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.”

Blog de Port-au-Prince draws attention to the fact that Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, a prominent human rights worker and Famni Lavalas activist who has been missing since August 12, 2007, still has not been located.

Haitian blogger kiskeácity notices that “there appears to be yet another calypso anthem to Barack.”

Haitian blogger kiskeácity is moved by former Village Voice writer Gary Dauphin's musings about Haiti and Haitianness and links to his latest piece on the food crisis “through the eyes and stories of various relatives who have traveled from Haiti to the US to attend (a) wedding…”

Haitianalysis.com publishes an article by Dr. Joia Mukherjee and Donna Barry that explains why the current food crisis “is only the most recent in the hemisphere's hungriest country.”

Nicolette Bethel links to a video series “on the statelessness of children of Haitian parentage growing up in The Bahamas” and says that “every Bahamian should watch them — especially those Bahamians who view their society through the lenses of ‘Us' and ‘Them'.”

“Locally, consumers are not getting value for money. Breadbasket items such as flour, butter, cheese and canned goods have all been outrageously priced,” writes Adrian Gibson at WeblogBahamas.com, while Bajan Global Report says that Haiti will receive food aid from Florida.

Haitian blogger kiskeácity examines the concept of “measuring development as if people mattered more than places.”