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Dominica launches 25th World Creole Music Festival with star-studded lineup
Dominica is turning up the volume for the silver anniversary of its signature cultural event. The Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) has officially launched the 25th edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF), set to take place from October...

Beauty in diversity: Promoting understanding at the Nishan Forum
The Nishan Forum on World Civilization is a premier platform for global dialogue, founded in 2010 to foster cultural exchange and mutual understanding between civilizations. Hosted annually in Qufu, Shandong, the birthplace of the great Chinese...

Dominica’s 25th world creole festival launched
The Ministry of Tourism and the Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) have officially launched the 25th edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF), unveiling a dynamic artist lineup and commemorative theme for the highly anticipated cultural...
Vybz Kartel to headline Dominica’s World Creole Music Festival
The Ministry of Tourism and the Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) have officially launched the 25th edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF), unveiling a dynamic artist lineup and commemorative theme for the highly anticipated cultural...

Who Is Elina Svitolina Dating? Relationship & Love Timeline
Elina Svitolina, the Ukrainian tennis sensation and former world No. 3, has captured hearts both on and off the tennis court. While fans frequently search for details about “who is Elina Svitolina dating,” the answer reveals one of tennis’s most...

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...

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...

'The Rebel’s Clinic': Frantz Fanon's legacy in a new era of colonial genocide
Adam Shatz’s new book is a masterful tribute to one of the 20th century’s most influential anti-colonial thinkers. Written with intellectual richness and narrative verve, his biography of Frantz Fanon brims with historical depth and contemporary...

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...

St. Joseph’s Convent Steel Pan Orchestra Shines at Prestigious La Port des Arts Festival
20 Talented Students Represent Saint Lucia in Martinique Cultural Exchange Sponsored | Article continues below St. Joseph’s Convent Steel Pan Orchestra Delivers Powerful Performance at La Port des Arts. Photo via Consulat general de Sainte Lucie...

14 of the best villages in France - according to the French
The results are out for the 2025 poll to find France's favourite village - from fortified hilltop settlements in wine country to quaint fishing villages and the birthplace of musketeer d'Artagnan, here are some of the country's hidden gems. Every...

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...

Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ
Our cultural touchstones series examines works that have had a lasting influence In 1967, French literary and cultural critic Roland Barthes published a short essay that would have far-reaching influence. Titled The Death of the Author, the essay...

Rana Mohip meets Narendra Modi: Binding two nations through song
Features Newsday 8 Hrs Ago India's Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi greets Rana Mohip while Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and Minister Barry Padarath look on. - BAVINA SOOKDEO THE lines from the devotional song Vaishnav Jan To, speak of a...

St. Joseph’s Convent Steel Pan Orchestra Performs At Prestigious La Port Des Arts Festival
- Advertisement - St. Lucia – The St. Joseph’s Convent Steel Pan Orchestra proudly represented Saint Lucia on the international stage at the renowned La Port des Arts Festival in Martinique on June 29, 2025. This marked a historic first-time...

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....

Hurricane Beryl: 1 July 2024
by John Angus Martin On 1 July 2024, Hurricane Beryl struck Grenada and devastated the sister isles of Carriacou and Petite Martinique. The hurricane that would devastate the islands of the Grenadines began in an unusual manner. Though it was the...

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...

8 Safest Places To Travel To In The Caribbean
Source: Melanie Hobson / EyeEm / Getty When most people think of the Caribbean, they imagine white sand beaches, turquoise waters, and a laid-back lifestyle. And while the region is known for its breathtaking beauty and warm hospitality, safety is...

Louverture Films Boards Audio Series ‘Black Caesar’s Revenge’
Indie outfit Louverture Films (Nickel Boys) has boarded the forthcoming audio series Black Caesar’s Revenge. Joslyn Barnes of Louverture joins Jean A. Fall of the French-based Cinewax Films and Elora Cadasse, CEO of the Martinique-based United...