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Janine Mendes-Franco

Regional Editor, Caribbean

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November 7th, 2009

Cuba: Yoani Sanchez & Other Bloggers Seized

Janine Mendes-Franco · 21:55, November 7th, 2009 · Americas

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Yoaní Sánchez, Cuba's most famous blogger, who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow bloggers, Claudia Cadelo (a Global Voices contributor) and Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo. Bloggers make their feelings known about the incident. 1 comment · read »

November 6th, 2009

Americas

Trinidadian bloggers continue to weigh in on the exorbitant cost to taxpayers for a massive national flag: “The point is not only the credibility of the cost of the monster-flag and associated concrete but the reason we need a monster-flag during a recession and a white collar crime wave.”

Americas

Barbadian bloggers are all over the story of a man claiming “he woke up in the morgue of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after being declared dead”: Barbados Free Press: “It would be nice if Barbados reporters started asking some questions instead of ingesting and regurgitating whatever garbage is tossed their way”; Barbados Underground: “The bigger point to this story is to recognize the power of the media to excite its public.”

Americas

“Copyright violation is still a troubling one on the internet”: Signifyin' Guyana explores the issue.

Americas

As Trinidad and Tobago's National Security Minister makes an inaccurate statement about the processing time for machine-readable passports, B.C. Pires is irritated that the media did not ask questions: “I’ve seen Trinidadians in action so I understand ‘boldfacity'. I don’t understand the people on the other side going along with the lie; because they are then themselves dishonest.”

November 5th, 2009