As Dominica prepares for another staging of its World Creole Music Festival, Steinberg Henry’s thought-provoking book, A
Thick Environment, invites readers to look beyond the performances and economic returns to consider the festival’s
deeper cultural significance, its impact on the creative industry, and its potential to shape the nation’s future.
Dominican culture, fashion, talent and tradition took centre stage in Toronto on Sunday, September 20, as Madame Wob Dwiyet Canada Inc. presented the 15th annual Madame of Madams and Jeune Madams Cultural Showcase Competition.
It was meticulous work, exactly the sort of work that suited a woman whose life would continue to be marked by organization and discipline long after she took off the uniform.
Young Writers Ages 9–12 Invited to Imagine New Worlds, Explore Folklore and Compete for Cash Prizes and Publication. BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS – September 2026 – Piton Noire Sci-Fi/Fantasy Writers Collective, creators of The Flying Crapaud anthology series, announces the launch of its first Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Folklore Short Story Contest for students in St. Kitts and […]
The new anthology takes readers into worlds where the supernatural and futuristic collide with familiar Caribbean realities.
Alex Bruno spent twelve days walking Dominica in July 2026 with a clipboard and a small team of poll workers from his polling company Caribbean Agency for Political Advancement (CAPA). What he learned from the numbers disturbed him. Talking to Anthony Drigo on This Week in Interview on this week’s episode of the weekly program […]
Before these titles he was…
A boy on a boat’s deck off Philipsburg, reading with the lowered jib half folded around him, dasheen and plantain waiting to be sold on the wharf so the next semester of school could be paid for.
Thirty to forty young people, most between the ages of 13 and 25, spent two weeks this summer on Pastor Adrien Bannis’s farm in Castle Bruce, learning agriculture not from a textbook but from the soil itself. The camp, which concluded this week, is part of an ongoing effort by Bannis and his family to […]
The World Trade Organization’s intervention in the 1990s stripped Caribbean bananas of preferential access to the European market. That, combined with external shocks of the same period, pushed policymakers to look for non traditional revenue.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has forcefully defended the Caribbean’s campaign for reparations for slavery, rejecting criticism from some British politicians and insisting that the movement is rooted in justice rather than financial compensation or political symbolism. Speaking in her capacity as chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Prime Ministerial Subcommittee on Reparations, Mottley […]
