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Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica: People Power

Monday, August 25th, 2008 @ 14:44 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago
Topics:: Ideas, Cyber-Activism, Development, Environment, Sport, Youth, Politics
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

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Trinidad y Tobago, Jamaica: Poder del pueblo...

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

“The pictures of the Jamaican track teams facilities haunt me. But what they prove, perhaps is that all the high tech this, that and the other can’t take the place of the sheer power of the human spirit”: Trinidadian blogger Attillah Springer wonders “if we have what it takes to produce a Usain Bolt and a Richard Thompson, how come so many of our people are being left behind in the dust?”

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