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Martinique at center of Barbados-France agreement, bolstering regional travel

Martinique at center of Barbados-France agreement, bolstering regional travel

Dominica News Online - Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 at 8:00 AM Martinique is party to a major milestone in regional air transport cooperation, with the official signing of an administrative air agreement between France and Barbados. An official...

Grenada targets Guyanese travelers with strategic tourism mission in Georgetown

Grenada targets Guyanese travelers with strategic tourism mission in Georgetown

The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA), alongside airline and hotel partners, wrapped up a successful marketing mission in Guyana aimed at boosting Grenada’s appeal as a preferred destination for Guyanese travelers. The initiative is part of GTA’s...

GTA leads strategic marketing mission to Guyana

GTA leads strategic marketing mission to Guyana

The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA), in collaboration with a delegation of airline and hotel partners, recently concluded a successful promotional mission to Guyana aimed at strengthening tourism ties and positioning Grenada as a top-tier...

Simone Biles Receives Heartfelt Tribute From Training Partner for Unwavering Support: “I Was Lucky”

Simone Biles Receives Heartfelt Tribute From Training Partner for Unwavering Support: “I Was Lucky”

Mélanie De Jesus, a French gymnast with four European championships, dreams as big as her talent. She took a leap of faith when she packed her bags and moved to Houston, Texas, to train at the World Champions Centre, the world-class gym owned by...

New Flight to Connect Atlanta to Another Eastern Caribbean Escape in December

New Flight to Connect Atlanta to Another Eastern Caribbean Escape in December

A new nonstop flight starting Dec. 20 is set to connect Atlanta with yet another Caribbean island aiming to deepen cultural connections with the city while drawing tourist traffic via Delta Air Lines Inc. The island of Grenada in early June...

Alphonse lifts national cycling title

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...

MPE CARIBBEAN REPORT NEWSLETTER – June 30, 2025

MPE CARIBBEAN REPORT NEWSLETTER – June 30, 2025

The MPE Caribbean Report Newsletter offers travel, tourism, Caribbean and global news weekly. To share stories, information or intelligence, contact us at [email protected]. June 30, 2025 CTO, Caribbean destinations spotlighted at American...

The 6 Most Underrated Caribbean Beach Towns You Need to Visit

The 6 Most Underrated Caribbean Beach Towns You Need to Visit

Most travelers land here with the same idea: find a stretch of sand, park up at a beach club, order something cold, and leave winter behind for a week. And while there’s nothing wrong with that, the beaches in the brochures tend to be crowded,...

Exporting the Convict Clause: Slaves of the State in the Canal Zone

Exporting the Convict Clause: Slaves of the State in the Canal Zone

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution ended slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States in 1865. There was, however, a fateful exception: slavery or involuntary...

Discourse on French Colonialism in the 21st Century

Discourse on French Colonialism in the 21st Century

Martinican author Aimé Césaire—long revered as one of the early founders of France’s Négritude movement, cultivating Black consciousness alongside Léopold Senghor and the Nardal sisters—has long been canonized in historical memory as one of the...

Simone Biles’ Training Partner Makes Heartbreaking Confession: “Brain Stopped Responding”

Simone Biles’ Training Partner Makes Heartbreaking Confession: “Brain Stopped Responding”

In its essence, life is never a level playing field for all. Sometimes it just throws up a curve that derails the paths. A two-time Olympian, four-time European champion, and France’s artistic gymnastics star faced a similar fate. Not only on...

This Caribbean Island Is Hosting the World’s Most Luxurious Rum Festival

This Caribbean Island Is Hosting the World’s Most Luxurious Rum Festival

The Caribbean’s most luxurious rum festival is back — and it’s happening on one of the region’s most exclusive islands. Think of it as a kind of Cannes for Caribbean rum: a full-fledged St Barth Rum Week. The Caribbean Rum Awards St Barth is...

Paul Libin Dies: Major Broadway Producer & Longtime Circle In The Square President Was 94

Paul Libin Dies: Major Broadway Producer & Longtime Circle In The Square President Was 94

Paul Libin, a major figure in the American theater for nearly seven decades whose leadership positions at Circle in the Square Theatre and Jujamcyn Theaters contributed some of Broadway‘s most exciting and acclaimed stage productions, died June 27...

Legendary Producer Paul Libin Dies at 94

Legendary Producer Paul Libin Dies at 94

Paul Libin, a towering figure in the American theater whose near seven-decade career included producing more than 250 Broadway, Off Broadway and touring productions, leading Circle in the Square Theatre for 62 years, serving as Executive Vice...

Ghana’s Kuwabong wins presidents award at St. Martin book fair

Ghana’s Kuwabong wins presidents award at St. Martin book fair

Ghana’s Dannabang Kuwabong and Trinidad’s Pink Panther Win Presidents’ Award at St. Martin Book Fair 2025 Professor Dannabang Kuwabong, and kaisonian Eric “Pink Panther” Taylor, received the Presidents’ Award at the 22nd edition of the St. Martin...

Big hearted family win a Caribbean cruise at Pride of Scotland Awards

Big hearted family win a Caribbean cruise at Pride of Scotland Awards

The Speirs who have provided holidays for 3000 terminally ill children and their families scooped the trip of a lifetime at the Pride of Scotland awards. Duncan, 63, Caroline, 58 and their daughter Jenna, 30, who run charity Calum’s Cabin, won a...

Today In Black History: June 26th

Today In Black History: June 26th

1913 – Aimé Césaire Is Born Aimé Césaire, born June 26, 1913, in Martinique, was a celebrated poet, politician, and co-founder of the Negritude movement. Educated in Paris, he met Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas, launching the journal...

Reflections from the UN Oceans Conference 2025

Geneva 26 June 2025 CIVICUS works to facilitate the meaningful participation of civil society in global decision-making spaces. Most recently, we supported Laurent Cypria, an activist from Martinique, to attend the 2025 UN Oceans Conference in...

Cat Power to perform a final concert dedicated to Dylan in Portugal

Cat Power to perform a final concert dedicated to Dylan in Portugal

“Cat Power sings Dylan ‘66” is the second show of this year’s edition of the Jardins do Marquês Festival, which begins on Saturday and runs until July 9 in the gardens of the Palácio do Marquês de Pombal, in Oeiras. In May 1966, Bob Dylan...

Guadeloupe Representative: France polluted our arable lands with toxic substances

Guadeloupe Representative: France polluted our arable lands with toxic substances

"Between 1922 and 1930, France's inadequate actions and misguided policies led to the contamination of agricultural land with pesticides in both Guadeloupe and Martinique," said Philippe Eugène Louis Verdol, lecturer in economic sciences, during a...

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