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T&T to host CAZOVA tourney
TRINIDAD will host the CAZOVA (Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association) Under-23 Championships from tomorrow at the Maloney Indoor Sporting Facility. Teams from five countries will be participating in the four-day tournament. Martinique, Suriname...

Festival Jardins do Marquês begins today in Oeiras. Who is on the lineup?
The festival continues until July 9, featuring three concerts daily across two stages. Today, the main stage will host the Jamaican band The Wailers, preceded by Kassav’ from Martinique and Guadeloupe. The second stage features the Banda B.Leza,...

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....

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...

A dichotomy of emotions on 1 July
by Dr Neals J Chitan For the past 42 years, 1 July — Canada Day celebrations — with its Maple Leaf red and white flag fluttering joyously in the wind has held a special place in my heart as a Canadian citizen. However, as a Grenadian citizen, that...

Audit Department will audit abandoned/unfinished housing contracts
by Linda Straker Ministry of Mobilisation, Implementation and Transformation (MIT) was allocated EC$15 million to assist with rebuilding of homes Rebuilding contracts were awarded by MIT and Ministry of Housing All government funds must be...

Organizers announce line-up for World Music Festival’s 25th edition
This past weekend the Ministry of Tourism in collaboration with the Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) officially announced the launch of the 25th edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF), revealing what organizers say is an exciting...
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...

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...

Cricket returns to Grenada
Grenada is poised to welcome the return of international cricket in grand style, as the island prepares to host the highly anticipated Test Match between the West Indies and Australia from 3–7 July 2025 at the National Cricket Stadium. This...

Alphonse lifts national cycling title
Denver Alphonse topped a field of 20 athletes to win the closely-contested National Cycling Road Race and Time Trial on Sunday. Alphonse took the title by a split-second over Gillan Moses on the Millennium Highway, Castries. The cyclists included...

EU banana production forecast down 16% in 2025
The European Union's banana production for 2025 is forecast to reach 566,592 tonnes, according to the latest figures published by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development. This represents a decrease from...

Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives With Dr. Tayzhuan Glover
HOLLYWOOD, Md. – Historic Sotterley is proud to announce a free hybrid presentation by Dr. Tayzhuan Glover exploring the stories of enslaved men, women, and children from Sotterley who secured their freedom by aiding the British during the war of...

'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...

Grenada renews disaster risk insurance with CCRIF SPC
The Government of Grenada has renewed its annual disaster risk insurance coverage with the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC) for the 2025/26 policy year. A total of US$1,827,718 plus applicable...

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...

June 2025 was the planet’s third-warmest on record
June 2025 was Earth’s third-warmest June in analyses of global weather data going back to 1850, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported July 10. NASA and the European Copernicus Climate Change Service also rated...

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...

Opposition calls on gov’t to give true picture of national debt
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The main Opposition New National Party (NNP) says it “is deeply concerned” by the Grenada government’s statement which it said “attempts to mislead the Grenadian people into believing that the nation’s debt burden is on the...

Albert Reflects on Successful First Season in Martinican Football
Saint Lucian footballer Shamalyn Albert wrapped up a successful debut season in the Martinique Women’s Football League earlier this month, finishing as the top scorer for Avenir FC and leading all players in the season-ending football festival....