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Volotea Signs Interline Agreement with Air Caraïbes and French Bee
Rus Tourism News
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August 6, 2025
Travelers across Europe’s regional capitals now have a smoother gateway to exotic long-haul destinations. Low-cost carrier Volotea has signed a new interline agreement with Air Caraïbes and French Bee, offering a fully integrated travel experience...
COMMENTARY — The Wagners of Trellis Bay, Part 38
The BVI Beacon
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August 6, 2025
I started this series of commentaries to celebrate the inauguration of direct flights from Miami and Polish Captain Wladek Wagner’s development of Beef Island airfield, as told by his widow Mabel Wagner in her 2015 book Lest I Forget. I have tried...
Grenada drops Oath of Allegiance to King Charles
The Voice
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August 6, 2025
GRENADA HAS officially dropped the Oath of Allegiance to King Charles III. The new changes mean state officials will no longer take Oath of Allegiance to King Charles, his Heirs and Successors. Instead, the Oath of Allegiance will be to the...
2025 OECS Boxing Championship Successfully Concludes
I News Cayman
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August 6, 2025
From OECS Communications On Sunday, August 3, 2025, the three-day 2025 OECS Boxing Championship successfully concluded, with Saint Lucia successfully retaining the Team Champion Title. The highly anticipated sporting event was held from August...
A guide to sargassum in the Caribbean
Lonely Planet
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Quick: picture your fantasy Caribbean getaway. Did you happen to see those massive brown blobs of seaweed floating up on that imaginary powdery beach? Probably not. No one expects a storm of sargassum (that’s the aforementioned seaweed) to crash...
Adasa scores again as T&T U15s produce imperious 2-0 win over Bermuda
Wired 868
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August 6, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago booked their place in the semifinal round of the Concacaf Boys’ Under-15 Championship with a game to spare today, as they downed Bermuda 2-0 at the CD Jose Wever Stadium in Oranjestad. It was the young Soca Warriors’ second...
Christelle Oyiri Is Remixing the Archive
Elephant Magazine
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August 6, 2025
The artist, filmmaker and DJ reflects on the neo-diaspora, the politics of beauty, dance as resistance, and her current Tate Modern commission — a sonic-visual work that weaves together memory, protest, and digital vernaculars. Words by Katrina...
Team Saint Lucia Repeat as OECS Boxing Champions
St. Lucia Times
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August 5, 2025
Headline: Team Saint Lucia Repeat as OECS Boxing Champions Team Saint Lucia have once again claimed top honours at the 2025 Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Invitational Boxing Championships held over the Emancipation Day weekend. The...
Emergency Medical Services Department Introduces NAEMT-Certified Coursed to Promote Safety and Risk Reduction
Magnetic Media
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August 5, 2025
Deandrea Hamilton | Editor August 8, 2025 The dreaded chikungunya virus is making headlines again, with a major outbreak reported in southern China and travel-related cases on the rise in the United States. While there are no confirmed cases in...
Columbus statue to come down: Liberation time
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 2, 2025
News Narissa Fraser 6 Hrs Ago In this August 1 photo, the head of the Christopher Columbus statue in Port of Spain is covered with a handbag. Several years ago, parts of the statue were smeared with red paint and the hands were removed. - Photos...
Saint Lucia Victorious in U15 Concacaf Opener
St. Lucia Times
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August 4, 2025
A lone goal from captain Kai Russell earned Saint Lucia a win over neighbours Grenada to open the Concacaf Boys’ Under-15 Championship on Monday. Entered in League C, the young Piton Boyz will play all their Group G games at Curaçao’s Stadion Jean...
Baseball history unpacked, August 4
Bleed Cubbie Blue - Illinois
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August 4, 2025
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold over the course of time. Here’s a...
No mind your nationality, you’ve got the identity of an African, By Owei Lakemfa
Premium Times
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August 2, 2025
History was made. It was the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent. Benin Republic chose this Day of Saturday July 26, 2025 to implement its new nationality initiative for diaspora and Black individuals. The law,...
Representatives From the Environmental Health Department and the National Public Health Laboratory attend the International Association of Food Protection Annual Meeting
Magnetic Media
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August 4, 2025
Deandrea Hamilton | Editor August 8, 2025 The dreaded chikungunya virus is making headlines again, with a major outbreak reported in southern China and travel-related cases on the rise in the United States. While there are no confirmed cases in...
Caribbean Corals: Bleaching Ravages a Region Built on Reefs as Aid Falls Short
Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
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July 31, 2025
On a sweltering day in 2023, British Virgin Islands fisherman Zacchari Stoutt was suiting up for a routine dive when he glimpsed something unusual on the seafloor. At first, he thought it was a sunken boat. “It was quite visible,” recalled Stoutt,...
After Crude Oil, Coffee Beans are Second Most Traded Raw Material Worldwide
Space Coast Daily - Florida
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coffee’s beginnings are enveloped in mystery and lore Coffee beans are now the second most traded raw material worldwide, after crude oil, with sales over $55 billion a year. Legend has it that one day, many hundreds of years ago in the Ethiopian...
No Mind Your Nationality, You’ve Got the Identity of an African
The News Chronicle
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August 1, 2025
History was made. It was the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent. Benin Republic chose Saturday July 26, 2025 to implement its new nationality initiative for diaspora and Black individuals. The law, passed on...
The 4 QPR players we expect to leave by 7pm on September 1st
Football League World
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August 3, 2025
Like a lot of clubs in the Championship this summer, Queens Park Rangers have experienced a bit of a rebuild as they seek to improve once again next season. The R’s drifted to an underwhelming end to the 2024/25 campaign, with Marti Cifuentes...
Grenada’s c 1780 Mace of the House of Representatives
Now Grenada
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August 1, 2025
by John Angus Martin “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.” Bob Marley, “Redemption Song,” Uprising (1980) These often-quoted lyrics from one of Brother Bob’s most inspiring songs echo across the...
Emancipation in Grenada: Did you know?
Now Grenada
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August 1, 2025
by John Angus Martin, and the Emancipation Day Committee Did you know? The Imperial Act of Emancipation was issued on 28 August 1833, providing for the gradual emancipation of slavery in the British Empire. The Grenada Legislature passed its...