French Caribbean

Culture, Film and Television, People, Martinique

Euzhan Palcy: Making Waves

Euzhan Palcy, thirty-four, was the first black woman to direct a major Hollywood studio film: A Dry White Season, starring Donald...

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Culture, Travel, Martinique, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St. Lucia

Four of the Best Caribbean Beaches

GRAND ANSE, GRENADA Grand Anse is two miles of gleaming white sand beach and sparkling blue sea in south-west Grenada. It is the most...

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Culture, Arts, Haiti

Haitian art: rising from the ruins

One of the most harrowing images to have emerged from the January 2010 earthquake which shattered the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, with...

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Culture, Lifestyle, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago

Helping Haiti hold on to its honour

The 200 rusted steps of the unfinished Bicentennial Monument in Port-au-Prince were meant to commemorate two centuries of independence. Now...

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Culture, Arts, People, Haiti

Moises Jonas: the art of disaster relief

Thirty-six-year-old Moises Jonas hasn’t lived in his native Haiti for several years, but this painter-turned-businessman is helping with...

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Culture, History, People, Haiti

Pierre Toussaint: from slavery to sainthood

The search for the Caribbean’s first saint began 70 years ago, in December 1941, in a dark and overgrown New York churchyard. Leading the...

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Culture, Technology, Science, French Guiana

French Guiana’s Ariane Reaches for the Stars

The giant Ariane stands on the launch pad. Two Satellites have been loaded into the compartment that forms the rocket’s nose, and lowered...

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Culture, Literature, Haiti

Ian Thomson: Hooked on Haiti

Ian Thomson arrived for an interview on a wet November Sunday, with a knapsack on his back. His book on Haiti, Bonjour Blanc, had recently...

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