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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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30 November 2007

Caribbean: Earthquake Update

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Environment

Caribbean bloggers provide timely updates on yesterday's earthquake...

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26 April 2007

The French Presidential Election: A View From Outside the Metropole

Written by Jennifer Brea · Elections, Politics

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...

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29 January 2007

French Caribbean DOMs: Welcoming Vaval, King of Carnival

Written by Alice Backer · Arts & Culture, Music

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...

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14 July 2006

French DOM-TOM Bloggers on Zidane's “Coup de Tete”

Written by Alice Backer · Indigenous, Sport

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...

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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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12 June 2006

Latest in French-Speaking Blogs of the Caribbean and Oceania

Written by Alice Backer · Ideas, Arts & Culture

NEW CALEDONIA Annoella near Gadji, New Caledonia. By Sebastien Merion. A few months ago, we learned that Sebastien and Annoella of 5 minutes en Nouvelle Caledonie got married in Mauritius....

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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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30 May 2006

Latest in the Francophone Caribbean Blogosphere

Written by Alice Backer · Arts & Culture, Development

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14 May 2006

France & Francophonia Commemorate Slavery Amidst Curriculum Controversy

Written by Alice Backer · Ideas, Education

Image courtesy of oliviermr2 A Day of Remembrance France commemorated slavery for the first time on May 10, reports Haiti's Alterpresse: Le président francais qualifie d’infamie, la traite négrière et...

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Updates about St. Maarten

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

22 March 2011

French

On Wednesday, March 23, the first full-scale simulated tsunami alert exercise will take place in 33 countries in the Caribbean to test the effectiveness of alert, monitoring and warning systems (Hashtag on Twitter: EXERCISE - NOT REAL #CW11) . Open Street Map France [Fr] and Crisis Camp Paris [Fr] will join this exercise to encourage awareness and use of social media tools during emergencies in the French speaking West Indies.

• Claire Ulrich

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

12 October 2010

English

“Citizens of St. Maarten have been urged to mark their new political status…by taking practical steps to transform the new Dutch Caribbean nation into a ‘Garden Isle,' with a view to protect the environment and to boost tourism”: Repeating Islands has the link.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

8 June 2010

English

Geoffrey Philp's Blogspot acknowledges the passing of the St. Martin folklorist Laurelle “Yaya” Richards.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

29 December 2009

English

Repeating Islands blogs about an activist from Curaçao, who “has paddled more than 1600 kilometres in a kayak to raise awareness for the environment.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

8 October 2009

English

Repeating Islands notes that the French Overseas Territories “are to vote on more autonomy in January 2010.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

2 June 2009

English

Repeating Islands reminds us about the 7th annual St. Maarten Book Fair, which starts this week.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

2 February 2009

English

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

31 December 2007

Updates

“This victory is so huge given the history of South African tours”: Abeni is thrilled that the West Indies cricket team have finally won a test match.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

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Caribbean: Earthquake Update

Greetings, My name is Tomas Jones, and I am staying in St. Jean in St. Barthelemy today October 5th Monday...
Doesn't the earth quake preceed the eruption?

A great evening for caribbean cricket supporters everywhere.

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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...