Martinique celebrates Creole Month in October

Dominica News Online - Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 at 11:19 AM Each year, during Creole Month, known as “Mwa Lang Kréyol La,” the Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM) dedicates efforts to honoring and promoting the Creole language in all...

The Territorial Collectivity of Martinique Celebrates Creole Month

As every year, on the occasion of Creole Month “Mwa Lang Kréyol La²”, the Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM) celebrates and promotes the Creole language in all its dimensions. For the 2025 edition, the CTM is strengthening its commitment...

4.8 Magnitude earthquake rattles St Vincent

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake rattled St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Friday morning, according to data from the UWI Seismic Research Centre. UWI, SRC – Automatic Earthquake Location DATE AND TIME: 2025-10-03 10:59 am (Local Time) MAGNITUDE: 4.8...

How This “Paris of the Caribbean” Forged a Unique Bond With the United States

The town of St. Pierre, in northern Martinique, is world-famous for the appalling tragedy that took place here on May 8, 1902, when an eruption of Mount Pelée destroyed the urban area and killed nearly 30,000 people. This marked the end of the...

Does terroir matter in spirits? Bourbon, Scotch, and tequila say yes

Wine people love the word terroir. It’s the one that makes dinner guests nod politely while secretly wondering if they should Google it later. Basically, it’s the idea that grapes taste like where they’re grown — soil, climate, weather, the whole...

Work in Progress: Christelle Oyiri

As a child, Christelle Oyiri spent her holidays visiting family in Guadeloupe. When she returned to the island alone in 2020, she began to uncover its histories of pollution and power. Contaminated by prolonged historical use of the pesticide...

PISLM mission to Petite Martinique to assess land degradation

A technical team from the Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM), led by Dr Ronen Francis, Executive Director, visited Petite Martinique on 3 September 2025, as part of an urgent mission to assess the extent of land...

Thinking like an internationalist

DK Renton • October 3, 2025 In the fourth of his series on rs21’s key political ideas, DK Renton explains why it’s vital to reject nationalism and stand with anti-imperialist struggles. I described in the previous piece how Marx came to the...

‘Vanished: An Unnatural History Of Extinction,’ By Sadiah Qureshi — Review

A poignant recounting of the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, and how extinction is not necessarily inevitable but instead, is a political choice. One of the most famous and often-copied paintings of a Dodo specimen, as...

October 2025 Dance Calendar

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"This is a platform that producers can no longer do without"

Since its launch in 2017, the FARMS software - created by FARMS Digital, Compagnie Fruitière's technology subsidiary - has continued to evolve to meet the real needs of producers. Here is a look back at the genesis of a constantly evolving project...

Caribbean tourism shows resilience amid mixed markets

Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean tourism recorded 18.5 million arrivals in the first half of 2025, up nearly two per cent on last year and six per cent above pre-pandemic levels, according to new data presented at the CTO’s State of the Tourism...

Beyond the Attacks: A Father’s Reflection on Allen Chastanet

By Michael Chastanet As a father, it is never easy to watch your child endure hardship. For me, it has been especially painful to witness my son, Allen Chastanet, subjected to relentless and often unfair personal attacks, many of which stem from...

David Todd: Parable of the Parakeets

On​ 21 April 2002 Jean-Marie Le Pen became the first leader of a far-right party to reach the run-off of a French presidential election. France was astonished. For two weeks, daily anti-fascist demonstrations took place in cities and the...

Caribbean Global Awards 2025: Top 30 People’s Choice Leaders Announced 

Key personalities on the list included Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Trinidad and Tobago PM), Dickon Mitchell (Grenada PM), Mark Brantley (Nevis Premier), and more. The 2025 People Choice Leaders List has been announced by Caribbean Global Awards. The...

KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR CARIBBEAN’S MOST INFLUENTIAL LEADER 2025

Caribbean Global Leader (People’s Choice) Crowned as First Female Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago Tops Fiercely Competitive List of 30 Influential Icons In a resounding affirmation of people power across the Caribbean and its global diaspora,...

Meet Dickon Mitchell, Caribbean leader advocating climate sustainability  

Early Life and Law Career Dickon Amiss Thomas Mitchell, a well-known politician and attorney, was born in Petit Esperance, Saint David Parish, Grenada, on October 8, 1978. He first attended Presentation Brothers College before continuing his...

Jounen Kwéyòl — A revolutionary journey

Arguably, Jounen Kwéyòl is one of the biggest national cultural celebrations in Saint Lucia, ranking in prominence on the calendar of events with the Saint Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival and Carnival. However, unlike jazz and Carnival, Jounen Kwéyòl...

Gaza genocide: Why Aime Cesaire's work is more relevant than ever

In 1950, Martinique-born poet and politician Aime Cesaire published his famous Discourse on Colonialism, one of the founding documents of anti-colonial thought. Cesaire’s sharp indictment of the European colonial system not only mercilessly...

A Caribbean Garden in the Middle of Berlin 

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