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Barbados: A Gem worth Exploring - Uncover the soul of a Caribbean cultural powerhouse

Barbados. Just the name alone conjures images of turquoise waters and powdery white sands. But beyond the sun-soaked postcards lies an island pulsing with rhythm, …
Mia Anthony
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Chipping down Soca Street – how would you rename our roads?

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has backed a campaign to have Kensington Palace Gardens – home to the Russian Embassy - renamed Zelensky Avenue in...
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Carnival arts demand to be taken seriously

Respect for the Carnival arts was at the heart of a stimulating two-day conference at The Tabernacle over the weekend of 2 and 3...
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