As I believe I’ve already mentioned, I’m off to London on December 8 to attend the Global Voices 2005 Summit, where I guess I’ll be expected be representing the Caribbean blogosphere. The meeting will comprise four sessions, as follows (more detailed information available here): SESSION ONE: 10:00-11:00am The state of Global Voices.Overview of what we’ve [...]
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Thanks to Haveworld, I’ve just discovered that the UWI Seismic Unit has posted information about the earthquake on December 1. The magnitude was 4.1, so it was not the strongest I’ve experienced. I’ve also been thinking about why I felt compelled to blog about it. The main reason is perhaps obvious: had something happened, had [...]
“. . . the people on our planet right now that I really wanna hear from aren’t the 20 and 30-something cyber-hipsters all listening to the exact same music that supposedly no one else knows about. I wanna hear from someone raised in the depression. Someone who remembers thinking that we shoulda gone into WWII [...]
Just experienced what felt to me like the strongest earthquake I’ve ever felt here in Trinidad . . . . Technorati Tags: caribbean, earthquake, trinidad + tobago
Dropped in at 3canal headquarters this afternoon and next thing I knew a mini-podcast was in the offing! In down-and-dirty episode #37, CFR’s “house band” premieres “Rise”, their first single for the 2006 Carnival season, and talks about drawing inspiration from the Trinidad & Tobago football team’s recent qualification for the 2006 World Cup, their [...]
- In 2004, AIDS claimed 24,000 lives in the Caribbean. – “Despite the availability of life-saving medicines, access to antiretroviral drugs by those infected Caribbean is still proportionately low” – “Rampant stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS, vulnerable groups such as sex workers and men who have sex with men, keep people from [...]