tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:30:57 +0000A potpourri of tit bits, news, books, global affairs, education,politics, sites, travel, entertainment & more...http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)Blogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-2821261784519683880Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:55:00 +00002009-02-16T12:04:28.620-05:00Owen Arthurdavid thomsponclicoMia MottleyRESIGN!The Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) made this appeal last night to chairman of the state-owned Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Leroy Parris.In a statement released just ahead of the party's public meeting in Spooner's Hill, St Michael, Leader of the Opposition Mia Mottley urged Parris to step down.This was because of the BLP's accusation against CBC of failing to give the http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/02/mottley-asks-for-parris-to-resign.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-8685799185460059865Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:27:00 +00002009-02-16T04:35:21.198-05:00journalismChris BrownRihannablack history monthCaribbean MediaHmmmmm.This is interesting and your views and interaction are important to me. I think my views may provoke discussion...or not.There has been much ado about Caribbean songstress Rihanna being beaten up by Chris Brown. Two things came to my mind. One is that on TMZ, they still say, as they do on CNN, that Rihanna is the ALLEGED victim. That little word ALLEGED is very important to us in the mediahttp://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/02/tabloid-rubbish-rihanna-and-black.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-7334473626696215702Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:35:00 +00002009-02-15T10:18:05.219-05:00Sue me PLEASE! DLP I mean you!Yesterday I had the MISFORTUNE of listening to the debate in the House in Barbados in a doctor's office. I was bored mindless.I am in great health by the way for those who rather I was not.lol I would however encourage anyone with common sense to listen to the Opposition Leader's press conference on www.blp.org.What an unholy disaster the DLP is. Now this has not a http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/02/dlp-duping-again-just-like-in-1990s-put.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-3362786426702322020Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:19:00 +00002009-01-31T19:22:06.735-05:00david thomsponclicobarbadosdupreyleroy parrisThe Governor of the Central Bank in Trinidad, Ewart Williams, has made a decision to prop up or to use a common term now BAIL OUT CLICO, which is in trouble over the pond in Trinidad and has been downgraded since August 2008. Up to press time (and this is not a press release- they - the TnT government declared that assets were safe and the company would be restored to its former glory.Gossip is http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/01/clico-leroy-parris-and-barbados.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-3351957129462286290Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:03:00 +00002009-01-05T22:09:07.013-05:00This note was sent to me by a Solange Bishop. I might add that there are many issues with which I concur, having been once myself. I never went back for other reasons. I am not interested in the high-flying, tithe-begging, prosperity preaching sorts that we see on TBN. I am a Cheerful giver and will tithe indeed but I too am turned off by Pentecostal Preachers who seem embittered and embroiled inhttp://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-rev-dr-lucille-baird-bitter-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-6129373253597877959Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:55:00 +00002009-01-05T13:07:11.798-05:00I used to sit on my Dad's knee and hear him speak of Fidel Castro, that was about 35 years ago. When the Western and indeed many media houses across the world decided Fidel was dead or dying, I trekked off to Havana, Cuba to explore its riches before he passed and catch a glimpse of the man. I went all over Cuba, bought Che Guevarra T-shirts and Grandma papers daily while sipping Cuba Libres. http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/01/cubans-celebrate-50th-anniversary-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-8004596816770410632Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:50:00 +00002009-01-05T12:51:10.510-05:00The White House was built by slaves.Maybe I could end the note right there.Up until 1964 when the Civil rights Act was passed (and even then) Black people and indeed many members of the ethnic minorities did not have true FREEDOM. The last lynching occurred as late as 1951. For all those who are not minorities who hoped for a brighter day and for those whites and blacks who were beaten to death http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/01/white-house-has-more-significance-than.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-1362520312201776808Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:34:00 +00002009-01-05T09:36:47.163-05:00No one will be allowed to leave comments on this blog without privately leaving their full name and address and contact numbers which will never be published. Names like (with respect) "Living in Barbados" is not a name in my opinion.Leave actual names and not pseudonyms. Works of those using pseudonyms will be left out and moderated or rejected completely.Kim Younghttp://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/01/anonymous-bloggers-will-be-booted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-7138423858183871503Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:42:00 +00002009-01-04T23:54:11.197-05:00IT BREAKS MY HEART, especially at this time to see the bodies of any child whether from Israel or Gaza, a soldier from Israel or a child from Israel is AS PRECIOUS as a child from Gaza.So I am confused. Or am I? What I am more confused about is the apathetic approach by our journalists in the region to this story and second and third generation Arabs or Jews using the "excuse" that it doesn't http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/01/caribbean-journalista-nd-middle-east.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-6370722786238154550Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:40:00 +00002009-01-04T23:40:41.885-05:00I DO NOT TOLERATE NONSENSE AND CERTAINLY YOU CANNOT ROB MY SENSE OF SELF ESTEEM, INTELLECT, EDUCATION OR JOY? DID I TREAT YOU WITH DISGUST? IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE YOU ARE BENEATH THE AIR I BREATHE AND YOU DISGUST ME AS A SO CALLED JOURNALIST. In 2009, I am ridding myself of nuisances and you are one. Indeed we have never met, except for you to impose your will, so to speak on me politically and to http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-note-to-barbados-free-press.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-669962459939423634Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:57:00 +00002009-01-04T18:07:03.846-05:00GazaCaribbean ExportwarCaribbean MediaIsraelGrenada expelled journalist MitchellIt is an all out war, not a conflict. The Israelis have moved in on Gaza and are blowing people to smithereens and HAMAS is using Al Jazeera and Ma'an and other networks to tell its story, the IDF (Israel) is using the Western Media and its local networks to blame the Palestinians.As journalists, how should we approach this? I have noticed a lack of interest in some parts of the region in the http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2009/01/middle-east-conflict-and-caribbean.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-7898672855624368533Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:36:00 +00002008-02-28T22:45:15.554-05:00QUITE FRANKLY, I find this story very disturbing. If someone asks for oxygen, I see no reason, why it cannot be administered and then to have faulty equipment on board is even more ridiculous. A desperate woman's plea goes unheard and she dies on the flight.I do not want to play the card that I have so often witnessed myself: the card where Haitians and other Caribbean, Pacific and Asian people http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/haitian-dies-on-aa-flight-is-lawsuit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-3667028867093725896Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:52:00 +00002008-12-09T12:19:05.634-05:00sir leroy trotman barbados national strike off airlines DLP BLPAll the 50 years of work by the gurus of the BWU is down the drain and rights of the workers have been compromised. Hmmm. Thank God, I never subscribed to the herd instinct. Was It is possible that tomorrow, while the PM is away (or he may be back from Trinidad if he goes), this island that the BWU would have shut down the country. It has been called off at 4.30pm on VOB 92.9 news. Was Sir Leroy http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/islandwide-strike-off-sir-leroy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-8932397507283839448Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:52:00 +00002008-02-19T10:02:20.309-05:00I went to Cuba about a year ago. The experience was mind-blowing in many ways, especially culturally. Barbados is a friend of Cuba's and while many celebrate in the streets at the resignation of Fidel Castro, this is an opportunity to reflect on his charisma and the role he played in relieving the Cubans of Batista rule. I will discuss this more later. In the meantime, do share your views on the http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/el-presidente-fidel-castro-resigns-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-4725452151806898965Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:01:00 +00002008-02-18T20:03:13.409-05:00I found this tit bit really interesting.http://prstudies.typepad.com/weblog/2007/07/private-realm-p.htmlThursday, July 19, 2007Private realm, public sphereOnce, there was no privacy. Large families lived in small dwellings; those in large houses were surrounded by large households. Where the individual could break away from the group, there were the exhortations of the church to consider: an http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/where-did-your-privacy-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-1804960920625820408Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:26:00 +00002008-02-18T16:33:55.024-05:00Barbados has its share of big, fat, obese people. Let's not be politically correct and call them pleasantly plump. Anytime your BMI index is over 29, you are OBESE, perhaps morbidly so.As Dr Henry Fraser has been saying for eons, macaroni pie is a meal in itself. Imagine every day you eat macaroni pie, peas 'n rice, meat or two fried flying fish (or both) salad, coleslaw, potato salad the http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/big-fat-lazy-people-you-need-climate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-284070009513629637Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:41:00 +00002008-12-09T12:19:05.986-05:00barbadosundergroundCSMEbordersindo-guyaneseracismguyanablackkim youngWell, apparently I found this article which speaks of the raging racism in Guyana regarding the indo-Guyanese and the black-Guyanese. This is nothing new but I found the below comments which I reproduced verbatim, very interesting. Well , my question is not reeking nor soaking in xenophobia, but then why are they here? Just for our dollar?Any island that has to have an Ethnic Relations Committee http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/do-guyanese-indians-hate-blacks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-6974808367067250456Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:34:00 +00002008-02-18T15:26:17.945-05:00barbadosstrikeRoyal ShopSandy LaneBWULeroy Trotmanshut downNo. But the voices of the workers matter!I think shutting down an entire country has dire social and economic implications, but that is exactly the purpose of his shut down. It is selfish, ego-maniacal and not necessarily the best strategy in the practice of industrial relations to shut down an entire country (members of the BWU) in this matter. We all know the power that union's have hence the http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/does-proposed-shut-down-of-bim-fot_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-8655077905341371477Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:43:00 +00002009-02-15T01:52:17.593-05:00ReggaeRightsRIAJAMShaggyOne Caribbean MediaTrinidad-based One Caribbean Media Limited, the region's largest media company, has secured global broadcast and distribution rights for the inaugural Reggae Academy Awards which takes place in Jamaica next Sunday, February 24. The show is the production of RIAJAM, the Recording Industry Association of Jamaica and is being recorded for television by OCM's production company, Six Point http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/reggae-academy-awards-secured-by-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-5802931780990460060Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:57:00 +00002008-02-18T12:01:40.740-05:00Here is what the BBC said about Guyana. Have they considered the recent CRIME??? Guyana strives for image makeover"Come, visit the land of the mighty river Essequibo. Come, absorb and be absorbed by the classic poetry of nature," purrs the tourist board advertisement attempting to lure holidaymakers to the Caribbean state of Guyana.The realities of life and government in the Co-operative Republichttp://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/bbc-says-guyana-in-make-over-mode.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-1266136501790891203Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:54:00 +00002008-02-18T15:28:10.147-05:00Norman FariahbarbadosCrimeViolenceguyanasubmitted by Amanda Lynch FosterWhat...on EARTH... is going on in Guyana?I'm not even there and I'm terrified. Barely three weeks after the Lusignan massacre, there has been another attack and a dozen people (including 3 policemen) are reported to have been murdered in Bartica.AmandaStabroek News (which has been kept morbidly busy in recent times) reports:Gunmen last night slaughtered around a http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/guyanas-gone-berserk-with-crime-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-6242952316185600671Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:04:00 +00002008-12-09T12:19:06.443-05:00gunsvodkaKGBputinpollingrussiadrinkingI found this very funny. Apparently, they said the Russians went to the polls sober. Putin's 40% tax on Vodka. Shameful! Vodka is the national drink of the literati, cognocenti and phelbs ...we demand Vodka! Tax free too! KimRussia, vodka and politicsVodka may be celebrated; it may be condemned; but woe betide the politician who favors a tax on itThe Russian government let the green dragon -- thehttp://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-can-i-vote-if-you-tax-my-vodka.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-7710827691861563294Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:55:00 +00002008-12-09T12:19:06.842-05:00WANTED - VLADIMIR PUTIN - for wining, dining, and maybe more. Your interests include geopolitics, intimidating Western democracies by blackmailing them with natural gas supplies, fishing, vodka, Polonium 210. Great manly physique, icy KGB smile. Contact xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Must include picture to get a reply, " (this is an ad I saw.lol)It's not because my beloved nephew has the name Vladimirhttp://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/shady-cagey-sexy-vladimir-putin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-3899217249753075035Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:29:00 +00002008-12-09T12:19:07.019-05:00Owen ArthurbarbadosBLPGodOpposition LeaderMia MottleyBarbados has recently sworn in its first female political leaderMIA MOTTLEY is putting God is at the helm of her tenure as Opposition Leader and as she sets about rebuilding the Barbados Labour Party (BLP).She outlined her position yesterday at the party's thanksgiving service at the Covenant Life Teaching Centre, Green Hill, St Michael, which was attended by the BLP "family" that included http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/first-female-bajan-opposition-leader.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183157773396868811.post-8693104947981413980Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:29:00 +00002008-12-09T12:19:07.764-05:00SenatorrhetoricBarackUnited StatesObama love US Presidential racedeliverFrom The Economist print editionIt is time for America to evaluate Obama the potential president, not Obama the phenomenonTHIS has been an extraordinary week for the man who could become America's first black president. Barack Obama has now won all eight of the primaries and caucuses held since Super Tuesday on February 5th, which ended, more or less, in a dead heat with Hillary Clinton. He has http://caribbeanmediasphere.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-but-could-he-deliver.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Young)0