Guadeloupe News

Antigua and Barbuda , Dominica , Martinique , Puerto Rico , Guadeloupe Topics: Arts & Culture , History , Indigenous , Sport , Travel , Youth Languages: French , English Excerpt Since the beginning of 2009, French West Indians have questioned their identity, their national heritage and their present-day situation in different ways.

A few days ago, the mobile phone boarding pass service was introduced on all flights to the French Overseas Departments .

ASKED to explain how he knew a pair of slippers belonged to a man who was arrested for having six kilogrammes of marijuana in his possession for the purpose of trafficking, police constable Roger Nicholas said the slippers fitted Ainsley Ayers perfectly.

PHILIPSBURG--With a new Executive Council on the brink of being formed, President of the St.

Although an agreement was signed, the situation still has not been properly settled - and May, traditionally a month of protest in the French and Guadeloupean social history, is particularly hot this year.

US Consul-Warden for St. Martin and St. Barths Lloyd Tackling has disclosed the US Embassy is threatening to put the island on a watch list unless the crime situation improves rapidly.

As the U.S. begins to disarm its economic minefields and travelers step up for hard-earned summer vacations, the Caribbean's less-expensive destinations are in vogue.

The three men who brutally attacked and robbed Radio Transat programme director Thomas Krider were each given five-year prison sentences, with one year suspended when they appeared in the court of Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, on Thursday.

Yarimar Bonilla teaches anthropology at the University of Virginia. On January 25, after nearly a week of social paralysis, the French state, locally represented by the prefect, Nicolas Desforges, agreed to meet with the leadership of the LKP, the coalition that wove together 48 organizations to call a general strike demanding an end to ...

The Easter weekend road accident that occurred on the RN7 between Cole Bay and Marigot claimed the life of Dutch side resident, 18-year-old Richard Pantophlet, a relative confirmed to The Daily Herald on Monday.

The best-named scientific conference of the year, so far, is the GeoCrypt conference : The GeoCrypt 2009 conference will take place at Hotel Fleur d'Epee , about 6km from Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies [from April 27-May 1] The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from arithmetic geometry and from cryptography ...

Post office workers returned to work on Saturday after some of their grievances had been resolved.

TWO MUSICAL forms of the African diaspora will be in the spotlight later this month when Alliance Francaise and Patrons of Queen's Hall present Jazz and Gwo Ka Drums, a concert featuring saxophonist Jacques Schwartz-Bart and his band Abyss on April 24 at the Lion's Cultural Centre in Port-of-Spain. Jacques Schwartz-Bart, who was born December 22, ...

Corey Steele should have been at the Honduras-Trinidad and Tobago World Cup qualifying match in Port of Spain on Saturday.

At 2,133ft long, the airstrip on the French Caribbean island of Saint-Barthelemy is a challenging place to land an aeroplane.

Officials from the Passport Canada Mobile Passport Unit will be in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle on April 1 to review and accept completed passport applications.

The NOPD is investigating an early-morning incident that led to the death of an unidentified man.

The UGTG republished the resolution on March 8. To this question, the French constitution replies 'no', considering that we, the sons and daughters of slaves and others who have come from various continents, ...

It seems a bit extravagant to consult God on vacation details, but for the Caribbean islands, don't hesitate to call on a saint or two.

Bijleveld consents to evaluate Kingdom's guarantee function THE HAGUE--Dutch State Secretary of Kingdom Relations Ank Bijleveld-Schouten on Tuesday agreed to make an evaluation of the guarantee function of the ...