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Listing ID: 1969
Title: Bahamas Blog
Description: Blogging about what's happenings in the Bahamian society and region. The updates are from an islander's perspective.
Category: Regional : West Indies
Owner: Dennis Dames
listed on: September 17, 2008 06:53:16 PM
Number Hits: 1 times
Address: 21 Addison Place
City: Nassau
State: BS, NP, The Bahamas
Zip Code: CB-11865
Phone Number: 1-[242] - 362-5021
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Recent Posts:
| Jamaica: Camera-shy Christopher 'Dudus' Coke turns Celebrity - Fri, 28 May 2010 12:04:00 EDT |
| Camera-shy Dudus turns 'celeb' jamaica-gleaner:  OMG! The Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition saga and the ensuing anarchy unleashed across parts of the island have done more than put people on edge; it has also got them tweeting, texting, facebook-ing and BlackBerry messaging like nobody's business."Oh no! What's happening in Jamaica? This place is looking more like Iraq than my island paradise!" wrote one confessed Facebook addict in Kingston, in a post made on Wednesday. Helen Shirley, a 36-year-old business owner from St Andrew said she gets most of her updates on the situation in Kingston from Facebook and messages from friends on her BlackBerry. "When I get up in the mornings there are already dozens of messages on my BlackBerry. That's how my friends and I keep in touch in this hard time. We send messages to each other to find out if each other is okay. Sometimes we get information about what's happening on Facebook and on BlackBerry before I even hear it on the news," she said. A service called On the Ground News was recently launched on Facebook and already has more than 5,000 members. The aim of the service is for Facebook-ers across the island to share their thoughts on the extradition affair and for those close to the action to tell what they are witnessing. And as the saga drags on, the word continues to spread across the Internet. Christopher Coke, an accused Jamaican don who, it has been reported, hates the limelight, is now a bona fide Internet celebrity. A Google search for 'Christopher 'Dudus' Coke' on Wednesday produced 2,530,000 results, many from International media houses like The New York Times and the The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, a similar search for 'Bruce Golding' produced 274,000 results. May 28, 2010 jamaica-gleaner |
| Europe urged to recognise slavery as crime - Wed, 05 May 2010 08:45:00 EDT |
| by Dave Clark: PARIS, France (AFP) -- Historians and anti-racism campaigners are to urge the countries that oversaw and profited from the Atlantic slave trade to recognise it as a crime against humanity, opening the way for reparations. Next week, activists are to send a letter to the leaders of Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain asking them to recognise the trade as an historic injustice a century and a half after it ended. They have already convinced France to do so. The European Memorial Foundation for the Slave Trade will launch the appeal at the French Senate on May 10, backed by the French historian Louis Sala-Molins and John Franklin from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. "There are several reasons for this, including its symbolic value, to restore the memory of this crime against humanity," Karfa Diallo, chairman of the foundation, told AFP. "There's also a question, shall we say, of justice," he said. The continuing problem of racism in a Europe that now has an ethnically diverse population that could be precisely traced back to the 16th and 17th century texts justifying and codifying slavery, he argued. "Racism and discrimination persists in Europe. Young people of Caribbean and African ancestry are victims of it. And we know, historians have shown this, that racism was born in this story." Diallo's group was founded in the former French slave port of Bordeaux in 1998. It has found allies in other cities of Western Europe that grew wealthy on the profits of the trade, from Bristol in England to Porto in Portugal. And now it wants other European states to follow France in recognising that the slave trade was not just a historical tragedy, but a criminal act that has enduring social consequences in Africa, the Caribbean and Europe's melting pot cities. France passed a law in 2001 recognising slavery as a crime against humanity and the then president Jacques Chirac declared May 10 as a national day of remembrance for the victims of slavery. "If we accept that it was a crime, then there should be reparations. All crimes deserve compensation for victims and punishment for perpetrators," argued Diallo. "We'd like to see the creation of an international memorial fund, that would support a School of Memory. A fund managed by the United Nations," he said. The school would teach the history of the slave trade to descendants of victims and slavers alike, he added. While European nations now accept that slavery was an injustice, governments have fought shy of offering compensation. Some Europeans argue it is impossible to put a price on the suffering of slaves long dead and of regions of Africa that weren't then even states. But Diallo argued that Germany's reparations of victims of the Nazi Holocaust had set one precedent, while some payouts have already been made in the case of slavery -- but to the slave owners, not their slaves. "Europe owes a part of its capital to those that suffered," he said. "So far, only the slavers have been compensated. In all the colonies, when slavery was abolished, states decided to compensate. "For as long as there are no reparations to the descendants of the victims, we remain in a situation of extraordinary injustice, which is that we paid off the slavers. That's hard to accept in the 21st century." May 5, 2010 caribbeannetnews |
| Poll shows Americans want better ties with Cuba - Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:33:00 EDT |
| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters) -- A majority of Americans believe the United States should improve its long-strained relationship with Cuba and reestablish diplomatic and business ties, an opinion poll showed on Monday. A Cuba Business Bureau/Insider Advantage poll of 401 people showed that 58 percent of those surveyed supported full diplomatic relations with Cuba, while 33 percent opposed it. The poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus five percentage points, also showed that 61 percent believed US citizens should be allowed to travel to Cuba and 57 percent thought Washington should allow US companies to do business in Cuba. The United States has lifted some limits on Cuban Americans traveling and sending money to Cuba and initiated talks with Havana on migration and mail service. But US President Barack Obama has said the economic embargo will stay until Cuba improves human rights and frees political detainees. April 20, 2010 caribbeannetnews |