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November 3rd, 2008
Caribbean: Region Scores Big in Stanford 20/20 Cricket
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...
November 30th, 2007
Caribbean: Earthquake Update
Caribbean bloggers provide timely updates on yesterday's earthquake...
April 26th, 2007
The French Presidential Election: A View From Outside the Metropole
This weekend, more than 60 million French cast their ballots in the first round of the French presidential election, narrowing the list of candidates to two: conservative UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal. Both face a run-off vote on May 6th.
In the five years since ...
January 29th, 2007
French Caribbean DOMs: Welcoming Vaval, King of Carnival
Mas a kle, a Guadeloupe mas bandUploaded by Akynou
No sooner were the 2006 holidays over that Martiniquans, Guadeloupeans and Guianese were kicking off the prelude to "Vaval", their affectionate nickname for carnival which will take place in February, in a three-day celebration peaking on "Mardi Gras", the "fat tuesday" ending ...
July 14th, 2006
French DOM-TOM Bloggers on Zidane's “Coup de Tete”
Bloggers from the French Overseas Departments and Territories of the Caribbean and Oceania had much to say about the French soccer team's performance at the World Cup Final. The French from "l'outre-mer" simply had no choice but to strongly identify with the potential glory and the shame of a ...
June 18th, 2006
Haiti: Telecom Wars
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 ...
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Caribbean: Earthquake Update
- Greetings,
My name is Tomas Jones, and I am staying in St. Jean in St. Barthelemy today Oct...
- Doesn't the earth quake preceed the eruption?
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