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Village cricket match, Caribbean-style

Easter Sunday cricket match — Howsen Village, Trinidad. From caribbeanfreephoto

At this time of year, thoughts in the English-speaking Caribbean turn to the game of cricket. Travel around any of the region's former British colonies and you're likely to come across greens like this one, located in Howsen Village, Trinidad. This Easter Sunday match pitted a side from Howsen Village and environs (batting) against a team from Valencia (fielding) and was watched by a crowd of about twenty, amply supplied with beer and rum and egging on the players in between talk of local matters, including a lovers' quarrel which most were certain would soon be resolved (this in spite of the fact that the woman had “chopped” the man). The score at tea time was 121 for 5.

The Caribbean's international cricket season kicks off on April 29, with Zimbabwe facing off against the West Indies in Antigua. The West Indies Cricket Blog aggregates the talk about West Indies cricket.

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Voices from Zimbabwe and the Great Lakes

Zimpundit · 05:34 · Sub-Saharan Africa

Zimbabwe: This is Zimbabwe is involved in a battle of semantics with Eddie cross after the former published this post which questioned some of the numbers put forth by the latter in this post after the MDC congress in Harare. Said Eddie Cross in response to the criticism,

We are well aware of the fact that if we are to be taken seriously as an alternative government in waiting, that events like the Congress must be well run and managed. I think we demonstrated that to all who were there and in addition, we again demonstrated that we do have real structures in all parts of Zimbabwe. Stronger in some parts than others, but there are no “no go” areas in Zimbabwe as far as the MDC is concerned.

But This is Zimbabwe still wants to know,

why did only 5000 people vote if 15,000 were duly accredited delegates?

Zimpundit announces the forthcoming debut of Zimbabwe's “first super blog,” Enough is Enough. Modelled loosely on Global Voices Online, Enough is Enough is designed to act as a blog aggregator, an information exchange for concerned Zimbabweans within the country, and a “bridge blog” to carry the news in that country (now completely devoid of an independent press) to the outside world.
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Links for Mon, 2006-04

Americas

Sheri offers an overview (es) of schools in Puerto Rico that are using blogs.

Americas

Malmi announces (es) the 4th International Festival of Poor Cinema, which takes place in Gibara, Cuba, from April 17-23, and discusses the festival's background and philosophy. “Those new technologies,” writes Malmi, “that widen the gap between rich and poor, when applied to the world of the image, allow for films to be produced on smaller budgets and have become a guarantee of the survival of cinema in countries which are underdeveloped or which exist on the margins of the lucrative cinema monopoly: this is the thesis of the organizers of this festival.”

Americas

Sean is excited at the prospect of an underwater turbine being planned by BELCO, Bermuda's electricity company, which will make use of the Gulf Stream to generate power.

Americas

“Passa passa” events, which are also causing a stir in Grenada, have arrived in Barbados as well, according to Barbados Free Press, who notes that the story has also been picked up by Russian news service Pravda. “We must congratulate the Royal Barbados Police Force for moving against this bit of Jamaican “culture” that is so at odds with acceptable Bajan behaviour and cultural celebrations,” says Barbados Free Press. “Anyone who has seen one of these fetes up close knows of the violence, illegal drugs, gang sex and general mahem associated with ‘Passa Passa'.”

Central Asia & Caucasus

Onnik Krikorian notes that an official has admitted that the 2003 presidential election was falsified and he comments on the prospects for fairer votes in the 2007 and 2008 elections.