Global Voices Online

“With cutlasses at their necks, truck drivers are being hijacked by desperate villagers to deliver water to certain parts of the country…”: Blogging from Trinidad & Tobago, KnowProSE.com thinks that perhaps the government is “just not speaking the same language as the people around them.”

Bajan Global Report says that Jamaica and Guyana have come to an agreement after their recent rice row.

Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp posts a poem by Guyanese writer Abdhur-Rahman Slade Hopkinson.

Guyana-Gyal reveals the secret to winning and getting away with it.

Signifyin' Guyana is enjoying reading a book about Ebonics, but says: “If I ketch any one of my students writing that way, he or she gon get a straight up F.”

“I feel at home in my language–this brash, sexy combination of Standard-American-slang-Guyanese-creolese in which I speak and write. I own it. I am comfortable in it. I have no problem showing it off”: Blogging has helped Signifyin' Guyana realise how much she loves to write.

Guyana-Gyal's mother is making her famous pepper sauce - and asks her to go out and buy the “Secret Ingredient”.

“Before VS Naipaul or Samuel Selvon or Derek Walcott, there was Mittelholzer, who is regarded as one of the first professional novelists from the English-speaking Caribbean”: Trinidadian blogger Andre Bagoo observes the 43rd anniversary of the death of “this seminal Caribbean author”.