French Caribbean

Engage, Culture, History, People, Haiti, Jamaica

Voyager among gods

Eighty years ago, on 14 April, 1936, a forty-five-year-old African-American woman arrived by boat from New York City in Kingston, Jamaica....

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Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, St. Martin

St Martin: an island like a new world

Sitting at the Tropicana, my favourite bistro in Marigot’s Marina Royale, awaiting my moules flown in that day from France, sipping my...

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Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Haiti

Jacmel, Haiti

Streetscape On the eastern side of sheltered Jacmel Bay, the town stretches back from a shingly beach to a steep escarpment above Rue...

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Arrive, Leisure, Travel, Cuba, Guadeloupe, The Bahamas

Secret islands: the “undiscovered” Caribbean

There are more than seven thousand different islands in the Caribbean, according to the reference books, most of them tiny by any standard....

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Engage, Environment, Business, Haiti

Castor oil, please

Castor oil. Two words that used to strike terror in the hearts — and stomachs — of Caribbean children. In the old days, at the end of...

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Embark, Festivals and Events, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago

Word of mouth (November/December 2015)

Traveller’s tree What’s a miniature butterfly-winged skeleton doing on a Christmas tree? Philip Sander explains the origins of a...

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Arrive, Travel, Lifestyle, French Guiana

Cayenne, French Guiana

Streetscape Located at the mouth of the Cayenne River, the city’s modern suburbs now sprawl onto the mainland, but its historic centre is...

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Embark, Festivals and Events, Haiti, United Kingdom

Word of mouth (July/August 2015)

On Haitian earth Philip Sander explains the historic significance of Carifesta’s visit to Haiti There’s a sad disproportion between...

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