Army officers guard a cordoned off area of the Brian Lara Promenade near the scene of yesterday’s explosion in Port of Spain. Photo by Attillah Springer Here’s the Trinidad Express report on yesterday’s explosion in Port of Spain. Attillah Springer, who kindly provided the audio I posted yesterday evening, has an eyewitness account. The Guardian [...]
Just wanted to say a big thank you to all who joined the skypecast of the Trinidad & Tobago v. Peru football match on Wednesday. We had 30-plus participants and a lively discussion going on via IM among those who had added me to their Skype contact list. Judging from the emails I received beforehand, [...]
The World Wide Help blog continues to be a valuable source of news on the catastrophic flooding occurring in parts of Suriname. The WWH bloggers are posting round-the-clock reports from various sources, including an eyewitness based in Paramaribo, Suriname’s capital city. Especially valuable are the translations of reports from Dutch-language news sources, as coverage of [...]
The peanut vendor’s cart which allegedly caused the explosion in downtown Port of Spain. Photo by Attillah Springer More Vino has turned into quite the media hub. Attillah Springer landed a while ago bearing audio of an interview about the explosion with Acting Commissioner of Police, Glen Roach. Listen to it here: Powered by Castpost
Thursday evening at More Vino by Nicholas Laughlin We’re here sitting at the More Vino wine bar in Woodbrook attending the fundraiser for Gilles Budin, the tattoo artist and proprietor of The Tattoo Farm who was critically injured in a motorcycle accident over the weekend, when we get the news, via Tracy, that there’s been [...]
Instead of pursuing Part Two of the skypecast I’ve simply extended Part One. The direct link is here. Please follow the instructions from my previous post to join. Technorati Tags: skypecast, soca warriors, football, trinidad, peru
Here are the final instructions for joining this evening’s skypecast of the Trinidad & Tobago v. Peru football match from Trinidad: To listen you will need to have Skype installed on your computer and a broadband internet connection. Please note that this is a radio broadcast being relayed via VoIP and therefore limited by the [...]
I got all excited when this appeared on my monitor this afternoon, and I was hoping it was simply a matter of the Trinidad Express (which was the first — and, I believe, still the only — regional print newspaper to syndicate their content via RSS feed) handling the new terminology a bit awkwardly (“new [...]
The English-speaking mainstream media’s coverage of the flooding in Suriname seems to be minimal (turns out that the BBC Caribbean report I linked to just now may even be inaccurate), but the World Wide Help blog is aggregating information from inside Suriname and elsewhere. Technorati Tags: suriname, flooding
From the BBC Caribbean report on the flooding in Suriname: Three children are reported missing after flood waters forced thousands to flee their homes in Suriname after heavy rain. Disaster officials said 175 villages close to the Suriname and Marowijne rivers in southeastern and central Suriname are worst affected. They said about 25,000 people mostly [...]
Just received this alert from the Global Voices mailing list about the flodding in Suriname. If you do know of anyone who can help, please email me at caribbeanfreeradio[at]gmail[dot]com and I’ll relay the message: An urgent request here to the GV community: Is there anyone on this list who can understand/speak Dutch to do translations [...]
The “I Love Soca Warriors” e-mails have begun trickling in (so far it looks like we’ll have London, Cambridge (England), Atlanta and Washington DC in the house), so the T&T v. Peru Skypecast is happening. I’ve set things up on Skype, so if you visit the Skypecasts page and do a search for “Trinidad”, or [...]
Trinidad & Tobago captain (L) and star midfielder Russell Latapy (R) pose for the camera during a photo shoot in Manchester in April 2006 An e-mail just landed in my inbox inviting me to a “Football Fever” all-inclusive lime on Wednesday 10 May, which all Soca Warriors fans know is the day of the Trinidad [...]
The path to Grande Saline beach, St. Barthélémy, French West Indies My friend Sophie Maupoil sent me this photo of my second-favourite beach in St. Barts, as if to remind me of some of what I missed this year by not having attended the St. Barth Film Festival. From all reports, a good time was [...]
One of those JSS-powered Global Voices link boxes like the one in my sidebar, that is. To get one resembling mine you’ll have to mess around a bit with your blog’s style sheet (“mess around” being a very apt description of my own interactions with CSS), but there’s also a plain vanilla, just-add-water version that [...]
Over at Global Voices, Alice Backer summarises the reactions in Haiti to Digicel’s recent acquisition of Bouygues Telecom: As Digicel is expanding its reach in the Caribbean, Haitian telecoms are reacting to Digicel’s presence in Haiti. Says (FR) Radio Kiskeya: “The arrival of Caribbean operator Digicel triggers a counter-offensive from its Haitian competitors.” Haitel and [...]
I tuned in just before 9am Trinidad time (BST 1400) so can’t give a terribly informed assessment of Day Two, but following the proceedings at the We Media Global Forum in London has been marginally easier today, though the audio link broke some time ago (haven’t checked back to see if it’s been fixed). I’m [...]
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The slogan, motto or whatever it was of Banyan Limited, the pioneering television production company I was lucky to work for near the end of its golden age back in the late 1980s (my first real job) was, “Inside the People TV”. That was a double-entendre, of course, with currency in both standard and Trinidadian [...]
This evening I posted my 500th entry at Global Voices. As my late grandfather George Popplewell (after whom I was named) used to say: tempus fugit. Who’s taking me to lunch? In other GV-related news, the We Media Global Forum takes place on May 3-4 in London. The theme this year is “The Power of [...]