Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe News

Guadeloupe is a French department in the Caribbean Sea. This beautiful tropical paradise is separated in two parts: Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre. If you look closely on a map you will notice that it has the shape of a butterfly.

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Surfersvillage Global Surf News , 19 March, 2012 : - - After a beautiful Autumn in France which lingered until the New Year, it is now time to put the boardshorts back on rather than the 4/3. Why? in Guadeloupe the water is warm all year long, and the colors are beautiful.

An Air France Airbus A340-300, registration F-GLZO performing flight AF-422 from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Bogota with 224 people on board, was enroute near Guadeloupe when the crew decided to divert to Pointe A Pitre due to the failure of a valve needed for the anti-ice systems.

Women hold a banner reading: 'Stop the slavery' during a demonstration in 2010 in Pointe-A -Pitre, on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, against high living costs.