New LNG Carrier to Join Celsius Tech's Fleet

The vessel is set to be inducted into Celsius Tech’s fleet later this month. Image Credit: Celsium Celsius Tech Limited, the Hong Kong-based technical management firm for Danish owner Celsius, has christened its latest LNG carrier, the Celsius...

Work in Progress: Christelle Oyiri

As a child, Christelle Oyiri spent her holidays visiting family in Guadeloupe. When she returned to the island alone in 2020, she began to uncover its histories of pollution and power. Contaminated by prolonged historical use of the pesticide...

Celsius names new LNG carrier

Celsius Tech Limited, the Hong Kong-based technical management arm of Danish shipowner Celsius, has held the naming ceremony for a newbuild liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier. LNG carrier Celsius Guadeloupe; Source Celsius Shipping via LinkedIn...

October 2025 Dance Calendar

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David Todd: Parable of the Parakeets

On​ 21 April 2002 Jean-Marie Le Pen became the first leader of a far-right party to reach the run-off of a French presidential election. France was astonished. For two weeks, daily anti-fascist demonstrations took place in cities and the...

Caribbean Global Awards 2025: Top 30 People’s Choice Leaders Announced 

Key personalities on the list included Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Trinidad and Tobago PM), Dickon Mitchell (Grenada PM), Mark Brantley (Nevis Premier), and more. The 2025 People Choice Leaders List has been announced by Caribbean Global Awards. The...

Making Space

IT IS IN YOSHINO, a quiet cedarwood-manufacturing town in the Kii Mountains about three hundred miles from Tokyo, that something within me quietly shifts and settles into equilibrium. I have been in Japan for two and a half days, overwhelmed with...

Lost in Space: The Limits of Geolocation in a Satellite-Connected World

“Where are you?” is not an easy question to answer on the Internet. The telephone system’s address plan embedded a certain amount of physical location information in the fixed-line network, and a full E.164 telephone number indicated your location...

KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR CARIBBEAN’S MOST INFLUENTIAL LEADER 2025

Caribbean Global Leader (People’s Choice) Crowned as First Female Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago Tops Fiercely Competitive List of 30 Influential Icons In a resounding affirmation of people power across the Caribbean and its global diaspora,...

MPE CARIBBEAN REPORT NEWSLETTER – September 29, 2025

September 29, 2025 Ready, Set, SOTIC — Barbados takes the stage Barbados is buzzing — SOTIC 2025 has arrived! From September 30 to October 3, the Caribbean Tourism Organization will chart the future of regional tourism at the annual State of the...

Jounen Kwéyòl — A revolutionary journey

Arguably, Jounen Kwéyòl is one of the biggest national cultural celebrations in Saint Lucia, ranking in prominence on the calendar of events with the Saint Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival and Carnival. However, unlike jazz and Carnival, Jounen Kwéyòl...

Dennis Marek: The Bermuda Triangle

In 1970, pilot Bruce Gernon faced a tunnel-like cloud while flying through the Bermuda Triangle. He claimed that his instruments malfunctioned, and upon exiting the cloud, he experienced a time discrepancy of about 30 minutes. It just disappeared....

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines launches a pilot project on sargassum to turn a challenge into an opportunity

Sargassum, long considered a scourge of the Caribbean, is now at the heart of an innovative project in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The archipelago is embarking on a pilot initiative to transform this brown seaweed into agricultural and...

Magnitude 5.3 earthquake rattles everal Caribbean islands

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 shook several Caribbean countries early Monday morning, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) at the University of the West Indies’...

UK mobile network gives major update to holidaymakers at no extra cost

This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more A major mobile network has extended a perk for its customers that love to travel.(Image: Getty Images) A mobile network has made a...

Hurricane Gabrielle makes a run for the Azores

After completing a right turn just southeast of Bermuda, Hurricane Gabrielle — still at Category 4 strength at midday Tuesday — may still be a hurricane when it moves over or near the Azores on Thursday. The National Weather Service has issued a...

Mosquito-borne diseases expand, posing new threats

September 19, 2025 9 min read Driven by climate change, population mobility and global trade, mosquito-borne diseases are extending beyond tropical and subtropical areas. Dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus — all spread by Aedes mosquitoes — have...

The Other King Henry: On the Many Afterlives of Haiti’s Misunderstood Henry Christophe

On April 14, 1936, twenty-year-old Orson Welles directed his first major play. The production was an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth with an all-Black cast. Debuting in Harlem’s storied Lafayette Theatre on Seventh Avenue at 132nd...

Macron names Sebastien Lecornu as new French prime minister

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Want to experience crowd-free Caribbean? Try these small-ship cruises

There are plenty of reasons to opt for a smaller ship when sailing around the Caribbean. True, they may not have waterslides, zip lines or too many restaurants to count, but they will offer a friendly atmosphere, a more personalised service and...