Trinidad & Tobago: Respect & Carnival
Trinidad & Tobago
Francomenz adds her two cents' to the debate about the boundary separating so-called “culture” from respect for private space and property in the context of Trinidad's Carnival.
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Francomenz adds her two cents' to the debate about the boundary separating so-called “culture” from respect for private space and property in the context of Trinidad's Carnival.
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Two Jamaican litbloggers are thrilled that the Calabash Literary Festival is back!
Globewriter comments on a Senate debate about a clause of the Children's Bill “involving a clause that includes buggery”; B.C. Pires adds: “The People’s Partnership of UNC [United National Congress] MPs [Ministers of Parliament] yesterday refused, despite urgings from Independent senators, to decriminalize same gender sexual activity between minors - even while ploughing ahead with decriminalizing the same activity between boys and girls. If ever there were a plain human rights issue, sexual orientation is it.”
Further to this, babalu reports that another elderly lady “suffered a fatal heart attack after her home was violently attacked by a paramilitary mob.”
“Bajans deserve the truth, all the truth and nothing but the truth. It is not enough for the Court of Appeal or the news media to gloss over this story”: Barbados Free Press is curious about a case in which a man who bit a police officer apparently got off scot-free.
Mark Lyndersay blogs about some of the issues facing the local film industry, here.
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Based on the Wikipedia list of countries, details.
Yes, this is one of those ‘big-hidden-problems-in-plain-sight’. Zoning, as is taken for granted in countries such as the U.S… well, it doesn’t exist and Town and Country, the organization responsible for something that would resemble zoning, operates on a very irregular and perhaps monetarily biased basis.
As in most things, it’s the stuff in between the lines that is most interesting. I think that Trinidad should sound something like this for most residents: http://www.knowprose.com/node/10850