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- Representatives of Easter Island, visiting London, plead for the return of a moai statue stolen away in the 1860s. The Guardian reports.
- Guardian Cities notes the problems facing Pacific Island migrants in the New Zealand city of Auckland.
- Daily Xtra takes a look at Pride on Curaçao.
- The Conversation notes how Barbados has demonstrated, and is continuing to demonstrate, remarkable resiliency versus threats both natural and human.
- Deb O'Rourke at NOW Toronto writes about how Toronto Islanders and the Mississauga of the New Credit First Nation are moving towards reconciliation.
- La Presse notes that ongoing contruction is making traffic to and from the heavily populated Ile-des-Soeurs, just off Montréal, very difficult.
- IPS News notes that Barbados is hoping to diversify beyond its traditional sugar cane agriculture to start tapping fisheries in the adjacent Atlantic.
- The Island Review shares the reports of Marg Greenwood around the Scottish island of Islay.
- Are the oldest fossils in the world, imprints in Greenland rocks billions of years old, actually fossils? CBC reports.
- The Inter Press Services notes that the Seychelles have issued some bonds in support of new fisheries projects.
[DM] "How emigration made Barbados rich"
Jan. 4th, 2010 09:32 pmI've a post up taking a look at a recent series of posts by Noel Maurer at his blog examining how the mass migration of Barbadians to work on the Panama Canal in the first decade of the 20th century helped push the country into the First World by the first decade of the 21st century, with suggestions as to the relevance of Barbados' example to other countries in the century ahead.
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