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Pride and prejudice in Jamaica

Written by Candice Stewart

2 weeks ago

A woman’s burden? A historic change in Suriname’s presidency

Written by Fausia S. Abdul

2 weeks ago

World Environment Day: In Jamaica, the battle against plastics continues

Written by Emma Lewis

3 weeks ago

What Vybz Kartel’s no-show in Trinidad could reveal about the sustainability of cultural performances in the Caribbean

Written by Dave Williams

3 weeks ago

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Trinidad & Tobago’s Joshua Regrello enters Guinness Book with record-breaking steelpan-playing marathon

‘[W]e came together [to] make history through the power of steelpan ... today, that dream is a global record'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

3 weeks ago

‘Guyana living a paradox’: A conversation with Professor Ivelaw Griffith on oil and climate change

Guyana [is] producing oil, creating fossil fuel contributions to global warming, and at the same time it has a massive carbon sink

Written by Emma Lewis

3 weeks ago

A push for constitutional reform in Trinidad & Tobago as overturned ‘buggery law’ ruling heads for the Privy Council

Colonial-era laws have questionable place in any modern democracy [yet] remain fossilised in our statute books’

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

26 May 2025

Guyana's ‘Ol’ Higue’ meets her match in tale that is the regional winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

The work is 'brilliant,' 'evocative,' and 'action-packed' as it 'lays bare the vampiric nature of the colonial system'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

17 May 2025

Tobago's coral reefs brace for ‘imminent threat’

Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease is ‘wreaking havoc on coral reefs in the Caribbean’

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

13 May 2025

In São Luís, the city known as the Brazilian Jamaica, reggae is a local identity

The capital of Maranhão, a northeastern Brazilian state, turned the Caribbean music into a local cultural movement with a twist

Written by Fernanda Canofre

12 May 2025

World Press Freedom Day: Caribbean media faces new challenges in the age of AI

'The press is not only a defender of democracy, but also a guardian of our collective future'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

3 May 2025

Trinidad & Tobago votes for change as country’s first woman prime minister makes a triumphant return

The electorate grew weary of economic struggles and rising rates of violent crime

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

1 May 2025

Caribbean leaders and citizens recognise Pope Francis’ groundbreaking work

His compassion, advocacy for the poor, refugees and immigrants, and outreach to the LGBTQ+ community and other marginalised groups gained him many admirers

Written by Emma Lewis

22 April 2025

In Guadeloupe, ‘Creole gardens’ give climate lessons in a spirit of solidarity

After a crisis, what do people naturally return to? 'Their surroundings. And what surrounds us is the Creole garden'

Written by Olivia Losbar

15 April 2025

Max Romeo, an urgent musical voice in Jamaica's turbulent 1970s, passes away at 80

His iconic album 'War Ina Babylon' reflected the political turbulence of 1970s Jamaica

Written by Emma Lewis

14 April 2025

When it comes to bullying, small actions can help stop big problems

'From playpens to playgrounds to politics, bullying is everybody’s business'

Written by Guest Contributor

12 April 2025

Trinbagonian poet Anthony V. Capildeo vies for the Caribbean's top literary award

Their poetry is described as 'immersed equally in narrative and lyric, querying forms with an insistent playfulness and a radical political consciousness'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

9 April 2025

Farewell to Mark Loquan, a beacon of energy and culture in Trinidad & Tobago

'Mark’s contribution to the world of steelpan is enormous. His actions were consequential in ways that will impact for generations'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

8 April 2025

As Trinidad & Tobago’s Court of Appeal reverses buggery law ruling, does the colonial grip persist?

Savings law is a fairly common concept in Commonwealth legal systems, whereby restrictive colonial-era laws are carried over into post-independence legal frameworks

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

29 March 2025

Caribbean leaders and citizens fiercely defend the Cuban Medical Cooperation Programme

The Trump administration recently announced visa restrictions for foreign officials that the US considers 'complicit' in Cuba’s foreign medical programmes

Written by Emma Lewis

25 March 2025

Has Trinidad & Tobago got comfortable with environmental degradation?

'[A]t its core, the mistreatment of nature in Trinidad and Tobago is more than an environmental crisis'

Written by Cari-Bois News

25 March 2025

Jamaica's protected area that wasn't

The bulldozers arrived [and] ripped out a swath of small dunes, mangroves, and other vegetation [for] a party called Good Times

Written by Guest Contributor

24 March 2025

The challenges of agricultural waste in Guadeloupe constitute a climate and health emergency

Widespread use of phytosanitary products and agricultural plastics has had serious consequences

Written by Olivia Losbar

21 March 2025

Trinidad & Tobago's moko jumbie master, ‘Dragon’ de Souza, takes his last stride

'His impact on the growth of the Moko Jumbie art form in Trinidad and Tobago is too immense to be measured'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

19 March 2025

Two Jamaican reggae artists with rural roots pass on, leaving echoes of the 1990s

Cocoa Tea and Determine leave behind a legacy of 'conscious' reggae music

Written by Emma Lewis

17 March 2025

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