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July 30, 2008
AIDS News or Stigmatization?
It’s hard for me to understand the logic of this headline in today’s Jamaica Gleaner: Male to Male Sex Hurting Caribbean. The story comes from this report by UNAIDS, in anticipation of 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City beginning next week. Among issuing mostly positive news of the stabilization of the epidemic in many [...]
April 18, 2008
Links for April 17, 2008
Biofuels, gas prices, growing prosperity, and any number of other factors are being blamed for rising food prices around the world. Recent protests in Haiti about the cost of food led to several fatalities, the firing of the prime minister, and a debate in the Jamaican parliament about how to avoid a similar crisis. This [...]
April 16, 2008
Fearlessly Blogging in Cuba
Blogger Yoani Sanchez has been chosen as one of this year’s recipients of the prestigious Ortega y Gasset Award in Journalism by the Spanish newspaper, El Pais. In her blog, Generacion Y, Sanchez ruminates, satirizes, and dreams about Cuban life from Habana. For those of us who have limited access to stories of [...]
March 12, 2008
Links for Mar. 11, 2008
Another reggae woman raises her voice for the youth. Normally dirty DJ Lady Saw sings of her experience with rape.
From Caribbean Net News, Haitian students advocate agricultural reform.
The Jamaican Gleaner has been running a number of stories on climate change and how it will impact Caribbean landscape and society. Here they speak with the director [...]
March 5, 2008
Seeing Red
If your nation has one of the highest murder rates in the world, it’s news when a day goes by without a killing. It’s also a national pastime in Jamaica to propose and investigate different hypotheses for its high number of homicides. The economy, drug trade, and dancehall music have all [...]
February 28, 2008
Where’s the ganja at Global Reggae Conference?
During my afternoon at UWI, I met this man, Lenny, who was selling his jewelery to Global Reggae Conference-goers. I asked about the T-shirt he was wearing, which advertised a website, www.caribbeanmandate.com, about the campaign to legalize ganja in Jamaica. It didn’t occur to me until talking with Lenny that, in a week’s worth of [...]
February 28, 2008
Global Reggae Conference
I just returned from a whirlwind week in Jamaica, where I did my best to experience the Reggae Month festivities. The short bit UWI’s Global Reggae Conference that I participated in was immensely gratifying. The conference was very well organized and with speakers from all walks of life and from all around the world. [...]
February 15, 2008
Links for Feb. 15, 2008
First, a quite appropriate piece for Jamaica’s National Reggae Month: an analysis of the Biblical and Rastafarian references of Bob Marley’s lyrics from writer and blogger Geoffrey Philp.
Next, a scary story in the New York Times of fishermen poisoning Jamaica’s Rio Grande. Fresh curried conch will never taste the same again.
Speaking of unfortunate animals, [...]
February 15, 2008
Soca Monarch
Thanks to the folks at Afropop Worldwide for a roundup of carnival season for those of us who missed out. This here is Faye-Ann Lyons- Alvarez, performing her winning song of Trinidad’s Road March competition, Get On. It’s the second time she’s claimed victory.
