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Caribbean Free Radio
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
May 27
Caribbean Free Radio #48 – Calabash Literary Festival 2008
Yes — a podcast. In CFR’s 48th show, a collaboration with Antilles and the Caribbean Review of Books (CRB) recorded in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, my gin and tonic-lubricated friends Annie Paul, Nicholas Laughlin, Jonathan Ali, Kei Miller, Alastair Bird and I review the first day-and-a-half of the Calabash International Literary Festival.
May 24
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Global Voices Online » Jamaica, Caribbean: No gays in Golding’s government Nikipedia rounds up the blog reaction to the Jamaican PM’s recent statements on the non-participation of homosexuals in his administration (tags: jamaica hom)
May 23
No photos at Calabash
On Wednesday I promised “festival reports and photos” from the Calabash International Literary Festival starting today. It looks, however, like I’ll have to break that promise, as I learned this afternoon that photography isn’t allowed at this year’s event. An official I spoke with briefly said something to the effect that this year they were [...]
May 23
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C minus 1 Over at Antilles, Nikipedia promises Calabash Festival coverage (tags: caribbean jamaica literature)
May 22
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Global map of Digital Inclusion (tags: map technology world development economics global) Jamaica Gleaner News – EDITORIAL – Homophobic silliness and a failure of leadership – Thursday | May 22, 2008 Gleaner editorial addresses quality of Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s leadership in light of homophobic comments made on the BBC’s Hardtalk programme (tags: jamaica homosexuality [...]
May 21
Calabash Literary Festival 2008
We’re back in Treasure Beach for the Calabash Literary Festival. Stay tuned for festival reports and photos starting May 23. Technorati Tags: calabash literary festival 2008, calabashfestival08, calabash08, jamaica, literature, caribbean
May 04
Sunday Morning Coffee
Another Flickr video upload and Canon PowerShot G9 test. If Flickr had launched its video upload service back in January 2008 might really have been the year of video after all (apologies to Semanal, by the way).
May 03
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Global Voices Online » Global: The price of food, the cost of despair Great roundup of Global Voices’ coverage of the global food crisis. (tags: food globalvoices) Antilles: the weblog of the CRB: May 2008 Antilles book of the month: The Same Earth, by Kei Miller The Caribbean Review of Books’ blog begins a book [...]