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Hurricane Erin gathers force as it nears Leeward Islands

Hurricane intensifies to category 4 storm with strong winds and heavy rain expected to cause flooding and landslides

Hurricane Erin has intensified into a category 4 storm as it churns its way over th…

‘We are diverse cultures come together’: the vision of harmony behind Manchester’s Caribbean carnival

Passionate elders of Leeward Islands People’s Association wanted to promote racial harmony – and inspired a tradition that is still going strong 55 years on

The Caribbean islands of St Kitts and Nevis…

8 months ago

Patwa is not ‘broken English’: the African ties that bind US and Caribbean languages

Centuries later, Jamaican Patwa and US Gullah Creole retain many Africanisms adopted from enslaved people

  • Illustrations by Alexis Chivir-ter Tsegba

In 2000, I won a writing competition that awakened me…

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