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Ambassador merges with French cruise line to create new brand
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Ministry of Commerce welcomes University of Delaware
Sponsored | Article continues below . Professor Saleem Ali, Head of the Department of Geography and Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, and eight students from the University of Delaware paid a courtesy call to the Ministry of Commerce...

Warning Grand Rapids! Never Answer Calls From These Area Codes!
Ain't technology wonderful. It keeps making our lives so much easier from smart appliances, literally smart cars, shopping, banking, smart phones! Smart phones? Ouch, there is the rub. Scammers and their phone calls. Oh, my! 👇 BELOW: FIND BIGGEST...

St Lucia’s Ministry Of Commerce Welcomes University Of Delaware
- Advertisement - St. Lucia – Professor Saleem Ali, Head of the Department of Geography and Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, and eight students from the University of Delaware paid a courtesy call to the Ministry of Commerce to...

‘A deliberate poisoning’: how a banned pesticide haunts the French Caribbean
Tiburce Cléon was just a teenager when he began working in the vast banana plantations of Guadeloupe. For five decades, he toiled long hours in the fields under the Caribbean sun. Then, a few months after retiring in 2021, he was given a diagnosis...

Hurst’s Cabinet Report: 30 April 2025
- Advertisement - The customary prayers were rendered by a Methodist Minister who quoted from the Book of Niemeyer on leadership and collaboration. The rebuilding of the destroyed city wall required effective governance which emphasizes fairness,...
CABINET NOTES of Wednesday 30 April 2025
HURST REPORTS ON CABINET of Wednesday 30 April 2025 The customary prayers were rendered by a Methodist Minister who quoted from the Book of Niemeyer on leadership and collaboration. The rebuilding of the destroyed city wall required effective...

Hurst Reports on Cabinet of Wednesday 30 April 2025
4. i. Dr. Didacus Jules, Director General of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), was invited to Cabinet to discuss issues relating to aviation and transatlantic connections between the Caribbean and West Africa. He pointed out...

Island nation remains in crisis after Hurricane Beryl left trail of devastation: 'We are going to continue to suffer'
The Caribbean three-island nation, Grenada, is still recovering from Category 4 Hurricane Beryl, which hit in June 2024. The then-prime minister called it an "almost Armageddon-like" event due to the amount of destruction the country saw. What's...

Musab Younis: The Mouth of Calamities
In 2004, the political theorist Françoise Vergès decided to go to Martinique to interview Aimé Césaire, the poet, politician, anticolonialist and co-founder of the négritude movement. She was surprised to discover that most of her acquaintances...

Sargassum invasion in SVG – the worst since 2011
Local officials are looking at ways to deal with the mat of Sargassum seaweed that has taken over coastlines across the State. And, this year’s invasion is said to be the biggest since 2011. Described as “a big problem” in the region, the influx...

‘As a film lover, I want more’: the Black female directors taking centre stage
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week I spoke to Rógan Graham, a curator of the British Film Institute’s latest season, Black Debutantes: A Collection of Early Works by Black Women Directors. The programme runs throughout May at the BFI...

3.8 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Eastern Caribbean Countries
The Seismic Research Centre, SRC, in Trinidad says an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 rattled three countries on Monday night. The quake was experienced in St Vincent and the Grenadines, St Lucia and the French island of Martinique. Regional...

No injuries or damage reported in the wake of 3.9 Magnitude Earthquake
A 3.9 magnitude earthquake shook St. Vincent and the Grenadines last night. The UWI Seismic Research Centre says the quake was felt at 9:02pm and was felt in St. Lucia and Martinique. It was located at Latitude: 13.29N and Longitude: 61.00W, with...

Wendie Renard on her career so far: 'It’s an adventure which starts with these players'
Wendie Renard went straight to the dressing room. She was fuming. Farid Benstiti, Lyon Feminin’s head coach at the time, had taken a then 17-year-old Renard off in the 61st minute, four minutes after the French side had conceded an equaliser in...

Hands-on experience
A shed that was abandoned for over two decades on Moore’s Island is experiencing a remarkable transformation that speaks to the heart of community collaboration and hands-on learning. A Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) dual...

Grenada Dementia Initiative (GDI) launch planned for 16 June
About a year and a half ago, a group of healthcare professionals, caregivers, and families who have been personally affected by dementia formed a steering committee with a shared mission: to raise awareness and improve the quality of life for...

Fight Against Narcotrafficking in the Caribbean: Strengthened International Cooperation
File photo. The frigates Ventôse (F733), Germinal (F735), and Dumont d’Urville (L9032) navigate in Caribbean waters, January 18, 2012. (Photo: French Navy) BY French Armed Forces in the Antilles April 14, 2025 In the turbulent waters of the...

Biopic explores the life and legacy of Frantz Fanon, a centu...
Soldier, psychiatrist, philosopher... who was Frantz Fanon? A new film by director Jean-Claude Barny seeks to answer that question in a year that marks a century since the birth of one of the most influential figures in 20th-century anti-colonial...