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One year after Beryl: Financing fairness in a warming world
by Rosana John, LLM (Environmental Law and Policy) On 1 July 2024, Hurricane Beryl tore through Grenada’s northern sister isles, Carriacou and Petite Martinique, leaving a trail of devastation. More than 90% of buildings were destroyed on the 2...

GFA hosts commercialisation symposium
The Grenada Football Association (GFA) successfully hosted its Commercialisation Symposium on Saturday, 28 June, bringing together representatives from 36 clubs across Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique. The symposium forms part of the...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
T&T opens CAZOVA medal quest against Curacao and Martinique
NIGEL SIMON Senior Multimedia Reporter nigel.simon@guardian.co.tt T&T men and women teams will open their campaigns in the T&T Volleyball Federation (T&TVF) hosted Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association (CAZOVA) Under-23...

Martinique at center of Barbados-France agreement, bolstering regional travel
Dominica News Online - Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 at 8:00 AM Martinique is party to a major milestone in regional air transport cooperation, with the official signing of an administrative air agreement between France and Barbados. An official...

Business News | Dr. Arpit Chopra Jain Honored at United Nations Headquarters in New York
PNN New Delhi [India], June 17: Dr. Arpit Chopra Jain, a distinguished figure in the field of alternative medicine, was invited as the Guest of Honour at the prestigious United Nations Global Excellence Awards held at the United Nations...

TTMA nets over US$3.5M in non-energy trade: More trade missions planned in NY, China, Chile
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) said it has completed its fourth Trade Mission for this year to Guyana and Suriname, which yielded enormous returns in forex earnings of confirmed immediate orders in excess of USD$3.5...

What Was Paul Gauguin Looking For?
In June, 1891, Paul Gauguin arrived in Tahiti. He was forty-three. With him—according to Sue Prideaux, whose new biography of Gauguin, “Wild Thing,” is the first to appear in English in thirty years—he carried “a hundred meters of canvas, a large...

Wednesday 6/18: Protest French State Repression! Pro-Palestinian and Trade Unionists under Attack!
From the Open-Publishing Calendar From the Open-Publishing Newswire Indybay Feature Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Event Type: Protest Organizer/Author: Partisan Defense Committee Email: Location Details: Consulate General...

‘First ship’ nonprofit’s new director brings deep draft of maritime experience
Maine’s First Ship, a Bath nonprofit that provides education and sailing programs using its reconstruction of the 1607 sailing ship Virginia, got a boatload of maritime education experience in the recent hire of its executive director. Alicia...

Why France keeps rioting
This article is taken from the July 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. Riots are now a permanent feature of the Parisian lifestyle, just like train and metro...

Jamaican creates aviation history
WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICAN AVIATION executive, Damion Vanriel, who was born in Hartford, Westmoreland, but was raised in the tough Rose Heights community of Montego Bay, St James, has created history by becoming the first Jamaican to be named senior...

Settler Colonialism in Light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 1)
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution. Originally published in...

Settler Colonialism in light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today...
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolutionary violence in return....

Nigeria-Saint Lucia Bilateral Relations under PBAT: The Strategic Autonomy Components
Bola A. Akinterinwa Saint Lucia is an Eastern Caribbean island nation, located in the northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It had a population of only 179,285 people as of 2023 according to the...

Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to Bogart and Bacall in two-part series
Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to the two Hollywood legends in a two-part series running in July and August VANCOUVER – The first time they performed together, in the 1943 motion picture “To Have and Have Not,” Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall...

La Crette presents People’s National Party as future of Grenada
PNP represents a very bold departure away from the two (2) political institutions that we have now in Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique…and to do that you have to have some faith, institutional and organisational backing to be able to mount...

I ditched UK for ‘Europe’s Maldives’ with fab beaches & £1 beer…childcare’s FREE & bills cost less than KFC Family Feast
IT’S known as the “Maldives of Europe” thanks to its stunning white sand beaches and crystal clear turquoise waters. Add to that an insanely cheap cost of living that's a jaw-dropping 61 per cent lower than the UK, and it was a no-brainer for...

MPE CARIBBEAN REPORT NEWSLETTER – July 7, 2025
Big wins for USVI in federal tax bill Teri Helenese While portions of the new federal tax bill have sparked concern, the U.S. Virgin Islands secured several long-sought victories — thanks to determined, bipartisan advocacy led in part by Virgin...
I’m a Travel Advisor, and These Are My 5 Favorite Caribbean Private Island Resorts
COMO Parrot Cay COMO Parrot Cay's Serenity Villa as seen from above.Vacationing on a private island might seem extravagant, but the Caribbean offers a variety of resorts that are worth a second look. As a travel advisor specializing in the region...