Janine Mendes-Franco
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Regional Editor, CaribbeanI am a media producer based in Trinidad and Tobago. I blog at Francomenz and tweet under @j9.
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1 May 2012
Jamaica
Jamaica Woman Tongue says that if policy makers at the Housing Agency of Jamaica went to Sunday school, “they weren’t there the week the other children were learning…about wise and foolish builders”, adding that the organisation's “reckless policy of converting protected lands into house spots is a classic example of building on sand.”
30 April 2012
27 April 2012
Trinidad & Tobago
“I know that I would really judge someone who couldn’t construct a sentence properly. I write for a living. Can you blame me if I think that great grammar skills are sexy?” Karel McIntosh, writing at Outlish, says that “if a guy has poor grammar skills, that’s a deal breaker.”
Haiti
“In early 2011, a dozen people died after drinking ‘clairin' – a traditional Haitian alcohol drink – made with methanol in the Fond Baptiste region, north of the capital. Another 20 or so were blinded or paralyzed”: Haiti Grassroots Watch learns that “judicial, health and commerce authorities have not investigated who was responsible for the tragedy” and that “the production and sale of clairin – and ‘fake clairin' – continues with no regulation”, saying: “The tragedy could occur again at any moment, on an even larger scale.”
Jamaica
Nadine, Unscripted, notes that there are three Jamaican writers who have made the shortlists for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize, while ART:Jamaica blogs about an exciting new local space for art.
Trinidad and Tobago: Watching Crime & Dangerous Dogs
Two controversial topics are grabbing the attention of bloggers from Trinidad and Tobago: the recent arrest of the host of “Crime Watch”, a popular local television show and the proposed legislation against dangerous dogs.
25 April 2012
Cuba
“Information in Cuba is hopeless,” says Bad Handwriting, but she thinks it can be helped.
23 April 2012
Trinidad & Tobago
West Indian Mother thinks that parenting may now have joined the ranks of politics and religion as a taboo subject.
Bahamas: Elections Getting Closer
With just two weeks to go until the country's general elections, the Bahamian blogosphere has been filled with political discussion. Blogworld yesterday compiled her usual Twitter Weekly Updates, which gave a good overview of the issues being discussed.
==> As Africans we need to let go of our victimhood, inferiority complex & acceptance...