Earlier this month I posted a short item about bloggers being invited to a Caribbean tourism conference in New York, giving it the somewhat facetious title, “Has Blogging Arrived?”. Anybody with a brain knows that corporate cozying is hardly a sign of true “arrival”. It’s when they start trying to shut you up (or down) that you know you’ve become a force to contend with.

All this to say that I just posted an article over at Global Voices about what is very likely the Caribbean’s first blogging controversy. It involves “a blogging policeman, a local newspaper and a witch hunt by an irate constabulary. In — of all places — the mild-mannered Cayman Islands.” It will be interesting to see what effect this incident has on the profile of blogging and bloggers in the region. Or if it has any effect at all.