Trinidad and Tobago's Soca Warriors have made it to the World Cup finals with a 1-0 victory against Bahrain in Bahrain.

I am so happy about that, and I don't even like football. I remember T&T's World Cup qualifier against the US in Trinidad back in 1989. I was in Bridgetown that day and I was walking along in front of the bus terminal, and ( Read more... )

[Edward] Kamau Brathwaite is Barbados's most notable poet.

Via some random and unreproduceable link-hopping today, I happened to find out that he has been engaged in a (somewhat one-sided, it would seem) struggle with local authorities to save his home, CowPastor, on the piece of land known as Cow Pasture, in Christ Church. Residents of the ( Read more... )

ICON LOVE!!!!

I've been thinking about doing this for a while, and I think it's really time I did it ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to lady miss keever. I hope you have a wonderful happy day.

I honestly don't have much sympathy for all the basketball players whining and bitching about the new "business casual" NBA dress code* and how it's implicitly racist. Not because I am strongly opposed to do-rags and baggy pants and sneakers and gold chains - although I do think it would be nice to see NBA players in nice suits, just because I ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to keep a list of movies I've watched, much as I do for books I've read. But I never really get around to it. I'll make mental notes and even scribble a few titles here and there, but in the end I guess that movies don't matter as much to me as books do. But I do really like making lists, so here, in no particular order, are the ( Read more... )

From the sidebar at the blog. Some of these may look familiar 'cause I got them from my friends-list. And some of them have lost their currency by now. Oh well.

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So, the white guilt reconciliation march that I wrote about last week took place yesterday. Here's an excerpt from the Nation newspaper report (not sure if that is a permalink) on the occasion:

Comments from the few onlookers varied, with Darryl Bowen, of My Lord's Hill, St Michael, saying the symbolic walk was worthwhile since local ancestors of ( Read more... )

Punctuation quiz, via dormousie

( It's actually my favourite punctuation mark. )