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It's been another active week among the Caribbean blogs. Here are a few highlights that you don't want to miss.
Karen from Chookoloonks started 'Love Thursday'. Here are the rules:
1. For those of you who have blogs, post a photograph today on your blogs that shows love -- it can be of you and your partner, you and your children, you and your pets, you loving life, your kids playing with your pets, strangers in the arrivals lounge at Heathrow airport, whatever.
2. Once you've posted it, come back here (or go to Irene's), and leave the permalink to your post in the comments, as evidence that love is, indeed, all around us.
3. For those of you who don't have blogs, don't feel left out -- you can leave a description of a time you witnessed love in the comments as well. Who says a picture has to be made with a photograph?
There are some excellent reactions in her comments section. Trust me, you want to check those out.
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Titilayo from gallimaufry wrote a review of a book named Ake : the years of childhood by Wole Soyinka. An excerpt of the review:
Ake is a simple memoir, about young Wole, his friends, his family, the place and time in which he lived, the people he lived with. It just so happened that those people, in that place and time, were changing the face of colonial Nigeria.
Thanks, Titilayo, for another entry on my shopping list!
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Moving on over to Blogworld, Nicole Bethel writes about the inertia of the government bureaucracy:
The problem is simple. Government is designed to protect the status quo. (It is very often nothing to do with the party in power.) Conservatism is hammered into the system from the ground up. The System itself is god; there is no power higher than it. Change itself goes in as change, and never comes out at all.
Inertia.
I think all of us who have dealt with bureaucracy know exactly what Nicole is writing about.
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Abeni from And Still I Rise wrote about hearing the news that Marion Jones reportedly tested positive to banned substances and her reaction to this:
Unfortunately,for me at least I cannot watch Track now without being cynical.In the back of mind is a little voice forever wondering if that was a brilliant race or drug assisted.Who's next-Jeremy Wariner,Tonique Williams,Allyson Felix,Sanya Richards,Asafa Powell etc etc? I'd hope they are all clean but news of a positive test will be met with a shrug at best.
Sometimes it is really difficult to find real live heroes nowadays...
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Lynn Sweeting from Womanish Words wrote a blistering post about the leadership of a local newspaper and its complaints about alleged lack of free press in the Bahamas:
This man admits he was only here for the first two years of the young Pindliing government, and yet, look at him Going On with so much self-righteous, sanctimonious authority… this is typical, old-white-man crap in the post colonial island patriarchy. What the hell does he know? I’ve been to London. I stood at the gates of Buckingham Palace and got pushed around by skanky tourists so that I could get a glimpse of those silly soldiers marching around in circles and shouting at each other… Am I now qualified to take to a London newspaper and write reams of front page copy about London’s social/cultural affairs?
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On a lighter subject, Sally Harrison from Cayman Time reports that Cayman Islands will now have a post code system:
Snail mailers take heed, there's a new code of practice for sending letters to Grand Cayman.
I'll definitely be checking in for updates. It may be a solution for the RIDICULOUS amount of time it takes for a letter to get delivered on Aruba.
