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21 January 2009

French Caribbean, Palestine, Israel: Economic Boycott?

Written by Fabienne Flessel · Protest, War & Conflict

French West Indians and Caribbeans have expressed their solidarity with the population in Gaza in many ways since the bombings began. Is an economic boycott one of them? Bloggers discuss the possibilities.

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23 December 2008

Caribbean: 2008 in Review

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Freedom of Speech, Disaster

From natural disasters to lightning bolts of the athletic kind, 2008 was a busy one for the Caribbean blogosphere. Here are some of the highlights...

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A Caribbean Christmas

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Arts & Culture, Food

'Tis the season - and nowhere celebrates Christmas quite like the Caribbean! Here's a glimpse into what bloggers are doing to get into the spirit of the festivities...

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Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane: Celebrating Christmas with “Chanté Nwel”

Written by Fabienne Flessel · Arts & Culture, Music

With Christmas approaching, the French Overseas Departments of Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyane are vibrating to the tune of their folk musical instruments like ka (a big drum)[Fr], ti-bwa (two bamboo...

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3 December 2008

French Guiana: The Unheard Blackout

Written by Fabienne Flessel · Environment, Protest

For more than a week now, French Guiana has been in turmoil. The population is protesting against the skyrocketing price of gas by blocking roads, closing schools, and businesses. The cost of gas is currently €1,77 per liter (US$ 2,25), in contrast to the price of oil, which has been going as low as US$ 50,00 per barrel in the past weeks. The French Guianese blogosphere echoes this massive mobilization.

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8 February 2008

Carnival: Videos from around the world

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Arts & Culture, Music

One way to know about a culture, is to see how they celebrate and why. Many countries share a common festival, the carnival, and each country gives a distinctive flavour to the celebration. Carnival usually takes place during the weeks prior to Lent in Catholic countries, and it's usually a time to revel, enjoy and feast before the 40 days of fasting and prayer in preparation of Easter begin. Citizen videos show us how carnival season was spent this year in Bolivia, French Guyana, Goa, India and Croatia.

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5 October 2007

Language death: evolution, natural selection or cultural genocide?

Written by Jennifer Brea · Ideas, Arts & Culture

We live in a world of just 194 countries, give or take, but speak between 7,000 and 8,000 languages. That linguistic diversity is fast disappearing, often thanks to the privileged position given to colonial languages, as well as the globalization of media and technology. But is this really cause for alarm?

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26 April 2007

The French Presidential Election: A View From Outside the Metropole

Written by Jennifer Brea · Elections, Politics

This weekend, more than 60 million French cast their ballots in the first round of the French presidential election, narrowing the list of candidates to two: conservative UMP candidate Nicolas...

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29 January 2007

French Caribbean DOMs: Welcoming Vaval, King of Carnival

Written by Alice Backer · Arts & Culture, Music

Mas a kle, a Guadeloupe mas bandUploaded by Akynou No sooner were the 2006 holidays over that Martiniquans, Guadeloupeans and Guianese were kicking off the prelude to “Vaval”, their affectionate...

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18 January 2007

Image from French Guiana: Mind Your Kids

Written by Alice Backer · Environment, Humor

From the French Guiana forest, this sign captured by Photoblog sur la Guyane Francaise reads (Fr): “Look after your kids or … keep them on a leash.”

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Updates about French Guiana

29 June 2009

French

The news of the death of the King of Pop was like an earthquake felt around the world. The shock wave reached the French Caribbean, where bloggers from Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, all pay homage to the late artist.

• Fabienne Flessel

4 May 2009

French

Guadeloupean Mycho blogs [Fr] about her doubts concerning the “Estates General of the French Overseas Departments” to re-think the status of its distant departments, while bloggers Anba pyé mango-la and indiscrétions [Fr] also report on developments.

• Fabienne Flessel

20 February 2009

French

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has finally met with elected representatives of French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Réunion, regarding the crisis which has been shaking the French West Indies for the last month. Martinican bloggers Imaniyé and blogde[moi] are dissatisfied and note that his TV address raised two questions: Why was the speech exclusively broadcast on RFO: the French overseas media network and why was it only 10 min. long?

• Fabienne Flessel

17 February 2009

French

It has often been said that l'Ile de France (Paris and its surroundings) is the Fifth French Overseas Department, due to its huge population of French Guianese, Guadeloupeans, Martinicans and Reunionese. In this announcement published by CaribCreoleOne, a group called Continuité LKP [Fr] invites the diaspora to march in Paris to support the strikes in Guadeloupe and Martinique.

• Fabienne Flessel

25 November 2008

French

le blog de [moi] writes about the launch of a new, daily news website for the French Antilles[fr], featuring the latest from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyane: “What joy! Yes, pure and simple joy, because it was really ridiculous not to use [the internet] at a time when everything is going digital, if only for the Antilles Diaspora spread all over the planet. A big “AT LAST!'”

• Jennifer Brea

29 August 2007

French

The general delegation for the French language and languages in France, a branch of the Ministry of Culture and Communication recently published a report on the use of the French language in the digital world. The objective of the delegation is to promote the use of the French language in international communication and multilingual projects in general (Fr).

• Lova Rakotomalala

22 June 2007

French

In French Guiana, it's the season for noni and for turtles. Cafe Creole has pictures (Fr).

• Jennifer Brea

3 May 2007

Updates

En Guyane posts [Fr] pictures of a mangosteen, a local fruit originating from Asia. She calls the fruit “sweet and strange”.

• Alice Backer

21 April 2007

Updates

A general strike in French Guiana caused interruptions in power and transportation services, but no disruption of the French presidential campaigns since all campaigning must stop several days before the ballot (Fr).

• Jennifer Brea

22 February 2007

Updates

Photoblog de la Guyane Française posts (Fr) a picture of women in tree costumes taken near the end of capital Cayenne's carnival.

• Alice Backer

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