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Masquerader Sherry-Ann Guy (L) and Carnival designer Peter Minshall (R) with some of the trophies honouring the costume ‘From the Land of the Hummingbird,’ one of his presentations for the Trinidad and Tobago 1974 Carnival season. Capture of existing archival photo by Janine Mendes-Franco, used with permission. Fifty years ago, during Trinidad and Tobago's 1974 Carnival season, designer Peter Minshall forever changed the collective sensibility regarding what was possible with masquerade. It wasn't that the stage at the Queen's Park Savannah — the mecca of the Carnival experience in the heart o...
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UK-born, Jamaica-based educator, writer and theatre director Brian Heap. Photo previously supplied by Heap; used with permission. On March 24, England-born educator and stalwart of Jamaican theatre Brian Heap died at the age of 73. The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper reported that he “had been quietly ailing since September last year [and] passed away while in hospice care.” Heap is being mourned by many in Jamaica’s theatre world and beyond. In 2020, he was selected as the Caribbean regional winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his powerful story of grief and family entitled...
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Image of Guyana's Kaiteur Falls and surrounding rainforest via Canva Pro. By Vishani Ragobeer This story was first published on the Cari-Bois Environmental News Network. An edited version appears below as part of a content-sharing agreement. Despite the large oil find that has been a boon to Guyana's economy, the nation is still striving for economic diversification. One strategy involves expanding its ecotourism sector by capitalising on its expansive forest cover. Guyana is situated along the northern coast of South America. Its rainforests — with over 18 million hectares of trees — are home...
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Beloved Trinbagonian nuts vendor Keith ‘Jumbo’ Martin, at Woodford Square in Port of Spain, August 11, 2023. Photo by Maria Nunes, used with permission. If you're a cricket fan and have seen a match in the Caribbean, Keith “Jumbo” Martin would be a familiar name — and face. As the cameras panned away from the field and into the crowd during slow moments of the match, international sports commentators would sometimes take to talking about Jumbo as he pelted his packs of warm peanuts — plain, salted or honey-roasted — into the stands with razor-sharp precision. His natural charisma added such lo...
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Screenshot of Vbyz Kartel (Adidja Palmer) taken from the YouTube video by Dancehall Agenda entitled ‘Vybz Kartel Final 24 Hours In Prison Possibly.’ At 11 o'clock on the morning of March 14, the Jamaican media waited breathlessly for the UK Privy Council to present its ruling on the appeal in the case of 48-year-old dancehall deejay Adija Palmer (stage name, Vybz Kartel) and three associates (Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones and Andre St. John), hoping to be the first to break the news. Almost exactly 10 years earlier, on March 13, 2014, the four had been found guilty of the 2011 murder of Clive “...
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Feature image via Canva Pro. On March 11, as the security crisis in Haiti worsened, a High-Level Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) — of which Haiti is a part — took place at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. At the late evening closing press conference, current CARICOM Chair Irfan Ali broke the news that many suspected was inevitable under the current circumstances: “We acknowledge the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry upon the establishment of a Presidential Council, and the naming of an interim prime minister.” According to Ali, this transitional Presidential Council ...
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Screenshot of Reginald Dumas from the YouTube video by CaribNation TV. On the evening of March 7, Reginald Dumas, died at the Scarborough General Hospital in Tobago at the age of 88. Dumas first became a household name in Trinidad and Tobago as the well-regarded head of the public service, and went on to become a diplomat, political analyst, author, columnist and advocate for good governance, He had been warded at the hospital a few weeks prior with gastrointestinal issues. On Facebook, Dumas’ daughter Sonja advised of his passing, adding that: He leaves a legacy of integrity and honesty that ...
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Feature image via Canva Pro. International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated annually each March 8, changes its themes, focus and hashtags from year to year. For 2024, it's #InspireInclusion, but in Jamaica, as is the case in many majority-world countries, even more basic rights than gender equality need to be acknowledged. Jamaica-based blogger and Global Voices contributor Emma Lewis summed up the situation by quoting Hillary Clinton, who, in a 1995 speech in Beijing, equated women’s rights with human rights. In Jamaica, as in other Caribbean territories where gender-based violence and femicide ...
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The French Navy has intercepted more than eight tonnes of cocaine on the Caribbean Martinique Island. Eight people were taken into custody and charged. If convicted they could face up to 30 years in prison and a 7.5 million euro fine. French navy vessels Le Germinal and La Combatante seized 8.3 tonnes of cocaine in just nine days. This is almost the equivalent to the total amount gathered in the whole 2023. Watch the full report in the video above.
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What if we told you there’s a music festival taking place in March not far from the border between France and the Netherlands where you’re practically guaranteed sunny days and beautiful beaches? For all those who quickly checked Google Maps, Belgium does still exist. But while France and the Netherlands may be separated by the political heart of Europe, the two countries share a border in the Caribbean. We are, of course, talking about Saint Martin, the small island made up of Sint Maarten, a constituency of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Collectivité de Saint-Martin, which is part o...
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