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4 March 2009

Daily archive · 11 posts

Stories from 4 March 2009

Israel: Negotiating a Prisoner Exchange for Gilad Shalit

Written by Maya Norton · Middle East & North Africa

Three years ago, Palestinian militants captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid. Despite numerous diplomatic attempts to earn Shalit's release, the 22-year old remains in Hamas custody. In exchange for his freedom, Hamas demands the release of 1,400 Palestinians currently held in Israeli jails while Israel says Shalit's release is a pre-condition for a ceasefire, writes Maya Norton, who reviews the reactions of Israeli bloggers towards this deal.

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Updates from 4 March 2009

Barbados

Barbados Underground reports on the “motion of no-confidence in [the] Prime Minister’s handling of the CLICO Affair”, but is incredulous that the people's business was put on hold while the “Lower House [was] occupied for 45 minutes addressing the matter of the seating arrangement of members of parliament.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Honduras

The Rio Plátano Biosphere in Honduras recently moved onto the next round of the 7 Wonders of Nature voting in Category E for forests, natural parks and reserves [es] writes Hugo Chinchilla.

• Eduardo Avila

Haiti

My Life, an Open Book… says that “the constant vie for power makes for a disastrous recipe” when it comes to Haiti's practice of Restavec.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Barbados

Living in Barbados, Alien in the Caribbean and Discover TnT Blog all post their impressions of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival 2009.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Pakistan

Blogging from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Abeni is horrified by the news of the attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers, saying: “The cricketing terrorism that I know is usually some team inflicting blows on another. Then the weapons of choice are usually a red shiny ball and a wooden bat.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Kawase Madoka (為替円) expresses surprised [ja] at the halt of Bloomberg Television's Japanese channel starting from the 30th of April. The blogger, who participated several times in seminars organized by Bloomberg, and who used to follow with enthusiasm the morning news, is sorry to learn about the end of the service [ja].

• Scilla Alecci