Delta Is Launching a New Nonstop Route to Grenada — an Island With Stunning Beaches, Rugged Rainforests, and Serious Spice

Hiking through rainforest trails that end in secret waterfalls. Diving into an underwater sculpture park that feels like another world. Tasting rums that tell centuries of history. Exploring a harbor so colorful it’s been called the Portofino of...

Jamaican Movie “Love Offside” to Be Featured at Harlem Film Festival

Love Offside, a Jamaican-produced romantic drama, has been selected to screen at the African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) in Harlem, New York. The film tells the story of Cami Hart, a skilled but overlooked physical therapist who...

On the Indian Revolutionaries Who Plotted to Overthrow the British Raj From America

Christmas morning in 1912 was simply glorious in San Francisco. Under a brilliant blue sky, a crowd of children dressed in their holiday best dragged their parents to Golden Gate Park. None other than Santa Claus himself was to preside over a...

Sargassum project, SARSEA, launched in St Lucia, DA fisheries minister attends

The official launch of the Sargassum Regional Strategies for Ecosystem-based Actions (SARSEA) initiative took place on October 28 in Saint Lucia, marked by the presence of numerous government officials, institutional leaders, and scientific...

Dear Editor: US warships in Caribbean represent ‘real and immediate threats to regional stability’

“[…] The narcotics trade continues to devastate Caribbean societies—eroding lives, futures, and the very moral fabric of our communities. This is a grave crisis for the Church and for families everywhere, and one we are duty-bound to confront....

The Blackwashing of Britain

Of all the famous ‘conspiracy theories,’ the Great Replacement (that white populations in Western countries are being systematically replaced by non-white immigrants) is arguably the most well-known. I have always been reluctant to entertain it,...

Out on good flavour: Natty Can Cook’s journey from inmate to restaurateur 

In prison, Nathaniel Mortley was known as ‘the chef’. Before his incarceration for selling drugs in 2019, he had cooked at top London restaurants including Oblix. Inside, he combined his culinary skills with his Caribbean heritage to transform the...

Ongoing Strong Caribbean Earthquakes Serve as Reminder to East Coast Tsunami Threat

This map shows recent earthquake activity around the Leeward Islands, with the most recent strong swarm circled in purple. Each colored circle represents the epicenter of an earthquake, with the yellow ones being the oldest. Orange reflects...

Simone Leigh Curates “Critical Fabulation” at Art Institute

The Art Institute of Chicago has unveiled a new special collection rotation titled Critical Fabulation, curated by Simone Leigh in collaboration with the museum’s curators. The exhibition, on view until January 4, 2026, unites works from the...

GFNC’s Fruity Wednesday milestone update

by Grenada Food and Nutrition Council The Grenada Food and Nutrition Council (GFNC) has successfully reactivated Fruity Wednesday, and the response has been outstanding. The campaign encourages Grenadians to swap processed snacks for healthy,...

Francesca Clapcich embarks on transatlanic race, champions inclusion and belonging

Park City-area resident Francesca Clapcich is thousands of miles from home this week, racing through the Atlantic Ocean in one of the world’s toughest offshore competitions. But even at sea, her focus extends well beyond the finish line. On...

NEW YORK’S HIDDEN OECS NATION: OVER 300,000 EASTERN CARIBBEAN NATIONALS CALL THE BIG APPLE HOME

An in-depth analysis of migration, identity, and community among OECS citizens in New York City — the unofficial capital of the Caribbean diaspora. A CITY BUILT BY ISLANDS When you walk through Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue on a summer evening, you...

Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi) and his many lives

Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi) and his wife Setsu (Photo courtesy of Metropolis Magazine) From late September 2025, NHK’s Asadora,Japan’s most-watched morning drama series and a national cultural staple, debuted “The Ghost Writer’s Wife”, telling...

The Sanctuary of the Mad

In the Moroccan collective imaginary, the city of Berrechid explicitly evokes mental illness. Berrechid is home to Morocco’s largest psychiatric hospital. To say to someone, “I’ll send you to Berrechid!” (ghadi nssayftek l’Berrechid // غادي نسيفطك...

Magnitude 6.5 Quake Hits East of Guadeloupe

A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe on Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quake’s epicentre was located about 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of...

Macaulay’s men

Many a man and woman have sweated blood and tears for the Caribbean. Against the swords and thraldom of imperialism. To establish our own homesteads, farms, markets, villages, republics. Remember Hatuey, the Cuban warrior chief, who fought the...

Secret mining studies and private deals: is a new gold rush quietly starting in El Salvador?

Set off the main road through San Isidro, El Salvador, an old gate sits locked by a chain. Across its rusted metal wire mesh are emblazoned the words: “Private property, entry forbidden.” A bus stop outside is covered with faded black and yellow...

Countdown to the Transat Café L'OR is on

by Francesca Clapcich 24 Oct 09:44 PDT Italian-American professional offshore sailor Francesca Clapcich is set to become the first American woman to take on the notoriously challenging double-handed race, the Transat Café L'OR. Clapcich and her...

Saint-Pierre's Devastated Ruins Reveal Tragic History

St. Lucia’s Marigot Bay and Pigeon Island now behind us, the Caribee under full sail headed for Martinique, the next island in the Lesser Antilles. Like nearby Guadeloupe, Martinique is an overseas department of France and culturally distinct from...

It’s time to go racing… countdown to the Transat Café L’OR is on

Italian-American professional offshore sailor Francesca Clapcich is set to become the first American woman to take on the notoriously challenging double-handed race, the Transat Café L’OR. Clapcich and her co-skipper, Will Harris (GBR) will cross...