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Jamaica: Just a Cartoon?

Skye Hernandez — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:58:19 +0000

A caricature depicting Robert Mugabe as King Kong gets the attention of Jamaican blogger My View of JamDown from Up So. Is it just a harmless political cartoon, he asks, or a racist portrayal of the Zimbabwe President?

Jamaica: Biblical concerns

Skye Hernandez — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:47:34 +0000

A project of the Bible Society of the West Indies to translate The Bible into “Patois” and have it published, is getting much attention in Jamaica. Living in Barbados joins the debate.

Jamaica: Plastic pests

Skye Hernandez — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:39:35 +0000

Long Bench addresses some aspects of the issue of pollution, and thinks Jamaicans should start by getting rid of the ubiquitous plastic bag—whether they like that idea or not.

Jamaica: Weeping and Wailing

Skye Hernandez — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:37:56 +0000

Following recent remarks from commentators invoking the idea of Revolution, My View of Jamdown from Up So depicts, in a long and vivid post, what a Revolution in Jamaica would be like.

Jamaica: Gun Control

Skye Hernandez — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:13:02 +0000

Jamaican blogger Long Bench objects to a newspaper's use of an image of a gun pointed at the reader, saying “Here we are celebrating the very weapon and skill that is also killing us.”

Jamaica: Trick and Treat

Skye Hernandez — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:10:05 +0000

Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot goes to the movies, and finds Hollywood blockbuster Wanted is steeped in the tradition of the Trickster/Warrior, “the two dominant archetypes in Jamaican culture.”

Jamaica: Kingston On The Edge

Skye Hernandez — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:34:28 +0000

From Jamaica, Active Voice reviews KOTE (Kingston On The Edge), a visual arts festival, where she says “For a brief moment in time we were treated to the kind of vibrant effervescent atmosphere we ought legitimately to expect from a well-connected and functioning art scene.”

Barbados: Caribbean Football Falters

Skye Hernandez — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:18:15 +0000

Living in Barbados comments on the fortunes of regional football teams, as qualification matches begin for World Cup 2010.

Jamaica: Crime Solution

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:06:18 +0000

As Jamaicans clamor to re-institute the death penalty, My View of JamDown from Up So says: “In Jamaica we don’t merely try and convict criminals. We try and convict poor people and the poorly-connected. We need to stop the gimmicks, nonsense, and short-cuts and begin to prosecute all criminals big and small.”

Jamaica, U.S.A.: Juneteenth

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:57:16 +0000

Jamaican Geoffrey Philp remembers Juneteenth, “the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.”

Jamaica: Local Fare

Janine Mendes-Franco — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:29:30 +0000

As global food prices continue to rise, Transition Sunshine is eating more locally produced staples and is surprised to learn that some Jamaicans consider them “slave food”.

Jamaica: Reggae Sumfest

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:23:49 +0000

After the recent sponsorship controversy surrounding Jamaica's Reggae Sumfest festival, Montego Bay Day By Day is happy to report that “the show shall indeed go on…which is a good thing for the local businesses…”

Jamaica: Red Man

Janine Mendes-Franco — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:11:16 +0000

Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp posts a poem on “the curse of being apart, neither black nor white, but red…”

Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago: Calabashing Walcott

Janine Mendes-Franco — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:19:19 +0000

Jamaican blogger Annie Paul quotes Guyana's Stabroek News on Walcott's anti-Naipaul poem, The Mongoose.

Jamaica: Living with HIV

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:17:58 +0000

Geoffrey Philp highlights the reporting of poet Kwame Dawes, who has been examining the HIV/AIDS crisis in Jamaica, while DigiActive says that “the Jamaican government went as far as preventing its country’s leading gay rights group from even attending the (UN AIDS) New York meeting”.