It’s now 234pm Trinidad time, and I’m sitting in Panini Café wolfing down a roast beef wrap. Around 224pm, as I was on my way here, sitting in traffic (and, incidentally, checking e-mail), the car suddenly started shaking. Knowing my car, it could well have been something going on under the hood, so I switched [...]
It’s now raining cats and dogs here in the valley, and I called my colleague at UNICEF (ten minutes drive away, and where I’m supposed to attend a meeting shortly) to find out whether it was raining there as well. She said it was bright and sunny. That’s tropical weather patterns for ya. Speaking of [...]
Traffic apparently crazy in downtown Port of Spain, as I’ve learned both from the friend I just talked to on the phone and from the comment left on the previous post by an “excited by shaked” pharmacy worker, who also wrote that schools have been dismissed. I understand as well that the BP building was [...]
The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Unit has posted information on their web site about this morning’s ‘quake: Earthquake near Trinidad 29/09/06 On Friday September 29th an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 occurred near to Trinidad. So far we have reports from Chaguanas, St. Augustine, Princes Town, Point Fortin and Westmoorings. We will be [...]
908am (GMT -4), Blue Range, Diego Martin, Trinidad. Just felt the strongest, longest earthquake I’ve ever felt in my life. The house felt like it was rocking from side to side. Haven’t checked as yet for damage, but I’m certain that less sturdy buildings than this must have sustained some. It also took the power [...]
1000 posts at Global Voices! Thanks to all of you in the Caribbean blogosphere — you’re the ones who made this possible. And now get back to your computers and write me some more stuff to link.
Arts blogs Over Global Voices, I’ve posted a short piece on how artists and arts organisations in Trinidad are using blogs. And the Piggy goes to. . . . Some real cloak and dagger business going on over at Barbados Free Press. A mysterious donor called “Mr. O” has given BFP US$1,000, which they’re offering [...]
I lied to the Jehovah’s Witness woman who just came to the gate. “How are you this morning?” she asked cheerfully. They need to get better about disguising themselves. Had she been carrying a basket of mangoes or something else I could have had for breakfast, instead of a stack of Watchtowers, she might even [...]
“One of the dumbest moves that was ever made by anybody [on the US invasion of Iraq].” “If we dont have the right information today, we’re doomed.” “Men should be barred from public office for 100 years anywhere in this world. . . ” – Ted Turner to Reuters journalist Paul Holmes Here at Reuters [...]
Global Voices co-founder Rebecca MacKinnon, yours truly and Francophonia editor Alice Backer cuddle the trophy I know that for some this is very stale news, but Global Voices won the Knight-Batten award today! So proud to be a part of this. Big congrats and thanks to all on the the GV team! (UPDATE: And here [...]
“It might be easier to teach a good blogger how to be a journalist than it is to teach a good journalist how to be a blogger.” Ken Sands of the Spokane Spokesperson-Review‘s Transparent Newsroom Initiative, who’s presenting at the moment. Sounds like a great project. Dean Wright from Reuters has just joined us. Technorati [...]
J-Lab director Jan Schaffer just opened the proceedings. Earlier today she introduced us to one of the other finalists saying, “Meet one of your co-winners.” Co-winner. Nice concept. Everyone we meet says they love Global Voices. “Oh, you all have to win,” said one person. HealthNewsReview.org is presenting now. The slide on at the moment [...]
Sitting as we speak in the Holeman Room at the National Press Club in Washington DC awaiting the start of the 2006 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism awards ceremony. I’m helping represent Global Voices along with Rebecca MacKinnon and Alice Backer. Things crazy at the moment — more later. Technorati Tags: global voices, knight-batten
As if I weren’t already head over heels in love with train travel. Captured earlier today on Amtrak 195 to Washington DC. And yes, I’m a bad, bad travel blogger: my second trip in 18 days and I’m yet to write anything about my wanderings. At least I post the occasional photo to my Flickr [...]
I touched upon my Martinique experiences some time ago at the dormant-but-not-in-fact-dead Caribbean Free Photo. In that post I mentioned the group Malavoi, whose music, I said, “features prominently on the soundtrack to my Martinique days.” Yesterday I happened to come across the MySpace page of Ralph Thamar, Malavoi’s former lead singer. Around the time [...]
Today is the fifth anniversary of 9/11, as you will undoubtedly be reminded at every turn. It’s also the first day of the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement taking place in in Havana, Cuba. Is the Non-Aligned Movement still relevant? (St. Kitts and Haiti have just joined up, by the way). Jeremy Taylor, what’s your [...]
7:12am There’s a scent coming through my window this morning on the chilly air. Fermenting fruit (from the mangoes rotting on the ground under the starch mango tree), mixed with burnt sugar. It reminds me of something, though I don’t know what. Something from another island, I think, to do with the countryside. It is [...]
Preparing for a hurricane on a small, flat, wealthy island in the north Atlantic is a radically different proposition from preparing for a hurricane in a city precariously situated at the junction of a major river and a major gulf with long-standing sewerage and drainage issues and plagued by social inequalities; or on a small, [...]
There hasn’t been much noise about Carifesta IX in the blogosphere (or anywhere else for that matter), but here, from the Ringplay Productions blog, is a follow-up to an earlier item I posted at the Carifesta IX Fringe Festival Blog about the Bahamian presence at the festival: Horse in Trinidad The CARIFESTA contingent will leave [...]