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Six months ago Michael Jeffery, the then governor general of Australia, stuck for something to say about his female replacement, declared: "Anybody can be the governor general in [Australia] and that's what makes it such a great place" - as if the ...
Read moreAnyone can be governor general in Australia - unless you're an ... - Guardian Unlimited
The awesome complexity of Caribbean life and culture, which ranges from language and religion to artistic manifestation in the literary, performing and visual arts, is more than “the binary syndrome of Europe suggests,” University of the West ...
Read moreCaribbean culture too diverse to be labelled – Prof Nettleford - Stabroek News
Rock, reggae, blues, jazz, a bonfire and a Halloween party the Virgin Atlantic Music Festival has added six more days and a number of new artistes and activities to make the second year of the festival bigger and better than its premiere. As Virgin ...
Read moreBigger, better Virgin Atlantic Music Festival - Barbados Advocate
Earlier this month, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination in Jamaica welcomed the Rev Sarah Frances Davis as its new bishop. Bishop Davis has just completed four years of service to the denomination in southern Africa where she was in ...
Read moreAME church gets new bishop - Jamaica Gleaner
We may all still be buzzing from the Beijing Olympics but work has already started on securing the region a legacy from London 2012. Tom Smithard meets Team Yorkshire. AS Yorkshire's Olympic gold medalists crossed their respective finishing lines in ...
Read moreLondon Olympics: Golden opportunities for Yorkshire - yorkshirepost
“Documentaries are just not my favourite kind of movie watching. The fact is I don’t trust the little bastards. I don’t trust the nature of those who think they are superior to fiction films, I don’t trust their claim to have cornered the ...
Read moreDocumenting the documentary - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
Just about everything that can be said about Carifesta X has been said and now we all await the outcome of the many, many events that are now taking place in our beloved Guyana. Just a look at the massive schedules of plays being performed, books ...
Read moreReaders who would like to offer comments can - Mirror News Online
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Caribbean islands, separated by diverse languages and cultures, are developing a single regional brand to promote the tourism industry that drives most of their economies. The new campaign, whose logo presents the word ...
Read moreCaribbean develops a regional brand to promote island tourism - Sioux City Journal
It's official: Sienna Miller and Hayden Christensen are snogging. View the evidence . Update: Wrong, wrong, wrong. Although some people would like to think that See-See has moved on from Jude, it's simply not true. The photos on Egotastic.com were in ...
Read moreJanuary 2006 Archives - Daily Blabber
Some Asiatech readers complain that I’m anti-India, that I spend too much time comparing India to China , and that in these comparisons all too often India comes out looking bad . But of course lots of top Indian officials do the same thing. For ...
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