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Conservationists feared 10cm threadsnake as thin as a strand of spaghetti had become extinctThe world’s smallest snake has been rediscovered in Barbados, 20 years after its last sighting.The Barbados threadsnake, which had been feared extinct, was redi…
Windrush Untold Stories exhibition received global support after portraits were slashed and daubed with paintPortraits celebrating the Windrush generation in the heart of Brixton have been restored after a vandalism attack led to a global outpouring of…
Caricom summit gives ‘broad support’ for request to Charles as region steps up campaign for justice Caribbean leaders are backing Jamaica’s petition to King Charles on reparations as the region prepares to step up its pursuit of reparative justice for …
Black River film festival invited US, European and African producers and directors to explore partnerships with local film-makersA film festival has brought US, European and African producers and directors to Jamaica to explore collaborations with loca…
Esther Phillips says her poetry’s ‘ultimate goal’ is to achieve justice for those who suffered at hands of European colonisersEsther Phillips, the Barbados poet laureate, grew up next to Drax Hall Estate, once one of the Caribbean’s notoriously violent…
Victims of other injustices are treated better, says founder of ‘bittersweet’ Windrush DayA founder of Windrush Day has called for a public inquiry into the scandal amid this year’s “bittersweet” celebrations of Black Britons and their contribution to …
Exploration of Bahamas seabed will be first time notorious New Providence hideout has been searchedThe Pirates of the Caribbean is a $4.5bn swashbuckling film franchise and Blackbeard and Calico Jack Rackham are among marauding buccaneers who have capt…
Scientists puzzled by huge amounts of prickly sargassum suffocating shorelines from Puerto Rico to GuyanaA record amount of sargassum has piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, and more is expected this month, according to a new study.T…
This year’s tiny harvest casts doubt on the spirit’s recent resurgence, once a bright spot in the island’s economy It’s a crisis that would have sent a shiver down Ernest Hemingway’s drinking arm. Cuba’s communist government is struggling to process en…
Fourth most important food crop in peril as Latin America and Caribbean suffer from slow-onset climate disasterThe climate crisis is threatening the future of the world’s most popular fruit, as almost two-thirds of banana-growing areas in Latin America…