On the ground in Port-au-Prince, such as it is ( Current events and Photo and Travel )
We went into downtown Port-au-Prince again yesterday. We’d via Twitter that food was being distributed near the National Palace, followed by reports, from Carel Pedre and Karl Jean-Jeune, of UN security “spraying gas” and “throwing tear gas”. Examining the footage posted to YouTube by Carel Pedre back at headquarters (ie his apartment in [...]
( more )As seen on the streets of Accra ( Travel and Video )
As seen on the streets of Accra from Georgia Popplewell on Vimeo.
Like most countries in the developing world, my own included, Ghana has a vast informal economy in which street vendors play an important role. According to a 2003 study done by the Natural Resources Institute in collaboration with the Food Research Institute and the Department [...]
Ratty ( Travel )
Ratty would now be in his mid-twenties, I figured. If he was still alive. In 1996, when I met him, he didn’t look like a kid with a promising future. He had puffy eyelids which gave him a slow, sleepy appearance and seemed to have difficulty grasping basic concepts. Like the reason I wasn’t overjoyed [...]
( more )Zidane, Guyanese crime fighter? ( General )
Could Zinedine Zidane soon be headed for Guyana to help fight crime?
If Guyana-Gyal has anything to do with it, don’t be surprised.
UPDATE (July 12): And now the cheeky Jeremy Taylor, over at the Caribbean Beat weblog, adds his two cents.
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The Legchopper ( General )
The author of the blog featured above left this nice comment today at Caribbean Free Photo:
“What a game, T&T against Sweden. Leo Beenhakker [Trinidad & Tobago's Dutch coach] rules! But you know what the word Beenhakker means in dutch? Leg chopper, really!”
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What I know after today ( General )
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 CNC TV’s [...]
Speechless ( General )
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 0-0 SWEDEN
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Last night at the Little Carib…. ( General )
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 the [...]
( more )Football ( General )
With three days and twentysomething hours to go before T&T makes its debut at the World Cup, Trinidad and Tobago World Cup Blog author Stacy-Marie Ishmael riffs off the musings of commentators ranging from a Muslim blogger to Kofi Annan, in her eloquent and free-flowing treatise on football.
And don’t miss Caribbean Beat magazine’s special [...]
Radio Open Source on the World Cup – please weigh in! ( General and Photo )
Selwyn Henry, a member of the television crew covering the Trinidad & Tobago v. Bahrain World Cup qualifier match on November 12, contemplates the sea of red-clad T&T football fans in the stands. Photo by C*POP
Radio Open Source is prepping a show about the 2006 World Cup, set to air on June 8, and [...]
The game may be beautiful. . . ( General )
. . . but these World Cup-themed iPod hoodies sure ain’t.
At least they had the decency to put the Trinidad & Tobago model in the middle of this shot, between Brasil (who we wish we could be), and the USA (who we wish we had beaten in that ill-fated 1989 qualifier).
Via iLounge.
Update (27-6-2006): [...]
T&T v. Peru skypecast – thank you! ( General )
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, [...]
( more )T&T v. Peru skypecast update ( General )
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.
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T&T v. Peru Skypecast – final instructions ( General )
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 speed [...]
T&T vs. Peru Skypecast – more details ( General )
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 [...]
( more )T&T vs. Peru Skypecast, anyone? ( General )
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 & [...]
Caribbean Free Radio #42 – Germany 2006 preview with Wendell Manwarren ( Music and Photo and Podcast )
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CFR is back! And what better way to celebrate my return to podcasting than by paying a visit to cut+clear productions, headquarters of 3canal, CFR’s “house band”.
This time the topic isn’t the band but rather band member Wendell Manwarren, who was in Germany a few weeks ago appearing in [...]
“Nothing can beat it!” ( General )
The French-language blog InternetRapide (which has been keeping an eye, lately, on Digicel’s imminent purchase of Bouygues Télécom Caraïbe) drew my attention to this striking television commercial for the Guadeloupe and Martinique banana industry which has apparently been running on French television.
It’s a slick piece of PR that makes use of the images of [...]
Caption this ( General and Humour )
“This has “caption contest” written all over it…” was the comment left on Flickr by the wily Sanjiva, who has developed quite a knack of making me do things I’d normally never think of doing.
So if you’re so inclined, please leave suggestions for witty captions in the comments section, bearing in mind that this [...]
This and That: Random Friday edition ( Current events and General )
T&T’s official World Cup song – it gets worse: Over at the Trinidad & Tobago World Cup blog, Stacy-Marie Ishmael reports today on developments in the scandalous outsourcing of the official Trinidad & Tobago World Cup song to two composers in Leeds. Apparently there’s now a lead singer, but that’s the least of it.
Come on, [...]