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24 February 2006

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Stories from 24 February 2006

The web make to blog on Carnival day…

Written by Nicholas Laughlin · Caribbean

… to paraphrase the late Lord Kitchener, calypsonian extraordinaire. It's Carnival Friday here in Trinidad and Tobago, which means that after weeks of mounting anticipation (the Carnival season really gets...

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This Week in Palestinian Blogs: Refugees Reloaded

Written by Shaden Abdulrahman · Middle East & North Africa

News of the blogosphere… PSM (Palestine Solidarity Movement) Fifth Annual Divestment Conferece has taken place from February 17-19 in Washington DC, US attracting more than six hundred student and community...

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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand announced a House dissolution

Written by Enda Nasution · East Asia

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced a House dissolution Friday evening after he was granted an audience with His Majesty the King.

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Hurricane Katrina: Rethinking Disaster Relief Response

Written by Angelo Embuldeniya · North America

Hurricane Katrina: Rethinking Disaster Relief Response

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Diary of Negotiations: Argentina's New Experiment in Blogs and Politics

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

The following is a translation of Mariano Amartino's post originally written in Spanish on Clarín's Weblog Sobre Weblogs Diario de Gestión (Newspaper of Negotiation) is one of the more interesting...

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Updates from 24 February 2006

Jamaica

“Now before you gay advocates out there start posting hateful comments, understand that Jamaica is a very conservative country,” says Leon, in defense of the anti-Brokeback Mountain outcry in Jamaica.

• Georgia Popplewell

Guyana

“With one long “stchuuuuup” and you eyes looking thin and mean, you can cut a big man down to li’l boy size,” writes Guyana-gyal in her treatise on the Caribbean art of sucking teeth.

• Georgia Popplewell

Trinidad & Tobago

Got your snake oil? Just in time for the official start of Trinidad & Tobago's Carnival on February 27, Attillah Springer makes a list of Carnival necessities. She also posts photos of old-time Carnival and the reenactment of the Canboulay Riots of the 1880s.

• Georgia Popplewell

D.R. of Congo

Le Blog du Congolais reports (FR) that a long awaited report on mining contracts signed during the Congolese civil war which ended in June 2003 was finally made available to the country's deputies in the past week or so. The report recommends 1) that several contracts be revoked or renegotiated because they defraud the Congolese state; 2) that several national and international companies be investigated for violating Congolese law; 3) that 17 persons involved with the contracts be indicted for various crimes including money laundering. Le Blog adds that the report is available online.

• Alice Backer

South Africa

Barbados Free Press has it from “a confidential source” that “British and South African intelligence agencies and counter-terror units are to play major planning and operational roles in providing security for the 2007 Cricket World Cup” (which is being hosted by several Caribbean territories). The same source says, however, that “offers of U.S. assistance are being under-utilized because of anti-American bias by Caribbean leadership.”

• Georgia Popplewell

Bahamas

On the occasion of Florida governor Jeb Bush's visit to the Bahama, Bahama Pundit offers an overview of Bush's achievements and some foreign policy suggestions for the Bahamas leadership.

• Georgia Popplewell