Originally posted on Repeating Islands:
A report by Asaf Shimoni for the Times of Israel. Few people know that Portuguese Jews helped shape languages in the southeastern Caribbean, that the illegitimate…
Originally posted on Repeating Islands:
A new research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on Caribbean literary heritage is looking for collaborations with authors, researchers and archivists. The Anglophone Caribbean’s…
National Cricket Stadium is located in St. George’s, Grenada and is home to the West Indies Cricket team which competes in the ICC World Cup Series as well as the […]
Geographically, Costa Rica is a Central American country bordered by Panama to the South, Nicaragua to the North, the Pacific Ocean to the West, and the Caribbean Sea to the […]
When is a citizen not a citizen? When they are of Haitian descent. Apparently, citizenship is no longer a right, but a privilege in the Dominican Republic. According to an […]
Today Readex distributed this press release: Readex to Launch Digital Edition of Caribbean Newspapers New collection is essential for research on Colonial history, the slave trade and the Atlantic region […]
Pirates are popular everywhere – even in China. The Caribbean Association in China (CAC) held a party with over 200 attendees at Pudong’s Crowne Plaza hotel to celebrate another anniversary […]
Piracy in the Caribbean declined after 1750, but did not disappear. One pirate in particular, Roberto Cofresí (June 17, 1791 – March 29, 1825), better known as “El Pirata Cofresí“, operated […]
The Virtual Caribbean happened to run across an example of trivia controversy in the island of Antigua: Is the island’s original Amerindian name Wadadli or Waladli? And, does it make […]
Belize can trace its history back to a Mayan ancestry that emerged at least two thousand years prior to the arrival of Europeans. During this early history, Belize was the […]
