Global Voices Online

This Beach Called Life suggests that the members of Trinidad and Tobago's government are “Gods of The Good Times”: “The bad and hard times fall squarely on the lap of the real God and the opposition.”

Trinidad and Tobago bloggers are keeping an eye on the flood waters, here and here.

Trinidad and Tobago's The Liming House blogs about Baby Marisa, who died from a rare but treatable liver problem: “The death of this innocent should rest on all our minds. Who defends the defenseless? How is it that a government has basically left a child to die and faces no repercussions? Is this Trinidad or Gotham?”

Simply Trini Cooking makes a trip to Mount St. Benedict - “a terrific place for a retreat or just to get away from it all.”

“More than three years have passed already since the Saturday morning in October 2005 when thousands of Trinidadians marched through the streets of Port of Spain to protest the Manning government's failure to deal with spiralling murder and kidnapping rates, widespread public anxiety, and the profound social inequalities behind these”: Nicholas Laughlin thinks “it is time to get angry again.”

Anguillian Don Mitchell takes a trip to his Alma Mater at Mount St. Benedict in Trinidad.

Trinidadian blogger Coffeewallah finds it “distasteful on so many levels that a man could be reduced to less than my dog, that as a nation stumbling towards what we call development, we still have not found a way to treat with our dispossessed.”

TriniGourmet.com writes a post about copyright infringement and the local blogging community.

“Growing up in a semi-rural, agricultural area of Trinidad, every household would make garden. Some larger than others, depending on the availability of land. Neighbours shared peas, beans, fruits, trade dasheen bush for avocados, encouraging diversity without having to plant everything yourself”: Lifespan of a Chennette highlights “the joy that you can get from the act of picking something from the backyard and taking it straight to the pot.”