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Trinidad & Tobago: Will The Performing Arts Centre Perform?

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco on 12/11/2009

The construction of Trinidad and Tobago 's new National Academy for the Performing Arts has been controversial, but despite the obstacles, the academy was opened earlier this week , soliciting reactions from local bloggers...

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Paraguay: Indigenous Group Sprayed Aerially with Pesticides

Posted by Eduardo Avila on 12/11/2009

In eastern Paraguay, 217 members of the Ava Guaraní indigenous community came down with health symptoms, believed to be caused by intentional aerial spraying with pesticide, after refusal to vacate their ancestral lands.

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Bahamas: Sister's Keeper

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco on 12/11/2009

“We women survivors of violence of all kinds must break this collective silence…and we women who enjoy relative freedom and safety must extend our hands and voices to our sisters who do not, because we are not free until all are free”: The Bahamas' Womanish Words calls on women ...

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Trinidad & Tobago: Executive Presidency?

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco on 12/11/2009

B.C. Pires refers to an online article which implies that “the recent tete-a-tete between Massas Manning & Panday may result in the establishment, by a simple vote of the current sitting Parliament, of an executive presidency” in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Barbados, Jamaica: Focus on Flogging

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco on 12/11/2009

“How to deal with discipline in a society is never easy,” says Living in Barbados, who adds that “Barbados is still working its way towards a wider acceptance that flogging is not the way to go.”

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