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EUROPE/FRANCE - Sailing from France to the Antilles: fundraising campaign for the Salesian missionaries in Guadeloupe
Fides
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August 16, 2025
Saturday, 16 August 2025 ANS – Les Sables-d'Olonnes Paris (Agenzia Fides) – 150 years after the first crossing of the Atlantic by the Salesian missionaries of Don Bosco to reach the archipelago of Guadeloupe (now part of the French Antilles, ed.),...
You Can Savor Some of the Caribbean’s Best Street Food in a Beach Town in Guadeloupe
Caribbean Journal
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August 4, 2025
Doubles. Roti. Poulet boucané. Corn soup. Cook up. They’re some of the most delicious things you can eat in the Caribbean, and they’re all typically served in some form of food truck, street cart or roadside tent. But when it comes to the region’s...
Denning Sails To Gold In ILCA6
Our News Bahamas
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August 18, 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement PERU – Eliza Denning made history at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games, closing out the sailing competition at San José Beach with a gold medal. The 17-year-old dominated the...
Last lap for CARIFESTA XV readiness as thousands expected from across C’bean
Barbados Today
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August 16, 2025
0 Barbados is preparing to welcome more than 2 000 cultural representatives from across the Caribbean and beyond when CARIFESTA XV opens next Friday, with organisers promising one of the biggest and most inclusive festivals in the event’s history....
I never liked the Caribbean — but this island made me fall in love with it
AOL
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Ulrich Hollmann/Getty Images Morne Trois Pitons National Park on the Caribbean island Dominica.I’ve been to the Dominican Republic twice, yet it feels like I’ve never truly experienced it. The first trip was all Airbnb beachfront lounging, and the...
Gill, Don Hector, and Hilly sweating about Caye Caulker (CC) weed referendum
Amandala
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August 17, 2025
By Colin Hyde I can’t identify what Hilly Bennett’s problem was, but Vaughan Gill was wondering what happens if this Caye Caulker (CC) referendum sparks the teetotalers in Belmopan (BMP) to attempt to make the capital completely dry. I can answer...
This Caribbean Festival Has Rare Rhum Agricole, Luxury Villas, and Sunset Parties
Caribbean Journal
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August 17, 2025
The Caribbean’s most spirited celebration is returning to St Barth this fall — and it’s already shaping up to be bigger than ever. The eighth annual edition of the Caribbean Rum Awards St Barth brings together the world’s best rums,...
Sachelle’s steelpan colouring book
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 17, 2025
Features Newsday 9 Hrs Ago Sachelle Thomas with a copy of her Steelpan Coloring and Activity Book. - Ray Funk PAN MONTH is a good time to look at the work of young creative people dedicated to pan. Sachelle Thomas, 27, who grew up in East...
These are the Caribbean’s most peaceful island escapes
The Times
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Sure, there’s one side to the Caribbean that’s all clubbing, whopping all-inclusives and casinos — but with more than 7,000 islands scattered across a vast sea, there are still plenty of places to find some peace and solitude. Maybe it’s listening...
The Caribbean’s global fashion powerbroker
The Gleaner
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August 17, 2025
Savvily building an entrepreneurial empire one major model after another, Deiwght Peters has developed an enviable credibility in the multi-billion-dollar fashion industry that stretches far beyond Jamaica’s shores. The SAINT International chief...
Hurricane Erin weakens slightly to category 4, undergoes ‘eyewall replacement’; what do we know so far
The Economic Times
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August 16, 2025
Hurricane Erin exploded and strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday (August 16, 2025) before weakening slightly to a Category 4 status. However, it remained a "formidable" storm while it underwent a process...
CAZOVA serves off Saturday
Trinidad Express
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August 13, 2025
THE Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association (CAZOVA) Championships will get going in Bahamas on Saturday night. Six countries—Barbados, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Suriname, T&T, Bahamas—will be represented by both genders, while Curacao will only be...
Scientists race to save reefs amid bleaching crisis
The Virgin Islands Daily News
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For more than a decade, Mariane Aimar-Godoc regularly labored underwater, collecting coral eggs by moonlight to raise in nurseries and transplant back onto degraded reefs. As director of the nonprofit Guadeloupe Initiative for the Restoration of...
The best Caribbean islands for couples, according to travel experts
The Manual - Oregon
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August 13, 2025
I love the Caribbean as much as the next person. The turquoise water, the beachside cocktails, and the salty air that somehow makes everything taste better. However, not all Caribbean islands are created equal. Some are perfect for families with...
Meet the Premier League’s newest WAGs after their star partners transfers including nurse, lawyer & make-up expert
The Sun
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August 13, 2025
THEY are smart, sexy and sure to bring a stadium-worth of sass to the sidelines. Premier League Wags have always added a welcome touch of glamour to the game when you spot them cheering in the boxes. 16 Dani Meneses, model and real estate pro,...
Faith’s family tree
Catholic Review - Maryland
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August 5, 2025
Our Catholic faith doesn’t appear out of thin air, and it plays out incarnationally and across history. Faith comes from somewhere, and often, that somewhere is a someone, often visibly woven into our personal genealogies. Everyone wants to claim...
Scientists Race to Save Caribbean Reefs Amid Bleaching Crisis
Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
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August 7, 2025
For more than a decade, Mariane Aimar-Godoc regularly laboured underwater, collecting coral eggs by moonlight to raise in nurseries and transplant back onto degraded reefs. As director of the nonprofit Guadeloupe Initiative for the Restoration of...
Trinidad PM gives Caribbean Airlines management team two years to ‘sort out the mess’
Stabroek News
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August 13, 2025
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has issued an ultimatum to the management of local carrier Carib-bean Airlines (CAL): ‘sort out the mess’ in two years or find a new job. Speaking at the UNC’s Monday Night Report in Couva,...
Travelling from France with a non-family child - what are the necessary steps?
The Connexion
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August 7, 2025
Rules can also apply if travelling with family members All children living in France are subject to travel rules Shutterstock/Franck Poupart Reader Question: We are travelling back to the UK and taking the 17-year old daughter of family friends,...
Guadalcanal, the Spanish village that became a Pacific battlefield
The New World
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August 12, 2025
There are many Americans, especially members of older generations, who will be rather familiar with the name Guadalcanal. It is one of the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific Ocean, which lie in the western part of the South Pacific, to the...