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BBC reporter and her wealthy aristocrat family to apologise for their slave trade shame

The aristocratic Trevelyan family, which owned six sugar plantations and thousands of slaves on the Caribbean island of Grenada, are going to publicly apologise to the country and use £100,000 to establish a community fund on the poverty-stricken island

Daily Mirror

Kevin Jared Hosein: ‘The 1940s in Trinidad was like the wild west’

The teacher and writer on a golden age for Caribbean writers, editing in bed, and his encounter with VS Naipaul

The Guardian - UK

Taxpayers fork out millions on hotels for defence chiefs as troops live in squalor

Hundreds of senior officers and officials have enjoyed luxurious £500-a-night hotels in Hawaii, Dubai and the Caribbean while working for the government - all paid for by taxpayers

Daily Mirror

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I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be by Colin Grant review – where are we ‘really’ from?

An important contribution to the story of British-Caribbean identity, told with loving scrutiny

The Guardian - UK

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2023

The Independent UK

Jamaica willing to take part in military intervention in Haiti, PM says

Jamaica would be willing to take part in an international military deployment to Haiti, Prime Minister Andrew Holness told lawmakers on Tuesday, saying the Caribbean island country could also support its neighbor on electoral reforms.

Reuters

EastEnders’ James Bye renews vows in lavish St Lucia ceremony amid monsoon chaos

Just days after the happy couple announced they are pregnant with their fourth child – after three years of trying and nearly "giving up" – they jetted to the Caribbean to celebrate their marriage

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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Jan. 20-26, 2023

The Independent UK

Cuban American named US ambassador to the OAS wants to champion democracy in the region

MIAMI — Frank Mora, a Miami native and the new U.S. ambassador to the Organization of Americas States, wants to make the organization “even more relevant” amid the “increasing erosion” of the democratic system in Latin America and the Caribbean, he told journalists on Thursday, discarding the possibility that the…

Miami Herald

Counterfeiting, contraband, cocaine: how Panama’s trade hub lost its lustre

Colón’s free trade zone was meant to be hub for the Americas but it has become a byword for drugs, gangs and violence

The Guardian - US

Haiti's police cannot beat gangs without international force - U.N.

Haiti's police will not win a fight against criminal gangs without more international support, including the key deployment of a rapid action force, the United Nations envoy to the impoverished Caribbean country said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Former pub in Merthyr Tydfil to reopen as a family-run Caribbean restaurant

It's the second restaurant opened by the family, who also have a branch in Tenby

Wales Online

More journalists killed in Latin America and Caribbean than Ukraine in 2022

Committee to Protect Journalist reports region accounted for almost half of the 67 deaths worldwide

The Guardian - US

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Jan. 13-19, 2023

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A sailor has been rescued after being adrift in Caribbean for 24 days

Elvis Francois, 47, told Colombian authorities that he had survived off a bottle of ketchup, garlic powder and Maggi cubes.

The Guardian - US

Sint Maarten approves plan to destroy entire population of vervet monkeys

The Caribbean territory plans to exterminate at least 450 of the invasive primates – but critics disagree with the plan

Newslaundry

One journalist was killed every four days in 2022, 86 deaths in total: Unesco report

From 2016 to the end of 2021, 455 journalists were killed for their work or while on the job. Eighty-six journalists died in 2022 alone – that’s one death every four days – which is a “significant increase” from 55 killings in 2021. Latin America and the Caribbean were the…

Foreign Policy

The Hidden History of the World’s Top Offshore Cryptocurrency Tax Haven

The Bahamas represents how global capitalism can go very right, and very wrong, at exactly the same time.

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The Guardian - UK

Why the Dutch apology for slavery leaves a bitter taste in my mouth

An apology only counts when there is a genuine process of reparation and reform. The people of the Dutch Caribbean are still waiting, says writer Jermain Ostiana

The Independent UK

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Jan. 6-125, 2023

USA Today Sports Media Group

Miami Dolphins fan cruise set to sail in April

A chance to enjoy the Caribbean with a number of former Dolphins.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Golfweek’s Best 2023: Top 50 courses in Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic islands and Central America

The 2023 Golfweek's Best ranking of tropical courses include plenty of water views.

The Guardian - UK

C of E’s historic slavery fund – worth £100m but how far will it stretch across communities?

Clerical leaders hope for ‘lasting legacy’ to serve places affected by past slavery trade, but fund may spread thinly across all of west Africa and Caribbean

The Independent UK

'The money is gone': Bahamas tries to turn page after FTX

At a recent celebration of Christmas in the Bahamas, Bishop Lawrence Rolle sang about a half dozen songs, mostly Afro-Caribbean gospel songs

The Independent UK

Warship rescues crew of sinking tug in the Caribbean

HMS Medway responded to the tug’s SOS message, which was sent at about 5pm UK time on Friday.

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