arts & Culture, Music

Caribbean bloggers are mourning the loss of one of the region's soca music pioneers - Alphonsus Cassell, better known as “Arrow” - whose mega-hit, Hot, Hot, Hot is largely credited with taking soca to a global audience. News reports confirm that the singer had been ailing from cancer for some time; bloggers' tributes have been both touching and personal...

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14 January 2010

Caribbean: Helping Haiti

Written by Nicholas Laughlin · Breaking News, Disaster

Bloggers around the Caribbean react to the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. Some appeal to the public to support relief efforts; others scrutinise how Caribbean governments and media have responded to the crisis facing the Haitian populace.

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3 November 2008

Caribbean: Region Scores Big in Stanford 20/20 Cricket

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · History, Sport

U.S. billionaire Allen Stanford is trying to remake the face of cricket. His latest "big idea" is a 20/20 contest in which the winning team walks away with US$20 million (that's US$1 million per man) and the loser gets...well, nothing. It all happened this past weekend and West Indian bloggers put in their two cents' worth...

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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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22 May 2006

Montserrat volcano watch and West Indies cricket

Written by Nicholas Laughlin · Breaking News, Environment

A woman looks at the rear window of her car, broken by a flying rock from the nearby Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, on Saturday. Photo from the Trinidad Express website...

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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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17 April 2006

Village cricket match, Caribbean-style

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Arts & Culture, Sport

Easter Sunday cricket match — Howsen Village, Trinidad. From caribbeanfreephoto At this time of year, thoughts in the English-speaking Caribbean turn to the game of cricket. Travel around any of...

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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 Montserrat

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

4 March 2011

English

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.”

• Silvia Viñas

27 August 2010

English

Corruption-free Anguilla thinks that Montserrat's new draft constitution “does not advance government…rather, it sets Montserratians back decades, particularly in the area of human rights.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

15 December 2009

English

Repeating Islands reports that Montserrat's volcanic activity has been raised to Level 4.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

1 December 2009

English

Repeating Islands has an update on the activity of Montserrat's Soufriere volcano.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

6 October 2009

English

Repeating Islands blogs about recent volcanic activity on the island of Montserrat.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

18 August 2009

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Repeating Islands links to a report which suggests there is hope for Dominica and Montserrat's mountain chickens “after the spread of the deadly chytrid fungus throughout its habitat…”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

18 March 2009

English

Blogging from Barbados, Gallimaufry is concerned about the fate of the Montserrat mountain chicken.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

2 February 2009

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West Indies Cricket Blog thinks that “the official website of the West Indies Cricket Board…is now a waste of space on the world wide web. An embarrassment and a disgrace…”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

10 April 2008

English

Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp acknowledges the passing of E.A. (Archie) Markham, “a Caribbean literary giant”, while Nicholas Laughlin at Antilles says: “I deeply regret never having the chance to meet him, to match the wry, generous voice of his poems, fiction, and correspondence to the wryly generous man.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Comments on "Montserrat"

Caribbean: Farewell, Arrow

How sad. I will always remember the album "Soca Dance Party" as a staple of my father's music collection and...

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