The Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad, during the WI v South Africa test match in April 2005 Here listening to the commentary on the 2nd One-Day International between West Indies and Zimbabwe going on in Antigua, which is interrupted mid-sentence by one of those strident commercials. Said message from our sponsor concludes with the tag [...]
Check out Nicholas “Nikipedia” Laughlin’s article on West Indian Literature’s online presence over at Global Voices. Technorati Tags: global voices, west indian literature, caribbean
Newly appointed West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara having fun in the makeup room at Lee Studios, Manchester, during a recent commercial shoot for TSTT. The blurry reddish object is a cricket ball. The blurred hand is Russell Latapy’s. Brian Lara’s third captaincy is being marketed as a brave response to the call of duty, [...]
This album is powered by BubbleShare CFR is back! And what better way to celebrate my return to podcasting than by paying a visit to cut+clear productions, headquarters of 3canal, CFR’s “house band”. This time the topic isn’t the band but rather band member Wendell Manwarren, who was in Germany a few weeks ago appearing [...]
Not a day for good news at CFR. Over at Global Voices, I’ve just posted a roundup of the blogosphere’s response to the brutal murder of Guyana’s Minister of Agriculture. Not good, not good at all. Technorati Tags: guyana, global voices, satyadeow sawh, crime
Was just talking on the phone with Jonathan Ali, who gave me the news that Trinidad & Tobago’s Leader of the Opposition, Basdeo Panday, has been found guilty. The Trinidad Express’s web site posted a newsflash just after noon, our time (GMT -4): The verdict is in! The Court has ruled that Opposition Leader Basdeo [...]
The French-language blog InternetRapide (which has been keeping an eye, lately, on Digicel’s imminent purchase of Bouygues Télécom Caraïbe) drew my attention to this striking television commercial for the Guadeloupe and Martinique banana industry which has apparently been running on French television. It’s a slick piece of PR that makes use of the images of [...]
An uncharitable relative suggested recently that the lengthy and very flattering comment left on CFR’s iTunes page by one BePaul may have been written by yours truly. For the record, I am not BePaul. And let me take this opportunity to thank BePaul for this kind and generous comment. Technorati Tags: itunes, podcast
Bird Power: As though yesterday’s bush fire, followed by a night spent inhaling smoke from the smouldering embers on the mountainside opposite my house, were not sufficient provocation, this morning around 6:45am, the electricity goes. Its departure was heralded, as usual, by a loud pop like the sound of a firecracker, which indicated that a [...]
It’s not quite a podcast, but here’s an audio clip with sounds of the bush fire which is raging as I write on the mountain which sits behind my street — plus a few words from yours truly. The dry season has truly arrived. Play this clip using this link: Powered by Castpost Or access [...]
‘Tis the season, it would appear, for Caribbean film festivals. The 2006 Bridgetown Film Festival in Barbados kicks off on May 6 and promises films from “Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, St. Lucia and Barbados”. Technorati Tags: film, caribbean, cinema, barbdos, bridgetown film festival
Work commitments prevent me from making my annual jaunt to St. Barts for the St. Barth Film Festival next week, but here’s what’s on the menu: The St. Barth Festival of Caribbean Cinema (Cinéma Caraïbe) celebrates its 11th season April 25-30, 2005 on the island of St. Barthélemy in the French West Indies. This eleventh [...]
“This has “caption contest” written all over it…” was the comment left on Flickr by the wily Sanjiva, who has developed quite a knack of making me do things I’d normally never think of doing. So if you’re so inclined, please leave suggestions for witty captions in the comments section, bearing in mind that this [...]
Last Wednesday the nameless police officer that I met warned me to “follow legal channels” to solve the problem. I don’t know where my current actions have overstepped the rights granted me by law. The materials I’ve delivered to each bureau have disappeared like stones into the sea. The receptionists of corresponding work units shift [...]
The title says it all: I just posted an article at Global Voices rounding up the Easter weekend-related chit-chat in the Caribbean blogosphere. As usual, this exercise taught me several new things about my home region. Did any of you know, for example, that Vincentian snakes have feet?
Good Friday Kite flying in the Queen’s Park Savannah, Trinidad A popular pastime in the Caribbean during the breezy dry season months is kite flying, and several territories hold kite flying festivals over the Easter Weekend. One of the most most famous of these takes place in Georgetown, Guyana, where hundreds gather along the Sea [...]
A group of drummers try their darnedest to emulate Salvador’s Olodum in the middle of Manchester’s shopping district. They didn’t quite make, but I’ll give them points for trying. Those of you who check in regularly on my Flickr page know that I’ve been in Manchester since Saturday. We’re here to shoot some commercials with [...]
When two Carnival revelers were slain in February in Trinidad and Tobago, one suspect gave himself up to escape the bereaved families’ threats of deadly vengeance. Does anybody remember any Carnival revelers being killed this season? Where is the LA Times getting their information? The same article goes on to quote a US security expert [...]
The Fall of Icarus, Pieter Breughel I’m sure it’s hardly news to anyone that not all Trinidadians are wonderful people. This past week, for instance, we saw that even very young Trinidadians are capable of monstrous acts. Some Trinidadians are even capable of siring children who grow up to be guerillas, then dictators responsible for [...]