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• Caribbean

  Danish West Indies. Breffu: a slave, a rebel, a fighter – and a woman almost invisible to history

  20 March 2019, by NORTON Holly

  The role of women in conflict is often lost to the archaeological record – but Breffu’s story illustrates how sometimes we catch a glimpse of them
  Early one November morning in 1733 on St Jan, a small island in the Danish West Indies, two slaves waited outside a small stone house belonging to a (...)

• Caribbean

  Welcome to Jamaica – no longer ‘the most homophobic place on Earth’

  6 December 2018, by FABER Tom

  A country where violence against the LGBT community was once rife is increasingly adopting a more liberal outlook
  Early one late summer morning, more than 200 people gathered under the lush canopy of Hope Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica, for a breakfast party.
  The revellers ate – ackee, saltfish, (...)

• Caribbean

  The coup in Honduras, ALBA and the English-speaking Caribbean

  15 August 2009, by AHMED Faiz

  The military coup carried out by masked soldiers in the early hours of June 28 against the democratically elected President of Honduras, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, was a bandit act with differing messages intended for different audiences.
  One such audience is the oligarchical groupings (...)