Colours of Notting Hill: Over at Global Voices, Nikipedia has posted a selection of photos from this year’s Notting Hill Carnival celebrations in London. The Manning blog: The Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago is blogging! Would love to know who’s behind this, but on the other hand, maybe I wouldn’t — knowing who it [...]
If you believe as a matter of faith that a certain book is blasphemous, and therefore dangerous for the faithful to read, then you have a simple solution. Tell the faithful that they must not read it. If they are truly faithful, they will obey, and be saved from the perdition you fear for them. [...]
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I’ve just posted episode #5 of the Global Voices show. Take a listen:
The Commonwealth Foundation is looking for a Human Rights Co-ordinator for the Caribbean. This could be you.
A number of comments have been left at Global Voices requesting information on the situation in Dominica post-Hurricane Dean. thedominican.net looks like it could be a useful source. It also has a forum where people are posting reports and information. Technorati Tags: hurricane, hurricane dean, caribbean, dominica, weather
Click To Play play_blip_movie_348120(); These were the scenes this morning in Diego Martin, Trinidad, around 930am. Hurricane Dean isn’t even within spitting distance of us, so imagine what it must feel like in the islands further north, some of which – Dominica and Martinique, for instance – have already taken a beating, and where hurricane [...]
I’m back in Trinidad and still haven’t reported properly on BlogHer even after all sorts of cool people have written about meeting me (thanks, cool people! At least I took lots of photos). Putting me particularly and rather dramatically to shame (and not just for blogging about BlogHer) is Beth Kanter, an old Global Voices [...]
