Over at Global Voices, Alice Backer summarises the reaction in Haiti to the arrival of Irish telecoms service provider Digicel, which started serving the Haitian market in May. Some of it would sound quite familiar to us here in Trinidad and Tobago. A few days ago, ArubaGirl briefly noted the effect of Digicel’s entry into [...]

With both parents facing health problems this week, today was probably always going to be a day of mixed feelings. Our gathering was quite low-key and our resident Limey even refrained from celebrating too vociferously at the end. Jonathan was joking earlier that — were it to come to that — in the absence of [...]

That I’m no football analyst, but that the Soca Warriors looked like a tight, purposeful unit today. (Sorry, Andreas). That the Guardian‘s liveblog of the Trinidad & Tobago v. Sweden match was one of the more distasteful pieces of journalism I’ve come across in recent times. That — as Skye and I remarked simultaneously during [...]

Vibesing it up last night at the Little Carib There was anti-smelter talk too, of course, notably from Omari Ashby, but the warrior spirit was very much in evidence at last night’s “WarrenMan Birthday-Welcome World Cup Warriors-Happy Friday Jam Session” at the Little Carib Theatre. We arrived there in time for what appeared to be [...]

Because it’s home, in a powerful and unequivocal way that Britain, for all its joys and advantages and attractions and excitement, can never be. Even after more than half a decade here, adopting the idioms and the culture and the fashion and the freedoms of a big, first-world country, it’s still a foreign land to [...]

Not surprisingly, the Caribbean islands are barely visible on this map — somebody needs to build a Caribbean-specific version. And I need to head out east very soon…. create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands Technorati Tags: map, travel, world

Global Voices update: Among the exciting developments at Global Voices over the past few months are the posts offering translations of the action in the non-English speaking blogosphere. Two recent entries that should be of interest to CFR readers are David Sasaki’s “Journalism 3.0 in Cuba: A Utopian Wish?”, which discusses an online debate among [...]