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Barbados We Gatherin’ 2025: The Ultimate Global Reunion

Barbados is set to shine brighter than ever in 2025, inviting both the global diaspora and holidaymakers to experience a year-long celebration of its...

Mia Anthony - Thu 15 May 2025

Why you should visit Saint Lucia for Carnival 2025

Saint Lucia, a picturesque gem in the Eastern Caribbean, is renowned for its breathtaking landscapes, luxurious resorts, and vibrant culture. But during July, this...

Joseph Charles - Wed 08 Jan 2025

Crop Over: A Festival with Deep Roots

After several years, I was finally returning to Barbados—or Bim, as it’s affectionately called. While I wouldn’t call it my home country, it holds...

Joseph Charles - Mon 06 Jan 2025

Crop Over a 50-year celebration

This year, Barbados Crop Over reaches a significant milestone: its half-century. However, like many other festivals, Crop Over has a somewhat tangled history, and...

Stephen Spark - Tue 23 Jul 2024

Golden Rock Inn: A luxury escape immersed in nature

Nevis has a unique, tranquil charm, with lush vegetation, delectable dining experiences, untamed beaches, and a wealth of historical sites. No other hotel embodies...

Rachel Ritfeld - Sun 26 Nov 2023

Notting Hill Carnival a brief History

By the end of the Second World War, London was a city that had survived, but was in many ways a drab and wounded...

Katie Segal - Sun 20 Aug 2023

Lord Kitchener: Blue plaque unveiled in Manchester

Aldwyn Roberts - known to the world as calypsonian Lord Kitchener - and famously captured on Pathé newsreels singing London is the Place for...

Dunstan Creavalle - Sat 22 Jul 2023

Saint Lucia Carnival 2023, Nothing Sweeter Than That

Saint Lucia Carnival 2023 officially begins on 1 July and runs until 19 July. Global interest has grown in recent times and each year...

Sat 01 Jul 2023

How will you celebrate Windrush 75?

On 22 June it will be 75 years since Nazi cruise liner turned Allied troop transport ship turned unofficial emigrant ship HMT Empire Windrush...

Stephen Spark - Thu 08 Jun 2023

Feature

Andrea King A Miss World for Today

Miss World Guyana is as charming in real life as she is on screen and stage. We discovered this when we caught up with...

Goss Malone - Tue 30 May 2023

Mighty Hitman’s Frontline Radio is 17

Frontline Radio may not be known to all, but the station has been pushing out soca since the early days, and turned 17 this...

Radeya Osman - Tue 04 Apr 2023

Come Home for Trinidad Road March 2023

Responding to rampant speculation that the song does not have the required percentage of Trinbagonian input to qualify for Trinidad's Road March registration, it...

Overtime Media - Wed 08 Feb 2023

Feature Lifestyle News Travel

St. Kitts Nostalgia – How a Three-Month break became a three-year...

My first visit to the island was to attend the St. Kitts Music Festival in 2017. Never has a place left such an impression...

Rachel Ritfeld - Sun 22 Jan 2023

Feature Travel

Venture Deeper into St. Kitts – History, Culture and Romance

Rachel Ritfeld sits with St. Kitts Tourism Authority’s CEO, Ellison ‘Tommy’ Thompson and Melnecia Marshall, deputy CEO, for an inside perspective on the new...

Rachel Ritfeld - Fri 02 Dec 2022

Carnival Feature

St Kitts & Nevis gets ready for Sugar Mas 51

The end of the year is fast approaching, which means that Sugar Mas – carnival in the twin-island nation of St Kitts & Nevis...

Radeya Osman - Thu 17 Nov 2022

Black history – DNA sheds light on England’s Africans

The girl was only 10 or 11 years old when she died in the small village of Eastry, Kent. She was buried with a...

Stephen Spark - Fri 28 Oct 2022

Carnival Feature

Tobago Carnival flaunts its differences

The island of Tobago has always been a place apart, and this month it is proudly highlighting its differences as it launches into the...

Stephen Spark - Fri 21 Oct 2022

Black History Month: Time for Change: Action Not Words

From the days of the slave trade through to modern times, black people have endured segregation and have had their rights undermined, in contrast...

Radeya Osman - Thu 13 Oct 2022

Racism row tarnishes Manchester Caribbean Carnival’s golden anniversary

Anger over Greater Manchester Police (GMP) sending ‘exclusion’ letters to people they believe are members of, or linked to, gangs has cast a shadow...

Stephen Spark - Tue 09 Aug 2022

Windrush to Waterloo – a day of commemoration

A £1 million government-funded sculpture commemorating the arrival and contribution of Windrush Generation migrants to Britain will be unveiled at Waterloo station on Windrush...

Stephen Spark - Mon 20 Jun 2022

Saint Lucia Carnival 2022

It’s been 1,086 days… It was bad enough having to wait 365 days. Who could have guessed that when the music stopped and trucks packed...

Annel Beausoleil - Wed 15 Jun 2022

St Kitts Music Festival

After two pandemic-darkened years, the organisers of the St Kitts Music Festival have relaunched the event. As well as concerts, they are promising parties...

Radeya Osman - Tue 14 Jun 2022

Sea level rise a threat to Caribbean Islands

Parts of the French Caribbean islands could be uninhabitable within 20 years, a geographer has warned. The effect of global warming on sea level rise...

Stephen Spark - Mon 06 Jun 2022

Feature

Queen’s Jubilee a right royal platinum parade preview

Unless you’re a resident of Planet Zog (which has lousy wifi) you may have gathered that there’s going to be a ‘bit of a...

Stephen Spark - Mon 30 May 2022

Kitchener 100 – celebrate the Grandmaster of calypso at the Tab

Calypsonian Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) was born a century ago on 18 April 1922. In the UK he’s best known now for his 1948...

Stephen Spark - Mon 18 Apr 2022

Feature

London’s Calypso funding row continues

The recent trials and tribulations of calypso in London have been as much to do with money as with viral devastation. Attempts to hold...

Stephen Spark - Wed 23 Mar 2022

Feature Travel

Destination – Soca Holiday Packages

Before Covid-19 struck, locking down the entire world in the first quarter of 2020, travel and tourism was one of the most significant economic...

Radeya Osman - Tue 15 Mar 2022

Books Feature

A Quick Ting On Afrobeats

Billed as the first-ever book on the Afrobeats genre, Christian Adofo’s A Quick Ting on Afrobeats is his debut book. The title is part...

Dunstan Creavalle - Tue 15 Mar 2022