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16 Aug 2023 15 minute read

How Barbados ditched the Queen

Amy Hall reports from Barbados on abolishing the British monarchy and the legacies of colonialism.

22 Mar 2023 5 minute read

Country profile: St Vincent and the Grenadines

James Schneider profiles the Caribbean nation, close to the Hugo Chávez-founded ALBA alliance but also to the...

Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters

25 Nov 2022 3 minute read

Kanaval: keeping Haiti’s history alive

Cinematic in its style, offbeat in its storytelling, the BBC’s Kanaval – a documentary portrayal of Haiti’s annual...

A woman and her children walking along a street in Ocho Rios. Tim Smith/Panos

24 Mar 2022 5 minute read

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Country profile: Jamaica

First came the Spanish, then the British, and then the austerity measures of the IMF. Christina Ivey on the...

Protesters against the US trade embargo on Cuba drive past the US Embassy in Havana in a motorcade, 28 March 2021. ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI/REUTERS

5 Sep 2021 7 minute read

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Cuba’s crossroads

The Castros are no longer in charge. Will Miguel Díaz-Canel, their hand-picked successor, wield a new broom of change?...

14 Apr 2019 3 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

¿Hasta siempre?

After Bolsonaro's withdrawal of 11,000 Cuban doctors from Brazil, Sujatha Fernandes asks how viable the...

21 Jan 2019 1 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Cartoon History: Toussaint Louverture

From revolt to revolution: the story of Toussaint Louverture, former slave and military leader of the Haitian revolution, as...

30 Oct 2018 4 minute read

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Remembering Una Marson: black feminist pioneer

Aditya Iyer looks at the legacy of black feminist poet, Una Marson.

30 Apr 2018 3 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

Calypso Rose talks gender equality

She’s survived cancer, two heart attacks and even fractured a few ribs on stage. Tobago’s music legend Calypso Rose...

1 Mar 2018 2 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

Multiphonic Afro-futurism and ‘subversive breeze’

Reviewed: Your Queen Is a Reptile by Sons of Kemet; Radyo Siwèl by Mélissa Laveaux.

19 Feb 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

When disaster strikes, put women in charge

Oxfam’s Haiti sex scandal highlights how girls and young women are most at risk in emergencies. Vanessa Baird...

15 Feb 2018 4 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

The trashing of Oxfam

Abuse must be eradicated but the attack on Oxfam is disproportionate, argues Maggie Black in this opinion...

14 Feb 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Why defunding Oxfam won't stop abuse

‘The idea of altruistic morality puts aid workers in a double bind, eroding true responsibility’

1 Jan 2018 2 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Gone with the wind in Dominica

Hurricane Maria swept through Dominica, destroying 62 per cent of all dwellings and killing 57, Richard Swift...

15 Sep 2017 6 minute read

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Why natural disasters are not natural

Storms do not discriminate, but societies do, argues Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik.

28 Nov 2016 3 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

'Fidel Castro is not dead'

The world has lost a great internationalist, writes Vanessa Baird.

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