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August 27th, 2007

UK, Caribbean: Colours of Notting Hill Carnival

Nicholas Laughlin · 19:44

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Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's largest summer festival, is a celebration of both Caribbean culture and London's multicultural heritage. Images posted by various Flickr users give glimpses of the carnival's colours and faces. 2 comments · »»

April 25th, 2007

Caribbean: Farewell to a cricketing legend

Janine Mendes-Franco · 20:39

In the early ’90s, the West Indies' dominance of the international cricket scene entered its long decline. There were fewer victories to celebrate, fewer exceptional demonstrations of the brilliance to which West Indian fans had become so accustomed. And when there were bright spots, they often came courtesy of one man: Brian Charles Lara. Lara played his last ever international cricket match in Barbados on April 21, 2007, in front of thousands of fans and visitors. The Caribbean blogosphere pays tribute to the man some consider the greatest cricketer of all time. 3 comments · »»

June 18th, 2006

Haiti: Telecom Wars

Alice Backer · 21:54

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 ... 18 comments · »»

June 6th, 2006

Global Voices, Caribbean Accents: report on Caribbean blogging roundtable

Nicholas Laughlin · 00:15

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, Trinidad, last week, with the theme "The Caribbean in the Age of Modernity: the Role of the Academy in Responding ... 3 comments · »»

May 22nd, 2006

Montserrat volcano watch and West Indies cricket

Nicholas Laughlin · 18:07

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 Nearly eleven years ago, Montserrat’s long-dormant Soufriere Hills Volcano began erupting for the first time in the island's recorded history. A ... 4 comments · »»

April 28th, 2006

West Indian literature online

Nicholas Laughlin · 14:51

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 from London on the BBC's Caribbean Service and produced by Henry Swanzy. Caribbean Voices featured stories and poems by West ... 17 comments · »»

April 17th, 2006

Village cricket match, Caribbean-style

Georgia Popplewell · 14:58

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 the region's former British colonies and you're likely to come across greens like this one, located in Howsen Village, Trinidad. This ... 0 comments · »»

January 31st, 2006

The Caribbean Single Market

Georgia Popplewell · 22:29

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 the document ratifying the Caribbean Single Market (CSM), might have created a little buzz. That, however, is exactly what it ... 9 comments · »»

Links about St.Kitts & Nevis

April 18th, 2008

Bajan Global Report takes a look at how rising food prices are affecting various Caribbean territories.

December 31st, 2007

“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.

December 14th, 2007

“Does anyone actually know of any (other) company where this sort of thing happens and the persons responsible are not seriously reprimanded?” asks West Indies Cricket Blog, on hearing news of the West Indies Cricket Board's latest bungle.

November 14th, 2007

Geoffrey Philp features Our Caribbean: “an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles”.

October 31st, 2007

“Being born a West Indian means that I am less likely to succumb to the palm trees, blue sea, white sand, standard tourist pitch. The Caribbean islands are so much more complicated…” My Chutney Garden reveals what she loves about Nevis.

October 4th, 2007

September 12th, 2007

“Mt Liamuiga is St Kitts tallest mountain at 3,792ft, and a ‘potentially active' stratovolcano with a very well defined crater…” Steve's Dominica goes hiking.

August 21st, 2007

MACO Caribbean Living blogs about the impact of Hurricane Dean on Caribbean tourism.