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		<title>Time to get rid of the Jon crows: The issue of TV coverage of sport</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frustration, even anger, are not unknown emotions to most people. However, when they come and you feel that it&#8217;s because of something truly avoidable, they tend to intensify. I was enraged last Sunday (August 16) when I was unable to &#8230; <a href="http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/time-to-get-rid-of-the-jon-crows-the-issue-of-tv-coverage-of-sport/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=973684&amp;post=80&amp;subd=caribbeancomment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for cleansing: redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No sooner had I written yesterday&#8217;s post than I saw in today&#8217;s Barbados Advocate an article entitled &#8216;Gender cleansing&#8217; in education? Its main argument is that in recent years the administrative head of the Barbados school system has changed from &#8230; <a href="http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/time-for-cleansing-redux/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=973684&amp;post=71&amp;subd=caribbeancomment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for some cleansing, no matter how unpalatable</title>
		<link>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/time-for-some-cleansing-no-matter-how-unpalatable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An enormous brouhaha has erupted over the use of the word &#8220;cleansing&#8221;. The problems have evolved not from the use of the word in isolation, but with its usage in conjunction with certain adjectives. The most notable recent usage in &#8230; <a href="http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/time-for-some-cleansing-no-matter-how-unpalatable/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=973684&amp;post=66&amp;subd=caribbeancomment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to think again</title>
		<link>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/time-to-think-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life in the English-speaking Caribbean is much more complicated than it should be. A collection of small islands and nations have struggled to do things that many larger countries have failed to do well, and at a cost that governments &#8230; <a href="http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/time-to-think-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=973684&amp;post=61&amp;subd=caribbeancomment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Posting on a different site</title>
		<link>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/posting-on-a-different-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until further notice I will not be making new posts on this site. My commentaries can be found on my Living in Barbados blog (http://livinginbarbados.blogspot.com).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=973684&amp;post=60&amp;subd=caribbeancomment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What does it mean to be a citizen?</title>
		<link>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-citizen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of commentators in various media have focused on the possible legal action against some of the victorious candidates in the recent general election in Jamaica, because of allegations that they might have made pledges of allegiance etc. to &#8230; <a href="http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-citizen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=973684&amp;post=59&amp;subd=caribbeancomment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jamaica&#8217;s elections open a new chapter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Parliamentary elections, which were held on September 3, have left the country in yet more confusion. The initial results gave JLP a 31-29 seat victory over incumbent PNP, but the PM has not accepted these results and requested recounts. &#8230; <a href="http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/jamaicas-elections-open-a-new-chapter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=973684&amp;post=58&amp;subd=caribbeancomment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a difference a day makes: Where now Jamaica?</title>
		<link>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/what-a-difference-a-day-makes-where-now-jamaica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamaica was sailing along towards elections on August 27. Opinion pollsters and ordinary citizens were making their calculations about who would come out ahead on voting day. The various debates between PNP and JLP heavy weights, culminating in the debate &#8230; <a href="http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/what-a-difference-a-day-makes-where-now-jamaica/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=973684&amp;post=56&amp;subd=caribbeancomment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to embrace Africa</title>
		<link>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/trying-to-embrace-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Beginning August 23, Barbados will be the venue of a 10 day Bicentennial Global Dialogue, an African Diaspora conference that will include discussions on economic, political, historical, social, and cultural issues that link the Caribbean with Africa (see report). The conference is &#8230; <a href="http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/trying-to-embrace-africa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=973684&amp;post=53&amp;subd=caribbeancomment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Dean</title>
		<link>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/hurricane-dean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have focused my attention on my other blog (Living in Barbados), and the need to pay attention to preparations for Hurricane Dean as it approached Barbados, quickly turned to concern for my family in Jamaica as Dean moved on with &#8230; <a href="http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/hurricane-dean/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=973684&amp;post=51&amp;subd=caribbeancomment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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