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Simone Biles Receives Heartfelt Tribute From Training Partner for Unwavering Support: “I Was Lucky”
Essentially Sports
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June 29, 2025
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...
Exporting the Convict Clause: Slaves of the State in the Canal Zone
JSTOR Daily
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June 30, 2025
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...
New Flight to Connect Atlanta to Another Eastern Caribbean Escape in December
Global Atlanta - Georgia
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June 30, 2025
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
St. Lucia Times
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June 30, 2025
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
I News Cayman
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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
Matador Network
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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,...
Discourse on French Colonialism in the 21st Century
Africa is a country
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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”
Essentially Sports
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June 29, 2025
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
Caribbean Journal
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June 29, 2025
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...
Albert Reflects on Successful First Season in Martinican Football
St. Lucia Times
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June 22, 2025
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....
Paul Libin Dies: Major Broadway Producer & Longtime Circle In The Square President Was 94
Deadline
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June 29, 2025
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
BroadwayWorld
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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
St. Vincent Times
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June 29, 2025
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
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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June 29, 2025
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...
Political pragmatism: How the NDC wins re-election
The New Today Grenada
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June 20, 2025
As Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique continue to mark its 51 anniversary of independence, the political climate is still defined by relative stability, economic optimism, and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) holding a firm majority in...
Renewed commitment to people-centered development!
The Grenadian Voice
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June 26, 2025
In the third year of the administration led by Prime Minister the Honourable Dickon Mitchell, it is said in many circles that the Government of Grenada continues to make significant strides in its transformational agenda that it launched with,...
Cat Power to perform a final concert dedicated to Dylan in Portugal
The Portugal News
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“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...
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Mai Tai (Original 1944)
Food & Wine
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The original 1944 Mai Tai might be the most misunderstood cocktail of all time. What was originally intended to be a balanced blend of rum, lime juice, orange liqueur, orgeat, and simple syrup gradually devolved into a broad, catch-all term for...
Higher gas prices for June 2025
Now Grenada
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June 18, 2025
The general public is informed that effective Wednesday, 18 June 2025, the retail prices of petroleum products (Gasoline, Diesel, Kerosene, and Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), commonly known as Cooking Gas), in the State of Grenada will be as...
Ready, set, geek: 5 shows to binge before Comic-Con hits
KPBS - California
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June 28, 2025
The geeks are coming back to San Diego for Comic-Con 2025. Downtown will soon be packed with cosplayers, fans and a full lineup of pop-up events in a massive celebration of geek culture. Everyone can get in on the fun — whether you're planning to...