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Barbados, Grenada: Domestic Violence

Monday, February 16th, 2009 @ 14:13 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Barbados, Grenada
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Education, Gender, Law, Media
Languages:: English

Ongoing attention to the Rihanna/Chris Brown incident prompts Blah Bloh Blog [Grenada] and Barbados Underground to focus on the issue of domestic violence in the Caribbean.

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Ian Bourne

There is also a trend of guys with Brown as name for Domestic Violence, see link above

# 2009-02-17 at 9:31 am

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Ian Bourne

With THIS link you will get an insight not only to Bajan culture, but a political worldview – we want to hire Deities and yet act surprised (and secretly gleeful) when same folk show their erring humanity

# 2009-02-17 at 9:34 am

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