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		<title>Time to get rid of the Jon crows: The issue of TV coverage of sport</title>
		<link>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/time-to-get-rid-of-the-jon-crows-the-issue-of-tv-coverage-of-sport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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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 watch the men&#8217;s 100 metres final in the World Championships, from Berlin. I wanted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&blog=973684&post=80&subd=caribbeancomment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for cleansing: redux</title>
		<link>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/time-for-cleansing-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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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 largely male to largely (or in some parishes, only) female. It goes beyond and looks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&blog=973684&post=71&subd=caribbeancomment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Gender cleansing 1</media:title>
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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>caribbeancomment</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 the Caribbean region was that reportedto have been uttered by Sir Sridath Ramphal, who used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&blog=973684&post=66&subd=caribbeancomment&ref=&feed=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>caribbeancomment</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Caribbean economic development]]></category>
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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 would be ashamed to admit. I will just list a few of the more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&blog=973684&post=61&subd=caribbeancomment&ref=&feed=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>caribbeancomment</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).
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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>
		<comments>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-citizen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caribbeancomment</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 foreign powers. This comes from a requirement in the Jamaican Constitution (1962) 40 (2 a), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&blog=973684&post=59&subd=caribbeancomment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jamaica&#8217;s elections open a new chapter</title>
		<link>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/jamaicas-elections-open-a-new-chapter/</link>
		<comments>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/jamaicas-elections-open-a-new-chapter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caribbeancomment</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. Director of Elections, Danville Walker, said the official recount begins at 9 o&#8217;clock this morning. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&blog=973684&post=58&subd=caribbeancomment&ref=&feed=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>
		<comments>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/what-a-difference-a-day-makes-where-now-jamaica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caribbeancomment</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 between PM Portia Simpson-Miller and JLP leader, Hugh Golding, seemed to have given JLP an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&blog=973684&post=56&subd=caribbeancomment&ref=&feed=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>
		<comments>http://caribbeancomment.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/trying-to-embrace-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caribbeancomment</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 supposed to help preparation for interministerial meetings of the Caribbean and African Union in South [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&blog=973684&post=53&subd=caribbeancomment&ref=&feed=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>
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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 greater ferocity towards that island. Gladly, the eye of the storm stayed offshore, but the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caribbeancomment.wordpress.com&blog=973684&post=51&subd=caribbeancomment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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